University of Toronto and Related Topics

Rotman School of Management

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The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management (commonly known as the Rotman School of Management, the Rotman School or just Rotman), is the University of Toronto's graduate business school, located in Downtown Toronto.

Toronto Varsity Blues

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The Toronto Varsity Blues is the intercollegiate sports program at the University of Toronto.

Knox College, Toronto

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Historical home of Knox College at 1 Spadina Crescent

A corridor that forms a section of the college cloisters

Interior garden at one of the college's quadrangles

The cloister windows at Knox typify the collegiate Gothic architectural style.

Casavant organ console at right front of chapel

Knox College is a postgraduate theological college of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Cobourg

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Town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Southern Ontario 95 km east of Toronto and 62 km east of Oshawa.

Age distribution in Cobourg according to the 2006 census.

Downtown Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. Aerial View taken from a DJI Phantom Vision

Victoria College remained in Cobourg until 1892, when it was moved to Toronto and federated with the University of Toronto.

University of Toronto Libraries

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Largest academic library in Canada and is ranked third among peer institutions in North America, behind only Harvard and Yale.

The system consists of 44 libraries located on University of Toronto's three university campuses: St. George (downtown Toronto), Mississauga and Scarborough.

Coat of arms of the University of Toronto

University of Toronto Scarborough

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Looking west: Science Wing ahead, Bladen Building on the left, and the Arts and Administration Building on the right.

The University of Toronto Bookstore operates a branch at Scarborough.

The Student Centre is a landmark for student activities at the campus.

The University of Toronto Scarborough, also known as U of T Scarborough or UTSC, is one of the three campuses that make up the tri-campus system of the University of Toronto.

Public university

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University or college that is in state ownership or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university.

Cairo University, the prime indigenous model for Egyptian state universities

Barishal University in Barishal, a public university in Bangladesh.

University of Mumbai, a public university in India.

Sebelas Maret University, one of Indonesia's prominent public universities.

Tokyo Metropolitan University, a public university in Japan.

The University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City

The main auditorium at Chulalongkorn University

The University of Barcelona in Barcelona

Birkbeck, University of London in London

Old College of the University of Edinburgh

The University of Buenos Aires is a public university in Argentina.

Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil

The University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada

The Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile

The National University of San Marcos is the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas.

The College of William & Mary is one of the oldest public universities in the United States

Long Beach City College, a public community college in the United States

The University of California, Berkeley, the flagship public university of California

Provincial governments established the University of Toronto on the Oxbridge model and elsewhere (e.g., Alberta, Manitoba) in the pattern of American state universities.

Royal Ontario Museum

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Museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The McLaughlin Planetarium next to the museum. The planetarium was operated by the museum from 1968 to 2009.

The 1914 Italianate-Neo-Romanesque original building in 1922

The mosaic ceiling of the rotunda is covered predominantly in gold back-painted glass tiles

Hyacinth Gloria Chen Crystal Court is a three-storey high atrium inside The Crystal. A replica skeleton of Futalognkosaurus is mounted at the court.

Used as the museum's lobby, the Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery showcases an assortment of items from the museum's collection.

The Patricia Harris Gallery of Costumes and Textiles holds around 200 artifacts from the museum's textile and costume collection.

The second floor of the museum contains collections and samples of various animals past and present.

The museum has a large collection of birds from past centuries for viewing.

The world's largest faceted cerussite, the Light of the Desert, on display at the Teck Suite of Galleries.

The ROM has a collection of fossils from the Jurassic period to the Cenozoic era. One of the specimens in the background is a Lambeosaurus.

Exhibits at the Shreyas and Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, one of several world culture galleries at the museum.

The museum is home to an extensive collection of Roman artifacts.

The Gallery of Africa: Egypt includes a number of cartonnages.

Canoes used by the First Nations at The Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples.

Works on exhibit in the Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art

A Buddhist reliquary śarīra casket at the Gallery of Korea, the only permanent gallery of Korean art in Canada.

The Wirth Gallery of the Middle East explores civilizations from the Palaeolithic Age to 1900 AD found within the Fertile Crescent.

An elevator with bilingual English/French signage at the museum.

The museum is north of Queen's Park, in the University of Toronto district, with its main entrance on Bloor Street West.

Insulin

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Diagram of insulin regulation upon high blood glucose

Insulin undergoes extensive posttranslational modification along the production pathway. Production and secretion are largely independent; prepared insulin is stored awaiting secretion. Both C-peptide and mature insulin are biologically active. Cell components and proteins in this image are not to scale.

The structure of insulin. The left side is a space-filling model of the insulin monomer, believed to be biologically active. Carbon is green, hydrogen white, oxygen red, and nitrogen blue. On the right side is a ribbon diagram of the insulin hexamer, believed to be the stored form. A monomer unit is highlighted with the A chain in blue and the B chain in cyan. Yellow denotes disulfide bonds, and magenta spheres are zinc ions.

Insulin release from pancreas oscillates with a period of 3–6 minutes.

The idealized diagram shows the fluctuation of blood sugar (red) and the sugar-lowering hormone insulin (blue) in humans during the course of a day containing three meals. In addition, the effect of a sugar-rich versus a starch-rich meal is highlighted.

Effect of insulin on glucose uptake and metabolism. Insulin binds to its receptor (1), which starts many protein activation cascades (2). These include translocation of Glut-4 transporter to the plasma membrane and influx of glucose (3), glycogen synthesis (4), glycolysis (5) and triglyceride synthesis (6).

The insulin signal transduction pathway begins when insulin binds to the insulin receptor proteins. Once the transduction pathway is completed, the GLUT-4 storage vesicles becomes one with the cellular membrane. As a result, the GLUT-4 protein channels become embedded into the membrane, allowing glucose to be transported into the cell.

Two vials of insulin. They have been given trade names, Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.

Chart for Elizabeth Hughes, used to track blood, urine, diet in grams, and dietary prescriptions in grams

Frederick Banting (right) joined by Charles Best 1924

Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best, working in the laboratory of J. J. R. Macleod at the University of Toronto, were the first to isolate insulin from dog pancreas in 1921.