IMPORTANT – New for 2012 Insight Grant applications! Applicants to the SSHRC Insight Grant must submit a mandatory Notification of Intent by 15 August 2012. Any applicant who has not submitted an NOI by this date will be ineligible to submit the full application in the October 2012 competition. How to submit your Notification of Intent [...]
The 2012 NSERC Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program has been announced for the upcoming year. The Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program supports focused collaborative research projects involving any field of the natural sciences or engineering and the health sciences. Successful projects will be novel and lead to health benefits for Canadians, more effective [...]
The 2013 NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program has been announced. This program involves a two step process. The first step involves the submission of Letter of Intent (LOI) and the second step involves the submission of an application, for projects invited. Please note that there is maximum number of LOI’s that can [...]
The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario has announced the 2012 competition for the Highway Infrastructure Innovation Funding Program (HIIFP). The purpose of the initiative is to encourage basic and applied research in transportation infrastructure inOntario. This program solicits innovations from Institutions to assist the Ministry in meeting selected challenges, and to encourage undergraduate and graduate [...]
Professor Jeffrey Reitz on the challenges that face an invisible workforce
On February 6, in a collision between a van and a truck on a rural road near Stratford, Ontario, 11 people died, 10 of them temporary agricultural workers. Most were from Peru. With this horrific crash, the eyes of many Canadians were opened to a little-known sector of the Canadian workforce – migrant workers. In [...]
Vice-President, Research, Paul Young invites interested members of the U of T research community, as well as colleagues from York and Ryerson Universities, to attend a Panel Discussion & Open Forum on CIHR Institutes & Strategic Initiatives and Proposed Reforms to the Open Suite of Programs & Peer Review. This event will take place on [...]
UTM English professor Mari Ruti takes on the self-help industry in her book The Case for Falling in Love
Professor Mari Ruti of the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga has written about love for both academic and mainstream audiences. Her newest book, The Summons of Love, portrays love as a much more complex, multifaceted phenomenon than we tend to appreciate—an experience that helps us encounter the depths of [...]
Professor Emeritus John Baird on the legacy of the popular novelist.
February 7, 2012 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, whose work is as popular today as it was when he was a celebrity in Victorian England. U of T Professor Emeritus John Baird discusses just what is it was – and is – that makes Dickens exceptional in the history of literature. [...]
Ontario and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the People’s Republic of China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote scientific, technological and industrial research and commercialization cooperation. The two jurisdictions have committed $5 million each, for a total of $10 million over five years (2011-2015), to create the Ontario-China Research and [...]
When the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation asked President David Naylor for his expertise and insight on innovation hubs and what makes them successful, he was happy to use Toronto as a prime example. The president was recently featured in a ministry online video talking about what it takes to be a hub of innovation [...]
