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Giovanni Williams in a beige T-shirt, black jeans and white sneakers, sitting on a black wooden bench under a panelled ceiling that slopes down to the floor at the middle right of the photo. He is smiling and facing off camera, with his shoulders hunched and his forearms resting on his thighs. Several fluorescent tubes are placed along the wall at the far end of the bench, giving off a neon yellow light.

The Change They Want

Winning over people to your cause is not easy. As these students discovered, it helps to have a personal – and persuasive – message

David Rokeby in glasses and a black T-shirt, standing in front of a screen, with multiple colours in various patterns projected on the screen

The Theatre of Tomorrow

A U of T lab is working with actors, writers and directors on how they could harness AI and other emerging technologies to generate new ideas and – just maybe – reinvent theatre

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150 Years of Firsts

To mark an important milestone, U of T Engineering looks back at some of its boldest thinkers

Suman Roy, wearing a hooded sweatshirt with the words

Hunger Pains

Food bank use in Toronto is soaring. Can a U of T Scarborough lab help?

Close up of Prof. Gillian Hadfield in a black turtleneck sweater, smiling against a solid dark-brown background

Will AI Be a Force for Good?

New technologies are difficult to regulate. With artificial intelligence, it may be time to rethink our approach, says Gillian Hadfield

Researcher in safety goggles and a lab coat examining one of five test tubes with different coloured lids, four of them containing DNA fragments suspended in liquid and the fifth containing a longer DNA chain

The Power of Information

The world produces mountains of data every day. A new U of T institute will help us make better sense of it all

Karlie Nordstrom standing in front of an Indigenous painting of animals and trees in the foreground and the outline of a city and concentric circles of different colours in the background

See You in Court

Raising the number of Indigenous lawyers and judges will require more financial support for Indigenous law students

Outer space above and the white and blue surface of the Earth below

What If…

The U of T community helped build a more just, prosperous and sustainable world for all?

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Clearing the Air

U of T wants to drastically cut carbon emissions by 2050. It’s enlisting on-campus ingenuity for help

Abstract illustration showing a red-coloured body and face, with small black and white pieces flowing from inside body out of the mouth, and the U.S. Capitol Building dangling on puppet strings from one hand

The Extremism Machine

Online disinformation poses a danger to society. Researchers at U of T’s Citizen Lab are tracking it – and trying to figure out how to stop it

Prof. Mark V. Campbell with a beige background and red lighting

Charting Hip Hop’s Course

Professor Mark V. Campbell grew up during the early years of rap music. Now, he is helping preserve Canadian hip-hop culture for future generations

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Eliminating Excessive Force

U of T Mississauga professor Judith Andersen’s training techniques improve police performance in tense situations. The challenge: getting police to use them

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Whose Stories Do We Tell?

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography aims to record noteworthy lives from “all points of view.” Six decades into its mission, what that means is still up for debate

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Taking a Stand

As these alumni have discovered, it takes courage to speak up for what you believe in

U of T Mississauga professor Rhonda McEwen

The Power of Touch

When Prof. Rhonda McEwen learned that her daughter was on the autism spectrum, she began to think about communications technology in new ways

Close up picture of a model of a human heart created with a 3-D printer

Pumped Up

These 3-D printers create perfect models of life-sized human hearts, spines and other body parts

Three children playing in a playground next to a building with a white picket fence with an entrance shaped like a hand

The Freedom to Learn

Toronto schools aim to provide a safe space for children, regardless of citizenship status. But there are flaws that need to be addressed

U of T Scarborough English professor Karina Vernon outside on a sunny day

A Lost Literature

Prof. Karina Vernon shares the untold stories of Black people on the Canadian Prairies

The Oxford English Dictionary in Robarts Library at the University of Toronto, June 19, 2019. Photo by Nick Iwanyshyn

The Great Canadian Word Hunt

Canadian meanings of “soaker” and “bush party” don’t exist in the Oxford English Dictionary. A U of T linguistics prof is aiming to change that

Stone pillars almost completely replaced by blockchains

In Machines We Trust

Blockchain has the potential to transform financial transactions. This could spell trouble for banks and other institutional go-betweens

Illustration of brick walls with a number of national flags on them. Hands and feet are breaking through the walls in different directions.

The New Nationalism

Around the world, anti-immigrant autocrats are on the rise. Defeating them – and what they stand for – won’t be easy

Lentil Soup for the Soul

Being a healthy eater doesn’t mean giving up your own cultural foods, says Nazima Qureshi, a nutritionist who helps women meet their health goals

A surgeon's hand reaching for a scalpel, being offered by a robotic hand

AI and the MD

Doctors will soon use artificial intelligence to help diagnose and treat patients, opening up new possibilities for better health