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The Hidden Epidemic

Prof. Esme Fuller-Thomson researches the devastating effects of child abuse on health. Now she wants to ensure all survivors get the help they need

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The Rotman School Scales Up

Tiff Macklem helped steer the Bank of Canada through the financial crisis, making it the envy of its global peers. Now, he aims to place the university’s business school among the world’s best

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The Art of the Deal

U of T Art Museum’s Barbara Fischer talks about the merging of two campus galleries – and what it means for visitors

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When Memory Fails

Understanding how we learn and make memories will lead to better treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, says Brain Prize winner Graham Collingridge

Two photos shot in a studio against a light grey background: Kinnon MacKinnon (left), in a white and grey-polka-dotted short-sleeved, button-up shirt and black-framed glasses with a tattoo on his left bicep, and Cassandra Williams, in a black T-shirt with a white print illustration, wearing a lip ring and her long brown hair draped over one shoulder.

Generation T

For trans students at U of T, the fight for rights and equality is about much more than just washrooms

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The Gene Editors

U of T scientists are using a powerful new technology to alter DNA and possibly cure disease

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Loving the Aliebn

Jonathan Sun tweets funny, heartfelt – and often misspelt – observations about what it means to be a 21st-century human

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In the Pink

Anabela Piersol showcases independent clothing designers, as well as her own lovely creations

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Keep Learning

U of T’s School of Continuing Studies is a powerful engine of opportunity

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Antarctica Bound

Rhodes Scholar Jessica Phillips wants to help protect the continent’s ecosystem – and its penguins

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Drumming Up Support

Music grad Beverley Johnston honours her late father with a fellowship for percussion students

Ruling the Pool

Olympic-bound Kylie Masse’s extraordinary ascent to the top of women’s swimming

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Cities in Ruins

Prof. Tong Lam's photographs depict urban decay in Asia, and the parallels between security and surveillance in east and west

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The Children’s Crusader

One billion kids experience violence worldwide each year. Susan Bissell has devoted her life to ending the abuse

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Life after Grad School

As more PhD graduates seek work outside of academia, U of T is creating opportunities for these highly knowledgeable students to develop professional skills

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High Time?

When it comes to legalizing marijuana, drug and public health experts caution that “the devil is in the details”

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Those Things We Do

Relive some of the wonderful, and occasionally weird, traditions that occur only at U of T

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Toronto Higher

Toronto’s universities are working together to make the region an even better place to live, work and study

U of T students Alex Boross-Harmer (left) and Megan D’Souza at the new Mental Health and Physical Activity Research Centre

Lift Weights to Lift Mood

U of T opens one of the first research facilities in the world to integrate the study of physical activity and mental health

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Pssst, Wanna Buy a Kidney?

Most people recoil at the thought of selling human organs. But supplying the right information can change attitudes, a U of T study finds

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Cooling Off

Will the Paris climate accord succeed where Kyoto didn’t?

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Words of Freedom

U of T is now home to the world's largest digitized collection of Soviet samizdat journals

David MacLean stands in front of a model of downtown Toronto

Small is Beautiful

David MacLean is creating a small-scale Toronto – his first step to miniaturizing the entire country