Students, librarians, faculty and staff are encouraged to wear an orange shirt on Sept. 30 to affirm that “Every Child Matters.”
The University of Toronto Bookstore will have a limited supply of Orange Shirt Day shirts available for purchase with all proceeds being directed to Indigenous community organizations.
U of T community members are also encouraged to to use the Orange Shirt Day icon as their profile photo and use the virtual backdrop on Teams or Zoom calls the week of Sept. 26
Members of the UTM community may also register to attend a university-wide event on Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, in-person or on livestream.
The event includes remarks from Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Vice-President, People Strategy, Equity & Culture, and Alexandra Gillespie, Vice-President & Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga, in The Great Hall at Hart House. Andrew Wesley, former Elder-in-Residence at First Nations House, will provide the keynote address: “Twelve Steps to Spiritual Renewal, Healing, and Forgiveness: Reflections on my Residential School Experience.”
No short-term loan textbooks this year
The Library is not purchasing textbooks for short-term loan for UTM students this year after noting the previous policy of one copy of a textbook per course is neither accessible nor equitable.
Instructors are encouraged to suggest students purchase or rent their own copy, seek out the information electronically or reach out to the Liaison Librarian for others options for acquiring teaching materials. For more information, contact UTM Chief Librarian Shelley Hawrychuk at shelley.hawrychuk@utoronto.ca.
Stories Published This Week
Is misinformation killing us? Timothy Caulfield tackles the infodemic
Professor and author Timothy Caulfield explores who we can trust and more in this year's online Snider Lecture. Read more
The journal Insects features a study by UTM biology professors Darryl Gwynne, Rosalind Murray and others that looked at Empis, Rhamphomyia and Hilara dance flies, where the females rather than males display ornaments prior to mating -- an evolution in Darwinian sexual selection.
UTM linguistics professor Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, an Iranian-Canadian human rights activist, spoke to The National Post about Ottawa's welcome mat for rich Iranians linked to its brutal regime.
Osama Hasan Mustafa Hasan Abdall, Brittany Mascarenhas, and Hai-Ying Mary Cheng, of UTM Biology shared their study on circadian rhythms in mice with the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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