en-us http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca University of Toronto @ Scarbrough Story feed Service Copyright 2013 University of Toronto. Some Rights Reserved. OSE_LOGIN_TITLE 60 http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/images/images/utsc_websignature.jpg http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4898 A 50,000 Weston Fellowship grant will allow UTSC PhD candidate Nicole Ricker to travel to Belgium to continue researching how bacteria adapt to new environments. ldquoThis is a very exciting opportunity to go and work with some of the best researchers in this field, and the only other researchers that have looked at these particular genes that Irsquove been studying,rdquo says Ricker, a teaching assistant in the microbial biogeochemistry program. Ricker had previously worked with colleagues a... Gilbert Ndikubwayezu News Thu, 16 May 2013 16:42:13 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4895 Environments containing species that are distantly related to one another are more productive than those containing closely related species, according to new research from the University of Toronto Scarborough UTSC. The experimental result from Marc William Cadotte confirms a prediction made by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species, first published in 1859. Darwin had said that a plot of land growing distantly related grasses would be more productive than a plot with a single species of ... Kurt Kleiner News Wed, 15 May 2013 16:59:12 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4893 The University of Toronto Scarborough is partnering with a local community action group in the creation of the Eastern GTA's newest urban farm. A Memorandum of Understanding between UTSC and Malvern Action for Neighbourhood Change Malvern ANC acknowledges the university's role as the primary academic partner as Malvern ANC pursues a major urban agriculture project in Rouge Park. Founded in 2009, Malvern ANC is a resident engagement and community development group funded by the United Way and ... Andrew Westoll News Wed, 15 May 2013 11:31:07 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4887 The giant panda is an international symbol of conservation biology. With fewer than 2,000 remaining, the iconic bear continues to capture the hearts and minds of people world-wide. But what makes giant panda conservation efforts such a challenge? The University of Toronto Scarborough UTSC and the Toronto Zoo are partnering to present a scientific seminar that will delve into the issues and provide context ahead of the opening of the giant panda exhibit at the Toronto Zoo. The scientific semin... Don Campbell News Thu, 09 May 2013 16:40:39 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4885 An upcoming family-friendly event will take Zoo goers on a scientific journey to explore why birds are able to fly, how animals use their tails and what makes electric fish so shocking. UTSC researchers and its Let's Talk Science program will partner with the Toronto Zoo on May 13 to present talks and demonstrations that use zoo animals to illustrate scientific concepts. The program is part of nationwide science festival organized by a grassroots group called Science Rendezvous. ldquoThe acti... Unknown Author News Thu, 09 May 2013 13:11:21 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4877 A few weeks ago, Cindy Bongard successfully defended her PhD dissertation, thus accomplishing one of life's most significant milestones. But the newly minted Dr. Bongard's achievement resonates well beyond her own career, as it also marks an important landmark in the ongoing transformation of the University of Toronto Scarborough. Bongard is the first PhD to graduate from UTSC's groundbreaking doctoral program in environmental science. "I was positively overwhelmed by the knowledge and passio... Anddrew Westoll News Wed, 08 May 2013 11:28:59 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4879 For the longest time, University of Toronto Scarborough student Natasha Rajaratnam assumed the only way to pursue a career in health studies was to become a doctor or an academic or a nurse. Now, thanks to an innovative fourth-year health studies seminar which pairs students with service learning opportunities, Rajaratnam's eyes have been opened wide. "I feel like a whole new door has been opened to me," says Rajaratnam. "I never realized the kinds of positions that are available in my field.... Andrew Westill News Wed, 08 May 2013 11:57:17 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4827 Zindel Segal, a pioneer in the emerging field of mindfulness-based psychotherapy, will join UTSC in the fall as the director of training in UTSCrsquos new Graduate Department in Psychological Clinical Science. For more than 20 years Segal has studied and promoted mindfulness as a way to prevent relapse in people who have suffered depression. Using techniques such as meditation and yoga, patients learn to pay attention to their experiences, thoughts, and feelings as a way of heading off a depr... Kurt Kleiner News Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:51:38 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4835 The legacy of Canadian visual artist Doris McCarthy, who earned a BA at age 78 and died in 2010 at the age of 100, will continue to thrive