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It started with a letter left by a serial killer. University of Toronto Professor Marcel Danesi was given the letter by a former student who…
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Astronomers have released an image of a vast filament of star-forming gas, 1,200 light-years away, in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula. The…
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Handling the demands of medical school this fall should be no problem for Andres Felipe Fajardo – he knows a thing or two about handling a busy…
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Axel Villamil is the first to admit he sometimes struggled with his double major in computer science and media studies. But, in fairness, the…
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When he was 14 years old, Joan Miguel Romero lost his father to pancreatic cancer. That led him to want to study the pathobiology of disease and…
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Yemeni activist Amal Basha has been fighting for human rights and gender equality in the Middle East for more than 25 years. Today, Basha will…
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As a teen, Jennifer Sylvester was told by school counsellors that she wasn’t cut out for university. Now as she prepares to graduate from U of…
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The University of Toronto again ranks among the best global universities when it comes to reputation, according to the Times Higher Education’s…
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Class of 2017: look up. For the first time ever, the University of Toronto is using drones to capture photos and video of new graduates in…
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This summer, postdoctoral researcher Lukas Kohl and undergraduate student Cynthia Jing will be vacuuming strangers’ homes in northern…