Footwear evidence and 3D laser scanning
Imprinted in sand, moulded in dirt, or
stamped on the floor—footprints discovered at crime scenes can provide evidence
for forensics teams who play a vital game...
Dragonfly health harmed by road salt
With lower temperatures and winter weather comes an increase in road
salt usage. Researchers from the McCauley Lab at UTM have studied the effects
of increased...
Religion TA Anna Cwikla honoured
Anna Cwikla, a Ph.D. candidate and a course instructor at the
University of Toronto, is the 2018-2019 recipient of the June Scott Teaching
Excellence Award for...
The fight to save baby Eva Batista’s life
At just seven weeks old, Eva Batista was diagnosed with Spinal
Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a rare disease which attacks the body’s muscles.
Batista, who lives in...
Youth and Yoga in Lamu
“I like to see how languages work in the world. fascinated by
the complexity of communication and the central role it plays in our...
UTM’s popular vocal dataset
“Are you familiar with TSpace?” asks Dr. Kathy Pichora-Fuller,
professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. TSpace is the University
of Toronto’s institutional academic repository....
Self-driving cars and field robotics
Imagine a robot executing an order such as finding a coral head in
an ocean. This is one of the projects Dr. Florian Shkurti, an...
Remembering the CP train derailment
On the morning of November 11, 1979,
12-year-old Javed Khan and his cousin were out to deliver newspapers on their
route.
Recounting his experience of the...
Curbing food waste through technology
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, about one-third of the food produced in the world for human
consumption gets lost or...
The intersection of business and tech
Collaboration between business and
technology has been steadily increasing in the industry over the last few
years. Experts from technological backgrounds such as computer science,
mathematics, and...
The legendary Professor Judith Poë
“They call me a legend,” says Judith C. Poë, a beloved professor of
chemistry at UTM. Poë, who joined the UTM faculty in 1970, humbly...
From compositional art to readymades
As outlined in Rosalind Krauss’s opening
line to a chapter dedicated to Marcel Duchamp’s Etant Donnés in
“Art since 1900,” a textbook she co-wrote with four...