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The Barbie movie got it wrong when it comes to baby dolls — this Indigenous collection is proof
The teaser for the Barbie movie opens with a falsified fact — that before Barbie, girls only ever played with baby dolls. Miriam Castillo Orozco is reminded daily that this isn’t true.
Married couple spends weeks crossing Canada's east coast on motorcycles
Sue and Steve Joordens, a married couple who have cumulatively worked at U of T Scarborough for decades, spent much of their summer riding motorcycles from Toronto to Newfoundland and back again.
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U of T ranked first in Canada, among top 25 universities globally in Shanghai ranking
The University of Toronto is rated first in Canada and 24th globally in the latest edition of ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s worldwide university rankings.
Among public universities, U of T placed…
New UTSC Cluster preparing for workforce of the future
The University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) Clusters of Scholarly Prominence Program has awarded funding to a new cluster: Education and Training for the 21st Century Workforce.
U of T ranks second globally among universities for health sciences research: The Globe and Mail
The University of Toronto has been ranked the second most prolific health sciences research university in the world by scientific journal Nature, the Globe and Mail reports.
Magazine uses fiction to explore the toll taken by climate change – and our response
A new publication launched by the Environmental Governance Lab (EGL) in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts & Science is using speculative fiction to examine the toll climate change may…
Irena Creed attends UN’s high-level political forum on sustainable development
In 2015, the United Nations established 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) for member nations to reach by 2030, such as taking urgent steps to combat climate change and using clean energy. Then…
Hilary Brown receives grant to explore pregnancy outcomes and care of women with mental and physical health conditions
Hilary Brown has been awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project grant that will support her work investigating the pregnancy outcomes and care of women who have two or more long…
Video games are popping up across academia, and this resource is a new kind of tutorial
Video games aren’t so different than books, and a new resource is proving they can be studied the same way.
‘An Itsy Bitsy Audience’: Babies find live music more engaging
You don't have to be an adult to feel the power of live opera – even babies prefer to attend in person, a new study suggests.
When infants watched a live performance of a baby opera, their heart…
New research institutes hosted at U of T Scarborough will tackle important global challenges
The Executive Committee of U of T’s Governing Council has confirmed the establishment of a new, tri-campus extra-departmental unit (EDU:C) that will be hosted at U of T Scarborough.
Here’s how U of T Scarborough celebrated Pride Month
Throughout the month of June members of the UTSC community joined together in creating a colourful flower mural to help celebrate Pride Month.
Each colour of flower symbolized a specific emotion.…