en-us http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca University of Toronto @ Scarbrough Story feed Service Copyright 2024 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=9807 Products like cars and watches are often marketed as sleek, classy and reliable. But according to new U of T research, there may be an unconscious appetite among consumers for them to convey dominance. ldquoIf these products are used in situations where yoursquore competing with someone else, the goal may be dominance,rdquo says Pankaj Aggarwal, a marketing professor in U of T Scarboroughrsquos Department of Management and the Rotman School of Management. For a variety of reasons people are a... Don Campbell News Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:01:56 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=9748 The Hon. David Onley, one of U of T Scarboroughrsquos most distinguished alumni and a lecturer at the campus, has been officially invested as a member of the Order of Canada. Onley, who served for seven years as Ontariorsquos Lieutenant Governor, has been a passionate advocate for disability rights. ldquoThroughout his career, he has advanced the publicrsquos understanding of people with disabilities, particularly during his tenure as Ontariorsquos lieutenant governor, where he made inclusion... Chris Garbutt News Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:01:36 EDT http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=9747 Dr. Tayyab Rashidrsquos approach to clinical psychology is to first focus on the positive. For him, dwelling only on doom and gloom, dysfunction and weakness, is just not enough. ldquoI prefer to take a strengths-based approach,rdquo says Rashid, a licensed clinical psychologist at the Health Wellness Centre, and an associate faculty member in the graduate department of psychological clinical science program at U of T Scarborough. ldquoMy role as a clinician is to be empathetic, but also bri... Don Campbell News Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:11:51 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=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 Enter search keywords... keywords http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/search_news.php