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January 10, 2012

Celtic Studies and history professor David Wilson’s recent book tour in support of his two-volume biography of Irish-Canadian politician Thomas…

January 10, 2012

Everywhere you turn of late, it seems you’re confronted with a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer. We asked Professor James Scott whether…

January 9, 2012

This glass bottle, known as a Crookes tube, is actually a distant ancestor of the television. Purchased by the University of Toronto early in the 20th…

January 4, 2012

Celebrated writer and former U of T English and film professor Josef Skvorecky, who used a fictionalized Erindale College (now U of T Mississauga)…

January 4, 2012

When hockey players are knocked out on the ice, medical personnel often look to computerized cognition tests to determine when concussed athletes can…

January 3, 2012

Three University of Toronto faculty members, nine alumni and two additional U of T benefactors have been honoured with  year-end Order of…

January 2, 2012

Four University of Toronto projects have the golden touch and six others are worthy of acclaim, say judges in the Accolades Awards competition…

January 2, 2012

Treating ovarian cancer with the drug bevacizumab (“Avastin”) delays the disease and may also improve survival, according to an…

December 20, 2011

Hospitals vary greatly in the number of patients who see an internal medicine specialist before major non-cardiac surgery, with rates ranging from…

December 20, 2011

Women who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart disease, new research from the University of Toronto and St.…

December 19, 2011

In their quest to track health patterns across populations, epidemiologists often call themselves “disease detectives.” Not the University…

December 15, 2011

After the many years of commuting on Christmas Eve, jolly old St. Nicholas is reconsidering his home at the North Pole. Given his job description,…