Alumni Launch Campaign to Restore Convocation Hall
The U of T Alumni Association (UTAA) has kicked off an ambitious campaign to refurbish Convocation Hall with a $500,000 gift, announced by outgoing UTAA president Brian Burchell (BSc 1987) at the...
View ArticlePlacental Problems Linked to Heart Disease
Pregnant women who experience placental syndromes have double the risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life, according to a U of T study led by Dr. Joel Ray of the department of...
View ArticleAn Island History
A recent gift to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in honour of former University College principal Archibald Hollis Hallett will be a boon to scholars researching the English settlement of Bermuda....
View ArticleFostering Leaders in Law
After graduating from the University of Toronto with degrees in electrical engineering and law, Ted Donegan spent 25 years advising newspapers and doing the legal work that builds towns, refineries and...
View ArticleCinema Studies Turns 30
Award-winning Canadian film producer Robert Lantos is helping Innis College celebrate the 30th anniversary of its Cinema Studies program by chairing a $7-million fundraising campaign. “I’d like to make...
View ArticleThe Origins of English
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York has awarded a $500,000 (U.S.) Challenge Grant to the Dictionary of Old English (DOE) at the University of Toronto. The grant will be used to support the...
View ArticleMDS and Rotman Create $30,000 Award for Leadership
MDS Inc., an international health sciences company, has donated $250,000 to the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in honour of its past president and CEO, John Rogers...
View Article$3.5-Million Gift to Economics
Toronto investment manager Ira Gluskin and his wife, Maxine Granovsky-Gluskin, have honoured Ira’s father, Max, with a $3.5-million gift to the University of Toronto to help renovate and expand the...
View ArticleGood Karma
Buddhist Studies at University of Toronto Scarborough has received a major boost from a group looking to inspire public interest in Buddhism in Canada and around the world. Tung Lin Kok Yuen, a Hong...
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