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Photo of Sali Tagliamonte
July 22, 2019

As expressions go, “gosh” seems tame enough. But when Sali Tagliamonte was a teenager in summer camp, uttering even a more polite version of the…

Photo of Karina Vernon
July 22, 2019

At the age of 11, Karina Vernon found herself in Olds, Alta. She had been born in Honduras, but moved with her parents and sister to Calgary. When…

Photo of protest using coal
July 19, 2019

They weren’t getting it. I had a room full of bright first-year university students in front of me, but confusion reigned as I tried to describe…

photo of boy looking at lunar samples
July 19, 2019

For at least one day in Grade 2, Susan Strangway was unquestionably the most popular girl in school.  Her dad, David Strangway, was…

Mladan Vranic during his honorary degree ceremony
July 19, 2019

University of Toronto is home to titans of diabetes research – and Mladen Vranic was among them. Vranic died at the age of 89 on June 18 and is…

Photo of Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit
July 18, 2019

On July 21, 1969, people around the world crowded around their televisions to witness history in the making: astronaut Neil Armstrong taking his…

Photo of front campus
July 18, 2019

The University of Toronto is increasingly regarded as one of the world’s leading academic institutions. The 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World…

Gillian Kolla, PhD candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health
July 18, 2019

A young woman with blonde hair and a nose ring peers curiously at the camera. A middle-aged man with grey hair leans against a tree. A young man…

Photo of Chidozie Ojobar
July 18, 2019

Growing up in Nigeria, one of Chidozie Ojobor’s most visceral memories was the death of his older sister, Ginika, who died of typhoid fever in…

Photo of Jingshao Yao and Louie Xia
July 17, 2019

Louie Xia first started translating Chinese text into English as a hobby in Grade 8. He would translate all sorts of things – news articles…