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![Photo of Geoffrey Hinton](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/2019-09-20-hinton.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=DCJWEZj9)
Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute for Artificial…
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From the science of gym workouts to Indigenous arts and hacker culture, a crop of new courses are being offered this year at the University of Toronto…
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They are 36 future leaders, newly arrived international students who represent 27 countries from around the world. And on Tuesday at Hart House,…
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Big changes are being proposed for the heart of the University of Toronto’s St. George campus. The campus’s historic core, set in the middle of…
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Through research and education, as well as a growing number of sustainability initiatives, the University of Toronto is committed to playing a…
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It may be located far from Ontario's northern forests, but the 14-storey, engineered wood-framed tower proposed for the University of Toronto’s St.…
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Automated external defibrillators can restart a stopped heart, but they only work if they are available where and when they are needed. A new study…
![Post-doctoral researcher Johannes Hoelzemann (left) and Yoram Halevy, director of TEEL and a professor in the Department of Economics](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/expeimental%20economics_1993-crop.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=k0E4zUxH)
To understand how people behave in games or markets, economists build mathematical models that aim to explain or predict choices and outcomes. For…
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A new elementary school being built in southwest Calgary has been named after Freda Miller, a University of Toronto professor and senior…
![Clockwise from top left: U of T's Lynne Viola, Fahima Dossa, Dwight Seferos and Anita Anand](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/royal-society-4.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=Hk5R_cQM)
Three University of Toronto faculty members and a PhD student have been honoured with prestigious awards from the Royal Society of Canada, the…
Professor Graham Collingridge, a world-renowned expert in learning and memory, has taken over as the new director of the Tanz Centre…
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Bianca Andreescu made history earlier this month when she became the first Canadian to win the U.S. Open women’s singles championship. On the way…