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29 unusual facts about University of Toronto


1963–64 NHL season

While Mikita signed his contract in time for the start of the season, star defenseman Carl Brewer of the Maple Leafs was a holdout and claimed he was going to retire from hockey to attend the University of Toronto; contract terms were agreed upon by the end of October.

1996 Mount Everest disaster

In May 2004, Kent Moore, a physicist, and John L. Semple, a surgeon, both researchers from the University of Toronto, told New Scientist magazine that an analysis of weather conditions on May 11 suggested that freak weather caused oxygen levels to plunge by around 14%.

Alberto Carlos Taquini

He also sered as Visiting Professor in prestigious institutions around the world, including: the University of California, Stanford, Columbia, the University of Michigan, and Cornell, the University of Toronto, the University of Oxford, the University of Milan, the University of San Marcos in Peru, and the University of Chile.

Antonín Kubálek

A respected educator, Kubálek served on the faculties of The Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto, York University, the Prague Conservatory and the Prague Academy of Performing Arts.

Brooklin Models

According to the Brooklin website, John Hall, an engineering instructor at the University of Toronto, left teaching to make white metal models of cars.

Charmion King

Fresh out of the University of Toronto's Hart House, she quickly became known for her fresh beauty and roles at the new Crest Theatre and their Straw Hat Players summer circuit in the Muskoka Lake district.

Clement Melville Keys

Keys was born in the small town of Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada and attended the University of Toronto and taught classics there before becoming a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in 1901 where he became railroad editor, then moving on to become the financial editor of the monthly journal World's Work.

Dental Procedure Education System

The procedures presented in DPES were developed by individual faculty members at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, in collaboration with a group of educational media and technology experts.

Dictionary of Old English

The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) is a dictionary published by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto under the direction of Angus Cameron (1941–1983), Ashley Crandell Amos (1951–1989), and Antonette diPaolo Healey.

Edward Bullard

Bullard held a chair at the University of Toronto from 1948–50 and was head of the National Physical Laboratory between 1950 and 1955.

Freaky Flow

Eventually it developed into a career while earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Toronto.

Freeway Traffic Management System

Research on new algorithm developments and evaluations is performed at the ITS Centre and Testbed (ICAT), at the Civil Engineering department of the University of Toronto.

Gavin I. Langmuir

In 1948, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and went on to study modern diplomatic history at Harvard.

Henry Esson Young

He was born in English River, Quebec, the son of Reverend Alexander Young and Ellen (McBain, and was educated at Queen's University, McGill University, Toronto University and University of Pennsylvania.

International Buddhist College

The International Buddhist College is a member of a global network of Buddhist Studies programs that includes the University of Hong Kong, the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and Stanford University, and is supported in part by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.

Israel and legitimacy

Professor Emanuel Adler of the University of Toronto considers Israel as willing to accept a situation where its legitimacy may be challenged, because it sees itself as occupying a unique place in the world order.

James Kauluma

In 1965 he travelled to Canada and the USA for further study, graduating with a BA degree from the University of Toronto and an MA from New York University.

Len Lesser

He was most recently on stage in Jeff Seymour's critically acclaimed stage production of Cold Storage at the University of Toronto's George Ignatieff Theatre.

Macdonald Consolidated School

He designed many churches and public buildings throughout Ontario during his long career, his most notable accomplishment being the Lillian Massey Food Sciences Building at the University of Toronto (1908–12).

Michael Perrin

Born 13 September 1905 in Victoria, British Columbia he moved to England in 1911 with his British parents, who sent him to Twyford School and Winchester College, and from there to study chemistry at New College, Oxford and the University of Toronto.

Patrick Lau Hing Tat

Patrick Lau graduated from the University of Toronto in 1983 with a degree in landscape architecture; he also completed graduate school in 1989 at the University of Hong Kong with a degree in urban design.

