Good morning university and college students, and good news: you don't have to go to school today. The University of Toronto updated its website shortly after 9 a.m. this morning to say that "Due to severe weather conditions on Friday, Feb. 1, U of T Missisauga is closed, U of T Scarborough is closed as of 10:00AM, and U of T (St. George) is closed as of 11:00AM. University buildings are closed and classes......

The University of Toronto has announced that Ramin Jahanbegloo—academic, author, and former Iranian political prisoner—is returning as a professor of political science and a member of the scholar-at-risk program in Massey College. Jahanbegloo is a former lecturer at U of T who moved to Tehran to lead the Department of Contemporary Studies at a private institution called the Cultural Research Bureau. In 2006, he was detained without charge (which is perhaps unsurprising seeing as we're......

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or––in rare cases––proudly display our city. The flag is a dead giveaway that this is not commencement at U of T. The University of Toronto has appeared......

Useful human-computer interaction (HCI) interfaces haven't advanced too much since Xerox PARC experimented with the desktop-and-mouse motif, commercialized and made famous by Apple in the 1980s. Luckily, some brainiacs at The University of Toronto's Dynamic Graphics Project are helping Minority Report-style science fiction become a plausible reality. Grad student Xiang Cao and professor Ravin Balakrishnan are working on some fascinating HCI techniques using a pen input and a handheld projector. The device projects a......

Every couple of weeks "What's The Frequency, Campus?" will highlight some of the intriguing shows and special programming happening on Toronto's campus and community radio stations. The differences between commercial radio and campus/community radio are vast. While the content is miles apart (you’ll never hear the same song played three times an hour on a community station), the two are also operating on wildly different budgets. Commercial stations are largely owned by huge media empires......

The University of Toronto really seems to be getting as much as it can out of its relationship with Atom Egoyan. The Canadian film auteur, currently in the first year of his three-year term as the Dean's Distinguished Visitor in Theatre, Film, Music and Visual Arts, will be giving a free lecture at Innis Town Hall tonight (Wednesday, April 11) where he will screen a selection of his short films and discuss "the appeals and......

Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann courtesy of the TSO. If you’re turned off at the idea of classical music concerts because they seem like an activity for the high society rich, think again. There are plenty of ways to enjoy Toronto’s healthy classical music scene on the cheap or for free. Toronto Symphony Orchestra In an effort to infuse some young blood into its increasingly grey-haired audience demographic, the TSO offers $12 concert tickets to......

The University of Toronto received $2.4 million in a class-action settlement pertaining to vitamin price-fixing thanks to a court-ordered distribution of penalty funds. Seven other universities received the other $17.6 million in the settlement, including $4.8 million to the University of Guelph. No word yet on what U of T will do with the money, although rumours swirl that the university's president will ask for it all in twenties, pour it out into one......

A morning crash has closed off a Gardiner exit ramp and yesterday's burst water main repairs continue to block motorists. Workers will be reconstructing Lake Shore Boulevard over the next 24 hours. Burst water mains will be around for awhile: Toronto has one of the highest failure rates for water mains in Canada. Toronto's backlog of repairs to the system will take about 8 years to flush out. The number of Asian tourists in Toronto......

While our friends at Shanghaiist may be on the other side of the world, a taste of China's exponential development is coming to Toronto. A skip away from Spadina's Chinatown, The University of Toronto's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design is hosting [DETOURS], a week of lectures, symposium and the opening of an exhibition, all discussing urban space in China in relation to its rapid transformation. Lecture topics include Impoverished Communities in China (Ou......

Jane Pitfield should send a thank you card to Royson James' office. The Star columnist must've hit a nerve with the mayor's office with yesterday's column. It accused the mayor's office of sitting on a proposal to buy the Green Lane landfill and possibly costing the city millions. The mayor denies this and talked to the Star's publisher. Jane Pitfield's campaign is capitalizing on this mistake. The fire department is estimating that yesterday's huge warehouse......

As if Torontoist hasn't given you enough reasons to take a look at the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at The University of Toronto (Behnisch Architekten with architectsAlliance,) here is one more! The green building has now been shortlisted for the Lubetkin Prize by the Royal Institute of British Architects and magazine Architectural Review (not to be confused with Interior Design magazine 'Architectural Digest') More info and pictures from (Robonto's private......

Microsoft has recently announced its alliance with The University of Toronto for it's Live Book Search utility (which is not live yet.) The University will turn over digital copies of their collection to be legally placed online, "readily accessible to customers." This is an interesting and bold step for The University of Toronto who does not seem to promote free access to information. Torontoist wonders if you will be required to show your student......

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof: DCist revels in The University of Maryland's basketball triumphs, marvels at Metro's security strategy, and applauds DC local Katie Couric's new gig. Phillyist is all about the Philadelphia Film Festival. OK, not all about -- they still have time for loitering, underage sex, and random wacky news. LAist would have to send a camera around the world to get shots as bizarre as Katie's......

The University of Western Ontario has many a tradition, including renowned parties and the scholastic birthplace of Lester B. Pearson. As of last month, though, add another notch in the long-standing traditions, as a group of UWO students are making waves with a student-only strip show in residence. The news comes courtesy of Torontoist's Paige, who tells us of an incident involving a room full of cargo-pant wearing Western dudes and a knee-high boot wearing......

The University Of Toronto Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) screened Clement Virgo's Lie With Me last night, and will entertain a discussion with the filmmaker at Innis Town Hall (room 222) tonight, along with his wife, who wrote the novella on which the film is based. Clips will be shown, and Professor Bart Testa will moderate. And space is limited, so please rsvp.......