175th Anniversary Gala
U of T celebrates 175 years
People
Kudos
Alumni Association Awards of Excellence, Northrop Frye Awards and other alumni recognitions
Accolades
Random House of Canada Student Award in Writing and Order of Canada inductees
MuchMore Sung
U of T degree taught alumna Hannah Sung to see all sides of a story
Master of the Molluscs
Patrick McMurray (PHE 1992) is the first Canadian to win the World Oyster Opening Championships
Kudos
Alumni named to the Order of Canada and other honours
Medieval Merriment
Homecoming celebration for Poculi Ludique Societas members
Star Turns: Sky Gilbert
"I'm always going to have that bent to read and write and learn new things"
Star Turns: Kristen Thomson
Lying on the U.C. Playhouse theatre floor during a warm-up, Thompson thought, "OK, this is where I belong"
Star Turns: Daniel Brooks
"Originality can only happen when one begins with love of individual expression and allows it to lead to collective expression."
Star Turns: Charmion King
"Being an actor is like being at university. It opens your mind and your soul and make you tap into yourself."
Star Turns: William Hutt
"I saw this hemorrhaging of talent across the border. If everyone left, we would never have a cultural picture in this country."
Prize Writer
Austin Clarke wins $25,000 Giller Prize for his latest novel, The Polished Hoe
At the Top of Her Game
Last year, Nancy Lee forged the largest sports-rights contract in Canadian broadcast history
Remembering the Fallen
Soldiers' Tower committee seeks funds to renovate tower
Arbor Award Winner Produces Memories
Alumnus helps produce a memory book for New College
Discovering Homecoming
U of T hosts the first Alumni Homecoming in nearly a decade
Kudos
Alumni named to the Order of Canada
School Ties
Competitive? Talented? Intense? All that and more. They met their equals at U of T and have stayed connected throughout their celebrated careers
Karen Pitre & Kay Worthington
Life lessons learned in sport
Fraser Mustard & John Evans
UTS classmates played Varsity football during medical school
Paul Jones & Rona Maynard
English majors met each other on stage
Michael Ignatieff & Bob Rae
Friends vied for the campus spotlight as student activists in the 1960s
Anthony Burton, Doug Cooper & Atom Egoyan
Trinity College friends
Great Twisted Minds
Student Aidan Koper wows audience on Letterman
Kim Vicente Wins McLean Award
Prof is first engineer to receive $100,000 prize
Paradise Regained
AGO curator embraces range of art, from popular to esoteric
Unearthing Past Glories
Archeologists find the "story behind the fact"
Honouring Matt Cohen
Park at Bloor and Spadina named for Toronto writer
Opera Star Wins $25,000 Prize
Measha Brueggergosman among several grads to win awards recently
Celebrating Past and Future
First women to perform in the UC Follies receive Chancellor's Medals
Such a Long Journey
From bank clerk to writer, from obscurity to the Oprah Winfrey Show, Rohinton Mistry’s path as a writer has taken a series of unlikely turns
32 Short Pieces about Peter Gzowski
A fractured look at the CBC broadcaster's year at U of T
Bravo, Miss Brown!
With the help of a devoted tutor who acted as her eyes and ears, Mae Brown became Canada's first deaf-blind university graduate
Honouring St. Clair Balfour
Gift in the week of his death will enhance journalism fellowships
Bequest Supports Medical Research
$2-million endowment will fund Banbury Chair in Medical Research
Making Law Accessible
Barrier-free classroom opens at U of T law school
Shall We Dance?
U of T Ballroom Dance Club celebrates 20 years
Medicine Men
Two U of T alumni work their magic to keep Toronto’s Jays and Raptors running
Ydessa Hendeles Wins GG-Award
Awards of Excellence honour members of U of T community
Good Works
Gordon Cressy Leadership Awards celebrate 136 remarkable students
A Champion of Alumni
Former alumni affairs director Bert Pinnington set up first planned giving program
Curing Injustice
Brilliant and determined, three U of T trailblazers challenged the prejudices of their day and changed the profession of medicine
Testimony to Tragedy
Countless U of T alumni were touched by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Here are just some of their stories
The Tenor Returns
Renowned singer Ben Heppner teaches a master class at U of T
The Melody Lingers On
Jazz scholarship will assist a first-year student in the Faculty of Music
A Tale of Two Cities
New York resident Laura Chunosoff made a donation to U of T in honour of her lifelong friend in Toronto
Making History
Dominion Institute aims to inform Canadians about their own history
Daniel Brooks Picks Up $100,000 Theatre Prize
In other awards, prof Robin Armstrong receives honorary degree
The Beat Goes On
A West African drumming class inspired Kathy Armstrong to make a career out of it
And the Winner Is…
1941 grad finally receives award she won more than 60 years earlier
Blues Oldies and Goodies
86 players named to U of T football's "all-century" team
Forestry Grad Among Arbor Winners
Monte Hummel, president of World Wildlife Fund Canada, was one of 92 Arbor Award nominees
A Down-to-Earth Geographer
Biography chronicles Donald Fulton Putnam's 40-year association with U of T
East Meets West
Gift will fund scholarship for students from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
And Then There Was None
A silver chalice honours 18 men of the 67 Battery who died during the First World War
Aggressive Humanitarianism
Grads provide medical services in some of the world's most violent regions with Doctors Without Borders
A Geodetic Monument
Sculpture celebrates U of T grad who helped develop the theory of plate tectonics
Institute of Child Study Marks 75th
600 alumni of the lab school gather to mark an historic occasion
Mentoring a Part of Social Work
Program brings back master of social work alumni to help new grads develop job search strategies and make contacts