A study of innovation activity in Canada’s Technology Triangle since the onset of the 2008 recession shows that traditional manufacturing industries have fared much better than expected, contradicting what some analysts suggest are the best bets for future prosperity.
September 28, 2011
An international team led by University of Toronto medical professors Andrew Redington and Cecil Hahn (Department of Paediatrics), based at The Hospital for Sick Children, has found a new potential treatment to help reduce the severity of acute stroke.
September 26, 2011
Even though Trinity College graduate Caterina Scorsone worked as a professional actor throughout her childhood and teen years, the introspective Scorsone was never sure it should be her only path. She now plays the brilliant but struggling Dr.
September 25, 2011
A U of T professor and a PhD student are heading south of the border as beneficiaries of the world-renowned Fulbright program, an educational movement that fosters scholarly exchange between the United States and other countries.
September 26, 2011
Demand for air travel is projected to rise roughly 5 per cent a year, a figure that is never far from the minds of University of Toronto engineers working to reduce the industry’s environmental impact.
September 28, 2011
Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that low-tech, inexpensive interventions for bedsores could improve health for long-term care residents and reduce health-care costs for the facilities that house them.
September 27, 2011
What would Isaiah Berlin have said about the Arab Spring?
This question was the springboard for Liberty and the Arab Spring, an event held Sept. 22 and co-sponsored by U of T’s Department of Political Science and PEN Canada’s Ideas in Dialogue series.
September 27, 2011
On Oct. 1, as part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche festival, Canada Post will unveil a limited-edition stamp that will honour the work of world-renowned University of Toronto chemist and Nobel Laureate John Polanyi.
September 28, 2011
In the animal world, males typically search for their female partners. The mystery is that in some species, there is a reversal—the females search for males.
September 28, 2011
The University of Toronto mourns the death of Professor Emeritus Gordon R. Slemon (ECE).
Professor Slemon, who died on September 26 at age 87, served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1966 to 1976, and Dean of U of T Engineering from 1979 to 1986.
September 29, 2011