U of T Mississauga Campus - South Building

U of T Mississauga offers 125 programs among 70 areas of study.^[2] The University's most popular programs include anthropology, biology, commerce, management, CCIT (Communications, Culture and Information technology), computer science, crime and deviance, english, environmental studies, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

U of T Mississauga students can apply for joint-degree programs in CCIT, art and art history or theatre and drama through an arrangement with Sheridan College, allowing students to obtain both a university degree from U of T Mississauga and a college diploma from Sheridan. The CCIT program is a recent creation and partnership between U of T Mississauga and Sheridan College. These programs allow students to benefit from the practical experience of a college.^[3]

Other undergraduate programs offered at U of T Mississauga include, but are not limited to professional writing and communication, mathematics, chemistry, languages, physics, environmental sciences, geography, and earth sciences (geology).

U of T Mississauga also hosts one of the few palaeomagnetism laboratories in Canada. Currently run by Dr. Henry Halls, this lab investigated the palaeomagnetic properties of rocks collected from the Apollo missions in the 1970s. U of T Mississauga's most famous president was Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson, a geologist and pioneer in plate tectonics. A research wing in the South Building of U of T Mississauga is named after him.^[1]

Graduate degrees offered include the Master of Management and Professional Accounting, Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting, Master of Biotechnology, Master of Management of Innovation and the Master of Biomedical Communications.

Recently U of T Mississauga celebrated its 40th anniversary, a milestone which was celebrated with much fanfare, capped off with the Grand opening of the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Center, on June 2 2007.^[1] Several notable public figures were on hand to celebrate this momentous occasion including Hurricane Hazel herself. The Academic Learning Center has quickly evolved to become the cultural and social hub of the campus, and is quite possibly the most active site on the entire campus.

U of T Mississauga is in the midst of an expansion, with student enrollment being projected to reach 12,000 by the end of the decade.

Campus

The campus was the former estate of Reginald Watkins, which was acquired by the University of Toronto in 1965, and today consists of a number of buildings arranged across a large, treed lot. The largest building was built as a megalithic structure, predominantly out of concrete, as was typical of the brutalist architecture style of the late 1960s. It was one of architect Raymond Moriyama's first major commissions. Other buildings were added over the decades, but, with the enlarged enrollment at the beginning of the new millennium, the pace of construction increased.

A new CCT building, designed by Saucier + Perrot, was opened in September 2004. The new library and academic learning centre, designed by Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners and named after Mississauga's mayor, Hazel McCallion, opened October 8, 2006, and the new Wellness, Recreation and Athletics Centre, also by Shore Tilbe, opened less than a month previous to that.

Mississauga campus will be home to a first in Canadian education. Canada's first Forensic Science Institute will be created at the U of T Mississauga location, opening for the 2007 - 2008 school year. The new institute for postgraduate students will forge close ties with the Centre of Forensic Sciences. Plans have also been finalized for the establishment of an Academy of Medicine at the Mississauga campus, an expansion of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.^[4] It will provide a community oriented program to increase the number of primary care physicians and general practitioners. The first students are slated for enrollment in 2008.

The campus is home to CFRE-FM, broadcasting twenty-four hours a day at 91.9FM out of the Student Centre. With a focus on Canadian and independent music, students and community members are encouraged to apply for a show, as no experience is required. The main practice facility of the Toronto Argonauts football club is also located on campus.^[5]

Notable alumni

• Shaila Kibria - Executive Director of Islamic Relief Canada, MPP Candidate for Mississauga-Erindale (October 2007 Provincial Election)^[6]
• Gabriel Galang - Musician, Community Activist^[7]
• Dionne Brand - Poet, Novelist and Community Activist
• Vaira V??e-Freiberga - Former President of the Republic of Latvia
• Bilal Jaffery- Serves as a Director of Technology at DesiVibe.ca- South Asian Urban Webzine Startup and a Web Marketing Manager at IBM.
• John Roberts (J.D. Roberts) - CNN Senior National Correspondent (former CBS News White House reporter and fill-in national news anchor for Dan Rather).
• Eira Thomas - President and Chief Executive Officer, Stornoway Diamond Corporation
• Roberta Bondar - Female astronaut^[8]
• Ruben Vicente Gomes Tavares - Award winning scientist and philanthropist
• Bruce Dowbiggin - Former CBC TV sports journalist, author of hockey books, and current Calgary Herald columnist
• Herb Irving - Comedian
• Richie Mehta - Art and Art History alumni and Movie Director of "Amal," recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival
• Vikas Kohli - Producer and Founder of Fatlabs
• Zaib Shaikh - Lead Actor on Little Mosque on the Prairie

See also

• University of Toronto
• University of Toronto Scarborough
• CFRE-FM
• Mississauga, Ontario

References

External links

• University of Toronto Mississauga
• UTM Academic Calendar
• UTM's CFRE Radio 91.9FM
• University of Toronto Mississauga Student Union
• Academy of Medicine
• Department of Communications, Culture and Information Technology at UTM