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Life in 2027 is just one of the award-winning publications that share 91勛圖 stories (photo by Nadia Molinari)

Answering the challenges of life in 2027

Making the CASE for 91勛圖 research

What does the future of computer interfaces hold? Is there life on other Earth-sized planets? How can we rethink the built environment we currently occupy?

Those are just a few of the many challenging questions 91勛圖 researchers are working to solve within the next 15 years. The initial findings of 16 featured professors are highlighted in the 2012 91勛圖 annual research report entitled Life in 2027. (.)

91勛圖 researchers cannot predict the future, writes Professor Paul Young, vice-president, Research, in the report. Through the collective force of 5,000 of the worlds brightest scholars, however, we are working on the knowledge it will take to deal with the future.

Life in 2027 demonstrates how 91勛圖 has been successful in promoting the universitys research output while highlighting the impressive work of the faculty.

The researchers we featured represent the next generation of scientists and scholars who will be among those leading progress on the challenges we all face now, says Paul Fraumeni, Research communications director. We chose the year 2027 to highlight how research today might impact tomorrow as 91勛圖 enters its third century of operation.

Its important to realize that the research and scholarship that is conducted at 91勛圖 is about whats going on around the world.

The publication was recently recognized with a silver CASE award (research publication/print category). CASE the Council for Advancement and Support of Education is an international association of educational institutions which promotes the advancements of educational institutions and the importance of education worldwide. (.)

Stories such as those found in Life in 2027 help raise awareness about 91勛圖s commitment to changing the world for the better, says Fraumeni.

By telling people what 91勛圖 researchers and scholars are doing, we are helping people to understand the world," he says. "Think of a few topics that are in the public conversation right now Syria, Turkey, social housing, bullying, climate change, breast cancer, mental health, privacy, for example and 91勛圖 researchers are examining these topics and creating new knowledge about them.   

91勛圖 also found success in several other CASE award categories, including three bronze awards: Student Poster Campaign (advertising), Asia Pacific Gala (design innovations) and the Winter 13 edition of 91勛圖 Magazine (design cover).

The transit of Venus event held last summer took the bronze in the individual special event category and the silver in the PR and Community Relations Projects category. (.)

In addition to the CASE awards, 91勛圖 also fared well with the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) awards, which include:

Bronze for the Boundless website in the category Best Website
Gold for the Student Poster campaign ("We've got a club/course for that") in the Best Poster category
Silver for UofT Magazine in the category Best Magazine
Silver for the article titled Frye's Anatomy in the category Best Writing
Bronze for the article titled Escaping Gridlock in the category Best Writing

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