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It used to be that women were given pap tests every year to screen for cervical cancer, but those tests also provided an annual opportunity for…
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It’s a 20-hour journey from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Toronto – the longest trip Moksha Antani has ever taken, but also the most…
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The familiar names are all still on the annual influential ranking of the world’s best universities by Times Higher Education (THE). But the editors…
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Thousands of first-year students started a new chapter in their lives by moving into their dorms on the St. George campus on the…
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Negotiators for the University of Toronto and the United Steelworkers have arrived at a new tentative agreement. “I am pleased to announce that a…
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Two years ago, Rachel Tian arrived in Canada from Beijing to start her first year at University of Toronto studying statistical science and…
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We know you’ve just arrived here, but consider this your bucket list: the things you should try at least once while you’re a University of Toronto…
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Patty Hajdu, Canada's minister of employment, workforce development and labour, announced this week that the federal government will create…
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Between the first-day jitters, the weight of all of those textbooks and the seemingly impossible sprint from one lecture to the next, the start…
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Starting at a new school can be overwhelming. From finding classrooms to buying textbooks, there’s a lot to think about. As you’re heading back to…
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In an undergraduate class at another Canadian university, Glenn Tiller was briefly introduced to the philosophy of a relatively obscure…
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Geoffrey Hinton may feel a bit sheepish about his “godfather” of deep learning moniker, but there’s little doubt the University Professor Emeritus at…