Updates

Stroll around King’s College Circle this summer and you’ll find more than just flowers in bloom — construction crews are hard at work connecting key buildings to Canada’s largest urban geoexchange system. Paneling that will be up and on display for the summer of 2025 is now installed, and can be found surrounding the Medical Sciences Building on King’s College Circle. (Photo by Zoe Kelsey) The University of Toronto’s St. George Campus is always buzzing: new graduates posing for photos, alumni reconnecting and current students strolling the walkways. But if you’ve passed by King’s College Circle recently, you might have noticed [...]

Energy-saving LED lights are transforming research capacity in U of T’s growth facilities, unlocking new types of research while reducing energy consumption. Learn more about lighting upgrades taking place across campus.  

With thanks to all who took part in our goodbye video, and to Nadine, Linh and the S&E creative team who put this gem together, here's the amazing video we presented to President Gertler on Friday June 20th!  

This major initiative, known as the RISE program, will support up to 300 deferred maintenance projects to prevent costly and disruptive infrastructure failures and improve climate resiliency and energy efficiency. Learn more here.

Scott Mabury, U of T’s vice-president of operations and real-estate partnerships, says the university is experiencing rising demand for housing options on, or near, its three campuses.   Read more at UofT News.

Just over Just over 100 OREP staff celebrated the beautiful day with a photo at Alumni Plaza on King's College Circle, one of several gathering spaces introduced by the Landmark project.

The new building will bring together the Centre for Indigenous Studies, First Nations House Indigenous Student Services and the Office of Indigenous Initiatives A new Indigenous hub is planned for the University of Toronto’s St. George campus – an idea that has been a longstanding vision of Indigenous community members at the university. The project, which now has a confirmed site near the intersection of St. George and Bloor Streets, will be a new home for Indigenous academic, administrative and student supports in a thoughtfully designed space that reflects Indigenous values. Read more at UofT News.

I am delighted to report that the overwhelming and unanimous advice from the CIO search advisory committee was to confirm Donna Kidwell as UofT’s third Chief Information Officer, and I am so pleased to report that Donna has accepted. In August, following the announcement of Bo Wandschneider’s pending retirement, I announced that Donna Kidwell, our then newly appointed Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Deputy CIO – a hire I consider a coup, having enticed her from ASU – had agreed to serve as Acting CIO, effective October 1, 2024, until June 30, 2025 or the appointment of the permanent [...]

The University of Toronto has begun construction on what is set to become Canada’s tallest academic timber building. Rising 14 stories, the Academic Wood Tower seeks to become a landmark project for sustainable architecture in the country, integrating mass timber and steel hybrid construction. Read more on Archinect News.