Shujanaa Mahendrarajah / en Back to School 2014: fall term begins at 老司机直播 /news/back-school-2014-fall-term-begins-u-t <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Back to School 2014: fall term begins at 老司机直播</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2014-09-05T11:07:14-04:00" title="Friday, September 5, 2014 - 11:07" class="datetime">Fri, 09/05/2014 - 11:07</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Students at the University of Toronto Scarborough frosh week (photo by Ken Jones)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/liz-do" hreflang="en">Liz Do</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/liz-do-files-shujanaa-mahendrarajah" hreflang="en">Liz Do with files from Shujanaa Mahendrarajah</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/shujanaa-mahendrarajah" hreflang="en">Shujanaa Mahendrarajah</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Liz Do with files from Shujanaa Mahendrarajah</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/top-stories" hreflang="en">Top Stories</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/students" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/back-school" hreflang="en">Back to School</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">Students from Canada and around the world help launch 老司机直播鈥檚 187th school year</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p> Across all three 老司机直播 campuses, students are gearing up for a new school year.&nbsp;</p> <p> For many, September means delving back into studies and campus happenings. But for more than 15,000 undergrads entering their first year of university, this September marks a year of many new beginnings. (<a href="http://www.bttoronto.ca/videos/3764818017001/">Watch some of 老司机直播's orientation festivities on CITY TV's Breakfast Television</a>.)</p> <p> 鈥淭here's nothing like the feeling of getting into your top-choice university,鈥 said incoming student <strong>Saambavi Mano</strong>, who hopes to double major in English and philosophy. The Toronto native is ready to start her academic career at 老司机直播, and already has her career goals in sight.</p> <p> 鈥淚'm interested in becoming an intellectual property and copyright lawyer, so hopefully, law school is next in my academic career,鈥 says Mano. 鈥淚 think [老司机直播] will help me create a solid base on which I can continue to grow.鈥</p> <p> To help Mano and her fellow new classmates adjust to university, a variety of orientation events were scheduled at the downtown (St. George), Mississauga and Scarborough campuses. (<a href="http://news.utoronto.ca/photo_gallery?photoset_id=72157646850884230">See a photo gallery of orientation highlights</a>.) Celebrations included:</p> <ul> <li> Scarborough Campus <a href="http://www.scsu.ca/orientation/">Student Union Orientation</a> 鈥 August 27, 28, 29, September 5</li> <li> College &amp; Faculty Orientation Week 鈥 September 1 to 6</li> <li> <a href="http://cie.utoronto.ca/Coming/Orientation.htm">International Student Orientation</a>: Workshops &amp; Tours 鈥 September 2 to 6</li> <li> University of Toronto Student Union <a href="http://www.orientation.utsu.ca/">(UTSU) Fest</a> 鈥 September 3 to 13</li> <li> University of Toronto Mississauga <a href="http://www.utmorientation.ca/">Students' Union Orientation Week</a> 鈥 September 2 to 5</li> <li> UTM <a href="http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/student-life/orientation-transition/welcome-week">Welcome Week</a> 鈥 September 8 -12</li> <li> Queer Orientation&nbsp;鈥 a tri-campus series of events from September 19 to 29</li> </ul> <div> 鈥淚 hope each of our new students participating in orientation meets a friend or two 鈥 or twenty,鈥 says <strong>Josh Hass</strong>,&nbsp; student life coordinator, orientation and transition, with 老司机直播's Office of Student Life. 鈥淚 also hope that by the end of orientation, all of our new students feel prepared for their first class, excited to get involved in campus life and happy that they have come to 老司机直播.鈥&nbsp;</div> <p> The Office of Student Life also wants to make sure all students know that there are a lot of services across the university aimed at helping them achieve and maintain a balanced, healthy lifestyle, Hass says. (<a href="http://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/">Read more about the services offered at the Student Life website</a>.)</p> <p> "There are many programs and supports for mental health and physical health 鈥 everything from student-led groups that will help them <a href="http://www.healthycampus.utoronto.ca/leave-the-pack-behind-(LTPB).htm">quit smoking</a>, <a href="http://www.physical.utoronto.ca/FitnessAndRecreation/Drop_In_Programs.aspx">programs to get fit </a>or <a href="http://www.healthycampus.utoronto.ca/Healthy-U-Crew.htm">de-stress</a>, to professional counsellors, doctors, and academic advisors."</p> <p> (<a href="http://www.thestar.com/life/2014/09/02/back_to_school_moveu_reminds_postsecondary_students_to_exercise_wherever_they_are.html">Read a Toronto Star article about the student group MoveU at 老司机直播</a>.)