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Thursday, 12 January 2012 10:00
Strains and sprains may affect brains
In the world of sports medicine, the concussion was long considered the common cold of athletes: easy to shake off and benign in the long-term. However, research over the past few years has demonstrated that particularly in the short-term, athletes with concussion display symptoms that point to reduced cognitive functioning. While it has become clear…
Thursday, 12 January 2012 10:00
Skvorecky: A man of two worlds
A voice from behind the Iron Curtain, Josef Skvorecky was a literary figure who spent the latter half of his life in Canada and taught at the University of Toronto. In Czechoslovakia, he became a popular author with a fervent dissident voice alongside the likes of Vaclav Havel, playwright and future Czech president. Although he…
Thursday, 12 January 2012 10:00
Liberals launch Ontario tuition grant
Starting this month, many undergraduate students pursuing post-secondary education in Ontario can look forward to a 30 per cent tuition rebate. The new program, a core component of the Liberal campaign platform and spearheaded by “education premier” Dalton McGuinty, will be available to roughly half of the province's undergraduates.
Thursday, 12 January 2012 10:00
The future of the Chosen Un
North Korea, to borrow Winston Churchill’s phrase, is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” For 17 years, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il--a.k.a. the Guiding Sun Ray, the Invincible and Ever-triumphant General, and possessor of 40 other similarly grandiloquent titles--kept a veil of secrecy over affairs in North Korea. Since his death on…
Tuesday, 03 January 2012 10:00
U of T students reach finals of Facebook Hackathon
In the first round of the Facebook Hackathon, an annual competition to design original apps for the social networking site, U of T grads Joey Peng and Yang Han, together with teammates from Waterloo University, developed an app which lets users display their photos and personal information as a slideshow. Known as “FaceReel,” the app…
Thursday, 08 December 2011 10:00
U of T alum twins tackle danger of concussions
After Sidney Crosby suffered a serious head injury last year, the issue of concussions was on the minds of many Canadians. U of T alumnae and twin sisters, Swapna and Sandhya Mylabathula, are big hockey fans and were especially gripped by the story. The biology and nutritional science grads decided to draft and submit a…
Thursday, 08 December 2011 10:00
Law school finds funds to lay new foundation
Last week, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law celebrated the launch of a $35-million dollar campaign to help fund the construction of their new $53-million building. The project is set to renovate the existing structure and build a new, expansive addition, both of which will provide faculty and staff with much needed space.
Thursday, 01 December 2011 10:00
Bridging the Bering Strait
A team of researchers, including U of T Anthropology Professor Max Friesen, has recently discovered a 1500 year-old bronze clasp that may shed new light on ancient transcontinental trading patterns.
Thursday, 01 December 2011 10:00
The social life of disinhibition
A recent paper published by University of Toronto professor Jason Hirsh has linked the forceful effects of alcohol intoxication, social power, and anonymity on human cognition to a single underlying mechanism. Hirsh and his colleagues suggest a general model of “disinhibition” to explain the influences of these social factors on human thought processes and behavior.…
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