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U of T ranked first in Canada, among top 17 globally across all broad subject fields: QS

March 31, 2026

The University of Toronto has been ranked first in Canada and among the top 17 universities globally in all five broad subject fields tracked by the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.

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A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

March 27, 2026

From the value in asking someone what they do for a living to a Toronto city councillor’s recommendations for improving safety on the city’s subway system, experts from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.

Katy Tam.

Katy Tam’s Life Hacks Research Lab offers simple advice to help people manage boredom

March 27, 2026

For many people, games, videos and social media offer a quick break from the daily grind, supplying a momentary dopamine boost when life feels difficult or dull. Yet Katy Tam has found that your phone may actually be increasing feelings of boredom or monotony.

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Astronomers pave the way in the search for supermassive black hole binaries in the hearts of galaxies

March 27, 2026

A team of astronomers has bolstered the evidence for the existence of one of the most remarkable, yet elusive, phenomena in the universe: pairs of supermassive black holes (SMBH) in orbit around each other in the centres of galaxies.

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Arts & Science alum and award-winning filmmaker Shelley Saywell on her new bestselling memoir

March 26, 2026

Arts & Science alum Shelley Saywell has dedicated her filmmaking career to documenting humanity’s traumatic moments, giving a voice to people ravaged by poverty, war and oppressive regimes.

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Sustainable fashion is the new black in this art history course

March 24, 2026

Alexandra Palmer opened her class with an unexpected challenge for her students: try not to buy any new clothing this term.

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For developing interdisciplinary data sciences courses, faculty receive distinguished Northrop Frye Award

March 24, 2026

The prestigious Northrop Frye Award, one of the university’s Awards of Excellence, has been bestowed on the Interdisciplinary Data Science Course Development Team for the creation

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The search for dark matter: U of T physicists achieve frigid milestone with SuperCDMS experiment in Sudbury mine

March 24, 2026

Deep underground, a refrigerator about a hundred times colder than outer space — designed to detect dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up 85 per cent of all matter in the universe — has just reached a critical milestone.

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A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

March 20, 2026

From the factors affecting food security to the world’s happiest countries, experts from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.

Here’s some of what they had to say this week.

Second-year undergraduate student Lihi Gal-Ezer demonstrates PitchSafe, an app that uses machine learning to predict risk of injury to baseball players.

Brighter Futures: Outstanding A&S students meet the donors and volunteers who support them

March 20, 2026

The enthusiastic voices of A&S students and their supporters filled the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus on March 10 during the Arts & Science Brighter Futures exhibition.

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