New Researcher Award helps launch careers
Greg Wells is at the forefront of a relatively new field called exercise medicine, which means he looks at how disease affects a person’s ability to exercise—and at how exercise can be used to treat that person. His research has been given a boost by a New Researcher Award from the University of Toronto’s Connaught [...]
Human Ethics News and Tips Animal Ethics News and Tips Human Ethics News The Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards (CAREB) is having its national conference in Toronto from April 26-28, 2012. Please check out this website for further information and conference registration: http://careb-accer.org/agm US President Obama asked the Bioethics Commission to do an investigation and issue [...]
1. What is a NoPosting Status (NoPo)? A NoPo is a hard block placed on a CFC or CFC/Fund. It prevents revenue and expenditure actuals and commitments from being posted to that CFC or CFC/Fund. The error message a user gets when trying to post an expense to an account with a NoPo is “FI: [...]
Two-year consultation included hundreds of research leaders
After two years of planning, collaboration and consultation with several hundred research leaders across the university community, U of T is launching a new strategic research plan that creates a framework to support research for the next five years. Excellence, Innovation, Leadership: The University of Toronto Strategic Research Plan, 2012-2017 (SRP) is structured on seven [...]
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McNeil Medal to chemistry's Dwayne Miller
The University of Toronto’s research community has had one of its most successful years in earning honours from the prestigious Royal Society of Canada (RSC), with 18 faculty members named Fellows and one winning a major medal. Founded in 1882, the RSC is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scholars, artists and scientists. The [...]
The Asahi Glass Foundation, in 1992, the year of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, established the Blue Planet Prize, an international award that recognizes individuals and organizations who have made major contributions to solving global environmental problems. This prize was founded in the hopes that this expression of appreciation for the achievements of [...]
This medal is awarded for a major contribution in bioethics by a Canadian. The contribution may be a book, a report, a scholarly article, a monograph or series of articles, which will normally be published in the two years preceding the nomination. The award consists of a bronze medal, and a cash award of $2,000. [...]
Recognition for achievements in supporting sustainable economic growth and social progress to reduce poverty in developing countries of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The SNC-LAVALIN INTERNATIONAL Award for Construction, Reconstruction and/or Rehabilitation of Physical Infrastructure For a project that has resulted in the improvement of physical infrastructure of a developing [...]
Connect Canada is a new internship program that links graduate students and Canadian companies for research placements. Regardless of the issue, the sector or the location, Connect Canada internships can help companies find a cost-effective solution developed by highly skilled graduate students under the supervision of an academic supervisor. For graduate students, it provides a [...]
