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Photo of Erin Shields
January 3, 2018

University of Toronto alumna Erin Shields, an award-winning playwright, will see her adaptation of Paradise Lost première at the Stratford…

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January 3, 2018

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has described the first known hybrid bird species to be found in the Amazon…

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December 20, 2017

Historian Natalie Zemon Davis has long been a nonconformist. In the 1950s, when it was fashionable to study the ideas or great figures of…

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December 20, 2017

Setsuko Thurlow survived the attack on Hiroshima in 1945. Thurlow, who married a Canadian, moved to Toronto in the 1950s and obtained a…

Anil Purandaré and Lise Watson from OSIA
December 20, 2017

It was an inspiring lecture that prompted Lise Watson to start a group at University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in…

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December 20, 2017

We’ve all been there. The holiday reading is done, the leftover feast is ready for the compost and the scale is showing a new, higher, number. Regret…

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December 19, 2017

Young scientists in Canada are facing serious obstacles when it comes to funding, writes Mark Lautens, University Professor in U of T's…

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December 19, 2017

Depression is prevalent in older people and is often a greater challenge to treat, says Dr. Alastair Flint, a professor in the University of…

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December 19, 2017

Want to start the New Year a better, healthier you? You don't need to make dramatic changes, says Professor Greg Wells from the University of…

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December 19, 2017

A group of architecture students at the University of Toronto tapped into their creativity, planning and design skills to reimagine new ways…