Fighting Climate Change
Emma Master is the principal investigator at the Bioproducts Research Lab, where research into bio-based fuels and materials could help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Catching Cyber Spies
U of T’s Ron Deibert, along with other investigators at the Information Warfare Monitor, made international news when they uncovered a global network of cyber espionage involving compromised computers in 103 countries, including the Dalai Lama’s.
Read more Political Science
Building your own Degree
With approximately 600 to choose from, U of T has more undergraduate programs than any university in Canada. That should be enough to match your academic goals and sense of intellectual adventure.
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Bridging Religious Conflicts
Shafique Virani’s insights into Islamic history, religious persecution and spiritual survival provide an understanding that could build a road to tolerance. His inspired teaching and writing may be more relevant today than ever.
Read more Department & Centre for the Study of Religion
Ethical Eating
The 100-Mile Diet might not be as healthy for the planet as we thought it was. New research from Pierre Desrochers challenges the popular notion that locally-grown food reduces our carbon footprint—a fresh viewpoint in the spicy debate over the politics of food.
Read more Department of Geography at U of T Mississauga
First-year Study Groups
At U of T, we make sure first-year students get a chance to know their professors – and each other – through First-Year Learning Communities and other programs that ease the transition to university life.
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The University of Anything you Want to Become
U of T students take classes from some of the world’s top researchers – the same people who are uncovering answers to today’s toughest questions. From climate change to world hunger, this is the place to study if you want to shape the world.
With approximately 600 undergraduate programs to choose from, you can tailor your education, building a degree that helps you become a leader in your field. Whatever that field might be. And with the first-year experience in mind, we’ve got programs and mentors in place to ease the transition to post-secondary life. So your mind is free to explore the University of…
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Discovering New Planets
A team led by acclaimed astronomer Ray Jayawardhana (AKA RayJay) are now stars on earth for their 2008 discovery of what appears to be a new planet eight times the mass of Jupiter orbiting a star 500 light-years away.
Read more Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
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The World’s Biggest Snake
Paleontologist Jason Head was part of a global team that analyzed the skeletal remains of a snake that he said was “longer than a city bus and weighed more than a car.” It’s an enormous discovery that provides clues into the environment 60 million years ago, when these snakes still slithered the earth.
Read more Department of Biology at U of T Mississauga
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Undergrads doing Research
U of T’s unique Research Opportunity Program gives second-year students the opportunity to get involved in original research in return for credit. You don’t have to wait till grad school at Canada’s top research university.
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Feeding the World
Herbert Kronzucker and his lab are trying to determine the optimal growing conditions for rice. It’s important research that could lead to improved yields of the crop that three billion people worldwide depend on.
Read more Department of Biological Sciences at U of T Scarborough
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Preventing Brain Injury
The greatest risk of a concussion is returning to the game too soon, when an athlete can suffer a second or more serious brain injury. So Lynda Mainwaring and her fellow researchers are developing evidence-based, return-to-play guidelines – the first of their kind.
Read more Faculty of Physical Education & Health
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First-year Mentors
Whatever you’re going through those first days at university, chances are someone else has been there, done that. And that someone is on hand to navigate you through unchartered territory. Peer mentorship is available at all three U of T campuses.
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