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When Jerry Flores’s students at the University of Toronto Mississauga ask for extra credit, the assignment is simple: Help somebody. Inspired…
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As a young child spending time on her grandparents’ rice farm in the Philippines, Shelley Lumba grew up understanding the benefits of the Green…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-standing issue of burnout among health-care workers – a problem that will be studied in depth by…
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Lighting used in offices and public spaces could potentially be used to destroy coronaviruses and HIV. In a study published this week in…
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University of Toronto students are being given early access to Robarts Common, a five-storey addition to Robarts Library that adds 1,200 study…
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Using their novel organ-on-a-chip platform, a research team from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has…
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A medical illustrator may well be asked to create illustrations of the brain over the course of his or her career – but rarely do the…
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Anyone who’s played the 1980s-era video game Frogger knows that frogs and busy highways don’t mix. As many as a million amphibians, reptiles,…
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For more than two decades, Jia Lin Xie has researched the relationships people have with their jobs. What factors influence work…
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The University of Toronto has reached an agreement to acquire the Knox College properties at 59 and 63 St. George Street in a deal that will bring the…
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The Black Research Network (BRN) at the University of Toronto is “gearing up for the next level,” reports University Affairs. Launched…
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“As we are blown by waves of grief or fires of rage, a global pandemic, climate disaster and social injustice, can we channel our energies into…