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Within the pages of the 1945 edition of Torontonensis, the bygone yearbook of the University of Toronto, is an entry attributed to graduating student…
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Famous for its ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity, Toronto is an ideal location for examining if, how and why languages change across…
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Two recently approved leukemia drugs could be enlisted against treatment-resistant lung cancer, with a clinical trial for one of them expected to…
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Almost one year ago, Dr. Allan Detsky welcomed a visitor in his office at Mount Sinai Hospital: a first-year medical student who was…
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If you unlock your smartphone with facial recognition or your fingerprint, you’re using biometrics. In the past few years, biometric data –…
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Software that grew out of a University of Toronto research project facilitated what’s being described as a “critical breakthrough” in the search…
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In honour of Black History Month, the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is celebrating the many Black members of its community who…
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Sometimes religion doesn’t catch up to current circumstances as fast as it should. That’s according to Tanhum Yoreh, a scholar of religion and…
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In an effort to improve the experience of prospective students, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Dentistry is taking steps to make its…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that a receptor expression-enhancing protein contributes to normal heart development and function…
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As a first-year student, Daniella Dziamba’s interest in Indigenous studies was piqued during Democracy, Dictatorship, War and Peace, an…
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One of the earliest climate model predictions of how human-made climate change would affect our planet showed that the Arctic would warm about two to…