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36 unusual facts about University of Toronto


1963–64 NHL season

While Mikita signed his contract in time for the start of the season, star defenseman Carl Brewer of the Maple Leafs was a holdout and claimed he was going to retire from hockey to attend the University of Toronto; contract terms were agreed upon by the end of October.

1996 Mount Everest disaster

In May 2004, Kent Moore, a physicist, and John L. Semple, a surgeon, both researchers from the University of Toronto, told New Scientist magazine that an analysis of weather conditions on May 11 suggested that freak weather caused oxygen levels to plunge by around 14%.

Alberto Carlos Taquini

He also sered as Visiting Professor in prestigious institutions around the world, including: the University of California, Stanford, Columbia, the University of Michigan, and Cornell, the University of Toronto, the University of Oxford, the University of Milan, the University of San Marcos in Peru, and the University of Chile.

Alexandra Orlando

Orlando currently studies commerce at the University of Toronto and she continues to train at the Ritmika RG Club under Mimi Masleva.

Chris Lea

He was the director of facilities at Hart House at the University of Toronto, where as part of a team he won a Green Innovation Award in 2010, for a project to utilise electrical power generated from exercise bikes.

Cliff Jenkins

He then went to the University of Toronto where he obtained a master's degree in mathematics and a bachelor's degree in education.

Cord blood

In 2005, University of Toronto researcher Peter Zandstra developed a method to increase the yield of cord blood stem cells to enable their use in treating adults as well as children.

Daqing No.1 Middle School

Since 2001, over 1000 students were admitted into Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, University of Toronto and other top universities in the world.

Dental Procedure Education System

The procedures presented in DPES were developed by individual faculty members at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, in collaboration with a group of educational media and technology experts.

Edward Bullard

Bullard held a chair at the University of Toronto from 1948–50 and was head of the National Physical Laboratory between 1950 and 1955.

Freaky Flow

Eventually it developed into a career while earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Toronto.

Freeway Traffic Management System

Research on new algorithm developments and evaluations is performed at the ITS Centre and Testbed (ICAT), at the Civil Engineering department of the University of Toronto.

H. Chandler Elliott

Elliott was educated at the University of Toronto where he received a B.A. in 1930 and a M.A. in 1935.

Henry Esson Young

He was born in English River, Quebec, the son of Reverend Alexander Young and Ellen (McBain, and was educated at Queen's University, McGill University, Toronto University and University of Pennsylvania.

International Buddhist College

The International Buddhist College is a member of a global network of Buddhist Studies programs that includes the University of Hong Kong, the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and Stanford University, and is supported in part by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.

Israel and legitimacy

Professor Emanuel Adler of the University of Toronto considers Israel as willing to accept a situation where its legitimacy may be challenged, because it sees itself as occupying a unique place in the world order.

James Kauluma

In 1965 he travelled to Canada and the USA for further study, graduating with a BA degree from the University of Toronto and an MA from New York University.

Jenny Heathcote

Elizabeth Jane "Jenny" Heathcote is a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and a gastroenterologist and scientist at University Health Network in Toronto specializing in liver disease.

McMaster Faculty of Social Sciences

According to the 2011 Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), McMaster Social Sciences is ranked 54th (up from 58th in 2010, 65th in 2009 and 78th in 2008) in the world and 4th in Canada after the University of Toronto, University of British Columbia and McGill University.

Michael Perrin

Born 13 September 1905 in Victoria, British Columbia he moved to England in 1911 with his British parents, who sent him to Twyford School and Winchester College, and from there to study chemistry at New College, Oxford and the University of Toronto.

Michel Sanouillet

From 1950 to 1969 he taught at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he directed one of the first Canadian avant-garde films (Parking on This Side) which won Honourable Mention at the Canadian Film Awards of 1951.

Mir Masoom Ali

In 1966, Dr. Ali, on leave of absence from his government position, completed his second Masters degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. degree in 1969, both in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Toronto in Canada.

Muhammad Ali Siddiqui

He has delivered lectures in many overseas universities such as the School of Oriental & American Studies London University, Carlton University, Canada, the University of Toronto, Canada, Oslo University, Norway.

Oil Thigh

Additional stanzas that have fallen out of popular use made reference to historic victories over Yale University, rival McGill University, and the University of Toronto.

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The rest of the song was written in 1898 by a student, Alfred Lavell, with the title and The Queen's College Colours after a disappointing loss to the University of Toronto in order to inspire the team.

