The Faculty of Information has launched the ‘Crosstalk’ series, a collection of conversations on topics spanning multiple research areas and that may have been approached from different theoretical, conceptual, and methodological lenses. The goal is to tune our senses to seeing possible and ‘hidden’ connections between works and to engender disciplinary, multi/interdisciplinary, and/or cross-sectoral collaboration. […]

Please note there is a Part 1 and 2, and it is recommended you attend part 2 to get more of a wholesome context to this session. Culture is expressed in the worldviews of peoples from different backgrounds, lived experiences and histories. It is fostered through ones’ unique identification with ones’ values, beliefs, languages, and […]

This session will provide participants with a foundational knowledge on how communication and language can create barriers to accessibility, and how to address these barriers. Participants will be (re-) introduced to AODA guidelines for accessible communication, language and terms that may be problematic, invited to consider how language changes over time, and to discuss how […]

This event is hosted by the Division of People Strategy, Equity & Culture. This session is part of the Inclusion in Action Speaker Series, created with the aim of dismantling attitudes and processes that uphold ongoing exclusion and marginalization, the series uses an intersectional lens to explore specific, complex and timely conversations with our campus […]

This event is hosted by Community-Based Research Canada as part of their “Moving the Dial” 2023 E-Learning series. The Family Caregiving Project is a research study exploring the experiences of families affected by mental illness, being conducted in collaboration with community mental health agencies in Ontario. Unlike most other research on caregiving in the context […]

This event is hosted by the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation. The How to Succeed as a Graduate Supervisor workshop is designed for pre-tenure faculty members and others who are new to a supervisory role at the University of Toronto. In this interactive session, you will learn: Key milestones and policies you need to […]

The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation (VPRI) is pleased to announce that My Research Funds (MRF) will be launching on December 2, 2023. MRF is a multi-phase initiative that will modernize the University of Toronto’s research funding administration tools. As part of the launch of the first phase, the University of Toronto Research […]

Join the Ontario Regional Centre of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with Eimear E. Kenny, PhD. Dr. Eimear Kenny, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and Genetics, and the Founding Director of the Institute for Genomic Health, at the Icahn School of […]

This event is hosted by SciNet. Working with many of the HPC systems (like those at SciNet) involves using the Linux/UNIX command line. This provides a very powerful interface, but it can be quite daunting for the uninitiated. In this half-day session, you can become initiated with this coursse which will cover basic commands. It […]

Engaged scholarship that involves partnership with non-academic stakeholders and addresses real world and complex challenges of sustainability and climate change requires a different approach to building knowledge and facilitating action. The Committee on the Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability (CECCS) is hosting a Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Production (TDCP) Workshop for early-career researchers, post-doctoral fellows and PhD […]

This event is hosted by SciNet. Learn the basics of Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming. Examples and exercises will be based on parallelization of common scientific computing problems. Please note that this is a 3-day workshop. Part 2 is on December 6 and Part 3 is on December 8.

The CRIS Connects (https://cris.utoronto.ca/rdfcohorts/crisconnects/) series provides targeted, real-time help from guest experts. These drop-in sessions are designed for you to come and ask our guest experts anything on their topic of expertise. Join other UofT community members and learn together as you get your questions answered. Join us for the next session of CRIS Connects: […]

Join the Division of People Strategy, Equity & Culture at the St. George campus, or virtually via livestream, for the annual tri-campus memorial and reflection. You will hear from both the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering on the legacy of December 6, 1989, and from a keynote speaker on the rise in and responses […]

What makes some individuals age and remain healthier and live longer compared to those who develop a disease earlier on? In this trainee research webinar, two trainees will illustrate how CanPath data can be used to explore how factors like age, ancestry, lifestyle factors, and the environment can affect your gene and biomarker expression and, […]

Please note this is Part 2 of a 2 part course, and it is recommended you attend Part 1 first to get wholesome context to this session. Culture is expressed in the worldviews of peoples from different backgrounds, lived experiences and histories. It is fostered through ones’ unique identification with ones’ values, beliefs, languages, and […]

Join the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and Taylor & Francis for a Collaborative Publishing Workshop! Featured Speakers: Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Editor in Chief of Curriculum Inquiry since 2014 Teresa Ward, Global […]

Join the Ontario Regional Centre of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) at the Statistical Sciences Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with Jean-François Bégin. Over the last 40 years, various frameworks have been proposed to model economic and financial variables. These frameworks—called economic scenario generators—are comprehensive models that allow actuaries and risk managers to […]

Community of practice meetings actively bring together CBRCanada members from across Canada and beyond to engage in meaningful discussions. All involved in community-based research are welcome, whether you are a researcher, peer-researcher, student, project coordinator, administrator, director, or community leader. The purpose of the community of practice is to network with others, learn from each […]

Presenters:Prof. Claudia Dos SantosScientist, St. Michael's Hospital"Designer miR-based Therapy for Sepsis"Dr. Nitzan Letko Khait2023 PRiME Clinical Catalyst FellowCo-supervised by Profs. Molly Shoichet and Michael Tymianski

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.

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 […]

Join us for a new CRIS monthly series: Get it Started, Get it Finished, Keep it Going (https://cris.utoronto.ca/rdfcohorts/get-it-started/). These monthly sessions are geared to addressing the competing priorities faculty face during the semester from research, teaching, to service commitments. In these semi-structured (Two 45-minute timed work sessions), researchers will set goals that are specific, measurable, […]