And the Winner Is…
1941 grad finally receives award she won more than 60 years earlier
1941 grad finally receives award she won more than 60 years earlier
86 players named to U of T football's "all-century" team
Monte Hummel, president of World Wildlife Fund Canada, was one of 92 Arbor Award nominees
A guide to health, from our first entrance on stage to our final act
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
And then the justice...full of wise saws and modern instances
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
The Glycemic Index, developed at U of T, offers a dietary plan for controlling 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
Computer games may help children with cerebral palsy, study finds
New long-term debentures will help finance new residences for the double cohort
A silver chalice honours 18 men of the 67 Battery who died during the First World War
Grads provide medical services in some of the world's most violent regions with Doctors Without Borders
Sculpture celebrates U of T grad who helped develop the theory of plate tectonics
Alumni have been the life blood behind Doctors Without Borders
Admit it. You find impressive young people irritating. Prepare to be bugged. Here is the University of Toronto Magazine's first-ever list of alumni 40 and under who are taking the world by storm
Since leaving tax law, David Ben has become one of the world's greatest sleight-of-hand artists
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
Tilo Kunath, Naana Jumah and Sheila Heti
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
Malaria is becoming a serious health threat for international travellers
Manuscripts shed new light on life in mediaeval Italy
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
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
Supporting education
Alumna earned a U of T degree at age 87
The University of Toronto Press got its start printing exam booklets and is now the second-largest public university press in North America
Alumni, like the 30 profiled here, have given to the campaign for diverse reasons. No matter what cause they support, their help serves one central purpose — nurturing students