Kohila Kurunathan
Groundbreakers: U of T’s Acceleration Consortium rethinks the laboratory to optimize the discovery-to-commercialization process
What does the lab of the future look like? When it comes to advanced materials, can we accelerate the process of discovery to commercialization from 25 years to 10, five or even one? These are some of the issues explored by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, director of the Acceleration Consortium at the University of Toronto, and polymer […]
Critical Digital Humanities Initiative to examine history through lens of power, social justice
From wampum belts to historical photographs, Cara Krmpotich and Heidi Bohaker are seeking to digitally reunite thousands of Indigenous artifacts from the Great Lakes region with the communities who once created them. The pair of University of Toronto researchers lead an international team that aims to decolonize museum practices by creating a database, or “knowledge sharing system,” that, for […]
Preventing the next pandemic: U of T’s EPIC consortium
The University of Toronto’s Combined Containment Level 3 (C-CL3) unit, equipped to safely study pathogens that cause infectious disease, was among the first labs in Canada to enable researchers to work with SaRS-CoV-2 samples. While similar facilities elsewhere had closed after the 2003 SARS outbreak, the U of T lab remained open – supporting a vast […]
Indigenous Research Network deepens and extends Indigenous research at U of T and beyond
The newly launched Indigenous Research Network (IRN) will make it easier to find information and share resources – for students, established researchers, partners and communities. The IRN is the culmination of two years of careful consultation.
Can a ‘problem’ be a solution? U of T’s School of Cities rethinks Toronto’s aging apartment towers
“Towers in the Park: A Prospective for Equitable Resilience,” led by Fadi Masoud, aims to evaluate the social and environmental value of public and private open-space assets as they relate to the city’s overall resilience goals. It will also explore the potential for integrating adaptation and mitigation strategies in the tower neighbourhoods. It is just one of the innovative interdisciplinary research projects supported by U of T’s School of Cities.
U of T Mississauga researcher leads new Critical Digital Humanities Initiative
Elspeth Brown, a professor in U of T Mississauga’s department of historical studies, describes digital humanities as an interdisciplinary field that bridges the humanities and computational or digital studies.
TC3 Research and Networking Symposium
This symposium will bring together cannabis and cannabinoid researchers and trainees from the University of Toronto and Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network and will provide an opportunity to network, seek new collaborations, build links and share health research findings related to cannabis and cannabinoids.
Announcing the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative!
With an emphasis on anti-racist, feminist, queer, and decolonial scholarship and research, the CDHI will bridge the humanities’ emphasis on power and culture with the tools and analysis of digital technology to forge a new, generative paradigm of critical humanities scholarship.
Researchers from U of T, affiliated hospitals form research consortium to study risks and benefits of cannabis
The Toronto Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Consortium (TC3) was launched Thursday at a conference of researchers, government officials, policy-makers and industry representatives. TC3 combines the research muscle of the university with a dozen academic hospitals. “There is a huge research engine at U of T,” said Ruth Ross, a professor and chair of the Faculty of Medicine’s pharmacology and toxicology department and a member of the TC3 steering committee.
Cannabis Innovation Summit to officially launch U of T-led research consortium
Researchers from UofT and its affiliated hospitals will meet this week at the Cannabis Innovation Summit to launch TC3 (Toronto Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Consortium — a partnership focused on the health effects of cannabis and related compounds.