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

In 2007, Duncan Stewart, formerly Chief Cardiologist of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and Director of Cardiology of University of Toronto, took over as CEO and Scientific Director after the retirement of Ronald Worton.

Patrick Lau Hing Tat

Patrick Lau graduated from the University of Toronto in 1983 with a degree in landscape architecture; he also completed graduate school in 1989 at the University of Hong Kong with a degree in urban design.

Peter Derow

After a spell of teaching at the University of Toronto, he returned to succeed Forrest at Wadham in 1977 when the latter was elected to the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at New College.

Peter P. Silvester

After a period of industrial practice, he continued his studies at the University of Toronto, obtaining the MASc in 1958, and then at McGill University (Montreal), where he was awarded the PhD in Electrical Engineering, in 1964.

Presenilin

They were first identified in screens for mutations causing early onset forms of familial Alzheimer's Disease by Peter St George-Hyslop at the Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto, and now also at the University of Cambridge.

Quote notation

It was invented by Eric Hehner of the University of Toronto, and published in the SIAM Journal on Computation, v.8, n.2, May 1979, pp.

R. K. Gordon

In 1913, having graduated from the Universities of University of Toronto and Oxford, Gordon became administrator at the University of Alberta.

Roger Mynors

He was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and received honorary degrees from many universities in Britain and at the University of Toronto.

Scyllo-Inositol

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that scyllo-inositol can block the development of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques in the brains of transgenic mice.

Text Analysis Portal for Research

The Text Analysis Portal for Research' (commonly referred as TAPoR) project is based at McMaster University, and consists of a network of six of the leading Humanities computing centres in Canada: McMaster, University of Victoria (in collaboration with Malaspina UC), University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Université de Montréal (law) and University of New Brunswick.

The Fionavar Tapestry

It is the story of five University of Toronto senior law and medical students, who are drawn into the 'first world of the Tapestry' by the mage Loren Silvercloak.


1880 Michigan Wolverines football team

On October 16, 1880, The Chronicle wrote that the Athletic Association's corresponding secretary was in correspondence with the football association at the University of Toronto concerning a game between the two schools.

1976 Summer Paralympics

There was no athletes village, so the athletes were housed at York University (Keele campus), University of Toronto (Erindale?) and the CNIB (national headquarters in Toronto).

Alberto Guerrero

An archive collection of Guerrero’s manuscripts and papers is located at the faculty of music library of the University of Toronto.

Arrhinoceratops

The remains were collected from the Neill's Ranch site, along the Red Deer River in Alberta by a 1923 expedition from the University of Toronto.

Arsham Parsi

Director of the cultural committee at the Iranian Association of University of Toronto (IAUT) in 2007, Parsi is also a member of the Rainbow Railroad group based in Toronto, Canada, and the Advisory Committee of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation.

Benoit Coulombe

Born in Granby, Québec, Canada in 1958, Coulombe obtained his bachelor degree in Biochemistry (1981) and his PhD in Molecular Biology (1988) at the University of Montreal before undertaking postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto and the Free University of Brussels (ULB).

Bernardo Padrón

After graduating from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music Performance program in 1986, Bernardo played tenor and alto sax in the Toronto Latin musical community, as well as recording with various local jazz projects (Don Valley Parkway, Mosaic) as a sideman.

Bill Ferrier

He was educated at North Toronto Collegiate Institute and later at University College and Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

Chin Injeti

Prior to graduating from the University of Toronto, Chin Injeti, Roger Mooking and Ivana Santilli made the decision to join forces and share their creative talents with Canada, forming Bass is Base in early 1993 in their North York Suburbs.

Collected Works of Northrop Frye

The project of producing a scholarly, uniform edition of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye (1912–1991) grew from modest beginnings in 1993; the project has been funded by grants from the Michael G. DeGroote family through McMaster University, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and from Victoria University, University of Toronto.

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

16 physicians elected by their peers on a geographical basis every three years; 3 physicians appointed from among the six faculties of medicine (at the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University, University of Toronto, Queen's University, University of Ottawa, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine); no fewer than 13 and no more than 15 non-physician or 'public' members appointed by the provincial government for terms decided by the government.

Diamond and Schmitt Architects

Canadian born architect Donald Schmitt studied architecture at the University of Toronto, and has been in practice with Jack Diamond since 1978.

