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![Moderator André Picard with panellists Tania Di Renna, Judith Hunter, Andrea Furlan and Abhimanyu Sud](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/2019-05-06-UofTMedTalks_Pain%20Panelists-resized.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=DCG-Kxau)
Tania Di Renna is dressed as a firefighter to drive home the analogy she is making about chronic pain. “There’s no more fire, but her alarm…
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Warm spring weather means the cherry blossoms outside of Robarts Library at the University of Toronto are finally blooming. The 70 Japanese cherry…
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The University of Toronto’s Barbara Sherwood Lollar has received the prestigious Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal – the country’s top prize for…
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Two faculty members in the University of Toronto's department of chemistry have been awarded national prizes by the Natural Sciences and…
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Caster Semenya, the South African 800-metre Olympic and world champion, recently lost her landmark legal case against the International…
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Affordability has become a primary concern for Toronto residents – from the rising value of homes to soaring rents. But in conversations about…
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Faculty, librarians and staff collectively brought more than 450 kids to the University of Toronto’s 26th annual Bring Our Children to Work Day on…
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Funding to hire Indigenous faculty and staff. A new Indigenous Mentoring Day to help job-seekers learn about working at the university. A new Office…
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Researchers from the University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Hospital, Cancer Care Ontario and Queen's University have received a five-year, $1.5 million…
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University of Toronto evolutionary biologist Luke Mahler received an unusual wake-up call on Feb. 22: tremors from a 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook…
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After examining data gathered in a first-of-its-kind provincial study, University of Toronto clinician-scientist Marco Magalhaes has a vital…
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Chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes take a massive toll on Canadians, both on our health and on our health-care system. Since obesity and…