Using teaching methods that emphasize interaction and incorporate community engagement, cultural experiences and new technologies, Assistant Professor Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio is showing students that learning Spanish is fun – and can lead to valuable connections.
A recent symposium presented by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Canadian Opera Company (CoC) brought together students, faculty, and opera enthusiasts for an in-depth discussion of two of the most important cultural works from 19th-century Russia.
For four U of T undergraduate and graduate students, the ruins of the ancient city of Populonia – near the modern Italian town of Piombino – were their classroom for the summer.
Tianhao Wang started the new school year with a job offer after a successful internship he obtained through iPRAKTIKUM, an internationalization and experiential learning initiative offered by the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures.
Faculty of Arts & Science computer science undergraduates had a unique set of problems to solve during U of T’s department of computer science undergraduate summer research project program.
Two incoming A&S students were selected to receive Canada’s largest STEM scholarship. Congratulations to Daniel Hoogsteen and Sidrah Rana who will both be entering the Mathematical and Physical Science program in the Faculty of Arts & Science this fall.
This summer, Professor Andrea Most’s American Pastoral course, offered by the Department of English in the Faculty of Arts & Science, taught students what it’s like to work in the field – literally. The class left the lecture halls of U of T’s downtown campus behind to spend a week studying at Bela Farm in Hillsburgh, Ontario, where they didn’t just read literary classics of the pastoral mode, but experienced rural life for themselves.
Robert McGill, an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of English, has been awarded the 2018 Robert Kroetsch Teaching Award by the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs.
When Andrea Most, an English professor in U of T’s Faculty of Arts & Science, learned about the history of the buried waterways on campus, she was intrigued.
The Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Computer Science is launching a new technology leadership initiative for undergraduates entering the second year of their major or specialist program in the hopes of exposing students to industry ideas early in their program.
U of T’s oldest and youngest graduates met this month to chat about their university experience, including the lessons learned and their latest all-nighter.
Graduation is a milestone in many people’s lives, but especially for those who are the first in their family to don a convocation robe. Five first-generation students, including some first-in-family mentors, spoke to U of T News about their paths to graduation and plans for afterward.
Faculty of Arts & Science undergraduate student in the Department of Economics, Minnie Cui, took home the 2018 Canadian Economics Association’s Best Research Paper award.
It’s been quite a year for recent Arts & Science graduate Haeyeon Lee. This time last year she was preparing to begin the final term of a program that would earn her a Master of Financial Economics. Today, she is in Ottawa putting all that she learned into practice as an analyst at the Bank of Canada.
Summer is the perfect time for students to travel the world, gain real-world experience or continue their studies through summer courses. Last month, 20 undergraduate students enrolled in Megan Frederickson and John Stinchcombe’s Tropical Field Biology course got to do all this at once – and experience remote and biodiverse ecosystems that few people ever get to see.
Faculty of Arts & Science student Allie Sinclair finished at U of T with a 4.0 GPA and the highest marks of thousands of graduating undergraduate students across the university’s three campuses.
The coming year will be an exciting one for Trinity College graduand Andreas Kyriakos as he joins the 2018 cohort of Yenching Scholars. At this fully-funded, international scholarship program, Andreas will earn an English language Master’s degree in China Studies.
In June 2012, 24 pigs and other miscellaneous items were buried in a farmer’s field near Toronto. For the next five years, groups of students measured changes in the soil around the objects over time and through the four seasons. It was all part of an experiment to figure out the best methods to locate buried murder victims and the items associated with foul play.
A new University of Toronto application is helping to ease exam anxiety by speeding up attendance, improving student tracking, and enhancing the overall staff and student experience.
For many, artificial intelligence is synonymous with a distant future, where self-driving cars are the norm and humans work side-by-side with robots. In reality, we don’t have to look that far ahead to see artificial intelligence at work.
University of Toronto computer science students turned to their peers in the Faculty of Music for help making games that are as fun to listen to as they are to play. The games will be presented on April 4 at Level Up, an annual showcase for video games made by university and college students across Ontario.