Quote notation

It was invented by Eric Hehner of the University of Toronto, and published in the SIAM Journal on Computation, v.8, n.2, May 1979, pp.

Robert Orok

He was educated at the Barrie Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, and received certification as a medical doctor.

Roger Mynors

He was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and received honorary degrees from many universities in Britain and at the University of Toronto.

Steve Oda

Among the many performances Steven has given include special invitations from the Ali Akbar College of Music, the Asian Art Museum, the Ragmala Association of Canada, the University of Toronto, and the Spirit of India Festival.

Taiyuan Foreign Language School

TFLS graduates are also enrolled in colleges in foreign countries, including Duke University in the United States, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong SAR, University of Toronto in Canada, and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan etc.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

Text Analysis Portal for Research

The Text Analysis Portal for Research' (commonly referred as TAPoR) project is based at McMaster University, and consists of a network of six of the leading Humanities computing centres in Canada: McMaster, University of Victoria (in collaboration with Malaspina UC), University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Université de Montréal (law) and University of New Brunswick.

The Fionavar Tapestry

It is the story of five University of Toronto senior law and medical students, who are drawn into the 'first world of the Tapestry' by the mage Loren Silvercloak.


1880 Michigan Wolverines football team

On October 16, 1880, The Chronicle wrote that the Athletic Association's corresponding secretary was in correspondence with the football association at the University of Toronto concerning a game between the two schools.

Alexandra Orlando

Orlando currently studies commerce at the University of Toronto and she continues to train at the Ritmika RG Club under Mimi Masleva.

Arrhinoceratops

The remains were collected from the Neill's Ranch site, along the Red Deer River in Alberta by a 1923 expedition from the University of Toronto.

Arsham Parsi

Director of the cultural committee at the Iranian Association of University of Toronto (IAUT) in 2007, Parsi is also a member of the Rainbow Railroad group based in Toronto, Canada, and the Advisory Committee of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation.

Arsinée Khanjian

She has a bachelor's degree in French and Spanish from Concordia University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Toronto.

Augustine Mahiga

That same year, Mahiga completed a Masters of Arts at the University of Toronto (U of T).

Bernardo Padrón

After graduating from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music Performance program in 1986, Bernardo played tenor and alto sax in the Toronto Latin musical community, as well as recording with various local jazz projects (Don Valley Parkway, Mosaic) as a sideman.

Bill Ferrier

He was educated at North Toronto Collegiate Institute and later at University College and Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

Brown and Storey Architects

The office’s work has been published and presented in Canada and the U.S., and has been exhibited in many venues including New York, Milan, Venice Biennale VI International Exhibition of Architecture, University of Toronto, UIA Congress in Barcelona, and Fuori Uso in Pescara.

Catherine Bragg

Bragg obtained a PhD in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, a Master of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Toronto.

Chien Wei-zang

He obtained a Ph.D. degree at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. J.L. Synge in 1942, and then worked as a research associate in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Caltech.

Chin Injeti

Prior to graduating from the University of Toronto, Chin Injeti, Roger Mooking and Ivana Santilli made the decision to join forces and share their creative talents with Canada, forming Bass is Base in early 1993 in their North York Suburbs.

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

16 physicians elected by their peers on a geographical basis every three years; 3 physicians appointed from among the six faculties of medicine (at the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University, University of Toronto, Queen's University, University of Ottawa, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine); no fewer than 13 and no more than 15 non-physician or 'public' members appointed by the provincial government for terms decided by the government.

Desmond Pacey

As chair of the University of New Brunswick English Department in the 1940s, Pacey worked closely with Roy Daniels of the University of British Columbia to initiate English PhD programs at both universities, effectively breaking the academic stranglehold the University of Toronto held on higher education in Canadian universities.

Diamond and Schmitt Architects

Canadian born architect Donald Schmitt studied architecture at the University of Toronto, and has been in practice with Jack Diamond since 1978.

