Students: the bell tolls for thee—the school bell, that is. The back to school countdown is on, and while students across the GTA psych themselves up for another academic year, faculty and staff at Ryerson University are busily preparing for them. Summer may be winding down, but fall is revving up and Ryerson has plenty of new things in store for the ‘09/’10 academic year.

Here’s a look at the highlights:

Ryerson Mobile Applications (R mobile)
Ryerson mobile applications are being developed by a multi-disciplinary team of student and faculty representatives from the Library, Computing and Communications Services, Department of Computer Science (Ryerson Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Lab) and Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE). Grouped under the banner “R mobile,” the following mobile phone apps have been developed in response to student need: campus maps, campus directory, news and events, student schedules, booking study rooms, finding available computers on campus, and accessing the library catalogue.

The SIFE Ryerson team won big at the 2009 Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship National Competition.

Creating innovative business ideas comes naturally to Ted Rogers School of Management students.

That’s why it’s no surprise that the student group DECA Ryerson took home gold at the 2009 DECA U International Career Development Conference, a networking and competition event for business students.

On Canadian soil, the Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Ryerson group won seven awards at the 2009 Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) National Competition, where teams develop economic and learning opportunities for chosen target audiences in their community.

Forty teams participated from universities across Canada. The SIFE Ryerson team took several top spots at the competition, winning first place in the HSBC SIFE Financial Education Challenge, second place in the TD SIFE Entrepreneurship Challenge, second in the Walmart SIFE for the Greener Good Challenge and second in the overall competition.