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Photo of Helen Rosenthal
January 5, 2018

Helen Stephanie Rosenthal was a skilled teacher whose mathematical acumen and commitment to equality and social justice led her to become an active…

Student walking across front campus
January 4, 2018

The winter deep freeze is upon us. Environment Canada issued an extreme cold weather warning for Toronto on Thursday. Temperatures will fall…

Photo of Joseph Orozco
January 4, 2018

The mythology of the successful tech startup usually involves a novel idea, a brilliant dropout and a grubby garage.  But Joseph…

Photo of Erin Shields
January 3, 2018

University of Toronto alumna Erin Shields, an award-winning playwright, will see her adaptation of Paradise Lost première at the Stratford…

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January 3, 2018

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has described the first known hybrid bird species to be found in the Amazon…

Photo of Natalie Zemon Davis
December 20, 2017

Historian Natalie Zemon Davis has long been a nonconformist. In the 1950s, when it was fashionable to study the ideas or great figures of…

Photo of Setsuko Thurlow
December 20, 2017

Setsuko Thurlow survived the attack on Hiroshima in 1945. Thurlow, who married a Canadian, moved to Toronto in the 1950s and obtained a…

Anil Purandaré and Lise Watson from OSIA
December 20, 2017

It was an inspiring lecture that prompted Lise Watson to start a group at University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in…

Photo of person relaxing
December 20, 2017

We’ve all been there. The holiday reading is done, the leftover feast is ready for the compost and the scale is showing a new, higher, number. Regret…