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As the city considers a ravine strategy plan, University of Toronto forestry professor Sandy Smith and her students are tracking the ecological…
University of Toronto and MIT researchers have discovered important differences between lower-income and higher-income children in their ability to…
"What makes for a really good mystery? It isn’t just an interesting question or sparring with a particularly evil villain. A good…
As tedious as waiting in a government services line-up can be, most people still do it, despite having the option of getting their business done…
A University of Toronto astronomer and his colleague — with the help of Twitter — have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that an enormous…
At least 265 people are dead, nearly 9,000 police officers fired, 6,000 military personnel and 103 generals and admirals arrested, and nearly 3,000…
The neighbourhoods I grew up in were middle class,” says Wisconsin-born University of Toronto sociologist Geoffrey Wodtke. “But growing up in and…
When the world’s top tennis players hit the Olympic courts in Rio this summer, the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Alison Dias will be…
As the director of U of T’s Global Cities Institute, Patricia McCarney is no stranger to invitations to speak at conferences. But the email asking her…
During a trip to Adelaide, Australia in 2015, Jordan Duke witnessed her first wildfire. “We were driving over a hill and I could see a…
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…
An astronaut holds a glass jar half-full of water in the near-zero gravity of space. How does the water look inside the jar? Does it form a single…