Fourth-year University of Toronto student Emma Leckey was killed earlier this year after a hit-and-run involving a suspected drunken driver. On Sunday, friends and family gathered at Woodsworth College – on what would have been her 22nd birthday – for a memorial, vowing to carry on her legacy of compassion and social justice advocacy.
Plastic pollution is a huge environmental problem, with approximately eight million metric tonnes entering the oceans each year. How much of that is microfibers from laundering textiles has yet to be determined.
When opportunity knocks for PhD graduates in religious studies, it’s as likely to be organizations trying to understand conflicts abroad or lawmakers assessing domestic policy as it is a traditional academic career.
A new book is shedding a stark light on one of the darkest periods in the history of the former Soviet Union, after a Faculty of Arts & Science researcher uncovered a treasure trove of previously secret documents.
Tamara Walker’s mission is to help people connect with history and other cultures.
When Molly Metz saw the posting for a teaching-stream position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto, she felt she’d found her dream job.
There is a long list of reasons why Julie Moreau chose to join the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto.
As a scholar of Islamic art and architecture, Heba Mostafa feels she is in the perfect spot as she joins the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto this year.
An innovative peer support group method funded by the Faculty of Arts & Science is helping doctoral students grapple with the isolation and anxiety of writing their dissertations.
The growing importance of care work has created both challenges and opportunities to address racial, economic and gender inequality at home and abroad, says a Faculty of Arts & Science researcher who has been studying the issue for almost five years.
Students are getting insights about their own lives by interviewing their parents and grandparents about the reasons they immigrated to Canada.
A free app that guides users through a dynamic tour of key locations in Toronto’s historic Kensington Market is now available for download as a result of a unique class project by Arts & Science students.
Put on a happy face, your success may depend on it, suggests a study by psychology researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts & Science.
In 1898, an Anglican missionary in Toronto set out for the Rainy River region on the Ontario-Minnesota border. Almost 120 years later, his diary tells a bigger story than he ever imagined, thanks to the Rainy River First Nations and Faculty of Arts & Science students.
A succession of students have assisted John Traill with Persons of Ancient Athens, a book series that is the mainstay of a unique Faculty of Arts & Science undergrad research project.
Undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts & Science are assisting with ongoing research that sheds some light on what goes on inside a dog’s head when we humans are trying to train them.
Study examines a “foraging gene” humans share in common with fruit flies
Newly reunited with her family after they fled Syria, and grateful for the welcome they’ve received in the city she considers her new home, Arts & Science student Rasha Elendari is feeling inspired by love even as she tries to dispel hate and fear.
There are important parallels between a Soviet-era dissident movement and the modern digital culture that helped Donald Trump gain power, says Associate Professor Ann Komaromi of the Centre for Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
It wasn’t exactly a Planet of the Apes moment, but when two Faculty of Arts & Science researchers recently proved monkeys can reason about proportions and ratios, it opened a world of possibilities to tickle the fancy of even a Hollywood script writer.
When he advertised the electoral reform event, Markus Dubber, director of the Centre for Ethics tried to convey the sense it was an open discussion, and the overflow crowd who attended the forum at the Munk School of Global Affairs seemed to take that suggestion to heart.
Evolutionary biologist and world-renowned plant genomicist Stephen Wright of the University of Toronto has capped a remarkable year by winning the prestigious Steacie Prize.
The University of Toronto, the city and province could be at the centre of a new economic wave that will dwarf the tech revolution, a panel of experts told a gathering at U of T’s School of the Environment.
A group of University of Toronto students recently took the old adage that you are what you eat to a whole new level, assuming the identities of diverse individuals from Southeast Asia’s past.
Atmospheric scientists have found that guano produced by Arctic seabirds contributes to cloud formation, keeping the region cool in the summertime.
The secret to a happy sex life in long-term relationships is the belief that it takes hard work and effort, instead of expecting sexual satisfaction to simply happen if you are true soulmates, says a study led by a University of Toronto social psychology researcher.
A free information tool largely designed by breast cancer survivors and a University of Toronto medical anthropologist is now available online to explain treatment options for the most common form of cancer in women.
Diane Horton was born to teach. Believe it or not, she has known that since her Grade 2 teacher Mr. Ripley let her assist him in class. Little wonder she found her dream job at the University of Toronto, where “reinventing education” is a core mission.
