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If enough people have immunity to a disease, they can act as shields between those who are infectious and those who are still susceptible – a concept…
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The rowing clubs at the University of Toronto and McGill University were supposed to re-launch the annual Toronto-McGill Boat Race on May 3…
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If there’s one piece of advice that career development professional Jen Davies has for University of Toronto students given the current economic…
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With the help of colleagues at Harvard University and Brown University, Michael Stepner, an economist who is joining the University of…
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Azadeh Barzideh had spent months recruiting participants for her PhD research on reactive balance training in people with chronic stroke…
The University of Toronto’s playing fields, halls and classrooms may be silent, but the U of T community remains “deeply engaged” in…
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It’s not unusual to feel alone in an age of social distancing, but the sense of isolation can be especially acute for university students who are…
Did you know that 17th century plague doctors wore scary bird-like masks? Why would they do that? In episode one of 3Qs at the…
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Donna Ruffo typically works as a nurse practitioner on the geriatric medicine outreach team at North York General Hospital. An alumna of the…
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Fear that so-called murder hornets are invading North America after the large, deadly predators were spotted on the West Coast are “overblown,” says…
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The highly infectious nature of the novel coronavirus has presented doctors with a difficult dilemma: how to treat those who may have COVID-19 while…
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University of Toronto researchers have found the first hard evidence that hot weather doesn’t help in the fight against COVID-19 – but that closing…