Donor Supports “Helping” Disciplines
A former professional oboist from the U.S. has created a financial award in honour of her late father to assist students in nursing, social work and rehabilitation therapy. Nora Post, who has suffered...
View ArticleTanenbaums Create Engineering Scholarships
In April 1951, Joey Tanenbaum left first-year civil engineering to join his father’s steel company. But his initial foray into the working world didn’t last long. Tanenbaum returned to classes a year...
View ArticleVarsity Track Gets New Name
The bright blue, eight-lane track at the new Varsity Centre sports a new name – the John L. Davenport track – thanks to a gift from the family of the late Varsity pole vault champion and 1929 chemical...
View ArticleScholarship Will Support New Canadians
A new scholarship created by a former University of Toronto Scarborough commerce student will support first-generation Canadians in the management co-op program at U of T Scarborough. Leo van den...
View ArticleA Scientist’s Legacy
Inspired by the humanitarian ideals of a Nobel Prize winner, the Marie Curie Sklodowska Association is celebrating 50 years of philanthropy by establishing scholarships for female physics and chemistry...
View ArticleStage Presence
A U of T staff member whose name was synonymous with Hart House Theatre for more than three decades has donated $100,000 to help ensure the theatre’s long-term survival. Janet Bessey, who started as an...
View ArticleRotman Roars Ahead
Last fall was a banner season for the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, which received landmark gifts from major donors totalling $28 million. The Rotman School will use the money to construct a...
View ArticleU of T Launches School of Public Health
The University of Toronto will throw open the doors to a new School of Public Health this September, following a $20-million gift from Paul Dalla Lana, the founder and chairman of NorthWest Healthcare...
View ArticleRaising the Bar
When Cathy Spoel recalls her best days as a U of T law student, she doesn’t reminisce about Falconer Hall. She thinks of Varsity Arena and Back Campus field, where she often competed in intramural...
View ArticleA Nobel Gesture
Dr. Oliver Smithies, one of three scientists who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine, is giving a quarter of his award money to U of T to create a visiting lectureship. Three other universities are...
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By Grand Design
A Toronto real estate developer who arrived in Canada as a youth with little more than raw talent and a determination to succeed has made an historic gift to U of T’s Faculty of Architecture. John...
View ArticleHome Smart Home
For most people, using toilets and washing their hands are such simple tasks they barely think about them. But for some sufferers of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, they can seem confusing and...
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