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The primary focus of the class might not be Twilight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The Vampire Diaries, but the resurging popularity of vampires has…
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A passion for humanitarian work recently prompted a pair of University of Toronto undergraduate students to investigate the plight of child…
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Ever since the water supply in Walkerton, Ont., was contaminated by E. coli in 2000, Professor Philip Marsden has been trying to figure out just how a…
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Research excellence in projects as varied as plastic solar cells, “extreme” astronomical devices to detect earth-like planets outside our…
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Celtic Studies and history professor David Wilson’s recent book tour in support of his two-volume biography of Irish-Canadian politician Thomas…
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Everywhere you turn of late, it seems you’re confronted with a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer. We asked Professor James Scott whether…
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This glass bottle, known as a Crookes tube, is actually a distant ancestor of the television. Purchased by the University of Toronto early in the 20th…
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Celebrated writer and former U of T English and film professor Josef Skvorecky, who used a fictionalized Erindale College (now U of T Mississauga)…
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When hockey players are knocked out on the ice, medical personnel often look to computerized cognition tests to determine when concussed athletes can…
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Three University of Toronto faculty members, nine alumni and two additional U of T benefactors have been honoured with year-end Order of…
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Four University of Toronto projects have the golden touch and six others are worthy of acclaim, say judges in the Accolades Awards competition…
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Treating ovarian cancer with the drug bevacizumab (“Avastin”) delays the disease and may also improve survival, according to an…