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Campus - Economics / Business - 05.12.2022

Environment - Economics / Business - 02.12.2022

Solutions for a low-carbon future 

Environment - Economics / Business - 02.12.2022

Researchers explore strategies to ’bury’ CO2 in concrete buildings
One of the most powerful tools for mitigating the impact of climate change could be a material that is so common we tend not to think about it very much - concrete.

Economics / Business - 29.11.2022

Artificial intelligence needs good data to grow the future
Academics and entrepreneurs invited by Canada's top data steward to partner with government for future growth By Bill Bean University Relations Data is the currency of tomorrow, with boundless opport

Social Sciences - Economics / Business - 24.11.2022

More than just buildings: Rotman grad pursues social impact in real estate development

Innovation - Economics / Business - 24.11.2022

Economics / Business - Innovation - 17.11.2022

SFU Beedie to lead major digital skills training initiative with $4M investment from federal government

Economics / Business - Career - 17.11.2022

Economics / Business - Social Sciences - 11.11.2022

Towards a ’robust, reasoning and responsible’ AI

Environment - Economics / Business - 09.11.2022

Environment - Economics / Business - 07.11.2022

UTAM achieves divestment pledge, sets more ambitious carbon footprint reduction target for endowment

Health - Economics / Business - 02.11.2022

Economics / Business - Career - 01.11.2022

Black Founders Network celebrates a year of Black excellence in entrepreneurship

Economics / Business - Innovation - 27.10.2022

Campus - Economics / Business - 24.10.2022

University of Toronto receives Aa1 credit rating and stable outlook from Moody’s

Economics / Business - Innovation - 19.10.2022

Economics / Business - Social Sciences - 18.10.2022

Economics / Business - Campus - 18.10.2022

Daniel Jutras appointed chair of the CRKN board of directors

Life Sciences - Economics / Business - 17.10.2022

Economics / Business - 11.10.2022

Computer Science - Economics / Business - 07.10.2022

Economics / Business - Mathematics - 06.10.2022

Economics / Business - Environment - 05.10.2022

Canada’s financial and accounting systems fail to recognize the financial value of nature
As Canada prepares to unveil its National Adaptation Strategy at COP27 and to host the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, nature is still assigned a value of zero in our financial and accounting systems.

Career - Economics / Business - 04.10.2022

Economics / Business - Event - 04.10.2022

’A great feeling’: Fred VanVleet Scholarship recipient Abdullahi Hassan sits down with VanVleet, CBC

Innovation - Economics / Business - 03.10.2022

Innovation - Economics / Business - 27.09.2022

University of Toronto Entrepreneurship’s Jon French on the new RBC Innovation Challenge - and what students need to know

Economics / Business - 23.09.2022

’Embrace the entire innovation ecosystem’: President Meric Gertler in the Hill Times

Innovation - Economics / Business - 16.09.2022

Goal: Create one of the best entrepreneurial support programs

Economics / Business - 16.09.2022

Economics / Business - 12.09.2022

Innovation - Economics / Business - 08.09.2022

Canada must boost support of science and tech: President Meric Gertler and Alan Bernstein in the Globe and Mail

Economics / Business - 06.09.2022

Alumni Know: How do we know public policies worked?
Data is easier to collect than ever before. Andres Arcila (PhD '20) explains why data is changing public policy and how you can find truth in the numbers. By Megan Vander Woude Office of Advancement As tax-payers, we have a right to know what policies our dollars support - and how effective they are.

Economics / Business - Environment - 01.09.2022

Putting the food system in context
It's one thing to innovate and find better ways to get healthy, eco-friendly and sustainable foods to consumers - and quite another to understand what leads there, an UdeM study finds. Innovations that make the food supply chain more "responsible" - eco-friendly, good for public health, fairer to farmers - will come faster if the contexts that set the stage for them are better understood, according to a new Université de Montréal study.

Economics / Business - Career - 30.08.2022

A simple, eco-friendly chocolate-hazelnut spread? ’Real food only’ startup has you covered

Mechanical Engineering - Economics / Business - 25.08.2022

’A diversity of career paths’: TrackOne program lets first-year University of Toronto Engineering students keep their options open

Career - Economics / Business - 16.08.2022

Largest-ever gift to McGill’s School of Continuing Studies will establish unique professional development program for members of marginalized groups

Economics / Business - Astronomy / Space Science - 09.08.2022

’I knew I had to change’: Senior NASA official pursues MBA as the space economy booms

Economics / Business - 04.08.2022

Q and A with the experts: Canada’s rising inflation
Inflation in Canada is at the highest rate we've seen in decades. Jean-Paul Lam, a professor in the University of Waterloo's Department of Economics and former assistant chief economist and principal researcher at the Bank of Canada, says recent events created a perfect storm for inflation.

Economics / Business - 03.08.2022

Economics / Business - 27.07.2022

Economics / Business - Environment - 26.07.2022

With app to cut emissions from rice burning in India, University of Toronto student wins global entrepreneurship competition

Campus - Economics / Business - 26.07.2022

Faces of leadership: University of Toronto welcomes its newest deans

Economics / Business - 22.07.2022

In MBA program, twin brothers set themselves up for success - and discovered what makes them unique

Economics / Business - Environment - 21.07.2022

Just 10 financial actors hold the key to climate change
A new report has identified the 10 financial actors with the most influence on the fossil fuel economy and outlines the decisive role they can play in helping de-carbonize our future. The study found that the top 10 most influential actors, including investment advisors, governments, and sovereign wealth funds from around the world, own 49.5 per cent of potential emissions from the world's largest energy firms.

Economics / Business - Innovation - 21.07.2022

New SFU-based centre to make B.C. a global ’frontrunner’ in agritech

Economics / Business - Innovation - 19.07.2022

Western alum’s tech at forefront of ’waste-to-energy’ facility

Economics / Business - Campus - 18.07.2022

Janet Ecker takes over from Brian Lawson as chair of University of Toronto’s Governing Council

Economics / Business - 15.07.2022

Economics / Business - 14.07.2022

Accelerating an idea into a social commerce platform
Waterloo student startup Sway joins the Velocity Incubator By Angelica Marie Sanchez University Relations The University of Waterloo offers many on-campus resources for students to work on their star