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Shine a regular flashlight at thick fog and you won’t see much more than a grey blur. Yet that reflected light still contains useful information –…
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Grito in Spanish can mean “to cry.” For example, the cries of despair of María del Pilar Hurtado’s son in a video that circulated throughout the…
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In September of 1901, 19-year-old Elizabeth Bagshaw came to the University of Toronto to register for studies in medicine. She had just arrived in the…
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There are internships. And then there are internships like the one Georges Kanaan was accepted into at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…
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Ibadism is a theological sect within Islam that stands alongside the more widely practiced Shi’a and Sunni traditions. But it isn’t nearly as well…
When paleontologist David Evans and his team discovered a triceratops skull in the fossil-rich Hell Creek Formation, the Globe and Mail was right…
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As the first in her family to attend college or university, Gwen Benaway struggled with feeling a sense of belonging in higher education. “I didn't…
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With millions of users for her Facebook frames and Instagram filter designs, University of Toronto alumna Lianne Tokey has earned her place…
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“I’m bored” is a statement many parents dread hearing during the summer holidays. Should parents scramble to fill the unstructured time of summer…
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A virus hits Toronto just as the Raptors clinch the NBA championship and crowds pour into the streets. For 11 high school students, this was…
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The University of Toronto Mississauga is forging a robotics research and teaching cluster that – as part of U of T’s new university-wide Robotics…
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Robert Gerlai recalls attending, at the age of six, a Christmas party at his father’s law firm in Hungary. Someone poured champagne – a lot of it –…