Summer 2015

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Feature stories on the U of T athletes and venues of the Pan Am Games, how U of T computer science prof Geoffrey Hinton is building the next generation of intelligent machines, and how the Munk School is rethinking the way journalists get trained.

In This Issue

Photo of Sasha Gollish sprinting.

Game On!

Toronto's Pan Am Games will leave a golden legacy for U of T, its athletes and the city.

Students with U of T's first gonfalons.

Gonfalon

A ancient tradition is renewed at U of T's Convocation

Photo of a rotten orange.

Spoiled Rotten

A familiar problem in the West, food waste is quickly becoming a global issue

Cisgender

Applies to someone who is not transgender, and is often used to signal awareness of gender politics

Illustration of two moving figures before an illustrious gold backdrop.

Architect’s Playground

Benjamin Dillenburger uses computers and 3D printers to create structures that are impossible to draw and almost impossible to imagine

Photo of ChipCare device.

Handheld Lab

U of T startup ChipCare gets set to unveil a revolutionary portable HIV blood-testing device

Elysse Leonard (left) and filmmaker Nicole Dorsey lead a Reel Comfort workshop at St. Michael's Hospital. Photo: Yuri Markarov, St. Michael’s Hospital

Connecting through Film

The Toronto International Film Festival’s Reel Comfort program helps make those connections available to clients in mental-health programs

Photo of Martina and Simon Stawski.

Seoulmates

Exploring a new country linked video bloggers Simon and Martina Stawski to each other… and to the world

Reclaimed seawater irrigates urban farms in Juan Caviedes and Negin Akhlaghpour's award-winning design. Illustration: Juan Caviedes and Negin Akhlaghpour

Designing a Sustainable City

Out of 82 entries from around the globe, the design of two Daniels Faculty graduates brought home the top prize in the SymbioticCities 2014 International Design Ideas Competition

Glenna Fraumeni.. Photo: James Poremba

Personal Best

A chronic condition doesn’t need to stop you from pushing yourself athletically