Presenters: Prof. Claudia Dos Santos Scientist, St. Michael's Hospital "Designer miR-based Therapy for Sepsis" Dr. Nitzan Letko Khait 2023 PRiME Clinical Catalyst Fellow Co-supervised by Profs. Molly Shoichet and Michael Tymianski

Join UTM at the Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS - MN3230) from 9am-4pm daily on December 11-13 for a three-day writing retreat. Bring yourself and your current writing project. Any stage of writing is welcome! The retreat will included some facilitation followed by free writing time. This writing retreat is open to faculty, postdocs and […]

The Centre for Culture & Technology's ongoing Monday Night Seminar series continues with a book event for Queer Data Studies (University of Washington Press, January 2024), edited by Patrick Keilty (University of Toronto.) They will be joined by contributors Harris Kornstein (University of Arizona) and Shaka McGlotten (Purchase College-SUNY), who will present on their work.

This session will provide all staff with key resources, tips and techniques to support the embedding of universal design principles in all aspects of their work. Participants will be introduced to the concepts and principles of universal design, provided with guidance on what spaces, built and not, universal design has been applied, and given advice […]

This session focuses on accessible content creation practices. Techniques for conceptualizing, creating and maintaining accessible documents will be discussed and how to build these into department wide processes. A heavy emphasis is placed on why those techniques are important, and the ramifications of formatting decisions. This event is hosted by the Accessibility For Ontarians With […]

This session aims to give a foundation or refresher for website content editors on web accessibility fundamentals. Participants will learn about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) and how they apply to the AODA, what this means for their role at the University and provide a foundation for discussion of web accessibility with different types […]

Many Canadian Institutions including the University of Toronto do land acknowledgements before meetings, before convocations and at seminars and conferences, but why do we do them; what is their purpose and are they an effective tool of reconciliation and decolonization. The fear is that land acknowledgements have become largely performative and rote stripping them of […]

This event is hosted by SciNet. In about 90 minutes, learn how to use the SciNet systems Niagara and Mist, from securely logging in to running computations on the supercomputer. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers.