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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…
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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.…
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Nick Nurse, head coach of the Toronto Raptors, slipped the team’s diamond-encrusted championship ring off his finger and passed it around a…
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Christian Cordero, who graduates this week with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Toronto Scarborough, is…
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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…
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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…
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Originally from Vancouver, Dede Akolo graduated from the University of Toronto this week with a double major in equity…
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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…
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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,…
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…
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Mikhail Burke keeps his office door open. As the inclusion and transition adviser at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science…
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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…