Faculty

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Professor Kim Strong, the inaugural director of the new School of the Environment at University of Toronto, is one of the founding members of the Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change, a group of researchers working to improve atmospheric remote sounding in Canada.

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Dr. Gaétan Tardif has been involved with the Paralympic Games throughout the past decade and is the London 2012 Chef de Mission for the Canadian team. Tardif is a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Chief Medical Officer at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.

Before leaving for London, Tardif discussed the Paralympic Games with writer Gavin Au-Yeung.

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A University of Toronto team led by Engineering Professor Yu-Ling Cheng, Director of the Centre for Global Engineering, has garnered third place and $40,000 (USD) for their design of a toilet for the developing world.

The design was a response to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which seeks to develop a waterless, hygienic toilet that is safe and affordable for people in the developing world that doesn’t have to be connected to a sewer.

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When Francesca Valente decided to come to Toronto from her native Italy in 1977 to do a master’s degree in Canadian literature, her friends from university thought she’d lost her good sense, opting to voyage into what they thought of as a cultural wasteland.

But Valente and her friends were in for a surprise: while at U of T, she got the chance to study under the globally renowned literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye, one of the 20th century’s most quoted, most lionized thinkers.

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When historian Joan Simalchik arrived at the University of Toronto in 1976, she expected to focus on her master's studies and to get to know her way around the city.

Instead, she met Chilean refugees fleeing Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship and heard horrific stories of torture and oppression.

Simalchik could not turn away. She headed the Canadian Committee for Solidarity with Democratic Chile and campaigned to denounce human rights violations in that country.