There were speeches, gifts and a few tears Monday evening as U of T gathered to bid farewell to Vice-President and Principal Deep Saini, who is leaving UTM to become the vice-chancellor of Australia’s University of Canberra.
It was a day of sunshine, celebration and selfies as U of T Mississauga welcomed the newest members of its alumni community at the annual spring convocation ceremonies.
During his first two years at university, Daniel Jayasinghe focused on academic life. The U of T Mississauga commerce student was looking ahead to a career in accounting and worked hard to load his resumé with great grades and industry related experiences. “I spent two years focused on school—I thought it was what the big firms were looking for,” he says. But when he was passed over for work placements, Jayasinghe knew he had to expand his horizons.
Biologist, musician, teacher, volunteer and published researcher—for someone who says she felt lost in her first year of university, biology student Laura Krajewski has emerged from her undergraduate years with a solid idea of who she is now.