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In 2012, a 60-year-old man with flu-like symptoms died in Saudi Arabia, becoming the first victim of the Middle East Respiratory…
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The University of Toronto's Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education is bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines…
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Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella, alumna of University College and U of T's Faculty of Law, denounced “narcissistic populism” during a…
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Humans and chimpanzees split from their last common ancestor several hundred thousand years earlier than believed – and this occurred in Europe, not…
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U of T's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering hosted more than 1,200 Ontario students in Grades 4 to 8 on Friday for Go North, a day…
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The federal government this week released details of a new national carbon tax. The proposal calls for all provinces to put a price…
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In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes became the first to observe superconductivity, discovering that mercury offers…
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Professor Meric Gertler has been appointed to a second term as president of the University of Toronto, the chair of U of T’s Governing Council…
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For students working on a myriad of academic journals available at U of T, it's a chance to pick up editing skills that ultimately…
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The University of Toronto's Michael Bliss, “one of Canada’s most prominent public intellectuals” and a University Professor Emeritus, died…
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The University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab, or CDL, seeks to scale science-based startups into giant, market-dominating…
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University of Toronto alumni are a pretty passionate and outspoken group of people – just ask Shiri M. Breznitz, who is currently leading the…