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January 12, 2012

Move over, Wikipedia, U of T’s Senior College is creating an online University of Toronto encyclopedia. The college, a group of retired…

January 11, 2012

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…

January 11, 2012

A passion for humanitarian work recently prompted a pair of University of Toronto undergraduate  students to investigate the plight of child…

January 10, 2012

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…

January 10, 2012

Research excellence in projects as varied as plastic solar cells, “extreme” astronomical devices to detect earth-like planets outside our…

January 10, 2012

Celtic Studies and history professor David Wilson’s recent book tour in support of his two-volume biography of Irish-Canadian politician Thomas…

January 10, 2012

Everywhere you turn of late, it seems you’re confronted with a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer. We asked Professor James Scott whether…

January 9, 2012

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…

January 4, 2012

Celebrated writer and former U of T English and film professor Josef Skvorecky, who used a fictionalized Erindale College (now U of T Mississauga)…

January 4, 2012

When hockey players are knocked out on the ice, medical personnel often look to computerized cognition tests to determine when concussed athletes can…

January 3, 2012

Three University of Toronto faculty members, nine alumni and two additional U of T benefactors have been honoured with  year-end Order of…

January 2, 2012

Four University of Toronto projects have the golden touch and six others are worthy of acclaim, say judges in the Accolades Awards competition…