Institute Facilities

Main Office

We are lucky to have very friendly and helpful office staff.

• Muna Salloum (a.k.a. "Miracle Worker") handles faculty and budget matters and office administration. 

• Denise Horsley is our administrative assistant, who looks after student and course matters and provides academic assistance (including administering fellowships and TAships). If you have any questions about anything, you can ask Denise; she is an information wizard.

In September you will be given several keys. The first is a key card to the building ("Old Vic"), which will prove its use when you want to get the readings for courses or if you want to work on evenings and on weekends, but it only opens the south-east door into the basement (the ramp close to Pratt Library). Another key card will open the door to the photocopier area. Finally, you will be issued a sub-master key for access to the Common Room and Library. There is a $15 deposit for the keys, refundable when you return them. Please make sure that all doors remain locked and be careful about leaving your valuables around - thefts have occurred.

Common Room and Carrel Room

There is usually coffee and tea (and sometimes hot chocolate) available in the Common Room (bring your own mug) for 25 cents a cup (30 cents with cream. Tea bags are usually available and hot chocolate sometimes is. The coffee coordinator (elected in September, see here) This room is equipped with couches, student mailboxes, a table, microwave, recycling bins and piano (no guarantee on the tuning) - it's where most IHPST social events happen. If you're looking for a study break or just somewhere to hang out, many IHPST students bring their lunches to the common room, so join us!
The common room has a direct telephone line: (416) 978-7432. (Students can take messages for one another, if you aren't around to receive a call.)

In September, students are assigned carrels (students usually sharing, two to a carrel) in a room adjacent to the Common Room. Although this might sound crowded, it's quite good as compared to other gradua

te studies at U of T. Since everyone has different schedules, conflicts over carrel space are actually pretty rare, and usually easily resolved. Ideally the carrel room is to be used for quiet study space, so try to keep the conversation to a minimum.

Photocopies and Computers

A photocopy machine is available at the Institute. You will get your own code and the charge is 5 cents a copy; you will be billed monthly. In the carrel room  there are 3 PCs which are connected to the Internet and have MS Office installed, a laser printer, a scanner and a CD burner.