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In the fall of 1969, after Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau decriminalized homosexuality, the University of Toronto Homophile Association, the first gay and lesbian group in Toronto or on any Canadian university campus, was formed. Jearld Moldenhauer, a research assistant at the Faculty of Medicine, placed an advertisement in The Varsity, asking others to join in setting up an organization. While the first meeting drew a meager 16 people — 15 men and one woman — the group quickly established a significant profile within the community and the city at large. Two decades later, David Rayside, a professor of political science, would organize the Committee on Homophobia. Ten years after that, he would help introduce a sexual diversity studies program at University College, to much success.[21] Today, 35 years after the start of LGBT activism at U of T, the student queer community is represented by the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans People of the University of Toronto (LGBTOUT).
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The University of Toronto (U of T) has shot into the world lead of universities [with] the mid-September launch of a new program to introduce local and sustainably-produced food to cafeterias and eateries serving its 70,000 students. [This type of initiative] is not a first. About 200 campuses across North America already have some kind of farm-to-college program. But the U of T deal puts farm-to-school connections on a whole new scale. It brings together eaters at the largest university on the continent with farmers in North America's largest - at 725,000 hectares (556,000 acres) - protected peri-urban greenbelt of prime farmland. It pairs two old words - local and sustainable - into a new phrase for the latest food trend.
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The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is an integral component of one of North America's largest health science complexes. It is the site of major breakthroughs in medical research, including the discovery of insulin and the development of the cardiac pacemaker. Affiliated with a network of teaching hospitals and community-based health units, the Faculty offers students a broad spectrum of educational experiences. This network expands regularly, so the Faculty needed to find a simple and effective means for students to both file and share notes. A number of Faculty professors found that Microsoft® OneNote™ note-taking program not only allows students to file and share notes quickly and effectively, but it ... provides an easy way to file footnoted research. OneNote helps users cull research from the Web into one location, while automatically footnoting the information.
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[Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3E2.] Recent studies indicate that diets rich in phytoestrogens and n-3 fatty acid have anticancer potential. This study determined the effect of flaxseed (FS), the richest source of lignans and alpha-linolenic acid, on growth and metastasis of established human breast cancer in a nude mice model. Estrogen receptor-negative human breast cancer cells, MDA-MB-435, were injected into the mammary fat pad of mice (Ncr nu/nu) fed a basal diet (BD). At Week 8, mice were randomized into two diet groups, such that the groups had similar tumor size and body weight. One continued on the BD, while the other was changed to BD supplemented with 10% FS, until sacrifice at Week 15. A significant reduction (P < 0.05) in tumor growth rate and a 45% reduction (P = 0.08) in total incidence of metastasis were observed in the FS group.
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Graduate: The U of T is the first Canadian university to offer a guaranteed level of financial support for graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees. In the year 2000, the university took a major step in this regard through a commitment of funding of at least $13,000 plus tuition and fees to eligible doctoral-stream students. The funding will be available for up to five years of study. The U of T fellowship program awards more than 2,000 full-time graduate students each year. Individual departments offer research assistantships, especially to excellent students in the physical and life sciences, and teaching assistantships. Visit us at www.sgs.utoronto.ca/current/calendar/financial.asp.
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The size of the university has allowed it to offer a large variety of courses, from Intermediate Sanskrit, to Computational Genomics, Estonian Literature and Slavic Studies. Of the courses not offered by the university, the most notable is the lack of any journalism program at the main St. George campus, in part because nearby Ryerson University has a prominent journalism school. (The Scarborough campus offers a joint program with Centennial College.) As a result, the many campus newspapers have been considered the university's unofficial journalism school. The size of the university ... means that some classes are enormous. General introductory courses in psychology, sociology, and other subjects are taught in Convocation Hall with well over a thousand students at each lecture.
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