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University of Toronto is home to titans of diabetes research – and Mladen Vranic was among them. Vranic died at the age of 89 on June 18 and is…
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On July 21, 1969, people around the world crowded around their televisions to witness history in the making: astronaut Neil Armstrong taking his…
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The University of Toronto is increasingly regarded as one of the world’s leading academic institutions. The 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World…
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A young woman with blonde hair and a nose ring peers curiously at the camera. A middle-aged man with grey hair leans against a tree. A young man…
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Growing up in Nigeria, one of Chidozie Ojobor’s most visceral memories was the death of his older sister, Ginika, who died of typhoid fever in…
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Louie Xia first started translating Chinese text into English as a hobby in Grade 8. He would translate all sorts of things – news articles…
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People who develop rheumatoid arthritis as older adults benefit from early and sustained use of a drug called Methotrexate (MTX), a recent study led…
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In 2008, author Rebecca Solnit’s now famous essay, Men Explain Things to Me, set off a firestorm. Though Solnit didn’t use the term “mansplaining,”…
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Yiddish songs written by Soviet Jews during the Second World War that were discovered in Ukraine by a University of Toronto professor have been…
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Through her research, Danielle Lee knew that sugar was a cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but still found the relationship perplexing…
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One of the opening pages of a 1924 edition of Der Eigene, said to be the world’s first gay magazine, is missing a piece. The carefully cut-out…
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Research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab outlines how Chinese social media app WeChat is using cutting-edge technology to censor…