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With Valentine’s Day upon us, couples everywhere reflect on what keeps a partnership strong. Shana Kelley, a professor at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Ted Sargent, a professor at the Edward S. Rogers Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, have not only mastered their collaboration on campus, but also as life partners for the last seven years. U of T News had the chance to ask this couple a little about what it’s like to work together both on and off the job.

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Writer Lawrence Hill has always felt attachment to people, not places. Nevertheless, the place he grew up – the Toronto suburb of Don Mills in the early 1960s – shaped him as a person and as a writer.

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In observance of Black History Month, guest curators Sally Frater and Pamela Edmonds have produced, 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, an art exhibition at Hart House’s Justina M. Barnicke Gallery that asks us to consider what it is to have a month dedicated to black history and what this means to a new generation of artists.

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Research shows that female academic experts are seriously under-represented in the media, and this means that readers often lack a broader perspective on an issue, says a former journalist who monitors and studies female representation in the media.

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“I’m not going to try to tell you how to do business in the Middle Kingdom (China),”  retired businessman Paul Ip told a crowd of budding entrepreneurs during a recent Engineering Entrepreneurship Series lecture at the University of Toronto. “I started up and ran two different businesses in China. I’ll tell you my story and let you draw your own conclusions.”