Research & Ideas

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

A Financial First

New long-term debentures will help finance new residences for the double cohort

Natural Reactions

Herbs and other natural remedies can have negative side effects or harmful interactions with drugs

Illustration of Hamlet

Something Rotten In the State of the Arts?

Purists claim the arts should not be sullied by business. Pragmatists devalue the BA for failing to impart job skills. A pox on them, for they are all wrong. A defence of the liberal arts degree

Illustration of a medieval monk talking in old english to a man with a spear and helmet

Lodes of Culture

U of T researchers are unearthing the A-Æ-B-Cs of cultural history from medieval times to the present

Freedom 60?

Seniors benefit from public programs when retiring between the ages 60 and 61

Resourceful Device

Risk and expense of extensive drilling not required with new energy sourcing device

Superconductor?

In addition to his administrative duties, the new president will continue his research on high-temperature superconductors. To do all that, he may have to be one himself

Light Heavyweights

A team of U of T scientists has won an international fight to control light and make it dance like electrons. A new era in telecommunications and computing is about to enter the ring

Guy Gavriel Kay

Of Murder and Magic

The inspiration for the fanciful novels of Guy Gavriel Kay and Caroline Roe sprang from the U of T campus

Portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk, 1858 by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 67.3 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1911 / Photo: National Gallery of Canada

Zeal

William Holman Hunt's portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk

Painful Truth

Study shows women with severe arthritis are half as likely to undergo surgery than men