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Celebrating our MBiotech, MScSM, BBA, and BCom grads View photos
Congrats to the recipients of our annual IMI Faculty & Staff Awards Read more
Kudos to MUI & IMIx for a successful Urban Leadership eXchange Read more
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FACULTY RESEARCH:
PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and MEDIA MENTIONS
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Pankaj Aggarwal’s recent article, “No Small Matter: How Company Size Affects Consumer Expectations and Evaluations,” was published in Journal of Consumer Research and covered in several media outlets, including UTSC News, U of T News and The Guardian.
Shauna Brail presented at the Rethinking Cluster Conference in Padua, Italy, speaking on “Rethinking Clusters in the Platform Economy: Canada’s Digital Ride Hailing Industry.”
Former IMI director Hugh Gunz has an article in press, “Careers in Context,” at Human Resource Management Journal.
Sonia Kang's research on hiring bias cited in The Globe and Mail: "Are screening biases costing your company top talent?"
Shashi Kant’s Chinese translation of his book, Handbook of Forest Resource Economics, was just published by China Forestry Publishing House.
Lisa Kramer
Nico Lacetera
- Was recently awarded a Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy Research Grant for the project: “The social support of health-related policies: Experimental and machine learning – based studies”
- Published a paper in American Economic Review, "Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment"
Matthew Osborne had a paper accepted in the journal Marketing Science. The working paper version is available.
Phillip Oreopoulos was quoted in a Reuters article, "Bribing your way to college? Check your math, it may not pay."
Andreas Park featured in University of Toronto Magazine, "In Machines We Trust."
Phani Radhakrishnan
Stephen Scharper
- Served as Master of Ceremonies for the five day Waterdocs Film Festival, held at the Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto
- Published an article, “The Fabric of Faith-Based Environmentalism in Canada,” in Worldviews
- Interviewed in a report from the Toronto Observer on the children's Friday Climate Action Strike
- Hosted and curated the Film Festival at the annual Sources of Knowledge Forum, in Tobermory, ON
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues
Soo Min Toh
Marius Zoican’s paper “How Fast Should Trades Settle?” was accepted for publication in Management Science.
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We are pleased to announce the results of the inaugural IMI research funding competition, which provides small “seed” grants to research projects that fulfill IMI’s mandate of advancing interdisciplinary, collaborative, and impactful research projects. Congratulations to the five researchers whose projects were funded!
- Ann Armstrong (and Laurie Mook and John Whitman), “B Lab Certification: An Analysis of Risk Mitigation and Opportunity Creation”
- Daniel Goetz (and Avi Goldfarb), “AI and Machine Learning in Starcraft”
- Lisa Kramer, “Human Nature and Animal Modeling in Drug Development”
- Nico Lacetera, “Research Workshop in Entrepreneurship and Experimental Economics”
- Xiao Zian and Phani Radhakrishnan, “To Cope with Stressors at Workplace and at Home”
Laurel Besco was one of the 2019 Research & Scholarly Activity Fund recipients for her project, “Innovative Law and Policy Approaches to Mitigating GHG Emissions from Air and Maritime Transport.”
Shashi Kant received an NSERC Discovery grant totalling $155,000 for his project, “Spatial and Non-Spatial Timber Market Models and Game Theoretic Models of Sustainable Forest Management.”
Kira Lussier received a grant from the Association for Computing Machinery History Committee to fund her project, “Computing Psychology,” on human/computer interaction research in business.
Marius Zoican received a $20,000 Connaught New Researcher Award for work on Initial Coin Offerings and market structure.
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FACULTY EVENTS, AWARDS, and APPOINTMENTS
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Otto Yung received the 2019 IMI Faculty Award for his tireless contributions to Management, graduate programs, and student professional development.
Nico Lacetera received the 2019 IMI Research Award.
Former IMI Director, Associate Professor of Geography, UTM, Pierre Desrocher’s book, "Population Bombed! Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change" (co-written with UTM librarian Joanna Szurmak), was a runner-up for the Donner Book Prize.
Yuhong He's book, High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing : Data, Analysis, and Applications, was featured in UTM's Celebration of Books event.
Rafael Chiuzi presented at TEDx UTM: Chain Reaction, speaking on Change Management.
Igor Lehnherr featured on UTM Research's View to the U podcast. Listen
Kira Lussier’s paper, “Of Maslow, Motives, and Managers” was selected as the best Critical Management Education Paper by the Critical Management Studies Division of the Academy of Management.
The first meeting of the new research cluster BIGDataHUB, led by MMPA Director Irene Wiecek, took place on May 15. Participants came from multiple departments across UTM, including IMI, Computer Science, Linguistics, Biology, Geography, and UTM Libraries.
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IMI GSC hosted its first-ever Spring Formal on May 31. View photo
MBiotech
- Students competed in the 2019 Mississauga Dragon Boat Festival on June 9 View photo
- Held its MBiotech XV event in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary year of its first-ever graduates View photos
MMI alumna Brianna Croft joined the UTM Alumni Association as a Director in May.
MScSM
- Students Tom Chen, Samantha DiIorio, and Paulina Szlachta won a U of T Sustainability Innovation Prize and received $5,000 for their startup, STP Sports Read more
- Students Gurdeep Kang, Julia Shen, Amy Yang, and Ru Yap won the WWF Canada's Designing Change for a Living Planet competition Read more
Management
- Commerce student Sarah Girgis named 2019 UTM Class Valedictorian and gives speech on grit, failure, and success View photo
- Students Adityasingh Badal, Luis Nguyen, Ahad Syed, and Sarah Girgis were recipients at the UTM Gordon Cressy and Principal's Involvement Award Reception on April 3 View photo
- Read the latest blog posts from students and alumni in UTMBIZLIFE
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MFAcc supported the first-ever Canadian Universities for Forensic Science Conference at UTM. View photos
MMPA hosted its annual Awards & Celebrants' Night on March 28. View photos
MScSM
MUI
- received its final ministry approval and is now officially recruiting students for September 2020 entry
- co-hosted the inaugural Urban Leadership eXchange with IMIx and School of Cities on June 10-11
BMC launched its new website on June 12.
Management hosted its annual IMI Awards Night, Director's Circle & MGT480 Poster Presentations on April 2. View photos
ICUBE
- Startup Circular Toys won a U of T Sustainability Innovation Prize and received $5,000 Read more
- Hosted the annual Invention Convention with The Learning Partnership, welcoming five Peel Schools to UTM to present their inventive ideas View photos
- hosted its annual PITCH competition, awarding over $13K in prizes Read more
IMIx Executive Programs
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Diana Aldaz, Alyssa Madrasto, and Carol Solonenko organized IMI's second annual "May In Motion." View photo
Shauna Brail, Ryan Cerrudo, Alyssa Madrasto, and Natasha Walli received the 2019 IMI Team Collaboration Award.
Donna Heslin volunteered during the UTM final exam period with her therapy dog Tucker to help students de-stress. View photos | More photos
David Linden received the 2019 IMI Staff Award.
We also bid a fond farewell and congratulations to Louis Florence and Joan Kitunen, who were celebrated at the UTM retirement reception on June 18. Thank you Louis and Joan for all your years of exemplary service! Read more
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upcoming events & other news
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New additions to the IMI Family:
Nazeem Shamsuddin, MBiotech
Special thanks to Harry Zhou for stepping into Steve's role while he's been away!
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