Dictionary of Old English

The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) is a dictionary published by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto under the direction of Angus Cameron (1941–1983), Ashley Crandell Amos (1951–1989), and Antonette diPaolo Healey.

Edward Gary Carr

Dr. Carr secured his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto and graduate degrees from the University of California at San Diego where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, worked briefly at the University of California Los Angeles, and was Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.

Frederick Valentine Atkinson

Frederick Valentine Atkinson (Pinner, 25 January 1916 – Toronto, 13 November 2002) was a British mathematician, formerly of the University of Toronto, Canada, where he spent most of his career.

Gregory Kealey

Returning to Toronto after his doctoral studies in 1972, Kealey worked on his dissertation and his partner, fellow labour historian Linda Kealey, commenced her own PhD work at the University of Toronto, initially under the supervision of Jill Ker Conway.

Indonesian Canadian

An Indonesian Catholic congregation, the Ummat Katholik Indonesia, has been meeting in the Toronto area since 1979; it was first headed by a Dutch priest who had previously lived in Indonesia, and later by a Javanese theology student from the University of Toronto.

Institute of Child Study

Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study (ICS) is a laboratory school and research institute of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Jacob Immanuel Schochet

He received his academic education in Canada, attending the University of Toronto, University of Windsor, McMaster University, and University of Waterloo, he holds degrees of BA (Phil), MA (Religious Studies), MPhil (Phil) and PhD (Phil).

Jim Dator

In the 1970s, while teaching at the University of Toronto, Dator was hired by Canadian educational television network TVOntario, to work on educational programming related to futurism.

Jim Lefkos

In 1981, Lefkos, in addition to his high school responsibilities, became the head soccer coach of the University of Toronto men's soccer team.

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A native of Cyprus, Lefkos attended the University of Toronto where he played on the school's soccer team from 1964 to 1969.

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy

He was schooled at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto in mechanical engineering in 1906, where he had been a member of The Kappa Alpha Society along with his friend Frederick W. Baldwin.

Joseph Pach

Pach graduated from the University of Toronto with an Artist Diploma in 1947, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from St. Thomas University (New Brunswick) in 1988 and an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of New Brunswick in 1993.

Joseph Peller

While studying at the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto, he worked with artists Kenneth Forbes and Cleeve Horne.

Joseph Pivato

Over the years Pivato has been an invited speaker at the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, The University of Montreal, Laurentian University, the California State University, Long Beach, the University of Warwick, U.K. the University of Venice, the University of Melbourne and other institutions.

Laurence Caruana

After completing his studies in German and ancient Greek Philosophy (B.A. from the University of Toronto 1985), he learned classical painting techniques at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 1990).

Maurice Lister

Soon after the war he joined Atomic Energy Canada in Chalk River, Ontario, and then in 1949 the chemistry department at the University of Toronto, where he remained until 1982.

Mitro Makarchuk

In 1959, as a first year student at the University of Toronto, Makarchuk offered to underwrite a Canadian intercollegiate hockey championship between the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team and University of Saskatchewan Huskies as there was no national playoff between eastern and western Canadian regional hockey champions.

Ozay Mehmet

He has taught at various Canadian universities including: the University of Windsor, York University, the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

Peter J. Brand

He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis.

Scott Symons

Born into a wealthy family, he attended a number of private schools, the University of Toronto, Cambridge University and the Sorbonne.

Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners

Leonard Shore died in 1989, and as he had no immediate family, the Shore Foundation was created in his memory to assist the University of Toronto, and the L.E. Shore Memorial Library in Thornbury, Ontario.

St. Lawrence Quartet

It was founded in 1989 and has served residencies at the Juilliard School, Yale University, the University of Toronto, the Hartt School, and Stanford University.

Susan Brison

Brison graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and went on to receive both a master's degree and a PhD from the University of Toronto.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

The Porcupine's Quill

Early in The Porcupine's Quill's history, Tim Inkster contacted friends he met during his time at the University of Toronto to publish their work, such as collections of poetry by Ed Carson and Brian Henderson.

Toronto municipal election, 1978

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto (1970) and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Queen's University (1973), and was called to the Ontario bar in 1975.

TRIUMF

The member universities consist of the University of Alberta, the University of British Columbia, Carleton University, University of Guelph, University of Manitoba, Université de Montréal, Simon Fraser University, Queen's University, University of Toronto, University of Victoria, and York University.