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Meet two U of T community members supporting Team Canada at the Winter Olympics and Paralympics

From coaches to physicians and other support staff, it takes a literal village to keep athletes performing at peak levels at both the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. As part of Team Canada’s ...
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'Pretty surreal': How a U of T architecture student turned a CFL setback into an Olympic debut

Eight months ago, Luka Stoikos was chasing a professional football career. Now, the University of Toronto architecture student is pushing for the podium at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games as a member of ...
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U of T undergrad eyes figure skating gold at Milano Cortina 2026

University of Toronto student Stephen Gogolev has a solid excuse for missing his midterms: there are no makeups for the ...
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Campus Discovery: Explore U of T’s geothermal innovation and win

Beneath King’s College Circle lies Canada’s largest urban geoexchange system — a massive underground thermal battery that helps heat and cool campus buildings while reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
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Life expectancy study reveals the dangers of ‘model minority’ stereotype

The “model minority” myth holds that certain ethnic groups – for example, Asian Americans – are well-educated, hardworking, ...
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109 volunteers recognized with U of T Arbor Awards

The University of Toronto has recognized 109 individuals with Arbor Awards, the university's highest honour for volunteers. Created more than 30 years ago, the annual awards recognize volunteers who ...
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U of T atmospheric physicists find error in widely cited Arctic snow cover observations

For decades, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has offered a snapshot of the planet’s changing climate – but University of Toronto researchers have found that some ...
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U of T oral health startup launches dental 'smart' gum: The Globe and Mail, Betakit

A University of Toronto startup has officially launched its dental "smart" gum to offer oral health support on the go, the Globe and Mail and Betakit reported. The product is already available in U.S.
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Geochemist draws on billion-year-old water discovery to aid green energy transition

Barbara Sherwood Lollar has spent more than 30 years studying deep, underground water and its surprisingly vast potential – from offering clues about potential life on other planets to locating ...
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New observations of supermassive black hole reveal magnetic field reversals, signs of jet activity

New images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an international collaboration involving several University of Toronto astronomers and astrophysicists, have shown a reversal in the magnetic fields ...
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Philosopher Jason Stanley to instil a sense of urgency about global affairs and the 'rollback of democracy'

One of the greatest weapons that authoritarians – past and present – have used to suppress democratic freedoms worldwide is language, particularly its power to distort reality and reinforce ideologies ...
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Ilya Sutskever, a leader in AI and its responsible development, receives U of T honorary degree

From co-authoring seminal research papers to co-founding the research organization that developed ChatGPT, few people have been as influential in shaping the artificial intelligence landscape – and ...