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Read more about this year’s honourees on page 20. PrinciP al’s Message KEYNOTE The BioeThics of everyday Life By DonalD ainslie

Part way through my doctoral or his infection, whether health care studies in philosophy, in the early professionals with HIV should be 1990s, I took a gap year. I returned restricted in their practices. to Toronto, my home town, and But these were not the moral worked at a housing program for questions that the residents I was people with HIV and special needs: working with were facing. They homelessness, psychiatric illness, wrestled with when to disclose their recovery from drug addiction, and condition to others; what sexual the like. This turns out to have been responsibility entailed; and how to one of the worst years of the AIDS have a meaningful life when it seemed epidemic and I did my best to help likely to be massively abbreviated. the residents of the program struggle with ill health and stigma on top of I started to realize that these questions their other challenges. in what I now call the bioethics of everyday life are pervasive and indeed I usually worked the night shift, have a kind of logical priority to the from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., and dominant questions in bioethics that meant that, on the quiet nights, that focus on medical practice and I could read. I became interested in public health. If we want patients to what philosophers were saying about have autonomy over their health care the AIDS crisis. decisions, we presuppose that each Philosophers had first addressed the of us has something at stake morally moral issues arising from disease and in our own personal struggles with illness in the 1960s as part of the new health and disease. interdisciplinary field of bioethics. My work that year inspired me to take As medicine developed techniques a second master’s degree in bioethics that prolonged life—whether that of when I returned to grad school, and a newborn with severe disabilities or it remains a research and teaching an octogenarian in an intensive care interest. unit—more and more people came to realize that doctors’ medical expertise More often than not during my term did not guarantee that they knew what as UC Principal, I have taught a Best (BA 1921 UC), co-discoverer of was morally right for their patients. large, introductory bioethics class, a insulin; John MCCrae (BA 1894 particularly interesting pedagogical When I started reading what UC), World War One field doctor task in that most of the students bioethicists had written about the and poet; erving goffMan (BA are specializing in the sciences and AIDS epidemic, I was struck by how 1945 UC), the sociologist of stigma; thus rarely get the chance to reflect the questions they explored were and reva gerstein (BA 1938 critically on their main areas of study. primarily addressed to health care and UC), psychologist and mental health public health professionals—whether This issue of UC Magazine explores pioneer. This issue demonstrates testing for HIV should be mandatory how others in our community engage that the College—its staff, students, for certain groups, whether physicians with the challenge of health and faculty, and alumni—continue to work treating an HIV-positive patient have disease. University College alumni to better our response to what Susan a duty to warn third parties of her include such giants as Charles Sontag called the “night-side of life.”

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KirK Sibbald Tracy Howard Jennifer McinTyre Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Tracy Howard (“Healthier Minds,” Jennifer McIntyre (“Cerebral Kirk Sibbald (“An Intimate Pursuit,” page 12) is a writer, editor, and CorteXX,” page 16) is a writer and page 38) has been writing in one content director specializing in editor based in Toronto, Ontario. She form or another for as long as he lifestyle, health, and travel. She’s builds model airplanes in her spare can remember. After graduating contributed Today’s Parent, Flare, the time, bakes a mean chocolate chip with a BA in English (University of Toronto Star, and was also formerly cookie, and holds the regional record Saskatchewan) and MA in Journalism the editor in chief of CAA Magazine. for most bones broken in a solo (University of Western Ontario), She had once pondered psychology urban bicycle accident. Jennifer has Sibbald worked in newspapers for a as an alternative career path, so found written for CBC Sports, the Discovery short while before moving into the writing about the mental health Channel, Deutsche Welle Online, and communications and marketing field. struggles of U of T students for this CNIB.ca. Her work has also appeared He currently lives in Saskatoon with issue an intriguing assignment. in Grain Magazine, Seasons Magazine, his spouse and two young daughters. While it’s alarming to hear about the The Journal of the Canadian high rates of anxiety and depression Association for the Advancement of among students, Tracy thinks the Women in Sport, Dandelion, Ms. conversation happening now around Magazine, Xtra, and Lexicon. Her mental health is a positive step. website is jenmceditor.com. SHeldon Gordon Sheldon Gordon (“Funding the Fundamentals,” page 8) is a freelance writer based in Toronto. He served in the parliamentary press gallery with the Toronto Star and Financial Post, was an editorial writer and columnist with the Globe and Mail, and a current affairs producer with CBC -TV.

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UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 07 FUNDAMENTALS

Avie Bennett

08 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE THE STATE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN CANADA BY SHELDON GORDON funding the

fundamentalsthe world was sceptical about open- Th e result was that Canada’s leading ended, machine-based learning and AI researchers moved to the US, focused on computer science that where they became prominent in was based on programs written by Facebook, Google, Uber and other humans, CIFAR pushed ahead with high-tech companies. Th e last federal AI, to enable machines to learn more budget restored funding to AI-related independently.” research and Canada is trying to ormer U of T president Th is was seen as very high-risk at the repatriate some of its AI talent. “But DaViD nayLOr (1974 UC) time, but Canada quickly became a this is a perfect microcosm of what likes to refer to the fi eld of hot-bed for AI, he says. “Fast forward happens when you fail to capitalize artifi cial intelligence (AI) as 10 or 15 years, and we are producing on investments that have been made, an example of what can happen the best talent in the world in what has where you defi ne an area and let when Canada under-funds basic become a very hot area. But because others capitalize on it.” scientifi c research. we did not invest in research, we did When Kirsty Duncan (BA 1986 “In the 1980s and 1990s, the not provide opportunities either for UC), Canada’s Minister of Science, Canadian Institute for Advanced commercialization of the research we launched a comprehensive review Research (CIFAR) did something were doing or for scientists to continue of federal support for fundamental bold,” he says. “While the rest of working in this fi eld in academe.” science—the fi rst such review in over

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 09 Professor David Naylor (1974 UC), former U of T President and Chair of Canada’s Fundamental Science Review

at inadequate levels, says Naylor. “We are producing the best talent The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) now has success in the World... but because rates under 15%. “Many peer nations think that a competition that is at that We did not invest in research, level begins to turn into a lottery,” he says. “What [the panel’s round We did not provide opportunities tables] heard from younger and older for commercialization...” scholars alike is that they were seeing individuals who had gone years without external funding and were four decades—she appointed Naylor, Naylor’s panel highlighted a drop of basically giving up.” professor of medicine, to head the more than 30% in real-dollar terms On the other hand, the Natural blue-ribbon panel of experts. per capita funding for independent or Sciences and Engineering Research investigator-led research in Canada’s The panel undertook a broad Council of Canada (NSERC) has universities, colleges, institutes, and consultative process, receiving maintained higher success rates for 1,275 written submissions from research hospitals. This drop was due to applicants, but only by capping its individuals, associations, and caps on federal funding to the granting grants at around $35,000, which “Is organizations. It also held a dozen councils (for health, science and not even enough to pay for a post- round tables in five cities, engaging engineering, and social sciences) and a doctoral fellow, let alone to supply some 230 researchers at different shift in funding toward applied science that individual with the wherewithal career stages. Its report, Investing in and partnership-oriented research. to do experiments.” Canada’s Future: Strengthening the Scholars applying to the councils Naylor is also concerned that Foundations of Canadian Research, are either highly unlikely to win funding from federal government was published in April. research grants—or will win them sources now accounts for less than

10 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE FEDERAL INVESTMENTS IN science 25% of total spending on research superclusters—“which of course in higher education. While relative academia will be involved with”; to GDP, Canada leads the G7 $221 million in funding over five nations in total research outlays years for Mitacs’s work-integrated by the post-secondary sector, learning programs to provide institutions themselves now fund 10,000 internships per year to 50% of these costs. post-secondary students; and a “Look at small countries such $125-million Pan-Canadian Artificial as Singapore, Australia, and the Intelligence Strategy for research and Netherlands that are outperforming talent, administered by CIFAR. Canada on a per capita basis in “That’s on top of 2016’s investment research,” he says. “None of them has of $2-billion for improving research this kind of funding profile.” and innovation infrastructure at The problem with Canadian universities and colleges,” she says, Dr. Kirsty Duncan (BA 1986 UC), noting that, “some of our labs are 25 institutions funding such a high Canada’s Minister of Science proportion of their research is that the years old. And we made the largest money largely comes out of tuition investments in the three granting fees and provincial grants. That “We’ve had a good councils in a decade.” leaves less money for undergraduate year in science,” Duncan then broaches the expert education. “You find that your says Minister of Science panel’s review. Praising it as a research universities tend to have Kirsty Duncan (BA 1986 UC), “comprehensive, rigorous, thoughtful large classes,” he says. as she lists some of her initiatives. report,” she adds: “The majority of its “We’ve put in place new equity and 35 recommendations I agree with.” The Naylor panel recommended a diversity requirements for both the But in response to the key proposal major infusion of federal cash for basic Canada Excellence Research Chairs of a four-year, $1.3-billion increase research, calling for an increase to and the Canada Research Chairs.” She for the granting councils, she says: “I $4.8-billion from $3.5-billion over four also recently launched the Canada 150 have to be realistic, too. There was 10 years—an annual average growth rate Research Chairs, one-time funding years of science being gutted by the of 9%. Is that too ambitious a target? designed to attract 25 internationally previous government. I can’t rebuild Naylor notes that from 2000-2001 esteemed researchers and Canadian that in four years.” expats who wish to relocate to Canada. to 2007-08, total granting council She does support the report’s spending grew at about 9% annually The search is on to fill the newly proposal for a board to align the for seven years. The proposed new restored post of Chief Science granting agencies, and promises to spending would occur over four Advisor (CSA), a role that the Harper take action on that. “The granting years, and would be somewhat lower government had eliminated. (The councils are working together, on an annualized basis because the CSA’s main function, as defined in and we’re going to make sure the seven-year figure is calculated in the job description, will be to advise Canada Foundation for Innovation is constant dollars. “The federal budget the government on how to ensure included with that, and that the CSA is now over $300-billion per year,” he that research conducted in federal is included as well as the president of says. “We’re talking growth of only labs is fully available to the public, the National Research Council. We 0.1% per annum of that budget being that scientists are able to speak freely want it to be more coordinated.” redirected to research.” about their work, and that scientific Duncan is also open to the expert analyses are considered when Ottawa If Canada would like “to continue to panel’s proposal for a National makes decisions.) fall further behind [other countries], Advisory Council on Research try staying at the current level. If As for new federal dollars for and Innovation. “Do I think that’s you’d like to catch up, you’re going to research, Duncan cites the $950 important? Absolutely.” The structure have to invest the money that we’re million committed for 2017–2022 of such a Council, however, remains recommending.” to support business-led innovation an open question.

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 11 // HEALTHIER

MINDSBY TRACY HOWARD

12 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE HOW UC IS HELPING STUDENTS WHO STRUGGLE WITH MENTAL // HEALTH AND WELL-BEING MINDS

While university students have always Among U of T respondents, 45% had stress, recent data and demand reported feeling so depressed over for campus counselling services the past year they found it di cult indicate this generation of learners is to function. niversity years are experiencing a mental health crisis. o en heralded as e data also indicate more post- among the happiest About 64% of Canadian post- secondary students are experiencing of a person’s life, secondary students reported feeling mental health challenges than in 2013 but post-secondary overwhelming anxiety over the past when the NCHA survey was rst studies have always 12 months, and 12% had seriously conducted in Canada. Compared to the come with inherent stresses. e considered suicide over the same rst survey, suicide ideation is up by 26 %. exhilaration of learning from world- period, according to results from an “It’s speaking to the fact that students class educators and experiencing online survey released last fall. are reporting considerable distress the cornucopia of campus life is e National College Health in terms of mental health,” says Dr. balanced with academic and o en Assessment (NCHA) ndings Andrea Levinson, Psychiatrist-in- nancial pressures. Added to those represent the responses of 43,000 Chief at U of T’s Health & Wellness demands is the challenge many students from 41 Canadian post- Centre. “But it’s self-reported data by students face of living independently secondary institutions, including about students, so it has to be interpreted in for the rst time. 5,000 from the University of Toronto. that manner.”

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13 is under 20, and the age range with the highest rate of anxiety symptoms is 20 to 29. But Dr. Levinson believes there are stressors speci c to 2017 that are increasing the demand for support. She cites factors including the transition from education to a career being more di cult, the digital culture of 24/7 availability creating an inability to shut o , and the reduction “STUDENT LEADERS PLAY of stigma, so students feel more A KEY ROLE IN CREATING A comfortable seeking support. But students’ openness to help is challenged by an access issue for SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY mental health assistance in Ontario and beyond. THAT ENCOURAGES PHYSICAL “ e highest proportion of people trying to access emergency AND MENTAL WELL-BEING, departments because of lack of service for mental health are youth,” FOSTERS RESILIENCY, AND says Dr. Levinson. Another theory mentioned by both DECREASES STIGMA” Dr. Laposa and Dr. Levinson is the decreased di erentiation around academic achievement in secondary e mental health issues indicated in Dr. Judith Laposa (BSc 1999 UC), schools, which may be making both surveys mirror the problems U a psychologist in the Mood and students less prepared for university. of T students are seeking help for on Anxiety Service at Toronto’s Centre for Added to this is the changed family campus. Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), culture in which helicopter parents clari es the di erence between the are overly involved in their kids’ Dr. Levinson, who is also an anxious feelings and down moods we school life, leading students to feel at Assistant Professor in the University’s all experience, and the level at which a loss when that support is removed Department of Psychiatry, estimates they become a disorder. at university. the number of students seeking mental health assistance at Health & “It’s actually interfering in life On an individual level, beyond an Wellness is increasing by 10% yearly. functioning,” says Dr. Laposa, also an Assistant Professor in the Department “It’s about guring out which of Psychiatry at U of T. “When concerns need a clinical approach; it someone has an anxiety disorder could be an academic issue, and they or has major depressive disorder, need a learning strategist,” says Dr. it could look like it’s interfering in Levinson. “It’s about not trying to his or her ability to socialize, have U OF T over-pathologize the concern.” meaningful relationships, or engage MENTAL HEALTH in school-related activities.” As for the most common BY THE psychological issues reported at U of While there is an absence of data to T, Dr. Levinson advises that “anxiety explain why this student cohort is trumps depression.” She shares that struggling, there are theories about some of the severe worries U of T multiple contributing factors. students seek help for have to do with One constant is that early adulthood NUM academics, nances, and the ability is the period when symptoms of to connect. Depressive symptoms mental illness emerge. Statistics presented include low mood, sleep from the Mood Disorders Society of issues, uctuating energy, and Canada indicate that the age with the appetite changes. highest rate of depression symptoms BERS