On Friday, March 16, students enrolled in UC One and University College’s three interdisciplinary programs (Canadian Studies, Cognitive Science and Health Studies), and Drama Studies presented their research, practicum and course work at Research and Practice Day.
From studying health concerns in Greece to African philosophy and political systems in Rwanda, nearly 80 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Arts & Science made the most of their time away from U of T to put their classwork to use abroad.
At U of T Astronomy, this happens more often than you’d think.
A group of Canadian Studies students received an Ontario heritage award for their work on producing a mobile app that brings to life the hidden histories of Toronto’s Kensington Market.
How do you get around Toronto? The rapidly expanding digital economy – think Uber, Lyft and Toronto’s own InstaRyde – has given us more options to get around this city than ever before. But what kind of impact do these technologies have on the future of urban transportation?
Nearly 80 undergraduate students from across the Faculty of Arts & Science will use their time off from classes at U of T during Reading Week to travel abroad to study topics ranging from ancient Egyptian cultural development to Islamic civil society.
Anyone who has taken a class with statistical sciences professor Alison Gibbs would agree there is nothing random about her being awarded a 3M National Teaching Fellowship from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) this week.
Around the water cooler, on social media and the red carpet, the talk is about #MeToo and the wave of sexual misconduct allegations in the headlines. The conversation is also unfolding in university classrooms.
It was a celebration of undergraduate research for students, by students, as the Arts & Science Students’ Union (ASSU) held its inaugural Arts & Science Undergraduate Research Conference in Sidney Smith Hall last week.
For over a quarter century, Professors Spencer Barrett and James Thomson of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology have been two of the first teachers students encounter when they begin their undergraduate education at U of T. Both are retiring in 2018.
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.
To help his students better understand the role they play in shaping the future of the internet, Paolo Granata, an assistant professor of book and media studies took his Social Technology and Networks class to Toronto’s Mozilla headquarters.
It’s impossible not to have a soft spot for children’s books, even if you’re not a kid or a parent. So, the opportunity to explore the materials and process of bringing a book to life through documents from the books’ creators is extra special.
Various departments in Arts & Science at U of T have realized the value of showing students that there are alternatives to academic life.
Until now, PhD student Branden Rizzuto was the only one in the Department of Anthropology qualified to use the portable X-ray Fluorescence device — but not for long.
The Governor’s Challenge simulates the monetary policy decision-making process by putting students in the role of advisor to the Bank’s Governing Council.
AstroTours teamed up with Indigenous Education Week to create an event featuring Indigenous perspectives on astronomy and star lore.
Julie Blair has led various Indigenous committees and clubs at U of T, and she’s worked as the Indigenous Education Network coordinator at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
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.
This fall, iPRAKTIKUM – an internationalization and experiential learning project of the German department – offered paid internships to four graduate students to work under the supervision of Nicola Townend, who runs the German program at UTS.
Computer science undergraduate students are decoding encrypted text using a neural network, a framework for machine learning algorithms inspired by the brain.
New tool helps students to easily and accurately predict their costs for a year – setting them up for academic and future success.
In his final year studying human biology and cellular systems biology, Alexander Sullivan has teamed up with assistant professor Dawn Kilkenny to create a VR experience that can be used as a training tool for students and professionals.
He is part of a new generation of thinkers transforming research across the globe.
Indigenous-settler relations forum and course provides a forum for Indigenous experts, academics and interested members of the community to engage with students who have returned from travels abroad.
A small initiative by University of Toronto students to help Syrian newcomers has blossomed into a full-blown program.
A keen interest in artificial intelligence, machine learning and ground-breaking work in deep learning led Vincent Tembo to U of T.
Seven months pregnant, wearing a bright yellow shirt and a flowery hijab to cover her hair, it’s hard to imagine this petite woman sitting outside the Munk School of Global Affairs as a die-hard revolutionary.
With support from the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM), the University of Toronto has launched a Nordic Studies initiative at the Munk School of Global Affairs.