Research & Ideas

The Big Picture

U of T cosmologists are piecing together the epic table of how the universe has evolved over 14 billion years

The Family Business

Law grad Jean Teillet continues the fight of great-granduncle Louis Riel – in the courtroom

Ad Nauseam

Repetition in advertising confusing consumer memory

New Hope

U of T researchers are refining an experimental Alzheimer’s vaccine

The Proof Is Out There

In the early 1970s, black holes were just a topic for scientific speculation. Then astrophysist Tom Bolton began pondering the matter

The Music of the Cosmos

Researchers gain their first glimpse of the primordial structures that grew into today's galaxy clusters

Helping the Heart

U of T scientists identify two genes associated with heart function that could lead to new therapies for heart disease

Teens Silent on Crime

Young people won't talk about being victims of crime for fear of being labeled a "snitch," study finds

Road Sage

Put away your aggression and stop leaning on that horn! Baher Abdulhai's research shows that the average commute time in the GTA can be reduced by 50 per cent

Love Changes All

Battles of the sexes are common in the animal world, especially when it comes to mating

A Gas from the Past

Geochemist discovers gases that may have been present on Earth before the origin of life

Lean Times

In Toronto's expensive rental market, welfare doesn't cover cost of a nutritional diet, study finds

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The Gay Voice

Some men may subconsciously adopt certain female speech patterns

Wasting Talent

Canadian employers and immigrants would both benefit from better "mutual orientation," study finds

An Intellectual Emergency

In the month following the horror of September 11, and 20 years after her frosh year, writer Margaret Webb returns to U of T, again seeking understanding of the world

The Woodsworker

Peter Schleifenbaum and his one-of-a-kind Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve show that well-managed forests can serve the needs of commercial logging and conservationists. We can have our timber and trees, too

Chew on This!

David Jenkins and Janet Polivy both explore the power of food. 
He probes its impact on the body, while she studies its connection to the mind

The Infant

At first, the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms

The Schoolboy

Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face

The Lover

And then the lover, sighing like furnace with a woeful ballad

The Soldier

Then a soldier,
 full of strange oaths...
jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel

The Justice

And then the justice...full of wise saws and modern instances

The Sixth Age

The sixth age shifts into the lean and slippered Pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side

The Last Scene

Last scene of all...is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything

The Meaning of Life?

Scientists have mapped the sequence of our genes – all 35,000 of them. So what now? U of T researchers are at the forefront of what some are calling the New Biology

The Miracle Workers

They are on the cutting edge. And they are doing their work right here. A chronology of medical breakthroughs at U of T over the past 20 years

Storm Warning

Conditions are brewing for a major epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes

Highs and Lows

The Glycemic Index, developed at U of T, offers a dietary plan for controlling diabetes

Doctor on Call

Between her teaching and her practice, Dr. Miriam Rossi has dispensed a huge dose of guidance and inspiration to minority students

U.S. of Eh?

Canadian English is not being Americanized to the extent once thought, and in fact the reverse is also happening

Cages of Contradiction

Women's prisons fail to offer resources for those with addictions or in abusive relationships, study finds