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It’s rare for an announcement about the construction of a new academic building to elicit tweets about being “giddy with excitement,” but that’s…
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Cities around the world are looking for smart solutions to urban problems and are embracing technology to help them do so. At the same time, the…
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Yong-Baek Kim, a theoretical physicist at the University of Toronto, has been awarded a prestigious Killam Research Fellowship from the…
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Alumna Inmar Givoni, an autonomy engineering manager for Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group in Toronto, says computer science is a field that grew on…
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The University of Toronto’s aUToronto team has come out on top at the first competition of the three-year AutoDrive Challenge. The competition,…
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University of Toronto researchers have started to look for ways to leverage the School of Cities to connect with colleagues across the university…
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Researcher Geoff Ozin and the Solar Fuels Team at the University of Toronto have been awarded close to $1 million from the Low Carbon Innovation…
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Further boosting grant funding of basic scientific research, as recommended by Canada’s Fundamental Science Review, would allow younger scientists to…
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The University of Toronto is known as one of the world's best public universities and the top-ranked in Canada. Its success is due to…
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The University of Toronto is set to build a 14-storey academic tower made of timber on its downtown Toronto campus – expected to be the tallest mass…
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The police officer who carried out a no-force arrest of the man accused of killing 10 people, including a University of Toronto student, in the North…
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It’s one thing to know something anecdotally, quite another to have the hard data to back it up. Now, thanks to its first-ever Alumni Impact…