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unusual facts about the University of Toronto



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).

Étienne Gilson

At the invitation of the Congregation of St. Basil, he set up the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto in conjunction with St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto.

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.


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Andrew Forde

While Forde was President of the University of Toronto's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, the group participated in the TORCH program, an initiative to "increase the number of culturally responsible black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community."

Ann Boddington

She was awarded the 1982-83 Teaching Award for Faculty at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and her work was published in academic journals such as The American Journal of Philology or presented to groups like the Classical Association of Canada.

Archibald Macallum

In 1901, he showed that the chromatin in cell nuclei contains iron, and in his early years at the University of Toronto he adapted measurement methods for a number of ions (chloride, potassium and phosphorus) for use with tissue and cell samples.

Brian Boyd

In 1979 Boyd completed a PhD at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, in the context of Nabokov’s epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.

C. W. M. Hart

In 1947 and 1948 Hart conducted sociological research into industrial relations in Windsor, Ontario on behalf of the Institute of Industrial Relations of the University of Toronto.

Careless

J. M. S. Careless (1919–2009), Canadian historian from the University of Toronto

Clarence B. Farrar

Farrar's contributions to the field of psychiatry were recognized through honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Toronto, the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada from the Governor General of Canada, and the Distinguished Service Award of the Thomas W. Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Claude Bissell

From 1956 to 1958 he was president of Carleton College (now Carleton University) returning to the University of Toronto in 1958 to become president.

Coßmann

Brenda Cossman (born 1960), a professor of Law at the University of Toronto

David Naylor

A Rhodes Scholar, Naylor received an MD from the University of Toronto in 1978, proceeding to Hertford College, Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil in 1983 in the Department of Social and Administrative Studies.

Davindra Singh

Singh also holds academic appointments at several institutions, including Queen's University, the University of Toronto, Laurentian University, and Lakehead University and speaks frequently at medical events across North America.

Denis Smith

Denis Smyth (born 1948), professor of history at the University of Toronto

Derrick Fung

Upon graduation from the University of Toronto, he started working at CIBC World Markets on the trading floor where he traded Foreign Exchange.

Eric Miller

Eric J. Miller (born 1951), professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto

Gad Horowitz

Horowitz teaches a class at the University of Toronto entitled "The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship" which revolves around general semantics, a non-Aristotelian educational discipline first theorized by Polish engineer Alfred Korzybski.

Green College, University of British Columbia

Green College is one of only three graduate residential colleges in Canada, the other two being St. John's College, University of British Columbia and Massey College at the University of Toronto.

Harish Mehta

Harish is married to Julie Mehta, a scholar of Postcolonial studies, who teaches at the University of Toronto.

James Orbinski

He is closely associated with the University of Toronto's Massey College where he is a Senior Fellow and was the founding Saul Rae Fellow.

Joel Quarrington

After he received a degree in music from the University of Toronto, he went on to Austria and Italy to study under two renowned double bass pedagogues, respectively Ludwig Streicher and Franco Petracchi.

José María Valverde

That same year he married Pilar Gefaell, with whom he had five children, including Mariana Valverde, a Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto.

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition Magazine, a student run Global Health magazine at the University of Toronto

Marc David Lewis

From this neo-Piagetian origin, Marc Lewis began investigating cognition-emotion interactions: the influence of cognitive development on emotional and personality development, and the influence of emotion on cognitive and personality development, as a professor at the University of Toronto.

Mike Del Grande

Since that time, he also received a Bachelor of Commerce and Finance degree in 1976 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 2002, both from the University of Toronto, as well as a Master's degree in Theological Studies from St. Augustine in 2000.

Oxtoby

Willard G. Oxtoby (1933–2003), founding director of the graduate Centre for Religious Studies at the University of Toronto

Peter J. Brand

It contains a catalogue of most of Seti I's monuments and an important discussion of the historical significance and reigns of Ramesses I and Seti I. Brand also attended the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis prior to the University of Toronto.

The Newspaper

Film director Atom Egoyan, novelists Rohinton Mistry and Ray Robertson, and television public affairs host Steve Paikin all worked for The Newspaper as students while attending the University of Toronto.

In The Newspaper's first year of publication, prominent professors at the University of Toronto contributed articles, including Allan Bloom, Denis Duffy, and Robertson Davies.

Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

Sir John Henry Lefroy, a pioneer in the study of terrestrial magnetism served as director of the magnetic observatory from 1842 to 1853; In 1960, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Citizenship and Culture erected a Provincial Military Plaque in his honour on the University of Toronto campus.

University of Toronto Mississauga Library

The University of Toronto Mississauga Library, part of the University of Toronto Libraries system, is the campus library of the University of Toronto Mississauga.

University of Toronto Southern Observatory

The University of Toronto Southern Observatory (UTSO) was an astronomical observatory built by the University of Toronto at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

Varsity Blues

Toronto Varsity Blues, the sports teams of the University of Toronto, Canada

Varsity Field

Varsity Stadium, the University of Toronto college football stadium

Walter Delahunt

Born in 1956 he had his early training with the Latvian pianist Felicita Kalejs.He then continued his studies with the Swiss pianist Pierre Souvairan at the University of Toronto, where he graduated in 1978 as winner of the W. O. Forsyth award.