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Guitar Hero

Liona Boyd talks about her new memoir and album, her 5 million YouTube hits, and her pen pal, Prince Philip

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know Were Invented by U of T Alumni

These include everything from life-saving innovations to everyday conveniences

It Was 50 Years Ago Today

Ken Luckhurst first set foot at UTM at the height of the hippie era. Touring a transformed campus with a recent grad, he finds not everything has changed

Can You Guess the U of T Grad?

Check out the yearbook photos of some of our best-known alumni

60 Seconds with David Sugarman

Ontario Science Centre guy gets a charge out of explaining the natural world

Children of Earth and Sky

Guy Gavriel Kay's latest novel takes place during the European Renaissance

Goodbye to Cars!

U of T embarks on a bold plan to restore, renew and beautify the historic St. George campus

At Canada’s Own Jurassic Park

George Jacob is fascinated with museums: and is heading the new Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Alberta

A Legacy as Big as All Outdoors

How the art of giving back motivates photographer Richard Phibbs

How a Singer Got His Voice Back

Ron Husmann lost his voice due to MS and didn’t sing for 28 years. Then he learned how to harness his brain’s own healing power

A Journey with Marco Polo

Benjamin Olshin’s map research suggests an unexpectedly connected 13th-century world

Voyage Into Ice

Daniel Kukla's camera discovers an otherworldly Arctic

Designer at Play

A standing ovation for an award-winning chair

Bernard Etkin Helped Save the Apollo 13 Crew

The professor of aerospace engineering, a beloved mentor to generations of engineers, also helped develop the Avro Arrow and even checked the aerodynamics of Toronto City Hall

Party Out of Bounds

In the late 1980s, photographer John Simone captured New York City's outrageous counterculture on film

Our Man in Beijing

Cultures meet at Sid Smith Hall

The Big Tasty

How Zella Palmer Cuadra’s MA project became a cookbook

Taking Care

Mary Jo Haddad came to Sick Kids to look after ill children. As CEO, she helped nurse the whole hospital back to good health

Our Ties with Asia

U of T’s long-standing connections with the Asia-Pacific region will serve us well in a future defined by global collaboration

An Artist’s Legacy

Doris McCarthy’s life’s work finds a permanent home at U of T Scarborough

Water, Power and the Boardroom

Rotman’s international study tours taught Michael Odam the ins and outs of doing business in low-income countries

Online Media Maven

Rachel Sklar is a champion for women in the media and tech fields – and she makes a lot of people's "lists"

Diplomatic to the Core

U of T has helped train many of Canada's top diplomats

Crimes Against Women

Shelley Saywell explores so-called “honour killings” in her new film

The Lost Left

Westerners who reject mainstream culture as “inauthentic” may, in fact, be status seekers, says Andrew Potter

Seamstress to the Kings

Innis alumna suits up Elvis tribute artists

My Generation

Twixters take on 20-something stereotypes

Mark Schatzker

The journalist and traveller aims to "see, feel and taste differences in the land"

Of Schumann and Sheep Skulls

Martin Kofsky's story placed second in U of T Magazine's Alumni Short Story and Poetry contest

A Time to Rebuild

A former Varsity Blues football player makes the case for U of T athletics

Careering Wildly

U of T's Career Centre helps students answer the question: "What now?"

At the Quinte Hotel

Bruce Alcock animates one of the most famous poems of Canadian poet Al Purdy

A Room of Her Own

Law faculty will name a room after Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella

Libeskind Receives Honorary Degree

Authors Jack Granatstein and Kenneth Oppel among other recent award-winning grads

Mark “Dashan” Rowswell

Performer makes his mark in China

Meet the Neighbours

A thriving urban community surrounds and supports the U of T

Class Structures

Students find space to work, socialize and dream in cutting-edge campus buildings

Fighting Words

Hart House debating has prepared generations of U of T students for the rigours of academe, politics, and the law. More important, it reassures anxious frosh that it's cool to be smart