14 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE appropriate antidepressant, the Services and Health Services merged O ce, it will ensure that academic best help for anxiety disorders may at Health & Wellness to enhance the counselling and other kinds of be Cognitive Behavioural erapy delivery of coordinated physical and support will all be found in one area (CBT), a short-term method that mental health care. Access has also of the College.” looks at thoughts and behaviours and been improved through embedded Student leaders also play a key role how they contribute to a di culty. counselling and learning assistance in creating a supportive community “What has the strongest research services in 21 faculties, departments, that encourages physical and mental support for mood and all the anxiety colleges, and residences on the St. well-being, fosters resiliency, and disorders from a psychotherapy George campus. decreases stigma,” says Scott. For perspective is CBT,” says Dr. Laposa. University College has also embraced example, this past January, Daphne Improving the well-being of an the Framework’s recommendations. Wang, along with Tisha Hasan and institution is a more mammoth “We have focused on an integrative Lynn Ly, cofounded Peer2Peer at undertaking, and in response, in 2014 approach that includes o ering urgent UC, which holds anonymous weekly U of T released the Student Mental support for students in distress, drop-in talks led by trained peer Health Strategy and Framework, embedded counselling services in facilitators on topics like stigma, which was updated in 2016. the College, preventive programming homesickness, and post-grad angst. to promote mental wellness, and e Framework focuses on a systems coordinated student communications “We were seeing a lot of need on approach by looking at the role the to o er information on resources and campus for more relatable mental entire University plays in creating a mental health strategies,” says UC’s health services,” says Wang, a healthy environment. Dean of Students, Melinda Scott. fourth-year student doing a double- Among its 22 recommendations major in Peace, Con ict and Justice A key innovation has been the were calls for increasing mental- Studies, and Global Health. “A need College’s sUCcess Centre. Created in health communication; introducing for safe spaces, a chance to talk 2012, it is place where students can preventive, educational, resiliency, with like-minded students about go for personal counselling, career and anti-stigma programming; their challenges…. Community … advising, learning skills development, addressing the mental health needs of is sometimes hard to nd at U of T, and international student support. diverse communities, such as LGBTQ where there are so many students.” In the upcoming UC Revitalization, and graduate students; expanding the space currently being used for the While the institutional changes partnerships with o -campus health sUCcess Centre will be renovated and around mental health are vital, resources; and increasing peer will also house the Writing Centre in Daphne Wang is convinced that mentorship o erings. what will be a newly named sUCcess outlook would improve more rapidly A key success so far from the Commons. Scott explains: “Students if everyone took responsibility for Framework, according to Dr. will be able to access curricular and a healthier university. “Whether Levinson, is providing greater access co-curricular support in a one- as student or faculty, it’s about to mental health supports. In 2015, stop shop. And because it will be becoming better listeners and better Counselling and Psychological located directly above the Registrar’s at recognizing students in distress.”

WHEN ASKED “IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS, HAVE YOU EVER...”

88% 73% 67% 64% 62% 46% felt felt very felt very felt felt felt more overwhelmed sad lonely overwhelming hopeless than average by all they had anxiety stress to do

Sourced from Student Health and Well-being at the University of Toronto: A Report on the Findings from the National Health Assessment (2016)

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 15 By Jennifer Mcintyre Cerebral CorteXX

16 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Gillian Einstein

GILLIAN EINSTEIN’S WORK ON THE AGING FEMALE BRAIN IS CHANGING THE WAY WE LOOK AT HUMAN HEALTH

Her interest in the eld began when niversity of Toronto she was an art history undergraduate researcher and at Harvard, with a seemingly casual University College question about how we see. faculty member “I got interested in the brain because Professor Gillian of my interest in vision. I really Einstein has been wanted to understand how people investigating why see things,” she says. “I’ve always brain disorders really loved art, but in terms of a like Alzheimer’s profession, I wanted to do something disease, stroke, and more, to understand the mechanism dementia occur more frequently in [of vision] a little bit more.” women than in men. Einstein enrolled in the then- Her lab recently received a welcome new neurobiology program at the nancial boost: in December 2016, University of Pennsylvania, where Einstein, a distant cousin of physicist she ultimately earned her PhD in Albert Einstein, was awarded the neuroanatomy. From there, she inaugural Wilfred and Joyce Posluns went on to do research in vision chair in Women’s Brain Health and and Alzheimer’s disease at Duke Aging, which comes with $1 million University. e link between the two over ve years. might not seem clear, but to Einstein, “ e goal of the chair,” explains the connection was obvious. Einstein, “is to advance our “ e occipital lobe, the part of the understanding of women’s brain brain I was studying, [plays a part] health and aging. My own focus in Alzheimer’s disease. e occipital is on how hormones, or a loss of lobe [the brain’s visual processing hormones, might a ect that.” centre] itself is not a ected, but

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the other regions of the brain with which it communicates are a ected. ese other regions a ect [a person’s] “I THINK PEOPLE IN SCIENCE interpretation of the visual scene.” WANT THEIR WORK TO BE BROADLY She then began to question why Alzheimer’s is more prevalent in GENERALIZABLE. BUT [IN THE women. Previously, it was assumed PAST], PEOPLE ONLY STUDIED that this was mainly because age is the largest risk factor for the disease, and MALES AND THEN GENERALIZED women tend to live longer than men. THOSE FINDINGS—I THINK But Einstein suspected other factors were at play, like the unique life THAT’S A PROBLEM” stresses experienced by women (such as caregiving responsibilities, sexual ere have been several landmark to that map for women who had violence, and economic inequalities) and studies on how various stimuli experienced female genital cutting. the e ects of hormones like estrogen that change the male brain, but very few I started scouring the literature and diminish as a woman ages. focusing speci cally on women. e found there wasn’t anything for women Currently, she says, “my focus is on “cortical homunculus,” a well-known on that map. I think it would be great how hormones, or a loss of hormones, representation of the human brain to make that map. Qualitatively it may might a ect [the brain]— through depicting where sensations from various resemble the male map, but it may also menopause, through having one’s body parts are processed, references the be a map that changes—for example ovaries removed, through having male body, not the female. with the menstrual cycle, at di erent ovarian failure for any reason. I’m “ ere is no map of the female body reproductive stages, with pregnancy, studying memory and attention in and so forth.” women who carry the BRCA mutation, and the brain,” Einstein says. “We know who’ve been advised to have their that the map of male [brains] changes. She refers to her imaginary female ovaries removed to protect them from ere’ve been famous studies of diagram as the “hermunculus.” the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.” violinists, cab drivers, and so forth, but “I’d love to be able to do it,” she we really haven’t studied females. “ e results are very preliminary— enthuses. “I would like to look for we’re still recruiting for the study— “[In my early research] I was trying funding, but it’s not something I’ve but we are nding changes.” to understand what might happen started yet.”

18 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE ere are several important implications for her research on hormones and the brain. L R “First, I’d like us to better understand the importance of hormones for healthy brain aging in women,” says Einstein. “In the broader picture, I would like a smart biophysicist to design a method for visualizing the ovaries so they could be followed over time. It would be better if you could tell when the ovaries were beginning to have cancer so they could be removed then, rather than removing healthy tissue. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan in the axial view i.e. looking down from above the “ e ovaries produce hormones that brain. L indicates the left side of the brain and R the right. Grey matter is in lighter shades at the peripheries of the brain and white matter is in darker shades towards the centre of the are important for the brain, but also brain. Image credit Einstein Lab. for every body system. So, it would be best if people could keep them. Right now, however, for women with the BRCA mutation, [removal] is the best prophylaxis.” trials for drugs?” she continues. Origins of Gender Dysphoria],” Einstein is adamant, however, that “We need to think about dosing, which studied the impact of cross-sex her research is not just “women’s and about developing drugs that hormones on thinking, memory, and research.” might be e ective in women and not attention. is latter aspect of her “I think people in science want their so e ective in men and vice versa. research was greatly enhanced, she work to be broadly generalizable. Drugs have been taken o the market stresses, by the diverse and inclusive But [in the past], people only studied because they were extremely e ective atmosphere of University College. males and then generalized those in men but not in women. Why don’t “I really value the UC community, ndings—I think that’s a problem.” we leave them on the market for men? the openness to ideas and the trans- She applauds the recent changes in “Even in Alzheimer’s disease, a lot of disciplinary nature of what goes on several key research funding bodies, the drugs are tried on women because there,” says Einstein warmly. “I’ve for example the Canadian Institutes most of the people are women—and found it a very welcoming place.” of Health Research and the National again it’s then assumed they’re going Institutes of Health in the US, both of to work for men. So, we’re back to the She is eager to get more researchers to which now require scientists to justify larger issue of this being important consider sex and gender di erences their work if they are studying only for human health.” when they’re designing their studies, males or only females. and to include women in their Her lab has also examined cognitive research. ese seemingly simple steps “It’s becoming much more important in issues in LGBTQ communities as part will not only ll a yawning gap in the the eld of dementia research to think of the larger issues surrounding sex, existing research, but enhance the about this as well: Who are the people gender, and brain health. relevance of research ndings overall. who get Alzheimer’s disease? e greater “We also need to think more broadly “I think there are a lot of similarities proportion are women, so why aren’t we about, for example, trans health, between people who are XX and trying to understand how it’s the same or about the long-term e ects of taking people who are XY,” she says. di erent in men and women? hormones. at’s one of reasons why “And why aren’t we thinking about we did the trans cognition project “But where there’s di erence, we need women when we design clinical [Transgender Cognition and the to acknowledge it.”

