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![Toronto taxi driver holds a sign saying "Stop Uber Now"](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/uber.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=2aia4hyo)
Back in March, Shauna Brail was at a geography conference in San Francisco about to present recent findings from her study on Uber and municipal…
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The 2016 Paralympic Games will be taking place September 7 to 18, and Mireille Landry, a physical therapy lecturer and exercise coordinator for…
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Ingo Ensminger, a biologist at University of Toronto Mississauga, is using a drone to help breed better spruce trees. Ensminger and his…
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Two University of Toronto researchers from Munk School of Global Affairs Citizen Lab have uncovered an iPhone-based attack on Ahmed…
![Peter Zandstra stands at the podium in front of a group of researchers at the CFREF funding announcement](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/UofT10655_20150728_CFREFFundingAnnouncement_030.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=YEBvbtsO)
David McMillen and his team are hard at work designing a new custom-designed probiotic to help the 233,000 Canadians living with Crohn’s and…
![Tara Moriarty and student in a lab](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/Moriarty%20Lab_2016-06-20_011.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=LejWqu5t)
They’re small, unassuming – and potentially deadly. And while most bacteria are rendered harmless by the body’s defense mechanisms, to date there has…
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Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming – and quite likely our own eventual extinction – by injecting about 30 billion tonnes of…
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Andrew Westoll has always been fascinated by stories about the natural world. As a child he would escape to the far reaches of the globe through the…
![Ancient text in Avestan script](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/j20260__y_16_10e___y_17_10d_.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=bX6jAcyO)
The University of Toronto will now offer Avestan and Pahlavi language courses in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Near…
![Katerina Mizrokhi and Melissa Vincent sit on a wall in New York City](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/Kate%20and%20Melissa%20final.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=UYVwL646)
It’s not often you meet your best friend on an internship. Katerina Mizrokhi and Melissa Vincent act as though they’ve known each other all of…
![Desmond Wong sitting and smiling](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/2016-08-24-Desmond-Wong_1140-v2.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=a9PTVyaO)
The University of Toronto has hired a new librarian to work one-on-one with Indigenous students and to help grow the university’s Indigenous…
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Earlier this week, Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi pleaded guilty at the International Criminal Court to ordering the destruction of 10 cultural…