University of Toronto

Afia Amoako, a third-year PhD student in the division of epidemiology at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, wants to provide a deeper, more nuanced understanding of how people living in the city experienced…

Early results from a University of Toronto stakeholder study on school food programs find that parents and caregivers in the Greater Toronto Area are concerned about limited access to current programs and the ability of schools to provide…

A team of University of Toronto researchers is shining a light on the use of solar-powered ultra-violet (UV) LEDs to treat harvested rainwater in Mexico. Master’s student Mistelle Haughton and PhD candidate Karlye Wong, both in the…

Researchers from the University of Toronto – in collaboration with a group of mining firms – are using acid-loving bacteria to design new processes for recovering nickel, a critical mineral in growing demand around the world.The research…

Rya Buckley’s graduate research at the University of Toronto focuses on examining the experiences and access to mental health supports of racialized and marginalized students – expertise she will now put to work on behalf of her peers. A…

Astronomers have successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope that has begun capturing images of the universe on its first flight above the Earth’s atmosphere. The Super Pressure Balloon-Borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was flown to…

Kent Roach, a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, has spent decades sounding the alarm on wrongful convictions in Canada.His new research underlines the dangers of wrongful convictions based on false guilty pleas…

A team of researchers from the Krembil Brain Institute (KBI) and the University of Toronto have identified a protein-protein interaction that contributes to Parkinson’s disease.In a study published in Nature Communications, KBI scientists…

The University of Toronto and France’s Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) are developing a joint CNRS International Research Centre (IRC) – expanding a seven-year-old partnership that allows researchers to work across…

A University of Toronto-led collaboration developing clean energy technologies that can be tailored to the needs of different communities – from Canada’s remote North to populous southern Ontario – will receive support from the federal…