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August 25, 2017

Despite being in labour, Julie Yap couldn’t miss seeing her husband Dan receive his official Canadian citizenship at U of T Scarborough. The…

August 25, 2017

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a seed-stage startup accelerator at the University of Toronto, is doubling down on the nascent field of quantum…

August 25, 2017

When she started medical school, Stephanie Y.  Zhou says she hid her identity to feel included. Unlike most of her fellow students, Zhou grew up…

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August 24, 2017

“When I was a boy I was obsessed with sports.” So begins Dr. Charles Tator’s first-person account for CBC Sports on his love of playing hockey…

August 24, 2017

Around the time Quinn Konopacky started high school, astrophysicists were making history with the discovery of planets orbiting stars outside of our…

August 23, 2017

After centuries of looking with awe and wonder at the beauty of Saturn and its rings, we can now listen to them, thanks to the efforts of…

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August 23, 2017

The federal government says it is planning to implement several key recommendations of an independent panel that examined how university research –…

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August 23, 2017

During a recent conversation with a visitor from Spain, University of Toronto student Kevin Vuong was reminded of what makes Toronto such a great…

Medieval artifact
August 23, 2017

A University of Toronto course is letting students get a real feel for medieval artifacts.  “Getting Medieval,” which will be taught for…

August 23, 2017

Armed with an entrepreneurship fellowship, Rayner Mendes set his sights on China and its fast-growing economy last year – only to discover a…

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August 22, 2017

University of Toronto researchers have discovered that rats who run a great deal in youth have better memories in old age, a finding that could shed…

Eclipse watching at the CNE photo
August 22, 2017

At the Canadian National Exhibition, U of T astronomers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Faculty of Arts &…