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University College student Yuehang (Peter) Ma won the Brian Mulroney Award, one of the 2025 Undergraduate Awards of Excellence in Economics. Faculty member Funké Aladejebi was recently awarded the 2024 Journalistic Excellence award in Print by the Canadian Ethnic Media Association. Professor Emerita Pia Kleber recently hosted several guests for a tea ceremony in the college. Alum Aiden Gomez’s (BSc 2018 UC) startup Cohere was listed as one of the top 10 startups to watch at this year’s Entrepreneurship Week. UC alumnus Ilya Sutskever (BSc 2005 UC) who co-founded OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence Inc. will be recognized with a U of T honorary degree this spring.
Melanie Woodin, an internationally recognized neuroscientist who studies the mechanisms underlying learning and memory in the brain, has been named the University of Toronto’s 17th president. The appointment is for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2025. It was approved on March 26 by U of T’s Governing Council and is the result of an international search that began in March 2024. Woodin will succeed current U of T President Meric Gertler, who has served in the role since 2013.
Join Associate Director of Statistics Patrick Brown and Postdoctoral Fellow Xuyang Tang on Tuesday, March 25 for a conference on COVID Mortality and Immunity from a global perspective! The talk will feature aspects of the speakers’ Action to Beat Coronavirus (Ab-C) studies.
Professor Patrick Brown is a Biostatistician leading the geospatial research team at CGHR, as well as Associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. His research interest combine statistical methods for spatial and spatio-temporal data, statistical computing and software for spatial modeling, and understanding spatial variation in the declining rate of mortality worldwide.
We are very pleased to announce that Manda Vrkljan will be joining University College April 1st, 2025 as the new Head Librarian of the University College Library. Manda brings to this role a unique perspective and understanding of a library’s role within the college community and a strong commitment to effectively connect with students and faculty. She champions inclusivity, diversity, equity, anti-racism and accessibility.
For years, UC alum John Lorinc wanted to tell the stories he grew up hearing about his family’s history in Hungary, surviving in wartime Budapest and their eventual move to Canada. That desire became reality with the release of his new book, No Jews Live Here published by Coach House Books in November 2024.
Art historian and UC alum Sarah Stanners likens her recently published Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné to delivering a baby — a delivery 13 years in the making.
The economist and the environmentalist, the introvert and the extrovert, the curricular and the extra-curricular are not contradictions. Rather, these spectra represent all the experiences and interests Faiz Fuad is determined to explore as an undergraduate.
