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Mladan Vranic during his honorary degree ceremony
July 19, 2019

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…

Photo of Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit
July 18, 2019

On July 21, 1969, people around the world crowded around their televisions to witness history in the making: astronaut Neil Armstrong taking his…

Photo of front campus
July 18, 2019

The University of Toronto is increasingly regarded as one of the world’s leading academic institutions. The 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World…

Gillian Kolla, PhD candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health
July 18, 2019

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…

Photo of Chidozie Ojobar
July 18, 2019

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…

Photo of Jingshao Yao and Louie Xia
July 17, 2019

Louie Xia first started translating Chinese text into English as a hobby in Grade 8. He would translate all sorts of things – news articles…

Photo of mansplaining
July 17, 2019

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,”…

Photo of Anna Shternshis
July 17, 2019

Yiddish songs written by Soviet Jews during the Second World War that were discovered in Ukraine by a University of Toronto professor have been…

Photo of a copy of Der Eigene with a piece of the inscription missing
July 16, 2019

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…

Wechat logo on a phone screen
July 16, 2019

Research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab outlines how Chinese social media app WeChat is using cutting-edge technology to censor…