Thanks to a $20-million gift from the Labatt family, the University of Toronto’s department of psychiatry is launching a groundbreaking network dedicated to understanding the root causes of one of the world’s most devastating illnesses.
A pioneering engineer gives back by funding scholarships that help international students fulfil their promise.
Emmanuela Alimlim was one of 67 students who were able to come to Canada and study at U of T through a Mastercard Foundation scholarship.
Claire Kennedy’s BizSkule offers U of T engineering alumni and students invaluable access to Canadian and global thought leaders.
As far back as he can remember, musician Paul Shaffer (BA 1971 UC) knew the University of Toronto was his destiny.
Dr. Stephanie Zhou says growing up in poverty made her a better doctor.
Accomplished accordionist Joseph Macerollo’s generous gift to the Faculty of Music supports a talented protégé.
Generous donors created scholarships to honour the first five women graduates in civil engineering—and to celebrate those following in their footsteps.
The generosity of Edmund and Frances Clark and Paul Cadario leaves a legacy that will last another 150 years.
The revolutionary new engineering facility promotes collaboration through innovative workspaces, shared resources and common causes.
The Munk School’s Citizen Lab is a nexus for essential humanities research in tech and AI.
Altima Dental co-founder George Christodoulou’s $500,000 endowment supports the transformative Access to Care Fund.
How a formative connection between two original thinkers led to a pioneering new chair at the Faculty of Information.
The Morneau McCain Scholarship and Woodsworth College offer critical support for exceptional students from a Kenyan refugee camp.
U of T Mechanical Engineering student Daniel McInnis is at the forefront of innovation in helmet design and prosthetic development.
The Dunlap Family’s contributions to astronomy at U of T span generations.
David Scrymgeour’s volunteer spirit extends to his U of T alma mater, where he pairs transformative philanthropy with personal guidance and mentorship at Rotman Commerce.
Town Shoes founder Leonard Simpson is one of more than 10,000 volunteers providing mentorship and opportunities to U of Tstudents.
Robarts Common will make the University’s central library more inviting, accessible and productive for students.
The Honourable Henry “Hal” Jackman led the way in helping build a beautiful new home for U of T Law.
In 2015, a $10-million gift from philanthropists Michael and Amira Dan to the University of Toronto created a world’s first: a privately funded, university-based centre for the study of Indigenous health.
The Herbert Bunk Memorial Award honours a mentor who helped a new family settle in Canada.
Generous financial support from donors is opening doors and changing lives for U of T Law students.
Samra Zafar inspires as the University of Toronto’s youngest alumni governor.
Students and alumni banded together to fund a beautiful outdoor space. Now the bustling plaza makes the ties between them even stronger.
Ravi Gukathasan’s historic gift to U of T Scarborough is funding an annual post-doctoral fellowship in Tamil studies, scholarships, event programming and digital archiving.
John and Myrna Daniels’ transformative philanthropy establishes the award-winning Daniels Building at One Spadina Crescent for the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
Thanks to the Rotman Catalyst Fund, the Rotman School of Management has been able to invest in research that is profoundly impacting business and society.
The Lawson Family Chair in Microbiome Nutrition Research, Elena Comelli, is discovering new links between the gut, good health and chronic disease.
The Boundless campaign succeeded thanks to a core group of visionary donors and volunteers who shared our conviction that U of T can make a decisive difference in the world.
Professor Paul Santerre’s team focuses on cardiac tissue repair at the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research.
Through an extraordinary donation establishing the five-year-term Nanji Family Chair in Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, Toronto’s Nanji Family has brought vital new resources to eye surgery at U of T, restoring vision to those in need of care.
The generosity of Eric Jackman, Margaret and Wallace McCain and an anonymous donor helps reinvigorate and expand one of the world’s leading lab schools and teaching research centres.
David Asper’s giving reflects his belief that society must be ever-vigilant in safeguarding its rights .
The University of Toronto’s 10 One programs for first-year undergraduate students receive a major boost from the Boundless campaign.
Shalice Coutu’s vision of accessible urban architecture was made possible through the critical student support provided by the Boundless campaign.
Returning students are pursuing their goals at U of T Scarborough thanks to support from a generous alumna.
A UTAA gift continues the century-long tradition of alumni support for St. George campus.
The Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing is Canada’s premier nursing school, and a principal factor is the faculty’s emphasis on experiential learning, where the cutting-edge Simulation Lab plays a major role.
Woodsworth College alumni have helped more than 200 students determine their career direction through one-on-one mentorship pairings.
Volunteer, mentor and philanthropist Jonathan Feldman traces his success in law to his one-of-a-kind experience at U of T Law .
Launched with an $11-million gift from the Goldring family, U of T’s Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport has revitalized student athletes and provided new opportunities for sports researchers.
Epidemiologist and public health researcher Professor Laura Rosella is using big data to transform our understanding of Canadians’ health.
