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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

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

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

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

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

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

An aerial view of Gurugram, India: With support from Tata Trusts, U of T will be establishing the University of Toronto School of Cities Alliance in India – a network of Canadian and Indian researchers (photo by Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty)

Sep 4, 2018 | Research

U of T partners with Tata Trusts on urban research and entrepreneurship centres in India

U of T Mississauga's Instructional Centre: The campus has expanded study spaces for the larger incoming class (photo by Paul Orenstein)

Sep 4, 2018 | Campus

U of T Mississauga gets ready for significantly larger incoming class

Pepper the robot is the newest addition to U of T Engineering’s Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab. It is the first humanoid robot capable of recognizing and adapting to human emotions (photo by Liz Do)

Sep 1, 2018 | Alumni

U of T to host inaugural alumni boot camp on machine intelligence for engineers

Students chat at the University of Toronto (photo by Johnny Guatto)

Aug 29, 2018 | Campus

The University of Toronto "bucket list"...How did you do?

“There was a recent survey of high school students that found Canadians don’t know much about personal finance, but it’s really something that everyone needs to be cognizant about,” says Professor Mihkel Tombak (photo by rawpixel via Unsplash)

Aug 27, 2018 | Alumni

U of T alum's personal finance course for first-year students to triple enrolment to meet demand

Professor Emeritus Robert McNutt was principal of University of Toronto Mississauga from 1995 to 2002

Aug 27, 2018 | Campus

Robert Harold (Bob) McNutt, a respected geochemist who "showed a lot of leadership" as principal of U of T Mississauga

Alumnus Kevin Wang meets Nobel laureate Michael Young

Aug 22, 2018 | Alumni

For this U of T medicine alumnus, a chance to meet his Nobel laureate heroes

Shiz Aoki, the CEO of BioRender, holds up a journal whose cover art was made with her startup’s web-based software (photo by Chris Sorensen)

Aug 21, 2018 | Alumni

From clunky to cool: U of T startup helps life sciences researchers struggling to illustrate their work

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