Happy holidays from U of T News

The University of Toronto is closed and will re-open January 2, 2017.

In the meantime, why not  revisit some of our favourite memories from 2016?

You can read stories about whether dinosaurs had lips, the U of T astrophysicists who helped discover gravitational waves, the groundbreaking operation that needed 18 U of T surgeons and took five years of planning, Boundless giving, how U of T grads rank among the world's most employable and more.

To make things a little easier for you, we've gathered some of the highlights here:

Students who crushed it in 2016

Above: Atik Bird, Outstanding Indigenous Student of the Year, with Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo and President Meric Gertler (photo by Geoffrey Vendeville)

2016 moments we loved at U of T

Above: students take part in an epic snow battle on the downtown Toronto campus (photo by Johnny Guatto)

And be sure to check out these stories about the trends, ideas and events that U of T experts will be watching for in the coming months:

Toronto in 2017: U of T cities experts on the year ahead

Trump, Syria, climate change and global security: U of T experts offer global look-ahead for 2017