</p> <p> New and returning students can also track their activities, from participating in student clubs to <a href="http://www.ccp.utoronto.ca/">volunteering in communities throughout the city</a>, with the <a href="http://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/Co-Curricular-Record.htm">co-curricular record</a>.</p> <p> "There are more than 700 clubs at the university and so many opportunities to get involved in life outside the lecture hall 鈥 from starting your own company to volunteering with a community group or the <a href="http://panam2015.utoronto.ca/">Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games</a>,鈥 Hass says. "The co-curricular record is something students can keep and even show to future employers, as a way of demonstrating the skills they developed, or the expertise they shared."</p> <p> (<a href="http://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/Co-Curricular-Record.htm">Read more about the co-curricular record</a>.) (<a href="/spotlights/fostering-tomorrows-entrepreneurs">Read more about entrepreneurships and startups at 老司机直播</a>.)</p> <p> Today鈥檚 new students will join a diverse cohort of 69,000 undergraduates and more than 16,000 graduate students. Among them: over 13,000 international students from 150 countries around the world.&nbsp;</p> <p> International student <strong>Antonia Vogel</strong>, originally from Germany, is beginning graduate studies in the department of chemistry. 鈥淚 hope to be a researcher in the future, so in my opinion, international experience is very important,鈥 says Vogel.&nbsp;</p> <p> With 12,500 faculty members, as well as 6,000 staff members and 145 librarians, who help run the third-largest library system in the world (behind Harvard and Yale), orientation extends beyond students at 老司机直播. The Centre for Teaching Support &amp; Innovation held back-to-school workshops for faculty from August 26-28. The workshops included sessions on how teachers can set the tone for success on the first day and beyond, techniques to support active learning, and how to keep learning and teaching on track.&nbsp;</p> <p> Recently named the <a href="http://news.utoronto.ca/university-toronto-ranked-first-canada-24th-world">top university in Canada and ranked 24th in the world</a> by Shanghai Jiao Tong University鈥檚 Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014, 老司机直播 is known for innovative teaching and powerhouse research, says Mano. Its academic quality and global standing are some of the reasons she's excited to begin her studies.&nbsp;</p> <p> 鈥淲hile 老司机直播 might not be particularly forgiving on my GPA,鈥 she said, 鈥淚 chose 老司机直播 because it has an international reputation for being a great school, and I wanted a great education.鈥</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-picpath field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">picpath</div> <div class="field__item">sites/default/files/2014-09-05-orientation-2014.jpg</div> </div> Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:07:14 +0000 sgupta 6450 at 老司机直播 scholars lead in prestigious graduate and post-doctoral research awards /news/u-t-scholars-lead-prestigious-graduate-and-post-doctoral-research-awards <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">老司机直播 scholars lead in prestigious graduate and post-doctoral research awards</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2014-08-18T04:29:37-04:00" title="Monday, August 18, 2014 - 04:29" class="datetime">Mon, 08/18/2014 - 04:29</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">PhD candidate Miles Montgomery discusses his research with the Honourable Ed Holder (right) and the Honourable Peter Van Loan and Professor Milica Radisic (rear) during a tour of 老司机直播's Institute for Biomaterials &amp; Biomedical Engineering (photo by John </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/erin-vollick" hreflang="en">Erin Vollick</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/erin-vollick-files-shujanaa-mahendrarajah" hreflang="en">Erin Vollick with files from Shujanaa Mahendrarajah</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/shujanaa-mahendrarajah" hreflang="en">Shujanaa Mahendrarajah</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Erin Vollick with files from Shujanaa Mahendrarajah</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/breaking-research" hreflang="en">Breaking Research</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/top-stories" hreflang="en">Top Stories</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/students" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/science" hreflang="en">Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/ibbme" hreflang="en">IBBME</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/engineering" hreflang="en">Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/awards" hreflang="en">Awards</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/research" hreflang="en">Research</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">Innovations range from injectable heart patches to HIV-battling chickenpox viruses</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>They鈥檙e trying to cure AIDS and cancer, improve teaching methods and mend damaged hearts. And they鈥檝e just received some very prestigious support for their work.