Thursday,
March 5, 2015

Featured in this issue:

• Sick of real estate bidding wars? Sadly, no end in sight, study finds
• Faces of a growing movement
• TODAY: Interstellar: The Science Behind the Movie
• UofT biomedical engineer wins women in science prize

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Molly Shoichet wins L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award

Innovative research leader is already the only person ever elected to all three of Canada's science academies ...

News Stories

Online Icicle Atlas

U of T professor makes jackpot of free scientific data available to everyone ...

The public's health: symposium invites community to discuss the history of health and wellness

High school students mentored by U of T grad students to present their findings ...

Undergrads dig for dinos in Alberta's badlands

Undergraduate students get an opportunity to dig up a fossil, be filmed doing it and then see the bone in a museum ...

Sick of real estate bidding wars? Sadly, no end in sight, study finds

Home buyers have come to dread real estate bidding wars, but they'd better get used to it, a new study from U of T's Rotman School of Management suggests ...

Working north of 60: Museum Studies grad manages visitor experience at Yukon Wildlife Preserve

Catching lynx kittens, skiing to the office, all in a day's work for Jake Paleczny ...

Working @ U of T

Faces of a growing movement

As the third installation of the University of Toronto's Green Champions draws to a close, the semester's Champs reflect on the importance of a personal commitment to a low impact lifestyle ...

Information and updates regarding strike by CUPE 3902, Unit 1

For the latest information on the strike ...

TODAY: Live Lean Series - Plan Ahead: Restaurants, Holidays, Vacations

Registered dietitian and health coach Stefanie Senior helps you plan ahead and be healthy anytime, anywhere; Mar. 5 ...

Parkinson's Disease 101

A Family Care Office workshop on Parkinson's Disease presented by the Parkinson Society Central & Northern Ontario; Mar. 13 ...

Python Basics: Getting Started

Do you want to learn how to code for the purpose of manipulating and cleaning data using a powerful open-source programming language? Join staff at the Map & Data Library for an introduction to Python ...

Call for Participation now open - TechKnowFile 2015

TechKnowFile (TKF) provides a platform for U of T professionals and administrative staff from academia to discuss, share and disseminate innovative and pioneering views on recent trends and development in communications, IT, management and leadership; Submission deadline is Mar. 31 ...

What's On

International Health Film Series and Expo

On seven nights in March, the inaugural University of Toronto Scarborough International Health Film Series and Expo will explore timely and provocative topics including global epidemics, homelessness, Alzheimer's disease, eugenics, food production and access to care and to life-saving drugs ...

TODAY: Tasting the Renaissance: Food Culture and the Literary Imagination in Sixteenth-Century Italy

A public lecture organized by the Department of Italian Studies featuring Professor Laura Giannetti of the University of Miami; Mar. 5 ...

TODAY: Radical Thought and Action

An interactive panel discussion exploring the changing use and aspects of the word "radical", addressing its reference to organic thought in universities and the actions of violent religious fundamentalists; Mar. 5 ...

Creativity, Planning, and Regional Prosperity

The Urban Studies Program, in partnership with URSSU and Innis College, invites you to an evening with U of T alumna Lori Martin, the Senior Cultural Affairs Officer at the City of the Toronto; Mar. 5 ...

Middle City Passages Toronto symposium

The multi-billion dollar investment in the expansion and improvement of Toronto's public transport system provides an opportunity to combine a series of small, high-impact interventions with major infrastructure projects; Mar. 6 ...

Archipelagos of Empire: Lampedusa and the Frontiers of Italy and Fortress Europe

Northrop Frye Centre and the Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies present a lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom; Mar. 6 ...

Secularity and the Politics of Historical Fiction: Azazeel in Egypt

The University of Toronto Scarborough Centre for Ethnography is pleased to present the 2015 Distinguished Lecture by Saba Mahmood, University of California-Berkeley; Mar. 6 ...

After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe and Around the Globe

A one-day conference hosted by the U of T Faculty of Law and Munk School of Global Affairs exploring the aftermath of the violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo in January. How did the world react? How should the world have reacted? And where do we go from here? Mar. 9 ...

Family Ties Tour featuring Vivek Shraya and Casey Mecija

The University of Toronto is excited to welcome two of Toronto's most engaging artists, Casey Mecija (Ohbijou) and Vivek Shraya, for a tri-campus series of events featuring film, music and dialogue; ends Mar. 10 ...

TODAY: Interstellar: The Science Behind the Movie

Free astronomy public tour facilitated by Ari Silburt, PhD candidate studying exoplanets at the University of Toronto; Mar. 5 ...

Examining the Independent Effect of Social Support on Perceived Mental Health Care Needs among Canadians

The Comparative Program on Health and Society presents a seminar featuring Junior Doctoral Fellow at U of T Philip Baiden, and PhD Candidate at the University of Western Ontario Frederick A. Armah; Mar. 11 ...

Behind the Scenes

UTM Campus Tours designed by Cohabitation Strategies and curated by MVS candidate Yan Wu; Mar. 10-12 ...

Economic Literacy: Getting Beyond 'Supply and Demand' with Jim Stanford

OISE is celebrating the launch of its new Centre for Learning, Social Economy & Work (CLSEW) with Unifor economist and author of Economics for Everyone, first published in 2008 and translated into 6 languages; Mar. 12 ...

Art and Thought in the Cold War

The F.E.L. Priestley Memorial Lecture in the History of Ideas, featuring Professor Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English, Harvard University; Mar.17-19 ...

Nino Ricci—In Conversation

The Department of English invites you to join them for a literary evening and book signing with award-winning novelist and UTSC's 2015 writer-in-residence Nino Ricci; Mar. 18 ...

Inaugural Sefton-Williams Memorial Lecture

The Sefton-Williams Award is presented to the Hon. Ed Broadbent for his work dedicated to advocating for economic equality. The award ceremony will be followed by a debate entitled Inequality and its Discontents: A Canadian Perspective; Mar. 19 ...

Integrating Mindfulness: Be a part of the conversation

A 2-day conference bringing visionaries and community together to share leading edge research, evidence-based practices and emerging developments in the application of mindfulness in all sectors of society; Mar. 27-29 ...

U of T In The Media

Awards, Honours and Fellowships

Instagram of the Week

Index Librorum Expurgatorum with tiny figurines from the Fisher Library #tinytuesday series

By Instagram user: fisherlibrary

In the sixteenth century, the Holy Office developed a variation of the 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum' known as the 'Index Librorum Expurgatorum'. Its purpose was to assist librarians in the partial censorship of works by otherwise orthodox authors by indicating exact page numbers and sentences to be expurgated from the offending text using a black ink pen. This edition of the Index Expurgatorum was printed in France in 1599 (PJ Carefoote).

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