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Zarif Ali is betting the University of Toronto – and its culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in particular – can help him get where he wants to…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases have used novel techniques to uncover which subtypes…
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Zarqa Nawaz, a University of Toronto Mississauga alumna who is best known as the creator of the hit CBC series Little Mosque on the Prairie,…
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Molly Shoichet has been named scientific director of the University of Toronto’s PRiME Next-Generation Precision Medicine – an…
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Ela Dai was too nervous to ask questions when she first arrived at the University of Toronto in 2018 – so, her father encouraged her to approach an…
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A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that…
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“Let not the tyranny of the PowerPoint template reign supreme.” This declaration appears on the personal website of Sarah Murray, an…
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Beginning this fall, undergraduate engineering students at the University of Toronto will be able to augment their degree with a new certificate…
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As the world grapples with cross-border challenges such as climate change, pandemic disease, cybercrime and income inequality, it may be tempting to…
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An international team of researchers is using computer science to explore the knowledge foundation of word meaning in both child language development…
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Why do people who take DMT, a powerful psychedelic drug, feel a strong sense of familiarity about places, things or entities that are not a part of…
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Researchers in Canada and the U.K. are warning of a potential snag that could hamper the evolution of artificially intelligent chatbots: their own…