at the University of Toronto Scarborough. McCarthyrsquos estate has entrusted UTSC with more than 200 of her artworks, photographs, correspondence, journals and keepsakes. While UTSC is already home to a gallery named after McCarthy, this new collection will encourage the creation of a dedicated space to study about and learn from this Canadian artis... Unknown Author News Wed, 01 May 2013 13:21:24 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4840 Please join us for the Keynote Address presented by Professor Sandy Black University of Texas on the impact of women on corporate boards. Intended for a general audience, all students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 4:15 - 5:15 PM IC220 Reception to Follow in IC Atrium For details and registration, please click here. Registration Closes Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 The Department of Management kindly thanks the Dean's Office at UTSC and the Master of Management I... UTSC Management Events Thu, 02 May 2013 11:24:33 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4820 Waitlist feature ends for UTSC F and Y Summer session courses on May 16, 2013. Check ROSI to view your final status in waitlisted courses.... P. Topham Events Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:53:29 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4793 The Parking Permits for Summer 2013 are going on sale starting April 29th, at 9am. You can order them on-line or come into our office to apply for one and get it right away. If you order it on-line and pay for it on-line please give us one day to process it before you come in and pick it up, we do not mail any Summer permits out. Please remember to bring in your student card or official I.D. when picking the permit up. You must have a Prox card, if you purchased one previously the... Cathy Fontaine Events Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:33:59 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=2314 Call it a creative success. The 3rd annual ARTSIDEOUT on October 7 was a hit this year as students, staff and faculty enthusiastically experienced concerts, installations and art work spread across disciplines around the UTSC campus. Organizer Leo Lam says the event offers participants unique opportunities for wider exposure, involvement and networking outside of the campusrsquo traditional art venues. ldquoYou get to see performances, interact with student... By Karen Ho News Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=1011 by Mary Ann Gratton Acclaimed Canadian writer Michael Helm is at U of T Scarborough this winter as a Writer in Residence and the 2008 Snider Visiting Artist. The novelist and essayist was a finalist for the Giller Prize for his novel, The Projectionist, in 1997.Helmrsquos novel, In the Place of Last Things, was a finalist for the Rogers Writersrsquo Trust Fiction Prize in 2004 and for a regional Commonwealth Writersrsquo Prize for Best Book. Helm is teaching a course on campus this term and... Unknown Author News Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3117 New research shows that you can reduce racial prejudice simply by having a person mimic the movements of a member of the race he or she is prejudiced against. The method may work by activating brain mechanisms that contribute to feelings of empathy. Normally, when we watch another person perform an action, our brain activity changes as we mentally simulate the other person. But the brain activity is less strong when wersquore watching people from other racial groups, and is least strong among... Unknown Author News Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3118 Researchers at the University of Toronto Scarborough UTSC and Osaka University applied a new approach to take a close look at amyloid plaque formation, a process that plays important roles in Alzheimerrsquos disease. The technique would greatly aid the development and screening for novel therapeutics that can manipulate the formation of the toxic amyloid aggregates. Anthony Veloso, Prof. Kagan Kermanrsquos PhD student in Chemistry, used a laser to trap amyloid-beta peptides and examined them ... Kurt Kleiner News Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3069 When Arctic ground squirrels are getting ready to hibernate they donrsquot just get fat ndash they pack on muscle at a rate that would make a bodybuilder jealous. And they do it without suffering the harmful effects that high levels of testosterone and other anabolic steroids usually cause. UTSC researchers have started to untangle how the squirrels manage it, and their results could someday have implications for human health. Arctic ground squirrels, it turns out, ramp up their anabolic ster... Kurt Kleiner News Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:49:40 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=2949 Keeping up with ring-tailed lemurs is hard enough during the day, as the cat-sized primates leap and run through tree branches. Figuring out what they do at night is even harder, and until recently the scientific consensus was that ring-tailed lemurs probably just curled up and went to sleep. Now Joyce Parga, UTSC professor of anthropology, has shown in a paper in the journal Primates that troops of ring-tailed lemurs actually travel around at night and even interact with other