en-us http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca University of Toronto @ Scarbrough Story feed Service Copyright 2012 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=3682 Three UTSC faculty won Early Researcher Awards from the province in recognition of the importance of their research and its potential to make Ontario a global leader in innovation. Kagan Kerman, assistant professor of chemistry, Natalie Rothman, assistant professor of history, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov, assistant professor of statistics, all received the 140,000 awards from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. ldquoThese awards are designed to attract and retain the bes... Kurt Kleiner News Mon, 14 May 2012 14:09:11 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3635 E. Natalie Rothman's new book Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul explores how the modern distinction between Europe and the East began to take shape in sixteenth century Venice. Rothman, an assistant professor of history at UTSC, looks at migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, converts, commercial brokers and other ldquotrans-imperialrdquo subjects during the period between 1570 and 1670 as they helped to shape ever-shifting imperial and cultural boundaries,... Unknown Author News Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:02:44 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3624 New programs and a new head tennis pro will rejuvenate UTSCrsquos Tennis Club this year. This summer, the Tennis Club will run a camp for youth from neighbouring communities, host a series of tournaments, provide training for wheelchair tennis coaches, and serve as one of the few places in Toronto where children can train using a new technique called progressive tennis. The UTSC Tennis Club maintains 11 tennis courts and a clubhouse tucked into the valley just off Old Kingston Road. Its exist... Kurt Kleiner News Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:26 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3597 This summer UTSC students will get the chance to spend a week in the forest, consider the fascination of prime numbers, examine the importance of poetry in popular culture and more as part of the summer iExplore courses at UTSC. ldquoiExplore courses are intended for students who want to explore where they might want to go in their undergraduate education,rdquo says John Scherk, vice-dean, undergraduate. ldquoSo wersquore offering courses that are not part of the regular curriculum to open up... Unknown Author News Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:05:00 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3595 The digital communication revolution has created many new ways for scholars to communicate with one another. But it is also creating problems, including a deluge of data, rising expenses for libraries, and confusion for scholars. The UTSC community hashed out some of the promises and pitfalls of digital scholarship at an April 4 forum called Knowledge: Production Dissemination in the Digital Age. It was organized by Leslie Chan, senior lecturer in the department of social sciences, and Sarah... Kurt Kleiner News Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:02:20 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3550 Heinz-Bernhard Bernie Kraatz has been obsessed with chemistry ever since he received a chemistry set as a child growing up in Germany. Now hersquos a professor in UTSCrsquos Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, exploring new ways to diagnose and treat disease.Kraatz, who came to UTSC this year from the University of Western Ontario, is head of a research group that investigates functional biomaterials and sensors. The group designs useful materials from the ground up, starting w... Kurt Kleiner News Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:56:57 EST " length="0" type="image/com/v/2-wikajqznu" play="false" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="209" width="604">" /> http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3621 An environmental conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough UTSC will aim to educate and engage young people on important environmental issues. The Our World, Our Responsibility conference will bring together students from UTSC, Centennial College, UOIT as well as Toronto-area high schools for a one-day event that will cover a wide range of topics concerning the environment. ldquoWe hope this event will not only increase the students' knowledge of many current environmental issues, b... Don Campbell News Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:13:09 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3466 Dr. Modris Eksteinsrsquo newest book, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age, tells the story of Otto Wacker, a dancer, painter, art dealer and eventual Nazi party member who was convicted in 1932 of selling fake Van Gogh paintings. In the process of telling that story, Eksteins examines the career of Van Gogh, the birth of modernism, the breakdown of 19th Century authority, the issues of art, authenticity, and experience, as well as the rise of Hitler to power... Kurt Kleiner News Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:23:14 EST http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3559 Enrol in Summer UTSC courses beginning on Tuesday, April 10th. Enrolment in UTM or FAS courses begins at 6am on April 19th. Transactions are completed on ROSI.... P. Topham Events Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:21:05 EST http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3604 The Summer Parking permits are going to be on sale as of Monday, April 23rd at 9am. The price for the Summer permit is 158.05, we accept visa, mc, amex, debit or certified cheques. You can purchase your Summer permit either online or in person. If you go to www.utsc.utoronto.caparking you can order your Summer permit online. If you already have a prox card you do not need to order another one. Please give us 1 business day after you place your order before you come in to pick up your permit. ... Cathy Fontaine Events Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:43:03 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=2822 For researchers across the country, the annual round of nail-biting and sleepless nights is finally over. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NSERC has announced its funding decisions for 2011, and UTSC faculty have many reasons to celebrate. Our researchers pulled in 24 awards, including 17 NSERC Discovery grants, three Research Tools and Instruments grants and one Northern Research Supplement. In total, our scientists received more than 3.1 million in NSERC fund... A. Westoll News Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT " length="0" type="image/jpg"> " /> 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=3683 The University of Toronto Scarborough is proud to be the future home of the Aquatics Centre and Field House, to be built at the corner of Morningside Avenue and Military Trail. In 2015, this new athletics facility will host the aquatics, fencing, seated volleyball and modern pentathlon components of the 2015 PanParapan American Games, being held in Ontario for the first time. But when the Games are over and the international spotlight has dimmed, this world-class complex will create a powerfu... Unknown Author News Mon, 14 May 2012 16:43:25 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3630 UTSC will partner with the East Scarborough Storefront on a course called Understanding Your Environment, which will provide community members with an introduction to environmental issues and research. UTSC faculty including Nick Eyles, professor of environmental science and host of the CBC documentary Geologic Journey, will present lectures, while classes, hands-on demonstrations and field trips will be arranged by course leader Katharina Brutigam, a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Ma... Kurt Kleiner News Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:51:23 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3632 Researchers from around the world will come to UTSC this month and begin to build a collaborative network for research into fostering citizen engagement and pro-poor social change. The workshop, called Collaboration for Research on Democracy CORD, will bring 15 experienced researchers from Brazil, Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, India, South Africa and the United Kingdom. It will be hosted by UTSCrsquos international development studies program. Many of the attending researchers have helped build... Kurt Kleiner News Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:05:47 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3629 Two UTSC students will head to Ottawa to attend a conference about artists and the law after their YouTube videos won them bursaries from the conference organizers. Arts management students Blanche Isral and Lesley Bramhill submitted YouTube videos as part of a contest run by the Canadian Artists' RepresentationLe Front des artistes canadiens CARFAC, which offered the winners the chance to attend the June conference in Ottawa called Art Law. The students found out about the conference after... Unknown Author News Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:38:40 EDT Enter search keywords... keywords http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/search_news.php