Richard Scott donated a rare intact copy of a 1920s silent film, one of many in-kind gifts U of T received during the Boundless campaign.
Multi-talented student Elliot Jarmain is succeeding in physics, mathematics and music, thanks to a scholarship bequest from University College alumnus William Beverly.
University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer of the AI field, keeps making breakthroughs. The latest is a novel way to teach computers to identify something they’ve never seen before.
Protecting the rights of all Canadians is a vital task if we are to maintain a free society. U of T’s David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights ensures that the higher courts uphold the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Thanks to the Dean Catharine Whiteside Scholarship for Clinician-Scientists, MD/PhD student Hannah Kozlowski is pursuing intriguing research on blood-borne diseases.
Inspired by an award he received as a student, Bill and Kathleen Troost have donated $1 million for engineering scholarships.
Students Emma Hansen and Daniel McInnis are channelling their passion for science into world-changing ideas and inventions, with the support of Schulich Leader Scholarships.
To remain competitive, Canada needs highly specialized leaders trained in specific sectors as well as in management and business. The new Institute for Management and Innovation at the University of Toronto Mississauga is developing this specialized talent.
The new B.Sc. in Statistical Machine Learning and Data Mining at U of T Scarborough promises to put our graduates at the centre of the big data revolution.
Playing a musical instrument with rhythm and style requires mastering subtle bodily movements. U of T neuroscientist Berhard Ross is investigating how playing music helps patients recover the use of their limbs in the aftermath of a stroke.
Science traditionally divides child development among numerous disciplines, leaving a fractured view of how children develop physically and psychologically. The Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development is pursuing a cohesive, transdisciplinary understanding of how the first 2,000 days of life shape our health and wellbeing.
The Hult Prize helps launch entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pernicious social problems. U of T’s Team Attollo made the finals with a plan to teach young children in urban slums the vocabulary they need for a better life.
U of T Professor Geoffrey Hinton’s “deep learning’’ neural networks have made him one of the world’s most celebrated artificial intelligence researchers. His algorithms already power technology like voice recognition and image search and may soon understand the meanings of sentences.
Over the past two decades, we have seen growing irrationality in politics, influencing policy decisions and our quality of life. Professor Joseph Heath is sparking a public conversation about what rationality is and how to restore its place in public discourse.
As Canada’s fastest growing city, Mississauga requires more physicians to ensure access to health care for all members of the community. Thanks to visionary philanthropists Terrence Donnelly and Carlo Fidani and other key partners, the Mississauga Academy of Medicine is meeting this critical need by training the next generation of health leaders in Ontario.
Professor Peter St George-Hyslop and his team have discovered the genes responsible for Alzheimer’s, an important step toward treatments or even a cure for this devastating disease.
Professor Zindel Segal has shown that mindfulness meditation can change how the brain functions and help patients struggling with depression. As his method gains international recognition, Segal aims to make it affordable and available to anyone by delivering therapy online.
U of T startup Xagenic, founded by Professor Shana Kelley, will bring to market a medical device that can detect major illnesses in 20 minutes.
Assistant Professor Laura Rosella uses big data to explain the links between health-care costs and social factors such as food, housing and workplace.
Climate change threatens to drastically affect plant, animal, and human life in Canada’s north. Professor Kent Moore’s research on the Beaufort Sea’s Arctic marine ecosystem will help reveal how things will change.
The emerging field of nutrigenomics investigates the interaction between our genes and the food we eat. Researchers have discovered that our individual genetic makeup may determine our ideal diet.
The IMANI program connects UTSC student mentors to Scarborough middle and high school students who need help improving their grades, and has inspired a community through its success.
Dr. Tom Chau and researchers in the Bloorview Research Institute at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital have designed a suite of technologies to break down communication barriers for children and youth with severe and complex disabilities.
U of T’s Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab (TAGLab) focuses on creating technology that can help people to adapt to the aging process and continue to live healthy, happy, productive lives in their own homes.
Professor Frank Rudzicz and his team are developing computer software to diagnose neurodegenerative disease rapidly and accurately. The program analyzes an individual’s speech and compares it to known patterns that reveal the presence or absence of dementia as well as diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
Today, cross-cultural skills and a global outlook are critical for students to succeed in global development and international business. Two flagship programs at the University of Toronto Scarborough meet that need by empowering students with experience abroad.
A good start can make a race. MSc student Lindsay Musalem analyzes the forces elite runners produce as they burst out of the starting blocks. Her findings could help give Canadian athletes a leg up in future competitions.
We can already collect voluminous data about the functions and structure of a patient’s brain. Professor Randy McIntosh is developing a platform to create virtual models of human brains that integrate the data to help physicians treat brain diseases.
Through U of T’s Caribbean Studies program, Mark Chatarpal is finding the resources he needs to help his homeland.
