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On July 29, the University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus welcomed MP Maggie Chi, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, for a tour and overview of the SR Ecosystem and U of T Entrepreneurship (UTE).   The tour began wi… Read More

The University of Toronto is reinventing the paradigm of student housing through an innovative joint venture partnership model that will add thousands of new residence spaces more quickly and at a lower cost to the university to meet growing demand.  The Build More Housing Initiative will … Read More

As medical residents at the University of Toronto, Amol Verma and Fahad Razak were struck by how many hospital decisions about quality-improvement were made based on opinion or whoever was the most persuasive voice in a room. “They didn’t necessarily have the data to back tha… Read More

The University of Toronto marked a series of research and innovation milestones in July, including new support for life sciences startups, a joint venture capital fund, a partnership to advance responsible artificial intelligence and a historic international honour for a U of T mathematician. The in… Read More

The federal government is investing $1.75 million in BioLabs University of Toronto, the city’s largest shared lab incubator, to help translate life-science research into companies that stay and grow in Canada. The funding is part of a larger investment of more than $20 million from the F… Read More

The Toronto region is positioned to become an artificial intelligence cluster capable of generating, retaining and scaling globally competitive firms, finds a new report that draws on almost 50 interviews with investors, researchers and entrepreneurs in the community. The report, published by the In… Read More

About Government Relations at U of T

The mandate of the Government Relations Office (GRO) is to advance policies and positions that align with the mission of the University of Toronto and support the efforts of government to develop sound public policy. GRO is organized in three units: Government Relations and Public Policy, University Relations, and Stakeholder Engagement and Strategic Initiatives. Our goal is to ensure that governments recognize, enable, and publicly articulate the unique role played by the University of Toronto in civic, provincial, and national capacity-building.

International Students: Life After Graduation

This documentary short follows six international students as they pursue their work and passions in the years after graduating from the University of Toronto. The individual stories weave together to show the common experiences, including challenges and triumphs, of stepping into the world after university. Created in partnership between the Centre for International Experience and the Innovation Hub, the documentary explores what it means for international students to leave university and embark on the next chapter of their lives in various places around the world.

With special thanks to Cal Campos, Videographer, Director and Producer, and funded in part by the International Student Experience Fund.

Visit http://uoft.me/lifeaftergrad for full project details.