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A&S scholars sharing their COVID-19 expertise in the media this week

May 29, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect our community and the world, scholars from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on pressing issues in the media — from the need to access public bathrooms to the challenges in making personal decisions as societal restrictions are eased.

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A degree three decades in the making for St. Michael's College grad

May 29, 2020

John Montefiore’s path to graduation is a little unconventional. As a member of St. Michael’s College, he completed his honours bachelor of arts degree with a double minor in human geography and education in society — a degree he started in 1995.

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A&S geochronologists shed light on Earth’s greatest mass extinction

May 28, 2020

Of the mass extinctions that have punctuated the history of life on Earth, none was more catastrophic than the “Great Dying” that occurred at the end of the Permian period 250 million years ago.

For Kaylee Baxter, convocation is one step closer to exploring the Arctic

May 28, 2020

Kaylee Baxter has always had an avid interest in history.

The member of Victoria College says that being able to investigate the past in both a theoretical and hands-on way is what led to her honours bachelor of arts degree with majors in archaeology and anthropology — something she accomplished in just three years.

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Spike in ageism during pandemic

May 28, 2020

When COVID-19 first emerged and began to spread, there was a rush to identify common characteristics shared by those infected. Geographic location, lifestyle and pre-existing health conditions were all early candidates for a distinguishing factor that would help predict who would be most susceptible.

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Explore and experience New College's Indigenous artistic hub

May 28, 2020

New College was excited to host an artistic hub during the annual Native American Indigenous Studies Association conference (NAISA), co-curated by Assistant Professor Karyn Recollet of the Women & Gender Studies Institute and Jenny Blackbird, Ciimann/Kahuwe’ya/ Qajaq Indigenous Language initiative program coordinator at the Centre

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From Pakistan to Toronto to Scotland and back, Trinity College grad keeps busy

May 27, 2020

Sara Imran certainly kept busy at U of T.

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Barbara Sherwood Lollar awarded Killam Prize in Natural Sciences

May 26, 2020

Geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar has received this year's Killam Prize in Natural Sciences from the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Joseph Heath awarded Killam Research Fellowship

May 26, 2020

Joseph Heath, a professor in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts.

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As convocation approaches, New College's Echo Jing looks back on four years of research, friends and harmony

May 26, 2020

When Echo Jing spent 10 weeks in Singapore for the Research Abroad program offered by the Department of Cell & Systems Biology (CSB) in 2019, the ex

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