</p> <p>The Government of Canada announced this year鈥檚 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships August 14 and the list includes 34 doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows from the University of Toronto 鈭 the most in the country.&nbsp;</p> <p>New Vanier Scholar <strong>Miles Montgomery</strong>, who hopes his work 鈥渨ill save people鈥檚 lives 20 years from now鈥 says the awards are an investment for all Canadians.</p> <p>鈥淭wo hundred families are going to lose someone they love today 鈥 and the cost of heart failure to the health system will be an estimated $21 billion,鈥 said Montgomery, whose work on live, beating heart tissue was showcased at the announcement.&nbsp;</p> <p>"That鈥檚 the reason I come into the lab every morning ready to work.鈥</p> <p>Before announcing this year鈥檚 winners, the Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology) joined the Honourable <strong>Peter Van Loan</strong> (老司机直播 alumnus and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) to tour the cardiac tissue engineering lab led by Professor <strong>Milica Radisic</strong>. It鈥檚 where doctoral student Montgomery aims to overcome the challenges associated with creating an injectable patch of living, human tissue into patients with damaged hearts. (<a href="http://news.utoronto.ca/photo_gallery?photoset_id=72157646082295337">See a photo gallery of the tour</a>.)</p> <p>The Vanier Canada Graduate scholarships and Banting Fellowships were launched by the Government of Canada in 2008 and 2010 respectively to attract and retain world-class doctoral and post-doctoral talent.&nbsp;</p> <p>Considered the most prestigious awards of their kind, this year they represented a $34.7 million investment in research across the health sciences, natural sciences and engineering, social sciences and humanities.&nbsp;</p> <p>This year, 26 Vanier Scholarships and eight Banting Fellowships were awarded to 老司机直播 recipients, including:</p> <ul> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> Banting Fellow&nbsp;<strong>Santiago Rincon-Fallardo</strong>, who is exploring the large-scale incorporation of innovative teaching methods into educational institutions</li> <li> Vanier Scholar <strong>Catia Perciani</strong>, who is conducting studies into the chickenpox virus (varicella-zoster, or VZV) for its potential application to HIV/AIDS research</li> <li> Banting Fellow <strong>Elizabeth Willis</strong>, who is studying the possibilities of a molecule called PSA as a cancer cell-targeting agent</li> </ul> <p>鈥淚鈥檓 proud that more than one in 10 of these awards has gone to the University of Toronto,鈥 said Professor <strong>Locke Rowe</strong>, the University鈥檚 dean of graduate studies, who noted that 老司机直播 has received approximately 150 over the last five years. 鈥淭hese are core assets to the University and core assets to Canada.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>The full list of University of Toronto recipients can be found below.&nbsp;</p> <div> Banting:</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <ul> <li> <strong>Ian Burgess</strong> for Colorimetric Biosensor Readout for Portable Low-Cost Disease Diagnosis&nbsp;(Materials Science and Technology)</li> <li> <strong>Stuart Campbell</strong>&nbsp;for Origins of trait diversity in flowering plants: Understanding how mating systems shape the evolution of plant defence using genomic and experimental field studies of natural selection (Evolution and Ecology)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Jeremy Leconte</strong>&nbsp;for Understanding the extreme diversity of exoplanet atmospheric regimes: Linking new-generation 1D/3D climate models with observations&nbsp;(Astronomy and Astrophysics)&nbsp;</li> <li> <strong>Yunfeng Li</strong>&nbsp;for Nanofibrillar microgels as artificial microenvironments for stem cell studies&nbsp;(Polymer Chemistry)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Niels Niessen&nbsp;</strong>for Speculation: Realism in a Posthuman Age (Literature and Modern Languages)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Santiago Rincon-Gallardo</strong>&nbsp;for Bringing effective instructional innovation to scale: A multi-case study (Education)</li> <li> <strong>Ryan Stevenson</strong> for It鈥檚 only a matter of time: Neural networks underlying multisensory perceptual binding (Sensory Systems and Perception)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Elizabeth Willis</strong>&nbsp;for A Chemical Biology Approach to the Study of Polysialic Acid in Cancer</li> </ul> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> Vanier:&nbsp;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <ul> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Daniel Anstett&nbsp;</strong>for Latitudinal Gradients in Herbivory and Plant Defence (Evolution and Ecology)</li> <li> <strong>Jonathan&nbsp;Cook</strong>&nbsp;for Biophysical analysis of HIV-1 viral glycoprotein-mediated interleukin signal modulation (Virology)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Joe Curnow</strong>&nbsp;for Changing minds, changing communities: Learning racial