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 19 20 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ALUMNI OF INFLUENCE

e University College Alumni of In uence awards were introduced in 2012 in order to recognize the accomplishments of UC graduates and share them with today’s students and fellow alumni. In 2017, we celebrate the following distinguished University College alumni. Please join us for an awards gala in their honour at e Carlu in Toronto on November 16, 2017 (see page 2 for details). Your help is required to identify candidates for future editions of the awards. For more information or to submit a nomination, please visit uc.utoronto.ca/aoi.

Alumni of Influence Selection Criteria

A committee of UC alumni and faculty and philanthropy. Philanthropy to selects the Alumni of In uence on the the University of Toronto speci cally basis of nominations submitted by is not a factor. Members of the members of the UC community. e selection committee, sitting politicians, committee considers the nominees’ and the current U of T President, contributions to their professional Vice-Presidents (UTM and UTSC), eld at the international, national, or and Chancellor are excluded from local level, as well as their volunteerism consideration.

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 21 Diana Bennett (BA 1965 UC) Diana Bennett is an artist, former teacher, and arts administrator who has worked tirelessly to establish the role of the arts in Ontario throughout her long and distinguished career. A former senior executive with TVOntario, she has sat on a number of corporate and volunteer boards including the University of Toronto Art Centre (now the Art Museum), the Toronto Arts Foundation, Canada Publishing, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and the Granite Club. A member of the Ontario Society of Artists, she works in mixed media and sculpture and is represented by Walnut Contemporary gallery in Toronto.

22 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Dr. Gerald Caplan Anne Carter Carl Cole (BA 1960 UC) (1971 UC) (BCom 1936 UC) Gerald Caplan has had a Anne Laurel Carter was born e late Carl Cole was a distinguished and varied career in Toronto in 1953 and le at businessman, publisher, in politics and international seventeen to work on kibbutzim philanthropist, and founder of development. A former associate in Israel, a Jean Vanier home Coles Bookstore. He grew up in professor in the department in France, and California. She poverty on a farm outside Barrie, of history and philosophy of earned a master’s of education Ontario, and spent time in an education at the Ontario Institute specializing in second language orphanage in Detroit, Michigan, for Studies in Education at U acquisition and taught ESL in before coming to Toronto as a of T, he served as director of Toronto and in isolated Cree teenager and graduating from development agency Cuso’s villages of northern Québec, UC with a commerce degree in Canadian volunteer program as well as French immersion in 1936. In the thick of the Great in Nigeria, before leading the southern Ontario. She currently Depression, he operated a book- advocacy o ce for the City resides in Toronto and Nova selling pushcart around the U of Toronto’s public health Scotia, writing, teaching, and of T campus to help pay tuition. department. en he became mentoring other writers. Her He opened the rst store under national director of the New writing includes e Shepherd's the "Coles" name in 1940 with Democratic Party of Canada. He Granddaughter and Under a his brother Jack, and by the late is the author of e Dilemma of Prairie Sky and has twice earned 1970s, they operated the largest Canadian Socialism, e Betrayal the CLA Best Book of the Year book retail chain in the country. of Africa, and Rwanda: e Award for Children, a prestigious He also launched the Coles Preventable Genocide. He speaks Jane Addam’s Honor Award Notes series of study guides. widely about African development for Peace, the Mr. Christie’s e company eventually came issues and genocide and his Best Picture Book Award, and to be owned by Indigo Books & writing has appeared in e numerous nominations for Music, and he therea er focused Walrus, e Toronto Star, and children’s reading programs across on philanthropy, supporting the e Globe and Mail. the country. United Jewish Appeal and the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation, among other organizations.

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 23 Laura Dickson Prof. Stephen Elliott Fienberg (BSc 1995 UC) (BSc 1964 UC) Laura Dickson has 20 years of Internationally acclaimed experience in health, public, and statistician the late Stephen non-pro t administration. Prior Fienberg was formerly University to joining Habitat for Humanity Professor of Statistics and Social Southern Alberta as Director, Science at Carnegie Mellon Families and Volunteers in 2017, University. He was best known for Laura was the executive director developing statistical applications of Women In Need Society to in uence science and public (WINS), a Calgary-based social policy in many areas, including enterprise that operates four aspects of human rights, privacy thri stores supporting programs and con dentiality, forensics, and services to advance the survey and census taking. e lives of vulnerable women and co-author of seven books and the families. From 2009 to 2011, editor of 19 collections, he also Laura served as chief operating published more than 500 papers. o cer of the Calgary Homeless He was the recipient of numerous Foundation and was part of the statistical science awards and team that launched Alberta’s recognitions, and was active in the rst Ten Year Plan to End Pittsburgh community, serving Homelessness. Recognized as one in various roles for the boards of Business in Calgary’s Leaders of the Hillel Foundation-Jewish in 2016, Laura holds an MBA University Center of Pittsburgh, from Royal Roads University in Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, Victoria, BC. Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, and Jewish Healthcare Foundation. Donald Guloien Naomi Klein Prof. Gregory Levey (BCom 1980 UC) (1989 UC) (BA 2001 UC) Donald Guloien is the Chief Naomi Klein is an award-winning Gregory Levey is an Associate Executive O cer of Manulife. journalist and author of the Professor in the School of He has been named International international bestsellers No is Professional Communication and Business Executive of the Year Not Enough: Resisting Trump's the School of Graduate Studies at by the Canadian Chamber of Shock Politics and Winning the Ryerson University. His research Commerce, awarded e Queen World We Need; is Changes interests are interdisciplinary, Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Everything: Capitalism vs e and include the intersections of medal, and received the Arbor Climate; e Shock Doctrine: communications, media, politics, Award for his contributions to e Rise of Disaster Capitalism; business, and writing. He is the the University of Toronto in and No Logo. She is one of author of Shut Up, I’m Talking: And various leadership capacities. He the organizers and authors of Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned was ranked among the Highest Canada's Leap Manifesto, a in the Israeli Government and How to Rated CEOs in Canada in blueprint for a rapid and justice- Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Glassdoor.com’s 2015 and 2016 based transition o fossil fuels, Months or Less Without Leaving Your Employees’ Choice Awards, based which has been endorsed by Apartment. He has either written for, on assessments by current and more than 200 organizations. In been featured in, or worked with e past employees. He is director 2016 she was awarded Australia’s New York Times, e Globe and Mail, of the Geneva Association, prestigious Sydney Peace Prize, Time, Maclean’s, Salon, BBC, CNN, vice chairman of the mayor of for “reminding us of the power CBC, and many others. In 2013 he Shanghai's International Business of authentic democracy to co-founded the startup Figure 1 Leaders' Advisory Council, a achieve transformative change Inc., a mobile app described as an member of the Board of the and justice.” She holds multiple Instagram for doctors, which allows Business Council of Canada, a honorary doctorates and healthcare professionals around the trustee of the Hospital for Sick frequently appears on global lists world to collaborate. is year, the Children, and a member of the of top in uential thinkers. She company earned the Social Impact Campaign Cabinet for United is married to fellow UC Alumni Award from TechVibes’ Canadian Way, among other roles in the of In uence Award recipient Avi Startup Awards. community and business. Lewis (BA 1988 UC).

