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Mobile cinemas appeared in China in the 1950s as a means for the government to educate people and spread communist messages to the countryside. The…
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For a long time, Janelle Joseph didn’t consider becoming a professor because she didn't see many racialized people who were faculty members…
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The University of Toronto’s Governing Council recently approved a proposal for academic restructuring that closes the Faculty of Forestry and has…
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Female survivors of childhood cancers who have been treated with thoracic radiation, such as survivors of Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL), have a higher risk…
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For more than a billion people around the world, running water comes from “intermittent” systems that turn on and off at various times of the…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have found a consistent cholesterol-lowering effect for soy protein after studying pooled data from dozens of…
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Trans people do not have access to adequate and inclusive medical care. Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men face discriminatory…
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University of Toronto President Meric Gertler is in Paris this week to attend the inaugural summit of the U7 Alliance, a unique international…
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Researchers from the University of Toronto have demonstrated a novel and non-invasive way to manipulate cells through microrobotics. One method of…
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Andrew Fraser did not set out to study parasites, but when his team stumbled on an intriguing finding he could not look away. Fraser’s team at the…
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Indigenous Peoples speak more than 4,000 of the world’s estimated 6,700 languages, but language scholars predict at least half – likely more – of…
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Christine Allen, a world-renowned researcher in nanomedicine and image-guided drug delivery, has been appointed the University of Toronto’s first-ever…