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Luna Yu, founder and CEO of Genecis, completed her master's degree at U of T Scarborough. Genecis is scaling up operations and looking at developing other materials from food waste (all photos by Don Campbell)

Sep 27, 2018 | Alumni

U of T startup that turns food waste into high-quality bio-plastic eyes next phase of growth

Christopher Dela Cruz and Patrick Atienza’s sound-based exhibit, Long Distance Relationship, will be part of the 2018 Nuit Blanche

Sep 27, 2018 | Alumni

U of T artists connect Scarborough to downtown with sound installation as part of Nuit Blanche

A rendering of the Waterfront Innovation Centre, from the northwest corner looking toward Sugar Beach (courtesy of Menkes)

Sep 26, 2018 | Campus

U of T "plants flag" on Toronto’s new waterfront innovation corridor

A sign reading "Toronto" at Toronto City Hall. (photo by Scott Webb via Unsplash)

Sep 26, 2018 | Campus

"The power of place'" U of T president on why leveraging the University’s location is so important

Autumn leaves on campus. Photo by Laura Pedersen

Sep 26, 2018 | Campus

U of T rises one spot to place 21st in Times Higher Education rankings of world's best universities

Leila Keshavjee (BKin 2016), who landed a $150,000 deal on CBC's Dragons' Den, shows off her ice pops during U of T's clubs day (photo by Chris Sorensen)

Sep 24, 2018 | Alumni

Cool under pressure: U of T Happy Pops startup lands Dragons' Den deal

“It’s mind-boggling how fast the technology has improved,” says University Professor Stephen Scherer (MSc 1991, PhD 1995), referring to sequencing a person's genetic information

Sep 22, 2018 | Research

Gene genies: The alumni who helped Toronto become a global hub for genetic research

Professor Emeritus Ron Venter, chair of the building planning committee, and Dean Cristina Amon during opening remarks for the Myhal Centre open house (photo by Neil Ta)

Sep 20, 2018 | Campus

At U of T Engineering's Myhal Centre open house, an interactive experience

A new study led by Professor Greg Evans shows that trucks and larger vehicles contribute disproportionately to air-pollutant emissions (photo by Nigel Tadyanehondo via Unsplash)

Sep 20, 2018 | Research

Large trucks are biggest culprits of near-road air pollution: U of T study

Allen Lau, a U of T alumnus who co-founded the story-sharing platform Wattpad, says Toronto is an ideal place to launch a global company as long as entrepreneurs take advantage of the city's diversity of cultures and languages (photo by Chris Sorensen)

Sep 19, 2018 | Alumni

Wattpad's secret to success? Think globally and hire locally, co-founder and U of T alumnus says

Jeffrey Wrana is a professor in the department of molecular genetics at U of T and a senior investigator at Sinai Health System’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (photo by Annie Tong/Sinai Health System)

Sep 19, 2018 | Research

U of T researcher recognized with Royal Society’s McLaughlin Medal

U of T remains the highest-ranked Canadian university in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings this year (photo by Geoffrey Vendeville)

Sep 11, 2018 | Campus

U of T jumps three spots to place 12th in world for graduate employability: New ranking

Yasmin Dawood says the position in the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists “is a tremendous honour” that will give her the opportunity to collaborate with a cross-section of scholars in the field

Sep 11, 2018 | Research

Alumna expert in election law is one of six from U of T named to Royal Society of Canada's college for emerging scholars

Mark Kingwell’s newest research investigates the “politics of boredom,” how people get trapped into cycles of addictive engagement through technology-enabled platforms like Twitter and Facebook (photo by Colin McConnell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Sep 11, 2018 | Research

Four alumni among U of T scholars named fellows of prestigious national academy

Nicole Latulippe has joined the departments of human geography and physical and environmental sciences at U of T Scarborough as an assistant professor. Photo by Alexa Battler

Sep 11, 2018 | Alumni

Alumna Nicole Latulippe brings passion for Indigenous environmental governance and advocacy to U of T

This European Space Agency telescope acquired billions of measurements to build the most accurate map ever of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the relic radiation from the Big Bang (Frederic Castel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Sep 10, 2018 | Research

U of T alumni researchers part of global team to win prestigious 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize

The Public (star Michael Kenneth Williams pictured) is one of the films that will offer extended post-screening discussions about global issues with U of T professors. (photo courtesy of TIFF)

Sep 7, 2018 | Research

U of T scholars partner with TIFF for talks on global issues

University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and U of T President Emeritus Dr. David Naylor discuss the transformative impact of AI on health care in the kitchen of Naylor's Toronto home (photo by Lisa Lightbourn)

Sep 7, 2018 | Research

A recipe to save lives: Geoffrey Hinton and David Naylor call on physicians to embrace AI

New University of Toronto Chancellor Rose Patten says she hopes to leverage her 30 years of experience working at the intersection of business, academia and the public sector to help promote U of T’s mission on a global stage (photo by Lisa Lightbourn)

Sep 6, 2018 | Campus

U of T’s new chancellor on life as a Bay Street executive and university leader – and a dramatic turning point in her career

U of T's Maria Drout's research focuses on the lives and evolution of massive stars, as well as supernovas and other short-lived astronomical phenomena (photo courtesy of Carnegie Observatories)

Sep 6, 2018 | Research

U of T astronomer Maria Drout wins 2018 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Award

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