Good Chemistry
Henry Holmes Croft established the university's first chemistry laboratory. It remains a place for another kind of alchemy - the mixing of ideas
Henry Holmes Croft established the university's first chemistry laboratory. It remains a place for another kind of alchemy - the mixing of ideas
Socialists, peaceniks, feminists, rabble-rousers: They came in search of an education. They left having taught the old school a thing or two
Members of the so-called gentler sex were banned from attending classes until 1884. But once women set foot in the classroom, there was no stopping them
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
Countless U of T alumni were touched by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Here are just some of their stories
The Stewart Observatory has always inspired lofty dreams
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
U of T reacts to the September 11 tragedy
Emergency care in hospitals may be weaker on the weekends, study finds
Theatre historians are gathering new information about early British entertainment
Labels may end up suiting the people we apply them to
U of T becomes the first Canadian university to offer guarantees of financial support to doctoral students
New York resident Laura Chunosoff made a donation to U of T in honour of her lifelong friend in Toronto
Thomas Homer-Dixon nabs non-fiction prize, George Elliott Clarke picks up poetry award
Dominion Institute aims to inform Canadians about their own history
At first, the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face
And then the lover, sighing like furnace with a woeful ballad
Then a soldier, full of strange oaths... jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel
The sixth age shifts into the lean and slippered Pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side
Last scene of all...is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything
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
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
Conditions are brewing for a major epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes
Between her teaching and her practice, Dr. Miriam Rossi has dispensed a huge dose of guidance and inspiration to minority students
Canadian English is not being Americanized to the extent once thought, and in fact the reverse is also happening
A study has found that Academy Award winners live an average of four years longer than their less well known peers
A silver chalice honours 18 men of the 67 Battery who died during the First World War
Program brings back master of social work alumni to help new grads develop job search strategies and make contacts
Alumni have been the life blood behind Doctors Without Borders
Measha Brueggergosman, Russell Braun, Amber Meredith, James Rolfe, Patricia O'Callaghan and Adam Goddard
Paul Giannaris, Dionne England, Eira Thomas, Natalie Townsend and Leonard Asper
Krista Sutton, Jean Yoon, Kim Gaynor, Elvira Kurt and Kate Taylor
Avi Lewis, Nora Young and Ruby Bhatia
Rachel Tyndale, Vincent Tropepe, Deborah Fels, Shaf Keshavjee, Ed Doolittle, Akiko Iwasaki
Kenneth Oppel, Andrew Pyper, Lynn Crosbie, Cristina Kuok, David Layton and Tim Long
Hal Niedzviecki, Eva Lau, Elliot Noss, Tara Ariano and Bobby John
Maliha Chishti, Bhante Saranapala, Jim O'Mara, Lesra Martin, Bindu Dhaliwal and Duff Conacher
Banu Khurana, Andrew Jones and Sywa Sung
Dentist Ken Montague eschews the factory-method of treatment, and runs a photography gallery in his spare time
Despite its role as a public venue, 93 Highland is the rambling kind of place that Harry Potter could inhabit quite nicely.
Narrowing the student-faculty visible minority gap
U of T Magazine undergoes a facelift
Former president Robert Prichard named president of Torstar, and three profs pick up Killam Fellowships
60 years later, Rupert Schieder can still fit into his red college jacket
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
In the fresh vocabulary for teaching the humanities, the old must mix with the new
Rice's research has led to mapping out Dene grammar, a learned book on Athapaskan verbs and a training program for native teachers in Dene languages
Our expanded view of literature
"Look at the Jewish history books on my shelves written in the prewar period. Tremendous erudition, but encased in a mythological framework so thick that it severely limits their usefulness"
Pérez-Leroux wants to break down prejudices about bilingualism. She notes that some immigrants, sadly, do not pass their native language on to their children
U of T researchers are unearthing the A-Æ-B-Cs of cultural history from medieval times to the present
To New Yorker scribe Malcolm Gladwell, little things make a huge difference. Right now, he has his eye on his next big idea – french fries
The past is always intensely present for poet, novelist and classicist Anne Carson
Ensconced below grade, Hart House Theatre provided a foundation for Canadian theatre, but recently it almost disappeared entirely
The truly educated should be able to navigate the boundary where art and science meet
Digital dating is becoming a convenient alternative in the single scene
Discovering the path of granite magma
Annual scholarship for Sexual Diversity Studies program
Researchers to study how new immigrants overcome difficulties and settle in Canada