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 25 Chiling Lin John Kenneth Macalister (BA 1997 UC) (BA 1937 UC) Chiling Lin is a famous Taiwanese John Kenneth Macalister was model and actress. She spent her born in Guelph, Ontario and high school years in Toronto, studied law at University College, then studied economics and art where he won the prestigious history at UC. A er graduation, Rhodes scholarship, which took she returned to Taiwan and him to Oxford University in began her modeling career. In England. He joined the British 2004, she starred in a series of Army a er WWII broke out and advertisements, skyrocketing was recruited into its intelligence to national fame. Her celebrity corps in 1942. His rst and only initiated a Taiwanese craze for mission took him to France in supermodels that commentators 1943, where he was captured, dubbed "the Chiling Lin imprisoned, and tortured by phenomenon." One of the most German operatives. Refusing famous faces in Asia, she has been to divulge information the an o cial spokesperson for both Nazis wanted, he was hanged China Airlines and Longines, and at Buchenwald concentration has starred in lms and TV series camp in 1944. His great promise in Hong Kong, China, and Japan. and courage is commemorated Fluent in Cantonese, Japanese, in a park named in his honour and English, she has served as in Guelph, a garden at Soldier’s Taiwan’s goodwill ambassador to Tower at U of T, and the John Japan. e recipient of numerous Kenneth Macalister Scholarship awards for modeling and acting, at his former high school. in 2011 she established the Chiling Charity Foundation in support of child welfare. Prof. Michael Marrus Prof. Roland Paris Prof. Olga (Zorzi) Pugliese (BA 1963 UC) (BA 1989 UC) (BA 1963 UC) Renowned historian Michael Roland Paris is an expert in Olga (Zorzi) Pugliese is Professor Marrus is an expert on the international security and Emeritus in the Department of Holocaust, modern European and peacebuilding. He holds the Italian Studies at the University Jewish history, and international University Research Chair in of Toronto. She is a scholar of humanitarian law. e Chancellor International Security and Italian and a world authority Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Governance at the University of on the Italian Renaissance, Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Ottawa, where he is Associate particularly Baldassarre the University of Toronto, he is Professor in the Graduate School Castiglione, one of its major the author of eight books on the of Public and International A airs. authors. A former president of Holocaust and related subjects. He has held advisory roles with the Canadian Society for Italian He is a fellow at Massey College the Privy Council, the Department Studies, she was honoured with and the Royal Society of Canada, of Foreign A airs, the Federal- the Lifetime Achievement Award and has been a visiting fellow at Provincial Relations O ce, and of the Canadian Society for St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, and the Prime Minister of Canada. Renaissance Studies in 2008. She the Institute for Advanced Studies, A former director of research at has authored and edited many Hebrew University of Jerusalem. the Conference Board of Canada, publications on Renaissance A member of the Order of he is a regular commentator topics and the Italian community Canada, he has also taught as a on international a airs, and in Canada, most notably on visiting professor at the University the recipient of the prestigious mosaic artwork by Italian of California Los Angeles and the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas cra smen in Canada, and on the University of Cape Town, and Improving the World Order, Italian Canadian artist Albert served on U of T’s Governing among other honours. Chiarandini. Council for 19 years.

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 27 Dr. Constance L. Sugiyama Cindy Yelle (BA 1974 UC) (BA 1990 UC) Before retiring in 2012 a er a As President and CEO of the 35-year career on Bay Street, Toronto Rehab Foundation, Constance Sugiyama was one University Health Network, Cindy of the most highly regarded Yelle is one of Canada's leading corporate lawyers in Canada. professionals in health-based She was a Distinguished philanthropy. She previously Visiting Scholar at Ryerson served as senior vice-president, University and currently serves SickKids Foundation, and as a corporate director and as as the executive director of an advisor to government and advancement, Faculty of others. She was the chair of the Engineering, University of Hospital for Sick Children and Toronto. In the community, she has held board positions with, has served on the board of the among others, the Ontario Toronto Zoo since 2009. An Financing Authority, Canada outstanding athlete, she was a Health Infoway, the Toronto member of the 1984 Canadian International Film Festival, and Olympic swim team, captain of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Canada’s 1986 Commonwealth Centre. She was named to the and world championship teams, Order of Canada in 2014 in and a NCAA champion and recognition of her achievements record holder. as a lawyer and for her extensive civic engagement, and in 2015, received an honorary doctorate from Western University.

28 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE YOUNG ALUMNUS of INFLUENCE

University College introduced the Young Alumni of In uence Award in order to recognize the achievements of graduates who are in the early phases of their careers. e prize honours UC alumni under the age of 35 who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in their elds and communities.

Prof. Michael Goldberg work at the Massachusetts Institute of (BSc 2003 UC) Technology. His research is in cancer Michael Goldberg is Assistant immunotherapy and his laboratory Professor, Microbiology and strives to create innovative platforms Immunobiology, Harvard Medical for drug development and delivery, School, and Assistant Professor, to contribute to the betterment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, human health in the realm of cancer. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute He is the co-founder of Camp Casco, (DFCI), both at Harvard University. a free summer camp in Boston He studied biochemistry at UC, for pediatric oncology patients where he won the UC Merit Award and the Gordon Cressy Student and survivors, where he is also a Leadership Award, then completed counsellor. He also volunteers with a master’s at the University of Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Cambridge. He earned his PhD in serves on the committees for women biochemistry and did postdoctoral faculty and leadership at DFCI.

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Lawyer GRaCe alCaide JaniCas My First Doll, a mixed media (BA 1992 UC) received the 2017 exhibition featuring works by artist Rosalie Supreme Court Justice J. Shirley Denison Award from the diana bennett (BA 1965 UC), silbeRman abella (BA 1967 UC) Law Society of Upper Canada, for showed at Walnut Contemporary received an honorary doctorate from her contributions to access to justice. gallery in Toronto this past summer. Brandeis University in Waltham, She has served the Northern Ontario Massachusetts. Abella’s address Janet CRaiG (BA 1995 UC) was community for more than 20 years named a director of the Canadian recounted her experience as the and is currently the director of legal daughter of Holocaust survivors, and Investor Relations Institute, Canada’s services at the Algoma Community national association representing the importance of fighting injustice Legal Clinic in Sault Ste. Marie. wherever it arises. investor relations professionals. Professor bRenda andRews (BSc VinCent Galifi (BCom 1982 UC) Claude aCCum (BSc 1983 UC) 1980 UC) , Director of the Donnelly was appointed to the board of CCL was appointed President of Sun Life Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Financial Asia, an insurance and Industries, the largest label company in Research and Charles H. Best Chair of the world, headquartered in Toronto. financial services company. Medical Research at U of T, has been appointed to the rank of University Professor, the University’s highest academic rank. Andrews is a pioneer in the field of systems biology.

30 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 1 Rosalie Silberman Abella 2 Claude Accum 3 Diana Bennett (L) with UC Principal Donald Ainslie 4 Francess Halpenny Image credit Yvonne Palkowski 5 Perry Ing 6 No Free Man by Bohdan Kordan Image credit McGill Queen’s University Press 7 Seulgi Rosa Kim

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Professor fRanCess Halpenny (BA Alumni Relations that encouraged last spring. The prestigious award is 1940 UC), former dean of the Faculty grads to share moments from their given to graduating student-athletes of Library Science at U of T (now the special day. who excelled athletically over the course Faculty of Information) and editor of No Free Man: Canada, the Great of their U of T careers. Liu, a figure the Dictionary of Canadian Biography War, and the Enemy Alien Experience skater, studied human biology and is from 1969 to 1988, has published her (McGill-Queen’s University Press, pursuing a master’s degree at Queen’s memoirs, A World of Words: Francess 2016) a book by Professor boHdan University’s School of Kinesiology and Halpenny’s Autobiography. KoRdan (BA 1997 UC) received the Health Studies. Moorhouse, a squash peRRy inG (BCom 1997 UC) was Jennifer Walsh Award in Scholarly player, studied geology and is pursuing a appointed Chief Financial Officer Writing at the 2017 Saskatchewan master’s degree in earth science at U of T. of Mountain Province Diamonds Book Awards. Kordan is Professor Dr. bonnie madoniK (BSc 1980 Inc, a diamond mining company of International Relations in the UC), an Assistant Professor in the headquartered in Toronto. Department of Political Studies at the Department of Psychiatry at U At UC Convocation last June, newly University of Saskatchewan. of T and Medical Director of the minted alumna seulGi Rosa Kim Recent University College graduates Addiction Program at North York (BA 2017 UC) shared her thoughts Kaitlyn liu (BSc 2017 UC) and General Hospital, was appointed on graduating and this photo (above eVelyn mooRHouse (BSc 2017 National Addiction Medicine Advisor right) on Instagram, which won her UC) were recognized with a Silver to the Canadian Armed Forces. an iPad mini in a contest run by UC T at the U of T President’s Reception

