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Shannon Simpson, currently the director of First Nations House and Indigenous Student Services, is taking on a new leadership role at the University…
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A group of University of Toronto students from two very different disciplines have teamed up to uncover secrets behind a museum collection that spans…
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Despite the fact that vision care coverage is offered in Ontario to individuals under the age of 20, only 14 per cent of children under the age of six…
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Many of Toronto’s century-old industrial buildings have been converted into stylish – and expensive – residential lofts. The Candy Factory Lofts…
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In its most severe sanctions yet, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has voted to ban Russia from international sport for four years. As a result,…
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Anthropologist Madeleine Mant takes the concept of school dress codes to an entirely new level. Over the past semester, the University of…
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Sharla Alegria is working on work. “I care an awful lot about work in general,” says the sociologist who joined the University of Toronto’s…
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Eight University of Toronto artificial intelligence researchers – four of whom are women – have been named CIFAR AI Chairs, a recognition of…
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EcoPackers Inc., a social enterprise co-founded by University of Toronto alumna Nuha Siddiqui, has raised $4.3 million in pre-seed and seed…
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Federal innovation, science and industry minister Navdeep Bains congratulated the University of Toronto’s Medicine by Design community on its…
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If a bone breaks or a tendon snaps, you know to seek treatment immediately. But your most fragile and precious cellular commodity, chromosomal DNA,…
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A giant spotlight illuminated the sky above King’s College Circle Friday evening as the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science…