Donna Vakalis

She received a professional masters degree in architecture from the University of Toronto, and began PhD studies there in 2012.

École Polytechnique massacre

For example, Charles Rackoff, a University of Toronto computer science professor, compared those organizing vigils marking the event to the Ku Klux Klan.

H. Chandler Elliott

Elliott was educated at the University of Toronto where he received a B.A. in 1930 and a M.A. in 1935.

Hillel of Greater Toronto

It provides programming and events for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University and 'emerging campuses' such as Seneca College, Humber College, George Brown College, OCAD and the satellite campuses of York (Glendon) and U of T (University of Toronto Mississauga and University of Toronto Scarborough).

Institute of Child Study

Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study (ICS) is a laboratory school and research institute of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Jim Dator

In the 1970s, while teaching at the University of Toronto, Dator was hired by Canadian educational television network TVOntario, to work on educational programming related to futurism.

Jim Lefkos

A native of Cyprus, Lefkos attended the University of Toronto where he played on the school's soccer team from 1964 to 1969.

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy

He was schooled at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto in mechanical engineering in 1906, where he had been a member of The Kappa Alpha Society along with his friend Frederick W. Baldwin.

Joseph Peller

While studying at the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto, he worked with artists Kenneth Forbes and Cleeve Horne.

Locksley Hall

The University of Toronto library identifies this form as "the old 'fifteener' line," quoting Tennyson, who claimed it was written in trochaics because the father of his friend Arthur Hallam suggested that the English liked the meter.

Lycée Rochambeau

As of the 2012-2013 school year, students have gone on to attend McGill University, the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford University, USC, University of Michigan, University College London, various faculties at the University of Paris and elsewhere.

Mitro Makarchuk

In 1959, as a first year student at the University of Toronto, Makarchuk offered to underwrite a Canadian intercollegiate hockey championship between the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team and University of Saskatchewan Huskies as there was no national playoff between eastern and western Canadian regional hockey champions.

Ozay Mehmet

He has taught at various Canadian universities including: the University of Windsor, York University, the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

Peter Glassen

His scholarly output declined and he turned down an opportunity to move to the more prominent department at the University of Toronto in 1967.

Pharmacy school

This advanced PharmD program can be pursued in Canada at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto and at several pharmacy schools in the United States (as the "non-traditional" PharmD).

R. K. Gordon

In 1913, having graduated from the Universities of University of Toronto and Oxford, Gordon became administrator at the University of Alberta.

Regis College, Toronto

Regis College is a theological college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1930 and affiliated with the Society of Jesus.

Sarah Anne Curzon

Sarah Anne Curzon's daughter was one of the first females to receive a B.A. from the University of Toronto.

Scott Symons

Born into a wealthy family, he attended a number of private schools, the University of Toronto, Cambridge University and the Sorbonne.

Scyllo-Inositol

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that scyllo-inositol can block the development of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques in the brains of transgenic mice.

Shirley Hoy

Her high school was completed at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, after which she went on to earn a master's degree in public administration from Queen's University, and a Master's Degree in Social Work (Social Policy) from the University of Toronto.

Shlomo Avineri

Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, most recently, the University of Toronto.

Susan Brison

Brison graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and went on to receive both a master's degree and a PhD from the University of Toronto.

The Michener Institute

Bachelor's Degree available through joint programs with The University of Toronto (Medical Radiation Sciences), Laurentian University (Radiation Therapy) and Dalhousie University (Repiratory Therapy).

Vesanto Melina

Her father was physiologist Ed Goranson who specialized in diabetes working in the Toronto lab of Sir Frederick Banting and Charles H. Best who received a Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin; he taught physiology at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia,and did cancer research at Princess Margaret Hospital and at Mill Hill in London England.

William Montgomery Watt

Watt held visiting professorships at the University of Toronto, the Collège de France, and Georgetown University, and received the American Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal and won, as its first recipient, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies award for outstanding scholarship.