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In the movie The Intern, a 70-year-old played by Robert De Niro decides to make a career change and lands an internship at an online fashion startup…
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The University of Toronto’s division of research and innovation will take important steps to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in research…
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Leila Keshavjee sometimes feels like the odd woman out among tech-minded University of Toronto entrepreneurs – she makes ice pops – but that…
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There are almost 13,000 detained migrant children in the United States, according to several recent news reports. This number has increased six-fold…
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Serena Williams did something that even President Barack Obama could not do. She got angry and showed it. At the recent U.S. Open Tennis…
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The University of Toronto is making it easier for students to see the world – and learn from it. The university is increasing the…
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A multidisciplinary team of students from the University of Toronto and a student from the University of Waterloo have been awarded $10,000 from Royal…
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As holder of the new Reid Hoffman Chair at the Faculty of Information, Brian Cantwell Smith thinks, writes and speaks about the nature of artificial…
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Reid Hoffman has made a gift of $2.45 million to the University of Toronto’s iSchool to establish a chair to study how the new era of artificial…
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Hola. Merhaba. Kamusta. There are many different ways to greet this year's Pearson Scholars, who come to the University of Toronto from 24…
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Allen Lau, the co-founder and CEO of story-sharing platform Wattpad, has advice for budding Toronto entrepreneurs hoping to build a…
A University of Toronto researcher who studies how cells communicate with each other and how that interaction goes awry in cancer and other…