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Asal Aslemand (BSc 2011 UTM, MSc 2014, PhD 2018) has adopted a unique format for her courses to fight statistics' "bad rep" and lower students' anxiety

Aug 17, 2018 | Alumni

"Statistics anxiety": How this alumna is using art to help students overcome their fear

Two-time Olympian Tamara Tatham will continue to coach Varsity Blues women's basketball while working with Raptors 905 (photo by Martin Bazyl)

Aug 16, 2018 | Campus

U of T basketball coach Tamara Tatham joins Raptors 905 as first Canadian woman in the role

University of Toronto Scarborough students outside the Social Sciences Building. Photo by Ken Jones.

Aug 15, 2018 | Campus

U of T among top 25 global universities in academic, research rankings by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy

A researcher working in a chemistry lab. (photo by Ken Jones)

Aug 14, 2018 | Campus

U of T ranks fourth in world in research-focused National Taiwan University Ranking

Deepa Kundur, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, will receive more than $340,000 for her research into the security of power grids (photo by Romi Levine)

Aug 13, 2018 | Volunteer & Awards

U of T researchers to receive more than $11.5 million in NSERC funding

Nazli Kaya wears the eye-tracking device used to accurately assess where drivers were looking when turning at intersections (photo by Laura Pedersen)

Aug 9, 2018 | Research

More than half of Toronto drivers in U of T study didn't look for cyclists and pedestrians before turning right

Alumni and graduate student interns from U of T’s computer science and industrial engineering departments were part of the Layer 6 AI team that won the RecSys challenge and placed second in the Google Landmark Retrieval Challenge (photo by Ryan Perez)

Aug 9, 2018 | Volunteer & Awards

U of T alumni and graduate students part of Layer 6 AI's win in global competition

Earth's oceans from space. Image by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory. The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

Aug 7, 2018 | Research

U of T scientists draw new connections between climate change and warming oceans

A bust of the Bard in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (photo by Geoffrey Vendeville)

Aug 7, 2018 | Research

Can a computer write a sonnet as well as Shakespeare?

Called Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities, or ECHO, the program introduces cardiovascular researchers to the world of startups and provide them with basic training, networking and funding opportunities (photo by U of T Advancement)

Aug 2, 2018 | Research

U of T to quicken pace of commercialization in heart research with new entrepreneurship program

Paul G. Walfish

Aug 1, 2018 | Alumni

Paul Walfish, a leader in thyroid research, developed screening for babies used around the world

U of T President Meric Gertler and I.P. Park, the president and CTO of LG Electronics, sign a five-year, multimillion-dollar collaborative research agreement focused on AI technologies (photo by Geoffrey Vendeville)

Aug 1, 2018 | Campus

LG signs research partnership with U of T, sets up AI research lab in Toronto

“There have been other AI optimization engines that have been developed," says Aaron Babier. "The idea behind ours is that it more closely mimics the current clinical best practice” (photo by Brian Tran)

Aug 1, 2018 | Research

Smarter cancer treatment: AI tool cuts time of developing radiation therapy plans from days to hours

Clarion Alley in San Francisco: "In the alley, people are yelling back through the words they write on the walls," says U of T's Tracey Bowen (photo by John S Lander/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Jul 31, 2018 | Research

The writing on the wall: a U of T expert's look at graffiti and the fight against gentrification

A proposed condo building in Toronto includes 400 to 500 trees in its design (rendering by Brisbin Brook Beynon Architects)

Jul 30, 2018 | Research

U of T part of team designing Toronto’s first vertical forest

U of T researcher Tarek Awad shows two samples: a stainless steel surface treated to trap simple cooking oil (left) and an uncoated surface (photo by Liz Do)

Jul 30, 2018 | Research

U of T researchers propose a new weapon in the battle against food-borne bugs: cooking oil

smartARM wins the Imagine World Cup Finals: Undergraduates Hamayal Choudhry from UOIT and Samin Khan from U of T, who is demonstrating the prosthetic (photo courtesy of Microsoft Imagine Cup)

Jul 27, 2018 | Research

U of T student part of team that wins Imagine Cup over 40,000 other students with design of prosthetic robotic hand

Anna Taddio on using needles on children: “Not managing pain and fear can have serious long-term consequences, including less uptake of vaccines and avoidance of health care throughout life” (photo by Chris Sorensen)

Jul 25, 2018 | Research

U of T expert in children’s pain wins million-dollar CIHR grant for work reducing fear of needles in youth

Jake Miller leads the team who developed the BikeSpace app (photo by Romi Levine)

Jul 25, 2018 | Alumni

U of T alumni build app to crowdsource issues with bike parking in Toronto

A rendering of phase one of the new University of Toronto innovation centre at the corner of College Street and University Avenue, as viewed from the west (all renderings courtesy of Weiss/Manfredi Architects)

Jul 24, 2018 | Campus

U of T innovation centre to help form ‘new cornerstone’ of the Canadian economy

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