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maRy anne palanGio (BA 1987 Musician paul sHaffeR (BA 1971 It was a family affair at Spring UC) was appointed Chief Financial UC), former band leader on The Late Convocation as members of the Officer of LOGiQ Asset Management Show with David Letterman, released Tieman and Coutts families gathered Inc, an investment advisory business a self-titled album with the World’s to celebrate the graduation of fifth- headquartered in Toronto. Most Dangerous Band. generation UCer tessa tieman (BSc 2017 UC) sHosHana pollaCK (BA 1989 Lawyer linda silVeR dRanoff . Tessa is the daughter UC), a Professor in the Lyle S. Hallman (BA 1961 UC) has published her of tRaCy tieman (BA 1984 UC), Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid memoirs, Fairly Equal: Lawyering the granddaughter of Janet tieman Laurier University, was honoured with Feminist Revolution (Second Story (née Coutts) (Degree 1957 UC), great that institution’s Teaching Excellence – Press, 2017). She joined fellow UC granddaughter of J. mCdeRmott Innovation in Teaching Award. authors sHaRon maRCus (BA Coutts (BA 1921 UC), and great- 1955 UC) CHaRlotte fielden great granddaughter of JoHn Dr. KowtHaR salim (BSc 1997 and (BA 1955 UC) Coutts (BA 1884 UC). UC) was named Vice-President of for a reading from Critical Outcome Technologies Inc, their respective works in celebration Lawyer GaRy yee (BA 1983 a biopharmaceutical company. of Canada’s 150th birthday at UC) received a 2017 Law Society Wychwood Public Library in Toronto Medal from the Law Society of Professor daVid sCHneideR this past May. Upper Canada, for his activism and (BSc 1986 UC) has been appointed Chair of Stanford University School advocacy for Chinese and other of Medicine’s Department of racialized communities, as well as Microbiology and Immunology. for his leadership in administrative justice and the tribunal sector.

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The University College Alumni Association (UCAA) promotes alumni participation in the life of UC. We invite alumni like you to play a leadership role in the Association by joining the newly restructured UCAA Executive Committee.

PURPOSE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The UCAA fosters community among alumni, UCAA Executive Committee members can between alumni and students, and between expect to commit 4 to 10 hours per year. There alumni and the College. The Association brings are a variety of opportunities: forward opinions and recommendations of alumni • Be a UC ambassador at UC and U of T events to the College’s faculty and administration, and contributes to advancing the College’s mission. • Advise on alumni relations programming and joint programming for alumni and students • Become a student mentor MEMBERSHIP All UC alumni are members of the UCAA • Recruit alumni to sit on the UCAA Executive Committee and are represented by a UCAA Executive Committee comprised of six UC alumni and one • Join the Alumni of Influence Selection current student. Committee Committee members will serve a two-year term • Join the Young Alumni of Influence Selection renewable twice, for a total of up to six years. Committee The Committee chair may serve two • Bring greetings at UC events consecutive three-year terms. • Assist the UC Book Sale or help recruit alumni volunteers

The University College Alumni Association To learn about applying for a position on the UCAA is committed to encouraging alumni Executive Committee contact Mike Henry, Alumni participation in the life of UC. Relations Officer, at [email protected] or (416) 978-2968. We are interested in knowing about your involvement at UC as student and now HELP US HELP UC! as an alum. Applications must be supported by two signatures from fellow UC graduates. The application deadline for the 2018-2019 academic year is January 15, 2018. The UCAA Executive and UC Principal will meet in February 2018 to select alumni to fill vacant positions. Committee member terms will officially begin in September 2018. CAMPUS NEWS

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Disillusioned: Victorian Photography contributions to the advancement University College welcomed 584 and the Discerning Subject, a book by of human rights issues surrounding new graduates to its alumni family University College faculty member and sexuality. Maracle is an elder and at University College Convocation Associate Professor in the Department of prolific author, Monkman is one of on June 20, 2017. Distinguished Art Jordan Bear, won the prestigious Canada’s leading artists, Palmater photographer edward BurtynsKy 2016 Historians of British Art Book is an entertainer and speaker on received an honorary degree and gave Award for a post-1800 subject. Indigenous issues, and Syrette is a the Convocation address. More than 200 guests including two-spirit activist and facilitator. Special University of Toronto President students, faculty, members and friends guests included Ontario Lieutenant- and University College faculty elizaBeth of the LGBTQ community gathered in Governor, the Honourable member meriC Gertler has been dowdeswell Hart House’s Great Hall for the 2017 , the Ontario reappointed for a second term. He Bonham Centre awards Gala Minister of Indigenous Relations and will lead the University through david on April 26. Indigenous LGBTQ leaders Reconciliation, the Honourable June 30, 2023. zimmer lee maraCle, Kent monKman, , and the Chancellor of the Candy Palmater, and teddy University of Toronto, the Honourable miChael wilson syrette were honoured for their .

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Professor Christina Kramer of the lisa mar, Richard Charles Lee Students enrolled in the University Department of Slavic Languages and Chair in Chinese Canadian Studies College course CDN 355: Digital Tools Literatures has been appointed Acting at University College, was recognized in a Canadian Context, led by Dr. Vice-Principal of University College as one of 15 distinguished Chinese sioBhan o’Flynn, spent a semester through June 30, 2018, while Vice- Canadian women at Celebration 15: researching and gathering archival Principal John marshall is on Voices of Chinese Canadian Women documents for Kensington Market: sabbatical. She is a specialist in Balkan in Ontario. She also received the Hidden Histories, an augmented reality and South Slavic languages. She served Leadership in Asian Canadian Studies app that guides users through Toronto’s as chair of the Department of Slavic award from the Congress of Social iconic Kensington Market. The app is Languages and Literatures from 2003 Science and Humanities, on the complemented by an interactive online to 2011 and as acting chair in 2012. University of Toronto’s behalf. map at uoft.me/CDN355map. She was elected to Governing Council in 2009-11, and has participated in a wide range of Faculty of Arts and Science administrative and governance roles.

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Students enrolled in University CeCille sioulis and maureen own discipline and beyond, and whose College’s signature academic programs smith were honoured with the personality and research contribute to gathered last March for researCh Principal’s Distinguished Staff Award the academic and cultural exchange and PraCtiCe day, an annual for their exceptional service to between the Federal Republic of event showcasing their year-end University College. Cecille is the UC Germany and Canada. projects on topics as varied as food Academic Programs Coordinator, 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt, a 1973 addiction, sex education, and robotics, while Maureen is Business and play co-written by journalist and UC just to name a few. The event is part Programs Coordinator at the Art Canadian Studies instructor riCK of UC’s commitment to reinventing Museum’s University of Toronto Art salutin and Theatre Passe Muraille, undergraduate education, one of the Centre location at UC. showed this past summer at the Shaw three priorities for the University Professor walid saleh, founding Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. identified by President Meric Gertler. director of the Institute of Islamic Studies A play entitled for colored girls at the University of Toronto and a UC who have considered suicide/when faculty member, received the Konrad the rainbow is enuf, directed by Adenauer Research Award from the University College faculty member Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. dJanet sears, showed at Toronto’s The award honours researchers in Soulpepper Theatre this past summer Canada whose discoveries and insights to rave reviews. have had a significant impact on their

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Congratulations to the students who Tua Hytonen, Social Commissioner; Professor sarah waKeField have been elected to the university Kaitlyn Ferreira, Literary and Creative has been reappointed Director of ColleGe literary and athletiC Arts Commissioner. Not pictured: the Health Studies program for a soCiety 2017-18. They are pictured Martha Beach Bartel, Services three-year term through June 30, above right, from left to right, back Commissioner; Sarita Bhukal, Mid 2020. She is an Associate Professor to front: Albert Hoang, President; Year Rep; Miranda Desbiens, Mid in the Department of Geography Ryan Gomes, Speaker; Michelle Beyn, Year Rep; Mira El Hussein, Equity and and Planning. Her research Upper Year Rep; Paul Schweitzer, Mid Outreach Commissioner; Victoria interests include food security in Year Rep; Aidan Swirsky, UTSU Rep; Kourtis, Vice-President; Priya Gupta, Canada, community development Anushka Kurian, UTSU Rep; Danielle Mid Year Rep; Olivia Jordan, Mid and neighbourhood change, and Stella, University and Academic Affairs Year Rep; Sara Mandia, Off-Campus environmental justice. Her first Commissioner; Aster Gerard, Mid Commissioner; Benjamin Wang, term has been marked by innovative Year Rep; Mahzeb Ashraf, Upper Athletics Commissioner. curriculum reform, including Year Rep; Dan Proctor, Spirit and the development of a practicum Communications Commissioner; for fourth-year students; closer Kshemani Constantinescu, UTSU Rep; collaboration with the Dalla Lana Sameer Rai, Upper Year Rep; Michelle School of Public Health; and a vital Zhong, Sustainability Commissioner; partnership with the Health Studies Raye Negatu, Finance Commissioner; Student Union.

