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Simon Pulsifer, a recent graduate of the University of Toronto, is devoted to the continuance and quality of Wikipedia. He has posted 2 to 3 thousand new articles - "Mr. Pulsifer's thousands of articles cover a broad variety of topics, including Canadian and U.S. history, international and Canadian politics, economics and current affairs. He has written featured articles, those profiled on Wikipedia's opening page, on the military history of Canada, the Italian Renaissance, the Marshall Plan, the economy of Africa, the history of Central Asia, among others." - and edited some 78,000. Of interest - his mother is a librarian.
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The century old University of Toronto Press has published and continues to publish such major endeavours as The Historical Atlas of Canada and the Complete Works of Erasmus. The more than 300,000 alumni who have earned their degrees from U of T represent leadership in virtually every field of learning. Six Nobel Prize winners are U of T graduates.
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The University of Toronto ranks first in Canada and 24th worldwide in the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The Times Higher Education Supplement places the university at second in Canada and 27th in the world overall, 20th in Science, 18th in Biomedicine, 11th in Arts & Humanities and 17th in Social Science .[11] Newsweek ... places the university first in Canada, and 18th worldwide, 9th among public universities, and among the top 5 universities outside the United States.[12]
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Established in 1827, the University of Toronto (U of T) is Canada's largest university, granting both undergraduate and graduate degrees. It has an operating budget of $930 million, assets of over $2 billion, three principal campuses, 8,848 full and part-time employees and close to 53,000 students. U of T offers a full range of courses in the humanities and the social and physical sciences, as well as professional programs in medicine, dentistry, engineering, architecture, nursing, social work and teaching.
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Daniel J. Drucker, M.D., FRCPC, is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Drucker is ... the Director of the Banting and Best Diabetes Center at the University of Toronto. He serves on the editorial boards of Molecular Endocrinology and Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology and Metabolism, is an editor for Endocrinology, and has been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. Additionally, he has received investigator awards from the Canadian Diabetes Association, the International Society for Regulatory Peptides, the Endocrine Society, and the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation.
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Windsor Star – August 11, 2004 – University and college representatives are praising Ford of Canada for its significant research investment in recent years. Peter Frise, AUTO21 Scientific Director, says Ford has been very strategic in terms of its research investment and has invested heavily in future technology.
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