Wins three of four major prizes
U of T dominated the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Awards night Oct. 16, with scholars at various stages of their academic careers taking home three of four prizes, including the gold medal, the council’s highest honour. continue
Please join us for the FUNdamentals of Science lecture series moderated by Natasha Eloi from Space: the Imagination Station and featuring: Professor Parham Aarabi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Premier’s Catalyst Award for Best Young Innovator, 2007 Professor Spencer Barrett, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Premier’s Discovery Award, Life Sciences & Medicine, 2008 [...]
Stem cell researcher hailed as world leader
Professor Peter Zandstra of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering is the recipient of the 2008 McLean Award, the university’s prestigious award for early-career researchers. continue
Jennifer Ryan is mapping memory loss
Having trouble remembering what’s on your grocery list? How about putting a name to the face of the person you’re standing next to at a party? We tend to accept that a certain amount of memory loss is normal, especially as we age. But what’s actually happening in your brain when you’re standing blankly in [...]
Philosopher holds prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Most people agree that murder is morally wrong. But what about the death penalty? Is torture ever justified? How we navigate the difficult moral questions that surround us is the question driving the career of philosophy professor Thomas Hurka. His research has focused primarily on normative ethical theory, the study of the general principles that [...]
Ingrid Stefanovic harnesses philosophy in service to the environment
When a young Ingrid Stefanovic announced her intention to study philosophy, her father — an architect — said,“don’t forget to come back and talk to the rest of us.” If he was concerned that his daughter’s philosophical bent would lodge her permanently in the ivory tower, he needn’t have worried. Stefanovic, the director of U [...]
NPR interviews Prof. Richard Florida
For the first time ever, says author and Toronto University’s Business and Creativity Professor Richard Florida, many of us have the freedom and economic means to choose our place and the opportunity to find the place that fits us best is even more important than choosing a career or even a spouse. Listen to podcast [...]
Provincial funding for research at U of T comes primarily from a variety of programs within the Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI). Provincial funding at work Esteban Parra of Anthropology at UTM received an Early Researcher Award, for promising researchers in the first five years of their careers. The award supports Parra’s acclaimed work [...]
Selected Honours and Awards in the past five years INTERNATIONAL AWARDS & HONOURS AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Foreign Honorary Members Recognizes outstanding intellectual achievement, leadership and creativity in all fields 2005 Richard Borshay Lee, Anthropology Tak Mak, Medical Biophysics Janice Gross Stein, Political Science 2004 Anthony J. Pawson, Molecular Genetics 2003 James G. [...]