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FOR PLAYWRIGHT, DIRECTOR, AND UC ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE DANIEL BROOKS, A LIFE IN THEATRE IS ABOUT MORE THAN A CAREER AN BY KIRK SIBBALD INTIMATE PURSUIT

e’s widely considered one of the most innovative, respected, and fearless gures in Canadian theatrical circles, but make no mistake about it—DANIEL BROOKS (BA 1981 UC) doesn’t care what you think. Pensive and measured, Brooks chooses his words in much the same way he has chosen what to work on over the past three-plus decades in Toronto’s theatre scene. He claims to have never taken on a project simply for the exposure or paycheque it may garner, and the only critic he’s worried about appeasing is himself. “As an artist you can’t get caught up in those things,” he says. “I have been very selective, and for the most part have directed plays that weren’t really plays to me. ey spoke to me in a way that got under my skin somehow.”

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 39 “CAREERS WILL COME, BUT IF YOU’RE FOCUSED ON THAT YOU’RE NOT FOCUSED ON BUILDING YOUR CAPACITY AS AN ARTIST” When looking back on Brooks’ manifesting something coherent and professional credits, perhaps impactful out of your own sweat and Brooks and I spoke over the phone this answer should come as little blood, that is the most satisfying.” a few weeks before he settled into surprise. Many of the productions his residency as University College’s for which he is most well-known— Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor including the Noam Chomsky It would be easy to picture Brooks as a in Canadian Studies. Considering he Lectures, Here Lies Henry and precocious youngster who grew up on will spend much of his time at UC Insomnia—were original works Shakespeare and starred in high school meeting with students—critiquing that he co-created and o en self or drama productions. Nothing, however, work and mapping creative could be further from the truth. passions—I ask what advice he co-produced. He has o en rejected would give to students looking to the advances of big theatre companies “ eatre was not something that was establish a career in theatre. to focus instead on collaborating with part of my childhood, at least not luminaries such as Daniel MacIvor tfully,” he said. “I was an athlete, a It quickly becomes clear, however, and Guillermo Verdecchia on hockey player, and I was very interested that Brooks doesn’t subscribe to independent ventures. in biology and math.” having career-oriented motivations when entering the arts. He is, essentially, picky, and points In fact, Brooks originally enrolled in out there are many others who have sciences at the U of T with an eye on “ e question I would ask young directed “in nitely more” plays than medical school. But a er nishing one people is ‘Why are you thinking he has. Brooks speaks of theatre year of studies he took some time o to about a career right now?’ Careers in an almost existential way, and travel, write, and essentially “ gure out will come, but if you’re focused on admits the few plays by others he has how to live and what I wanted to do as a that you’re not focused on building agreed to direct have been his least human being in the world.” your capacity as an artist,” he ful lling endeavours. says. “Not to say they’re mutually A er returning home, one of Brooks’ exclusive, and the career will “ ere is something about creating friends introduced him to Professor de nitely come in time.… [But] it’s something, as opposed to directing Stephen Martineau, who was head dangerous to get too distracted by the work of another writer, that is the of UC’s drama program. He enrolled the practicalities of career.” most rewarding,” he says. “Somehow shortly therea er.

40 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE “THE ABILITY TO ESTABLISH A RESPECTFUL AND ENGAGED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A YOUNG, ASPIRING HUMAN WHO’S BEGINNING TO OPEN THEMSELVES TO THE WORLD, AND AN EXPERIENCED ARTIST, IS REALLY THE CORE OF EVERYTHING” “I don’t want to call him a hippie, and instead found himself drawn to he contemplated many of these same because he was a serious guy. But he producing and directing. In the late questions early in his theatrical life, wore drawstring pants, had a long 1980s he started e Augusta Company Brooks says the scope of such queries beard, long hair, and meetings with him with University College drama program have expanded signi cantly today. most o en involved sitting on the oor,” alumnus Don McKellar and Tracy “ ere are so many young people recalled Brooks. “He taught me tai chi Wright, and the trio created a series of doing so many di erent things,” and introduced me to works by people shows over the following decade. he says. As examples he points to like [Jerzy] Grotowski and Peter Brook.” By 2001, Brooks’ many works were so Rebecca Northan, whose improv Although theatre was never something well respected that he was chosen as shows feature an actress picking Brooks had previously considered the inaugural recipient of the highly someone, at random, from the pursuing, he experienced a unique prestigious Siminovitch Prize in audience for an unscripted blind date. sense of belonging shortly a er meeting eatre. While he’s never been one to Or Real Wheels in Vancouver, whose Martineau and enrolling in the UC chase paycheques or awards, Brooks performances o en centre around program. Looking back he sees the concedes that winning this $100,000 persons with disabilities. program lled a void for him not only prize was gratifying in more ways “When I was a student, Canadian academically, but personally as well. than one. theatre culture was not very “I think that’s the case with a lot of “It almost felt like back pay, and it sophisticated. We weren’t working people who fall into the theatre; it’s kind li ed a bit of weight o my shoulders. with the aesthetics of theatre and of a surrogate family,” said Brooks. “It’s I stopped worrying about money for a there wasn’t a lot of experimentation. an extremely intimate pursuit, and I few years,” he said. Today there are an increasing number think there is a certain need that life in Because the Siminovitch Prize of directors who have, at the very theatre lls for some people. at was recognizes a body of work, he least, a kind of technical skill that certainly an unconscious attraction for said receiving it was particularly didn’t really exist in the theatre world me when I was a young man.” rewarding when compared to some 20 years ago.” others he has received—such as the And while he won’t be teaching A er graduating from UC, Brooks Chalmers, Edinburgh Fringe First anyone tai chi or requiring students enrolled at the Circle in the Square Award, and Dora Mavor Moore who visit him to sit on the oor for eatre School in New York, then Award—that are bestowed based on meetings, Brooks does hope he can travelled overseas to study clown in one’s work in a single production. impart some of the same inspiration that Paris and, later, puppetry in Brazil. he received from Professor Martineau at UC nearly four decades ago. roughout these years he would come When asked what he’s most looking up with “little shows and inventions” to forward to during his UC residency, “For me, the ability to establish a support himself nancially. says he’s excited to once again respectful and engaged relationship Although he acted in various immerse himself in an environment between a young, aspiring human productions—both in Toronto and of academic rigour and ponder who’s beginning to open themselves abroad—he was nding the life of some more existential questions to the world, and an experienced an actor increasingly unappealing related to the art of theatre. While artist, is really the core of everything.”

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 41 OBITUARY

University College alumnus Michael Bliss (BA 1962 UC) passed away on May Michael Bliss 17, 2017 at the age of 76. A University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, he was one of Canada’s leading public intellectuals and a frequent commentator on national affairs. The author of 14 books on business, politics, and medicine, he was an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UC Alumni of Influence award winner, and a member of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

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Business leader, publisher, and University College alumnus Dr. Avie Bennett Avie Bennett (1948 UC) passed away on June 2, 2017 at the age of 89. He was perhaps best known for pioneering the retail plaza concept in Canada, and for his support of the arts and culture, especially books. A lifelong supporter of the University of Toronto, the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature bears his name. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, a UC Alumni of Influence award winner, and held three honorary doctorates.

UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE 43 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IN MEMORIAM Notices of death published in this issue were received between January 1 and June 30, 2017. Date of death, last known residence, and maiden name (if applicable) are noted where possible. Friends and family of the deceased can help by sending information to [email protected].

1930s Mr. John M. Lowndes, Q.C. (BA 1949 UC) Mrs. Fanny (Goldhar) Kronis (BA 1935 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 24, 2017 of North York, ON; Jan. 16, 2017 Mr. Donald A. MacIntyre (BA 1947 UC) Mrs. Doris E. (Huston) Love (BA 1936 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 21, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Mar. 31, 2017 Ms. Helen McLean (BA 1948 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 12, 2017 1940s Mrs. Mary H. (Thompson) Nash (BA 1949 UC) Mrs. Barbara “Babs” A. (Patchet) Barber of Victoria, BC; Apr. 9, 2017 (BA 1945 UC) of Victoria, BC; May 25, 2017 Mr. Jack W. Rendall (BA 1948 UC) Mr. Wilfred P. Bauman (BA 1946 UC) of Don Mills, ON; Apr. 2, 2017 of North York, ON; Jan. 3, 2017 Mr. Marvin W. Ross (BA 1949 UC) Dr. Avie J. Bennett (1948 UC) of North York, ON; May 24, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Jun. 2, 2017 Mr. Peter D. Scott (BA 1948 UC) Mrs. Marie E. (Douglas) Caldwell (BA 1941 UC) of Nanaimo, BC; Mar. 12, 2017 of Weston, ON; Mar. 31, 2017 Mr. Ernest Smith (BA 1940 UC) Mrs. Mary S. (Ritchie) Campbell (BA 1949 UC) of Peterborough, ON; Jan. 8, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Apr. 9, 2017 Mr. Sherman J. Taylor (BA 1947 UC) Mrs. Jean C. (Oldreive) Carrie (BA 1942 UC) of Wasaga Beach, ON; Apr. 24, 2017 of Etobicoke, ON; Feb. 18, 2017 Mr. Jack Walmsley (BCom 1949 UC) Mrs. Frances L. (Craig) Crandall (BA 1949 UC) of Napanee, ON; Jan. 10, 2017 of Kingston, ON; Jan. 3, 2017 Mrs. Georgina “Babs” W. (Young) Woods (BA 1947 UC) of Mr. William D. Davidson (BA 1948 UC) Toronto, ON; Mar. 30, 2017 of Ottawa, ON; Feb. 22, 2017 Mr. Raymond A. G. Farrell (BA 1948 UC) 1950s of Toronto, ON; Jun. 26, 2017 Mr. Robert A. Aiken (1950 UC) Miss Shirley (Reeves) Frances (BA 1948 UC) of Whitby, ON; Jan. 12, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 2, 2017 Mr. Douglas F. B. Archer (BCom 1950 UC) Mr. Norman J. Gillespie (BA 1941 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 14, 2017 of Ennismore, ON; Jan. 21, 2017 Mrs. C. Lee (Strahm) Arima (BA 1953 UC) Mr. Raymond Hughes (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Apr. 14, 2017 of North York, ON; Apr. 21, 2017 Mr. Gunter Bardeleben (BA 1952 UC) Mr. Edmund L. Jardine (1949 UC) of Willowdale, ON; Mar. 8, 2017 of Burlington, ON; Apr. 1, 2017 Mr. Emile V. Blouin (BA 1951 UC) Mrs. Jean A. (Milligan) Keast (1947 UC) of Kenora, ON; Jan. 16, 2017 of Hamilton, ON; Apr. 22, 2017 Mrs. Sheila E. (McCullough) Browne (BA 1954 UC) Mr. Morris Kestin (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 3, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 16, 2017 Ms. Audrey A. (Woods) Cruickshanks (BA 1959 UC) Mr. Henry Koury (BA 1948 UC) of Stoney Creek, ON; Apr. 20, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Apr. 29, 2017 Mr. Kenneth W. Davis (BA 1951 UC) Mrs. Mary B. (MacDonald) Lawson (1948 UC) of Orillia, ON; Mar. 6, 2017 of Burlington, ON; May 27, 2017 Mr. David A. Diltz (BA 1952 UC) Mrs. Jocelyn “Joey” M. (Hodge) Lee (BA 1946 UC) of Sundridge, ON; Apr. 21, 2017 of Toronto, ON; May 11, 2017 Ms. Joan Eddis-Topolski (BA 1951 UC) Mr. Saul I. Littman (BA 1945 UC) of Ottawa, ON; Jan. 1, 2017 of Tucson, AZ; Jan. 2, 2017 Mr. Sheldon Friedland (BCom 1953 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jun. 2, 2017

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Mrs. Ortrude “Trudy” J. (Schnaufer) Gibbons (1954 UC) 1970s of Calgary, AB; May 19, 2017 Mr. David J. Barenberg (BA 1971 UC) Mr. Harold S. Hadley (1951 UC) of Stratford, ON; May 29, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 25, 2017 Mr. Kent A. Campbell (BSc 1979 UC) The Rev. Thomas W. Harpur (BA 1951 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jun. 13, 2017 of Meaford, ON; Jan. 2, 2017 Mr. Kenneth G. Freeman (BA 1973 UC) Mr. Ralph G. Hogue (BA 1950 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 17, 2017 of Font Hill, ON; Feb. 5, 2017 Mr. John R. Gray (BA 1972 UC) Miss Margaret L. Hooey (BA 1958 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 23, 2017 of Kingston, ON; Jan. 13, 2017 Dr. Daniel Vickers (BA 1975 UC) Mrs. Barbara A. (Hill) MacGowan (BA 1954 UC) of La Jolla, CA; Feb. 8, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Jun. 2017 Mr. John Minoughan (BA 1950 UC) 1980s of Toronto, ON; Jan. 12, 2017 Ms. Holly G. Kramer (BA 1988 UC) Mr. Kenneth J. M. Ogle (BCom 1959 UC) of Toronto, ON; Mar. 19, 2017 of Toronto, ON; Jun. 17, 2017 Mr. Steven Renzetti (BA 1982 UC) Mrs. Jane C. (Hamilton) Parkinson (BA 1950 UC) of St. Catharines, ON; Feb. 3, 2017 of Don Mills, ON; Feb. 15, 2017 Mrs. Elinore H. Persiko (BA 1953 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jun. 5, 2017 Mr. Walter C. Reimer (1959 UC) of Orillia, ON; May 31, 2017 Mrs. Ruth (Seligman) Slater (1950 UC) of Burlington, ON; Apr. 9, 2017 Mr. Elwood H. Taplin (BA 1952 UC) of Burlington, ON; Feb. 27, 2017

1960s Mr. Harvey Barron (BA 1966 UC) of North York, ON; Feb. 23, 2017 Prof. J. M. Bliss (BA 1962 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 17, 2017 Dr. Helen S. (Goodman) Freedhoff (BA 1961 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jun. 10, 2017 Mr. J. D. C. Grimshaw (BSc 1963 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 3, 2017 Mrs. Pamela C. G. (Purdy) Kernaghan (BA 1963 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 13, 2017 Mr. Thomas G. M. McIntyre (1962 UC) of Etobicoke, ON; Mar. 1, 2017 Mrs. Elin A. Racine (BA 1964 UC) Erratum of Toronto, ON; Apr. 21, 2017 In the Donations section of the Spring 2017 issue of Mrs. Barbara J. (White) Siskind (BA 1963 UC) UC Magazine, we neglected to include The Estate of of Toronto, ON; Jan. 30, 2017 Frank Felkai in our acknowledgment of estate gifts The Hon. Mr. Justice Norris Weisman (BCom 1960 UC) received in 2016. University College regrets the error. of Willowdale, ON; Jan. 22, 2017

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