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September 18, 2019

Automated external defibrillators can restart a stopped heart, but they only work if they are available where and when they are needed. A new study…

Post-doctoral researcher Johannes Hoelzemann (left) and Yoram Halevy, director of TEEL and a professor in the Department of Economics
September 18, 2019

To understand how people behave in games or markets, economists build mathematical models that aim to explain or predict choices and outcomes. For…

Portrait of Freda Miller in a lab at the Hosptial for Sick Children
September 17, 2019

A new elementary school being built in southwest Calgary has been named after Freda Miller, a University of Toronto professor and senior…

September 17, 2019

Professor Graham Collingridge, a world-renowned expert in learning and memory, has taken over as the new director of the Tanz Centre…

Bianca Andreescu and Varsity Blues track and field coach Terry Radchenko
September 17, 2019

Bianca Andreescu made history earlier this month when she became the first Canadian to win the U.S. Open women’s singles championship. On the way…

Snapping turtle in a canoe in Algonquin Park
September 16, 2019

While thousands of visitors to Algonquin Provincial Park were canoeing and camping this summer, a small band of third-year University of…

Portrait of Choon Chin Liew
September 16, 2019

Choong Chin Liew was a visionary research scientist whose work on cardiovascular genetics is still paving the way for early detection of a wide…

Hubble Space Telescope image
September 16, 2019

There are about the same number of professional astronomers in Canada as there are active Canadian hockey players in the NHL. Hockey players get a lot…

Photo of Daniel Drucker
September 13, 2019

Today, many researchers view gut hormones as building blocks for developing new therapies to confront the obesity and diabetes epidemics sweeping the…