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UTM Express is the monthly newsletter for staff and faculty at U of T Mississauga. It's your go-to source for news about what's happening on campus, important dates, higher education news and more.
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Blackwood Gallery
When Either But Not Both Are True
Sept. 6 to Dec. 1
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Theatre Erindale
Metamorphoses
Nov. 2 to 4 and
Nov. 9 to 11
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View to the U
Jennifer Stellar on the power of positivity in people.
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The Origin of Monsters
U of T library exhibit explores sources of supernatural creatures.
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In June, three teaching stream faculty, Judith Poë of the Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, Barbara Murck of the Department of Geography and Irene Wiecek of the Department of Management, were promoted from associate professors, teaching stream to professors, teaching stream. They are the first teaching stream faculty members at UTM to undergo review for promotion under a new university policy.
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Susan Senese has been appointed executive director, strategy. Previously, Senese was Interim CAO, director of Information & Instructional Services and Associate Librarian Research and Information Technology. In her new role, Senese will work with senior administration to implement strategic initiatives.
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Jessica Nayda has been appointed assistant director, residence life at UTM. Previously, Nayda held several roles in student housing services at the University of Guelph.
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Congratulations to UTM's Run for the Cure team who raised more than $15,000 for breast cancer research and won the CIBC Run for the Cure School Team Challenge! #utmproud
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Michael "Mike" Lavelle, a long-serving member of the Erindale College community, has died. Lavelle was a lecturer with the Department of Religion from 1971 until his retirement in 2002. He also served as director of residence from 1979 to 2002, and oversaw the development of many campus residence residence buildings. Lavelle is remembered as a mentor, friend, coach and teacher.
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Check out the latest generation of outstanding UTM faculty! From anthropologists to linguists to zoologists, get to know our newest professors as they teach, research and make their mark on the world.
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Tarot Time
UTM’s (unofficial) fortune-teller is open for business between now and the winter holiday break. Twelve cards. Thirty minutes. Twenty dollars. All proceeds support UTM’s United Way campaign.
Contact Devin Kreuger to schedule your date with destiny.
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Working with the media to share your research? Find tips on interviews, writing op-eds and more at U of T's Media Room website.
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The University Ombudsperson offers confidential and impartial advice and assistance on university-related problems to students, faculty and staff for all three campuses. Visit the office's website or add the Ombudsperson module to your Blackboard portal page.
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Get the latest UTM research news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to SURGE, the quarterly newsletter covering research news at UTM.
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Can 'Nudges' Make Students Study More? Maybe Someday
Inside Higher Ed profiles research by UTM economics professor Philip Oreopoulos.
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'Leaders stuck in the past can hurt current corporate culture': Research by associate professor of management Soo Min Toh was covered by Arizona Daily Independent.
Associate professor of anthropology Andrea Muehlebach was interviewed by NOW about provincial dealmaking to commodify water in Ontario.
Psychology Today covered research by Associate Professor Emily Impett of the Department of Psychology which investigated the costs and benefits of putting a partner’s sexual needs ahead of one’s own.
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Why are some earthquakes so devastating? Associate Professor Lindsay Schoenbohm of the Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences explains in a column for the Toronto Star.
“Northern airline merger would be “disastrous” for northerners,” writes Aassistant professor of anthropology Tracey Galloway in the Nunatsiaq News.
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What’s to keep universities from turning into stoner schools? Robert Price, assistant professor, teaching stream with the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology reflects on marijuana use on campus in a column for Calgary’s Business.
What a widely attacked experiment got right on the harmful effects of prisons: a column by Assistant Professor Ashley Rubin of the Department of Sociology appeared in The Conversation and the National Post.
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'Drugging detained children is like using a chemical straitjacket': Assistant professor of sociology Jerry Flores argues against the sedation of migrant children detained by the United States border services in a column published by NPR and the National Post.
VICE and Marjuana interviewed assistant professor of sociology Akwasi Owusu-Bempah about an NDP initiative urging the federal government to expunge criminal records of Canadians convicted of non-violent marijuana crimes.
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The recipients of the UTM Annual Research Prize have been announced. The award recognizes the outstanding contributions of early career researchers and scholars in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The 2018 recipients are Assistant Professor Erin Tolley of the Department of Political Science, Assistant Professor Barton Scott of the Department of Historical Studies and Associate Professor Marc Laflamme of the Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences. The trio will be recognized at a campus symposium on Thursday, Nov. 29.
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Assistant Professor Tero Karppi of the Institute of Culture, Communication, Information and Technology celebrates the October launch of his new book, Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds. Karppi explores what happens when users try to deactivate their Facebook accounts, and what that means for business and for society.
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@ utm_athletics HOMECOMING 2018 - THANK YOU to everyone who came out to participate and support our Eagles! A huge shoutout to all of our athletes from our cross country, women’s and men’s basketball and soccer varsity teams who played their hearts out! 💙💙 #homecoming#2018
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@UofT: The Indigenous Centre at UTM works to support Indigenous students, staff & faculty and inspire future students to a welcoming & inclusive #UofT community. Come visit!
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