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Five ways cities can avoid cost overruns on infrastructure: Matti Siemiatycki

January 25, 2016

Toronto is heading into a massive period of investment in infrastructure, and a new U of T report suggests ways it can be done without equally massive cost overruns.

Brett Chang

Alumnus Brett Chang charting a new course for transit in Toronto

January 25, 2016

Named one of the Globe and Mail’s “Top Torontonians who got things done in 2014” for his development of Line Six, a resident-run shuttle bus service in Liberty Village, Brett Chang (HBA 2013, St. Michael’s College) has consistently had his eye on improving Toronto’s transit system.

Randall Hansen

Canada was snubbed at ISIS talks — and we deserved it, U of T professor says

January 21, 2016

When defence ministers from the United States, France, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom met in Paris this week to discuss strategy in the fight against ISIS, Canada’s defence minister Harjit Sajjan wasn’t among them.

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Forecasting 2016 and Beyond: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics and Chemistry

January 20, 2016

A&S scientists are engaged in a range of pressing challenges from combating climate change to managing disease.

Jonathon Hamilton

U of T to take action on Truth and Reconciliation Commission

January 18, 2016

University of Toronto President Meric Gertler and Vice-President and Provost Cheryl Regehr have struck a university-wide steering committee in response to the federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) challenge to

Rawi Hage.

Solitude essential for writer-in-residence

January 14, 2016

Award-winning writer Rawi Hage is the Department of English’s Jack McLelland writer-in-residence for the 2016 spring term, so the novelist has uprooted himself from his Montreal home for four months to live in Toronto, writing and teaching.

Realistic animations of man&#039;s face

Oscar-winning animator and filmmaker Chris Landreth at U of T computer science

January 13, 2016

Traditional animators are masterful at capturing the expressions we see on screen, like Disney Pixar’s characters Joy, Fear and Disgust, in the animated film, Inside Out.

Other filmmakers use tools like motion-capture to track the muscular points of a person’s face to animate their speech.

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Forecasting 2016 and beyond: Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistical Sciences

January 12, 2016

There’s big buzz around big data — a key area of focus for a number of Arts & Science disciplines. Mining the vast quantity of information now available holds unimaginable promise: predicting and preventing crime, optimizing business, tackling diseases, even the discovery of new planets.

Stephen Cook

U of T computer scientist receives international award for pushing frontiers of knowledge

January 12, 2016

Stephen Cook, computer science, has won the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category for his pioneering and influential work on computational complexity.

Pamela Wong

Planet ArtSci Episode 7: Polar Bears, Climate Change and Inuit Knowledge

January 11, 2016

PhD candidate Pamela Wong is combining leading-edge scientific techniques with traditional Inuit knowledge to better our understanding of the impact of climate change on polar bear populations.

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