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U of T research demonstrates how children learn about prejudice

21 Mar 2012 - 2:49pm
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How do children come to realize that they themselves might be targets of prejudice?  It may depend on their age. New research conducted at the University of Toronto shows that a six-year-old may be influenced most by direct instruction about prejudice, but once that child gets closer to 10, she begins to rely more on her own experiences.

MBiotech team places second in Venture Capital Competition

21 Mar 2012 - 9:52am
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Students from the Master of Biotechnology Program have once again produced outstanding results in the latest Venture Capital & Innovation Competition (VCIC), placing second against Rotman MBA teams. VCIC is the world’s premiere educational strategy competition for venture-minded and entrepreneurial MBA students in which the goal is to develop solutions to a business case. Only select business schools are invited to participate and U of T is the only Canadian university among them.

Scholars say global governance overhaul needed for earth’s sustainability

20 Mar 2012 - 2:20pm

A group of the world’s leading environmental scholars are sounding the alarm that human societies need to transform their national and international environmental institutions into a more coherent and robust planetary stewardship model to steer away from rapid and irreversible changes to the Earth’s subsystems.

University of Toronto Mississauga political scientist Steven Bernstein is one of the authors of a paper which appears in Science on March 16, 2012.

U of T #1 in Canada, 16th Globally in Survey of World Academic Leaders

15 Mar 2012 - 4:37pm

Leading academics from around the world have rated the University of Toronto number one in Canada and 16th in the world in a reputational survey undertaken by a British publication that focuses on post-secondary education. 

The 2012 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, now in their second year, are based on a survey of academic opinion, featuring 17,554 published scholars from 137 countries. The invitation-only survey is carried out by Ipsos.

Italian writing students interview ‘red-carpet’ celebrities

9 Mar 2012 - 2:37pm
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When seven-foot tall NBA star Andrea Bargnani ducked to enter a U of T Mississauga classroom, he was greeted by 21 students—all speaking in near-perfect Italian. “It was nerve-wracking when I asked Mr. Bargnani if he is proud of his heritage,” second-year Language Studies student, Jena DiGiambattista said. “He answered, ‘Of course, I’m proud—I am Italian’.”

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