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July 27, 2017

As English Professor Heather Murray began digging into information on some of Toronto’s forgotten arts and literary history, she became…

July 27, 2017

The Globe and Mail interviews writer Douglas Coupland who wrote a 2010 biography on U of T's Marshall McLuhan. Coupland’s book on the…

July 26, 2017

A team of Canadian, U.S. and Japanese scientists are enlisting baker’s yeast in a hunt for better drugs. A new method developed by U of T…

July 26, 2017

Wages and conditions in most of the developed world are often abysmal for care workers, many of them immigrant women of colour from less-developed…

July 26, 2017

Nanoleaf, the startup co-founded by University of Toronto alumni Gimmy Chu, Tom Rodinger, and Christian Yan, brought its latest lighting product,…

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July 26, 2017

A team of U of T engineering students is providing solar-powered street lighting for a low-income neighbourhood in Mexico City. “Because it’s…

July 25, 2017

Even though he grew up in an urban area surrounded by buildings, it wasn't until Omar Yossofzai took part in a study on migratory…

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July 25, 2017

Kylie Masse, the star of U of T’s Varsity Blues women’s swimming team, set a new world record and took the gold in the 100-metre backstroke at the…

Margaret Ikape and telescope
July 25, 2017

Since her childhood in Nigeria, Margaret Ikape has been fascinated by space. She remembers seeing a fireball blaze across the night sky when she…

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July 24, 2017

When U.S. President Donald Trump asserted his “complete power to pardon” on Twitter last week, speculation erupted over whether he planned…

July 24, 2017

Four U of T engineering students are preparing for the flight of a lifetime. They've earned the rare chance to take an experiment they…

July 24, 2017

In the 1990s the large, nationally owned British Railways was split off into dysfunctionally separate entities and sold off to private…