How kindness, compassion and even awe can boost your mental health
April 5, 2021
Anyone who has comforted a friend in a time of need or volunteered for a worthy cause knows the experience can leave you feeling good about yourself.
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Diabetes disparities: U of T researchers work with communities at risk
April 5, 2021
Rick Bhurji was shocked to learn that, at age 47, he had type 2 diabetes.
His next thought was: What did I do wrong?
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More than 20,000 receive COVID-19 vaccine dose at U of T Mississauga-hosted clinic
April 1, 2021
Euchre. Dinner out. A trip to Walt Disney World.
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Insulin 100: How the road to a diabetes cure is yielding better treatments
April 1, 2021
“The pancreas,” says Gary Lewis, an endocrinologist at Toronto General Hospital and director of the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Facul
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‘Nobel Prize of computing:’ U of T Engineering alumnus Alfred Aho receives A.M. Turing Award
April 1, 2021
Alfred Aho, an alumnus of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, and his collaborator Jeffrey Ullman have received the 2020 A.M.
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Researchers at U of T and LG develop ‘explainable’ artificial intelligence algorithm
March 31, 2021
Researchers from the University of Toronto and LG AI Research have developed an “explainable” artificial intelligence (XAI) algorithm that can help identify and eliminate defects in display screens.
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Multi-language U of T project celebrates 700th anniversary of Dante's death
March 31, 2021
The department of Italian studies in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts & Science is leading a project that will see most of the cantos of Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno read in more than 30 different
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Renowned scholar Juna Kollmeier named director of U of T’s Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
March 31, 2021
Renowned astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier, on faculty at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, has bee
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Call out anti-Asian racism – including microaggressions, Joseph Wong writes in the Globe and Mail
March 30, 2021
Amid increasing reports of anti-Asian harassment and discrimination in Canada and around the world, Joseph Wong, the University of Toronto's interim vice-president, international, denounces the rising tide of anti
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Researchers seek to improve representation with Canadian Black Scientists Network
March 30, 2021
For years, the University of Toronto’s Maydianne Andrade shied away from the idea of being a role model.
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