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A surgeon at the controls of the robot conducting the procedure
November 7, 2019

Two University of Toronto researchers are at the centre of the world’s first robot-assisted brain surgery, testing a system that could allow them to…

A painting showing what Danuvius Guggenmosi would have looked like
November 7, 2019

Our upright posture may have originated in a common ancestor of humans and great apes who lived in Europe – and not in Africa, as previously thought.…

Nick Nurse and Elliotte Friedman on stage
November 7, 2019

Nick Nurse, head coach of the Toronto Raptors, slipped the team’s diamond-encrusted championship ring off his finger and passed it around a…

Portrait of Christian Cordero
November 7, 2019

Christian Cordero, who graduates this week with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Toronto Scarborough, is…

Portrait of Julie Blair
November 7, 2019

When Julie Blair returned to school in 2013 as a mature student after nearly 20 years, she had no idea what a profound journey she had started. As…

students resting in the New Circadia exhibition
November 6, 2019

Most art and design exhibitions demand rapt attention from visitors. Nobody would visit a gallery expecting to lay back and let their mind wander in a…

Portrait of Kevin White sitting in front of a bookcase
November 6, 2019

Kevin White was a short-order cook, a state park landscaper, an infantryman in the United States Army and a college dropout before becoming a…

Woman holding a small child at a grocery store
November 6, 2019

The rate of severe food insecurity dropped by one-third among low-income families after the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) in 2016,…

November 5, 2019

When he came to the University of Toronto to study biomedical communications, Alexander Young says he had a foot in two worlds. He became part…

Portrait of Mikhail Burke
November 5, 2019

Mikhail Burke keeps his office door open. As the inclusion and transition adviser at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science…

Potrait of Mark Lautens leaning on a table with plants in the background
November 5, 2019

In his most recent op-ed for the Globe and Mail, the University of Toronto’s Mark Lautens asks: Why was science largely absent from the…