U of T students are helping their city reconnect with its lake system by collecting personal stories about water as part of two unique courses that let the new scholars get their feet wet in social and environmental issues outside of the classroom.
Some worms have taken the notion that “bigger is better” to extremes by evolving giant sperm cells that are up to a quarter the size of their own bodies, a study led by a University of Toronto scientist and researchers in France has discovered.
Wondering if monogamy was more popular than polygamy in the 19th and 20th centuries? Curious to know which societies are linked to a common ancestor on a language tree? Well, a University of Toronto researcher and her colleagues have “D-PLACE” for you.
Researchers have discovered important differences between lower and higher-income children in their ability to use working memory, a key brain function responsible for everything from remembering a phone number to doing math in your head.
A 12-metric tonne magnetic resonance imaging scanner (MRI) that landed on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto on Saturday will make a deep impact on students, faculty and the wider community for years to come, researchers say.
A select group of University of Toronto undergrads are now among the world’s foremost authorities in their respective fields, thanks to a ground-breaking initiative to bring science-like teamwork into humanities research.
For more than 100 years, manufacturing has employed rare and expensive metals as chemical “catalysts” to help make everything from plastics and drugs to French fries and cell phones. U of T chemist Douglas Stephan discovered highly reactive acid-base compound mixtures known as “frustrated Lewis pairs” (FLPs) can do the same job, with less cost and pollution.
In 1976, the City of Toronto proposed bike lanes for a busy section of Bloor Street that includes an area known as the “Annex.” Forty years later, those bike lanes may finally become a reality, and U of T student Cody Kita can say he capped his undergraduate career by playing a small but important role in the epic battle.
University of Toronto undergraduate Bonnie Cuss could relate to the young people she met during her student placement at SKETCH, a community group that engages homeless and street-involved youth through the arts.
University of Toronto undergraduate Stephanie Wang felt like she had come full circle when she chose a student placement with an agency in the community where she grew up but she soon discovered her journey of understanding had just begun.
Already regarded as one of the most dynamic teachers at the University of Toronto, Jeannie Miller is likely to make an even bigger impact in the future with a new perspective on some very old prose.
Through a new Teaching & Learning Community of Practice (CoP), Arts & Science faculty are coming together to share the best of their teaching techniques and practices.
There were times last summer in Rwanda while Quan Le was making maps for a World Bank road project that he wondered what some people might think if they knew the cartography was being done by an undergraduate student from the University of Toronto.
One of University of Toronto student Ongio Tsui’s favourite mementos from his recent journey to Vietnam is a cell phone video of him riding on the back of one of Ho Chi Minh City’s ubiquitous motorbikes.
University of Toronto undergraduate student Emily Tsui went to Alaska to research the mysterious decline of a once-robust Arctic organization that can trace its roots to the Cold War, but what she discovered was a field of her own.
Undergraduates Bryan Hong, Anna Keshabyan and Valentina Mihajlovic were catapulted by the A&S Research Opportunity Program from the confines of a classroom into a hands-on, laboratory-based education mentored by Morgan Barense, an associate professor in psychology, and onto a path they could not have imagined a short time ago.
Three undergrads joined Ulrich Wortmann of Earth Sciences on a 10-day field trip where they captured the first Gigapixel images of three important geological locations in Death Valley, including some terrain so rough it could only be reached with a four-wheel drive vehicle.
Judicial writing may not be the first thing people turn to for a good read, but U of T English professor Greig Henderson’s new book Creating Legal Worlds: Story and Style in a Culture of Argument shows that storytelling can be an essential part of ensuring justice.
As thousands of Syrian refugees flee a savage civil war for the safety of Canada, their plight resonates with a diaspora of Italian immigrants whose community is the focus of a unique University of Toronto graduate course.
Millions of people may someday owe a debt of gratitude to Peter McCourt, a scientist in Cell & Systems Biology in the Faculty of Arts & Science. He and his colleagues are dedicated to defeating a supervillain named Striga, a plant farmers simply call “witchweed.”
Four decades ago, a bold alliance of city builders scaled U of T’s ivy-covered walls and planted the seeds of the Urban Studies Program. The program is now a catalyst in a dynamic new landscape for the students, the university and the city.
A few years ago, William Hébert was on a panel of experts tasked with helping recommend policies to protect the rights of transgender prisoners. The panel found they had more questions than answers.