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When Dalia Hashim was in her second year of university, she had an encounter she can’t forget. Walking down St. George Street,…
Alumna Vivienne Sze, who graduated in 2004 in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto, was part of a team that was awarded an Emmy at the…
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Illan Kramer, the University of Toronto’s director of international research partnerships, remembers what it was like to do his PhD in engineering at…
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When Michael White saw that the University of Toronto, his alma mater, was becoming actively engaged in the work of reconciliation through…
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Toronto is fast becoming a world leader in innovation and an example of thriving multiculturalism, but with growing prosperity comes a widening…
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When the Taliban took over Kabul, they forbade girls from going to school. There would be serious consequences for disobedience, but that didn't…
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Less than a week before COP23 – the UN's climate summit in Bonn, Germany – the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs is…
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Former Ontario premier and interim leader of the federal Liberal party Bob Rae is travelling to Myanmar and Bangladesh this week to…
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Six researchers at the University of Toronto with expertise in areas such as machine learning, medicine, engineering and statistics are joining the…
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Bailey Bernknopf was born with four congenital heart defects. She had her first surgery at five months old, followed by another at age 14 that had…
It’s that time of year again, when the days become shorter – especially after the clocks get turned back early Sunday morning – and people begin to…
Carved pumpkins, flickering candles with spooky shadows and children dressed up in their Halloween finery will soon be at our doorsteps. And while…