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![Portrait of sisters Erika and Stephanie Savage who won Arbor Awards this year](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_750x500/public/3_0.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=mpleiUc5)
When sisters Erika and Stephanie Savage learned they were among this year’s Arbor Awards recipients, there was no question the University of Toronto…
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Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood, a University of Toronto alumna, has won the 2019 Booker Prize for her dystopian thriller The…
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With its expansive lawn flanked by heritage buildings like Convocation Hall and University College, Front Campus is the historic centrepiece of…
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The original manuscript of The Handmaid’s Tale and other archival materials housed at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library…
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Medicine by Design is strengthening the University of Toronto as a global leader in regenerative medicine with a new investment of as much as $20…
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A novel nanosystem developed by Anil Kishen, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Dentistry, shows promising results in…
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A new initiative led by U of T Mississauga’s Centre for Urban Environments (CUE) will create the first large-scale data collection system to…
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The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is mental health promotion and suicide prevention, with the World Health Organization calling suicide…
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Twenty-five students, faculty, staff and alumni were celebrated for their achievements and leadership recently at the third…
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Patrick Pallagi, a second-year student studying physics at the University of Toronto, has come closer than most to the prestigious Nobel Prize. The…
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To accelerate progress in labs all over the world, quantum mechanic Alán Aspuru-Guzik wants researchers to embrace laboratories that can…
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Evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto are part of a research team that has identified how herbicide-resistant strains of common…