Undergraduate UTSC student Jessie MacAlpine is investigating the potential of mustard oil—a staple of kitchens throughout the developing world—to kill the parasite that causes malaria.
Nursing PhD student Somayeh Faghanipour is exploring how to deliver better health care to immigrant communities in Canada and around the world.
Master of Information student My Anh Truong and colleagues created a guideline to help librarians document social media from around the world.
Engineering student Kramay Patel’s invention not only helps conserve resources but also underscores how U of T enables innovation.
U of T Mississauga undergraduate Syed Fakrul Arefin is tapping into a wealth of good advice to launch a digital startup that could change the way you buy clothes.
By devoting her time to extra-curricular activities, Dentistry’s Alicia Clancy is broadening her worldview and opening up to new learning opportunities.
International relations student Shreya Nayak is gaining crucial real-life experience in an innovative U of T classroom experiment.
Professor Faye Mishna aims to reduce the exploitation of children and youth in the cyber world, and promote safer use of technology among young people.
As the world of online education grows, so do questions about its effectiveness. By bringing technological innovations to large and online courses, Professor Steve Joordens is demonstrating that students can get a deep and engaging learning experience remotely, online or in the biggest classrooms.
A telescope co-invented by U of T Professor Roberto Abraham captures light from the darkest galaxies and will help explain how galaxies form and evolve.
Having assembled the entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon texts, U of T’s Dictionary of Old English is mapping and redefining the origins of our language.
Debates about public transit are empty without empirical evidence. By researching urban redevelopment, Professor André Sorensen and his students at the Cities Lab at UTSC are informing the discussion of transit options for Scarborough, the Greater Toronto Area and cities across North America.
Cast Connex, a U of T startup, has developed an inexpensive way to construct earthquake-resistant buildings with the potential to save lives around the world.
Professor Tina Malti researches emotions in children and youth to help educators, parents and policymakers promote empathy and prevent and treat aggression.
Professor Derek van der Kooy and his team are using stem cells to restore sight to blind mice, an important step towards restoring sight and curing blindness in humans.
Professor Patrick Gunning has figured out how to stop cancer cells from spreading, a discovery that could treat some of the deadliest cancers.
U of T architecture professor Benjamin Dillenburger has created the first entirely 3D printed room to demonstrate the disruptive potential of the new technology for architecture.
Early treatment can make all the difference for a child with autism. Often, however, diagnosis comes too late for effective treatment. Now, a breakthrough by U of T’s Professor Stephen Scherer makes early diagnosis and treatment possible.
The digital economy is critical to Canada’s future growth and prosperity. However, without a plan to exploit the tremendous opportunities of advanced information technology, we risk being left behind. A new project led by Professor David Wolfe aims to put Canada on track.
Ubiquitous computing enabled by massive data centres already influences our daily lives in ways we take for granted. But these systems sometimes fail with serious consequences. Professor Bianca Schroeder is exploring how to make these data centres more reliable and efficient.
Professor Joyce Poon is developing optical devices that could make computers vastly more powerful and a whole lot faster.
Professor Ted Sargent and his students have developed a material that could soon lead to spray-on solar paint—a cheap and easy way to bring solar power to millions worldwide.
U of T engineers have designed and tested a new approach to cloaking objects so that they are not visible or detectable. The research holds great promise for advances in military, surveillance and cell phone transmission.
Professor Prabhat Jha leads the Million Death Study, the largest epidemiological research study in global health. By following the lives and deaths of two million households throughout India, Jha is finding new ways to reduce premature mortality worldwide.
Follow the money and you’ll find the root of the matter. UTSC political scientist Aisha Ahmad is doing just that by exploring how local business elites are financing ideologically motivated Islamist groups in the ongoing civil wars in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
Professor Pamela Klassen investigates how nations are not only politically imagined, but also spiritually invented. Focused on interactions between Christian missionaries and Indigenous peoples in early 20th-century Canada, her research also considers what remembering this history means for efforts of reconciliation in the present.
CRANE Project Director and U of T archaeologist Professor Timothy Harrison leads an international, multi-disciplinary team of researchers in a groundbreaking effort to digitize, visualize, and simulate the birthplace of human civilization.
U of T researchers at the new Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research are exploring the extraordinary promise of stem cell therapies and tissue engineering to offer new hope to millions who suffer from heart disease.
Professor Molly Shoichet is designing a revolutionary system to deliver stem cells and drugs to damaged or diseased parts of the human body, including the brain and spinal cord.
Professor Ron Buliung’s research explores how removing financial, social and physical barriers to mobility for disabled children could lead to easier mobility for everyone.
U of T startup Nymi Inc. has created a wristband that uses a person’s unique cardiac rhythm to unlock devices and open applications without resorting to passwords.
Professor Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, is exposing cyber espionage, information warfare and Internet censorship to help protect the rights of citizens worldwide.