justice in a community of practice&nbsp;(Education)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Michael DaSilva</strong>&nbsp;for The Legitimacy and Limits of Constitutional Health Rights (Societal &amp; Cultural Dimensions)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Randle DeFalco</strong>&nbsp;for International Criminal Law, Human Rights and the Problem of Indirect Violence: An Interactional Account&nbsp;(Law)</li> <li> <strong>Robyn Elphinstone</strong>&nbsp;for 'Pharmed' Red Blood Cells as Novel Therapeutics for Life Threatening-Infections (Immunology-Transplantation)</li> <li> <strong>Daniel Felsky</strong>&nbsp;for Evaluating Gene-Gene Interactions for Detection of Risk for Late-Onset Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease using Established and Novel Neuroimaging Phenotypes (Genetics)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Amit Grinberg</strong>&nbsp;for Holding the Stick from the Middle - an Ethnography of Palestinians Employed as Fieldworkers by Israeli Human Rights NGO's&nbsp;(Anthropology)</li> <li> <strong>Kathryn Hopperton</strong> for Amyloid beta induced inflammation and its resolution by omega-3 fatty acids in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease (Nutrition)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Rachel&nbsp;Keunen</strong>&nbsp;for Development of an Analytical Tool Utilizing Electrochemical Detection Methods For the Measuring of Protein Kinase Activity on a Protein Substrate Using Ferrocene-Adenosine Triphosphate (Fc-ATP) as a Co-substrate (Anyalytical Chemistry)</li> <li> <strong>Natasha Lane</strong>&nbsp;for How should family physicians be paid to reduce socioeconomic disparities in heart failure outcomes? (Health Services Research)</li> <li> <strong>Felix Leung</strong>&nbsp;for Integrating high-throughput technologies for the identification and validation of ovarian cancer biomarkers (Genomics, Proteomics, And Bioinformatics)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Katharina Maier&nbsp;</strong>for Half way to freedom? How female offenders rebuild their lives within the halfway house setting&nbsp;&nbsp;(Criminology)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Jessica Mathie</strong>&nbsp;for The intersection of word formation, sentence structure and meaning in an Australian Aboriginal language&nbsp;&nbsp;(Linguistics)&nbsp;</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Christina Matzen</strong>&nbsp;for Women's Prisons in Twentieth-Century Germany: Gendered Punishment from the Kaiser to the Cold War&nbsp;&nbsp;(History)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Miles Montgomery&nbsp;</strong>for Designing an Elastic Scaffold with Shape-Memory for Functional Tissue Delivery (Biomedical Engineering)</li> <li> <strong>Catia Perciani</strong>&nbsp;for Immunological Characterization of Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) as a Replicating Viral Vector for an HIV Vaccine (Virology)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Cameron Ritchie</strong>&nbsp;for Performance of steel hollow structural sections, hollow and concrete-filled, subject to blast and impact loading&nbsp;(Structural Engineering)</li> <li> <strong>Nardin Samuel</strong>&nbsp; for Epigenetic analysis of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome cancers for identification of novel mechanisms of tumorigenesis in cancer susceptibility (Cancer)</li> <li> <strong>Shrey Sindhwani</strong>&nbsp;for Nanomaterial based enrichment of blood proteins for cancer detection and monitoring (Cancer)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Etye Steinberg</strong>&nbsp;for The Concept of a Person and The Demands of Morality&nbsp;(Philosophy)</li> <li> <strong>Lorraine Sugar</strong> for Data, Metrics, and Monitoring Systems for City-based Climate Action&nbsp;(Civil Engineering)</li> <li> <strong>Sujata Thapa-Bhattarai </strong>for The right to mobility in the city: gender, transportation and urban public space in Kathmandu and Kabul&nbsp;(Urban and Regional Studies, Environmental Studies)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Simon Wisnovsky</strong>&nbsp;for Eliminating Platinum Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy through Subcellular Targeting of a Platinum Drug (Cancer)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>You Wu&nbsp;</strong>for Characterizing the effects of human milk oligosaccharides and prebiotics on the intestinal epithelial barrier in the setting of Necrotizing Enterocolitis (Cell Biology)</li> <li style="line-height: 18px;"> <strong>Adam Zajdlik</strong>&nbsp;for Development of 1,1-boryl carbene-enabled boron transfer methodology&nbsp;(Organic Chemistry)&nbsp;</li> </ul> <div> <em>Erin Vollick is a writer with IBBME at the University of Toronto; Shujanaa Mahendrarajah is a writer with 老司机直播 News.</em></div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-picpath field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">picpath</div> <div class="field__item">sites/default/files/2014-08-18-vanier-banting-holder-loan-final.jpg</div> </div> Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:29:37 +0000 sgupta 6428 at