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Photo of hands bandaged in fighting ready stance with wrist-mounted sensor
August 8, 2016

The Canadian and American Olympic boxing teams competing in Rio de Janeiro may just have the upper hand – thanks to a wearable technology…

photo of Christine Sinclair
August 5, 2016

The excitement started even before the opening ceremonies – with a 2-0 victory by the Canadian women’s soccer team over Australia on the…

August 5, 2016

Mapping the City is an ongoing series on the stories we can tell about people and places in Toronto through maps created by University of Toronto…

Photo of performance Mankind at Durham Town Square
August 5, 2016

“As brilliant as Shakespeare is, he’s not a genre. I think what happens is that people like a version of the past that they feel they can get a handle…

artist's rendering of the park
August 5, 2016

A proposed 21-acre downtown Toronto park is being touted as a bold project that will help redefine the city. But will it? The Rail Deck Park would…

August 5, 2016

For more than 40 years, an international group of researchers based in the Department of French at the University of Toronto has been reading…

photo of professor and students in South Africa
August 4, 2016

This summer, travelling through South Africa with the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, Kim Skead drove past an informal…

photo of Hampson sitting on rings
August 4, 2016

As the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Brazil kicks off this week, U of T's Dinah Hampson will be there with Team Canada as part of their Health…

photo of Jennie and Sara in the fort
August 3, 2016

It’s not every day you get to hang out in a blanket fort. And this is not just any blanket fort. It's a sprawling, impressively constructed…

Statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooks Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium
August 2, 2016

There is no getting around it – the uncertain conditions, environmental challenges, reports of local corruption and even threats of violence,…

Liam Kaufman speaking at the AGE-WELL competition
August 2, 2016

An Alzheimer-detection technology developed by U of T startup company Winterlight Labs has won the AGE-WELL Pitch Competition: Technology to Support…