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In its most severe sanctions yet, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has voted to ban Russia from international sport for four years. As a result,…
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Anthropologist Madeleine Mant takes the concept of school dress codes to an entirely new level. Over the past semester, the University of…
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Sharla Alegria is working on work. “I care an awful lot about work in general,” says the sociologist who joined the University of Toronto’s…
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Eight University of Toronto artificial intelligence researchers – four of whom are women – have been named CIFAR AI Chairs, a recognition of…
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EcoPackers Inc., a social enterprise co-founded by University of Toronto alumna Nuha Siddiqui, has raised $4.3 million in pre-seed and seed…
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Federal innovation, science and industry minister Navdeep Bains congratulated the University of Toronto’s Medicine by Design community on its…
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If a bone breaks or a tendon snaps, you know to seek treatment immediately. But your most fragile and precious cellular commodity, chromosomal DNA,…
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A giant spotlight illuminated the sky above King’s College Circle Friday evening as the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science…
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As soon as I entered Elmina Castle (the dungeons) in Cape Coast in Ghana, I felt haunted by over 400 years of brutality and the enslavement and…
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Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is having a good year. The University of Toronto alumna, who graduated from the Faculty of Arts &…
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When you think of social justice, you’re likely thinking about how some people are discriminated against because of their race, gender, sexual…
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While teaching second-graders in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Cassie J. Brownell quickly realized how important it was to create space for…