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Germanic Languages and Literatures

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 sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District II.

Our Faculty & Staff, Awards, Alumni

Ovarian cancer study proves drug delays disease progression

January 2, 2012

Treating ovarian cancer with the drug bevacizumab (“Avastin”) delays the disease and may also improve survival, according to an international clinical trial co-led by Drs.

Breaking Research Top Stories, Research, Medicine, Health, Cancer

Pre-surgery exam rates vary widely among hospitals

December 20, 2011

Hospitals vary greatly in the number of patients who see an internal medicine specialist before major non-cardiac surgery, with rates ranging from five per cent of patients to 90 per cent, new research from the University of Toronto

Breaking Research Research, Medicine, Health, Top Stories

Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots

December 20, 2011

Women who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart disease, new research from the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital has found.

Breaking Research Top Stories, Research, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Health, Cancer

Saving lives, one death at a time

December 19, 2011

In their quest to track health patterns across populations, epidemiologists often call themselves “disease detectives.” Not the University of Toronto's Dr. Prabhat Jha.

Breaking Research Research, Features, Medicine, Health

A new home for Santa Claus?

December 15, 2011

After the many years of commuting on Christmas Eve, jolly old St. Nicholas is reconsidering his home at the North Pole. Given his job description, extreme isolation has lost its appeal.

Breaking Research Research, Features, Rotman

U of Toronto experiment named top breakthrough of 2011 by Physics World

December 15, 2011

Professor Aephraim Steinberg and colleagues at the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control at the University of Toronto had the top physics breakthrough of the year according to Physics World m

Breaking Research Top Stories, Research, Physics, Faculty of Arts & Science

Scanning the Arctic skies

December 15, 2011

Researchers from the University of Toronto's Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics are taking the search for other worlds to a new frontier: the Canadian Arctic.

Breaking Research Research, Astronomy, Faculty of Arts & Science, Top Stories

U of T faculty honoured by American Association for the Advancement of Science

December 13, 2011

Ten University of Toronto researchers have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest science society and publisher of the prestigious journal, Science.

Breaking Research Top Stories, Research, Medicine, Engineering, Awards, Faculty of Arts & Science

World science community abuzz as latest Higgs boson results announced

December 13, 2011

The international team of researchers that has been smashing high-energy protons together inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to re-create the conditions at the time of the Big Bang announced new evidence today pointing to an observation of... Breaking Research Top Stories, Research, Physics, Faculty of Arts & Science

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