Teaching

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The University of Toronto, in collaboration with four other Canadian universities, will represent North America as one of only four global innovation collaboratives chosen to work with the prestigious U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) on a project to lead innovation in health education across the globe.

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“I’m not going to try to tell you how to do business in the Middle Kingdom (China),”  retired businessman Paul Ip told a crowd of budding entrepreneurs during a recent Engineering Entrepreneurship Series lecture at the University of Toronto. “I started up and ran two different businesses in China. I’ll tell you my story and let you draw your own conclusions.”

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Professor Emeritus George Baird, former dean of the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, has been awarded the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education by the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

The prestigious medallion honours an individual who has been intensely involved in architecture education for more than a decade and whose teaching has influenced a broad range of students.

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With a quick scissor snip through U of T blue ribbon, University of Toronto community members, politicians, hospital representatives and donors officially opened the Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex and Mississauga Academy of Medicine Nov. 1.

The Rotman School of Management has teamed up with the Toronto District School Board to bring an integrative-thinking program, called I-Think, to high school (and eventually primary school) students. The Rotman School uses integrative thinking, a concept developed by Dean Roger Martin, to teach MBA students that there’s an alternative to either-or choices. Students learn to make decisions that keep the positive aspects of both choices while getting rid of the bad.