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With endowment, U of Toronto- Mississauga, Canada aims to become global leader in Jain Studies

The University of Toronto Mississauga has received an endowment to establish a new chair dedicated to Jain Studies – its first-ever endowed chair in the humanities.

The contribution marks a significant step in U of Mississauga’s commitment to expanding its Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities and transforming the study of the global past and present. The endowment of $2.5 million from Gyan and Kanchan Jain, as well as their family, will be matched by the university for a total of $5 million.

Driving scientific discovery

  • A team that includes researchers and former graduate students from the Faculty of Arts & Science has shown that children’s apparent inability to pay attention allows them to outperform adults when it comes to retaining information they were instructed to disregard. While adults do a great job of focusing their attention on an assigned task and do not pay attention to information they are told to ignore, children take in the information they are instructed to ignore and encode it in their brains. The team described their study in a paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Updates from U of T


  • U of T has launched DiscoverResearch to highlight, celebrate and promote our scholars. Faculty can use the online tool to showcase expertise, leverage automated data, share up-to-date CVs and signal availability for media requests, graduate student supervision, industry and academic collaboration.

  • VisualDx is now available to all students, faculty and staff through U of T Libraries. The clinical tool provides visualizations of diseases and aims to improve diagnosis and treatment decisions made by healthcare professionals.

  • Tomorrow, a LivingWorks safeTALK suicide prevention training session is being offered by the U of T Scarborough Health & Wellness Centre and U of T My Student Support Program. Participants will learn to recognize when someone is thinking about suicide and how to connect them to an intervention provider.

  • The Sexual Violence Prevention & Support Centre hosts “It’s time to choose love” on June 28. This Pride Month session examines “radical love” as a political intervention in the face of late-stage capitalism, impending climate disaster and an increasingly polarized political scene.

  • On July 5, the Art Museum is screening four films during “Encounters in experimental film.” Following the screening, Master's of Visual Studies graduate Nimisha Bhanot and Indu Vashist, executive director of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre, will discuss the films and their relationship to Bhanot’s artistic practice.




Did you know?


  • The U of T Landmark Project will feature Canada’s largest geoexchange system – but it won’t be U of T’s first. A geoexchange system is used to heat and cool U of T Mississauga’s LEED silver certified Instructional Centre via 117 boreholes in the adjacent football field. At U of T Scarborough, geoexchange systems have been installed in the the LEED gold Environmental Science & Chemistry Building and the recently retrofitted Science Wing (Andrews Building), and more are planned the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre and Instructional Centre 2.