troops. The wo... Kurt Kleiner News Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:00:24 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=2686 Devin Bloom is not your typical Facebook user. The Ph.D. candidate in evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto Scarborough UTSC only posts sporadically to the site, and he wouldnrsquot even have a personal Facebook page if his little sister hadnrsquot secretly set one up for him. But recently, while on a scientific expedition to the remote jungles of Guyana, Bloom helped illuminate a powerful new use for the social networking tool. As a result, technology-averse biologists around the... A. Westoll Research Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=2629 Congratulations to UTSC computer science professor Nick Koudas and doctoral student Nilesh Bansal, who were recently named University of Toronto Inventors of the Year for 2011. The pair received the inaugural award along with eight other U of T faculty from areas as diverse as chemistry, engineering and medicine. Koudas and Bansal were honoured for their innovations in social media analytics, specifically tools they built that use data mining and content aggregation technology to perform adv... A. Westoll Research Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4886 More than 150 UTSC students and recent graduates took part in an award-winning interactive employment preparation conference organized by the Academic Advising and Career Centre AACC. The three-day Hire Power conference aims to equip current students and recent graduates with the skills and confidence to find employment and thrive in the workplace. ldquoThe focus on experiential learning provides fantastic opportunities to develop and practice their skills, while making great career connecti... Unknown Author News Thu, 09 May 2013 13:17:58 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4834 Fifteen students from UTSC were recognized for outstanding leadership and dedication to the university at the annual Cressy Awards April 29. The Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards were established in 1994 by the University of Toronto Alumni Association UTAA and the Division of University Advancement in order to recognize students who have made outstanding extra-curricular contributions to their college, faculty or school, or to the university as a whole. Named after Gordon Cressy, former... Unknown Author News Wed, 01 May 2013 12:12:56 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4783 Hundreds of supporters came out to honour more than 60 UTSC students who have spent the year working with area middle school and high school students as part of the IMANI Mentorship Program. ldquoIMANI mentors and mentees are living examples of the transformative power of education,rdquo UTSC Principal Franco Vaccarino said at the recognition ceremony April 6. ldquoThe program positively impacts lives for years to come.rdquo The IMANI program connects UTSC students with Scarborough high schoo... Lanna Crucefix News Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:36:34 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4692 UTSC students met with respected alumni and hopeful prospective students last month in the Rideau Club in Ottawa to talk about issues in Canadian development policy. The event ndash organized by the Office of Development Alumni Relations, the Office of Admissions Student Recruitment, and the Centre for Critical Development Studies ndash brought 20 International Development Studies students to meet with about 100 alumni and prospective students from the Ottawa area. ldquoIt was really intere... Unknown Author News Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:27:25 EST http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4765 University of Toronto Scarborough Professor Nick Eyles enjoys taking viewers on a geologic journey. As host of the five-part CBC documentary Geologic Journey II he explored some of the most breathtaking and geologically significant sites in the world. You can now watch him on a new documentary airing on TVO called The Land Between where he explores a unique stretch of land separating the Canadian Shield from the St. Lawrence Lowlands. He recently sat down with Don Campbell to talk about his r... Don Campbell News Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:10:52 EST http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4741 University of Toronto Scarborough professor Mathew Wells has a passion for water. Hersquos fascinated by how it flows and how other things move and disperse within it. While his field work has taken him across the globe to study the various oceans of the world, his more recent work has focused on the Great Lakes. Now Wells and graduate student Bogdan Hlevca are teaming up with researchers from Carleton University and the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to study fish movements and h... Don Campbell News Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:45:16 EST http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4681 U of T budget model wins gold for public sector innovation... Unknown Author External Link Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:49:49 EST Enter search keywords... keywords http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/search_news.php