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31 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 Guerrero

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

Alexandra Orlando

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

Antonín Kubálek

A respected educator, Kubálek served on the faculties of The Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto, York University, the Prague Conservatory and the Prague Academy of Performing Arts.

Canadian Action Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election

He left Romania in 1990, moved to Canada, and received another Master of Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1994.

Charmion King

Fresh out of the University of Toronto's Hart House, she quickly became known for her fresh beauty and roles at the new Crest Theatre and their Straw Hat Players summer circuit in the Muskoka Lake district.

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.

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.

Eugene Rittich

Eugene Rittich's long association with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto was honored twice by the International Horn Society in awarding him their Punto Award "in recognition of distinguished contributions and service to the art of horn playing".

Freaky Flow

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

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.

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.

Jim Lefkos

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

Len Lesser

He was most recently on stage in Jeff Seymour's critically acclaimed stage production of Cold Storage at the University of Toronto's George Ignatieff Theatre.

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.

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.

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.

Robert Orok

He was educated at the Barrie Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, and received certification as a medical doctor.

Russell T. Osguthorpe

He was previously a visiting faculty member at the University of Toronto, the University of Paris and a member of the faculty of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York.

Steve Oda

Among the many performances Steven has given include special invitations from the Ali Akbar College of Music, the Asian Art Museum, the Ragmala Association of Canada, the University of Toronto, and the Spirit of India Festival.

Taiyuan Foreign Language School

TFLS graduates are also enrolled in colleges in foreign countries, including Duke University in the United States, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong SAR, University of Toronto in Canada, and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan etc.


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).

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.

Augustine Mahiga

That same year, Mahiga completed a Masters of Arts at the University of Toronto (U of T).

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).

Catherine Bragg

Bragg obtained a PhD in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, a Master of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Toronto.

Chien Wei-zang

He obtained a Ph.D. degree at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. J.L. Synge in 1942, and then worked as a research associate in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Caltech.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hazel Carby

Carby has lectured at numerous colleges and universities worldwide including Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of Paris, and University of Toronto.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Kirton

John J. Kirton is a professor of political science and the director and co-founder of the G8 Research Group, co-director (with Alan Alexandroff and Donald Brean) and founder of the G20 Research Group, and founder and co-director (with James Orbinski) of the Global Health Diplomacy Program, all housed at the Munk School of Global Affairs at University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto.

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 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).

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 Laurin

As an undergraduate he worked in the laboratory of Robert L. Carroll and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the direction of Robert R. Reisz; his thesis concerned the osteology of seymouriamorphs.

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.

Paul Dorian

He continued training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Toronto, and received certification by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Internal Medicine in 1983 and certification in Cardiology in 1984.

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.

Robert Ackman

Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, his education included a Bachelor of Arts in organic chemistry from the University of Toronto received in 1950, a Master of Science in organic chemistry from Dalhousie University received in 1952, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of London received in 1956, and a D.I.C. in organic chemistry from Imperial College London.

Sarah Anne Curzon

Sarah Anne Curzon's daughter was one of the first females to receive a B.A. from the University of Toronto.

Shlomo Avineri

Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, most recently, the University of Toronto.

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.

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.

Vesanto Melina

Her father was physiologist Ed Goranson who specialized in diabetes working in the Toronto lab of Sir Frederick Banting and Charles H. Best who received a Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin; he taught physiology at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia,and did cancer research at Princess Margaret Hospital and at Mill Hill in London England.

Victor Albert Sinclair

He was born in Tillsonburg, the son of Dr. Lachlin C. Sinclair and Roxiliana Norman, and was educated in Tillsonburg, at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall.