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From Blebs to Blobs with Christopher Charles

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Talking space rocks at the Toronto Public Library
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photo of Christopher Charles

Detecting live, rare atoms is challenging work – even when you work with accelerator mass spectrometry at the University of Toronto's IsoTrace Laboratory.

Posted Friday, May 17, 2013

Yuechuan Chi's international foundations

Author: 
Philip Cox
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Yuechuan Chi shows a petri dish in a lab.

Yuechuan Chi is a third year chemistry major and developmental biology specialist with the Cell and System Biology department.

He was one of the first students of the International Foundation Program, which offers admission to academically qualified international students whose English fluency scores fall below the direct entry requirements.

Writer Philip Cox asked Yuechan what he’s been up to since completing the program three years ago.

Posted Friday, May 17, 2013

Launching TEDxUofT

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Event hosts short talks by expert speakers on campus, streams for free online
Author: 
Brianna Goldberg
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large red x over black and white image of University College

The first university-wide TEDx event comes to the downtown campus this weekend.

An acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design, TED began in the early 1990s as an annual conference in California, with strong ties to the collaborations and innovations coming out of Silicon Valley.

Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Alissa Trotz receives President's Teaching Award

Author: 
Gavin Au-Yeung
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Portrait of Alissa Trotz

Alissa Trotz was named one of three recipients of the University of Toronto’s President’s Teaching Awards last week in recognition for her work with students at the Women and Gender Studies Institute and in the Caribbean Studies program.

Trotz receives the award along with Professor Lawrence Sawchuk, Department of Anthropology, and Dr. Chris Perumalla, Department of Physiology and Division of Teaching Laboratories, Faculty of Medicine. 

Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Pioneering the psychology of mindfulness

Author: 
Kurt Kleiner
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Zindel Segal working with a research participant

Zindel Segal is a pioneer in the emerging field of mindfulness-based psychotherapy.

For more than 20 years, Segal has studied and promoted mindfulness as a way to prevent relapse in people who have suffered depression.

Using techniques such as meditation and yoga, patients learn to pay attention to their experiences, thoughts, and feelings as a way of heading off a depressive spiral.

Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2013

U of T Nursing professor advises Toronto city council as it strengthens health care for medically uninsured

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Professor Denise Gastaldo shared research, expertise for the major decision
Author: 
Kendra Hunter
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Professor Denise Gastaldo

Toronto city council addressed the needs of the medically uninsured and voted 21 to 7 in favour of increasing help for those without Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) coverage on May 9.

Posted Monday, May 13, 2013

Your own personal pocket doctor

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Smartphones are changing the way doctors treat patients: welcome to the future of medicine
Author: 
Alison Motluk
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old men using smartphones

A patient with depression, whose doctor hasn’t found a drug that works, knows the anguish of the long wait. She tries a drug for a week, reports to the doctor, tries longer or changes meds, and reports back again.

Feeling better can take months. What if doctors could land on an effective treatment sooner?

Ayal Schaffer, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry, recently asked himself that question. And, he wondered, what if patients could report on how they were doing, every day, from their homes?

Posted Monday, May 6, 2013

U of T researchers identify 10 dangerous cardiac 'hot spots' in Toronto

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U of T researchers determine where best to place defibrillators, identify under-serviced areas
Author: 
Terry Lavender
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close-up of an AED defibrillator

Those with a history of heart disease should stay clear of the Queen and Bay Street area.

It's one of the public places in Toronto where most heart attacks occur, yet it's out of reach from life-saving automated external defibrillators (AEDs), according to new research from U of T.

Posted Friday, May 3, 2013

MindFest event celebrates mental health at U of T

Author: 
Brianna Goldberg
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women making a dress on a grassy hill

Mental health steps into the spotlight at U of T’s inaugural mental health fair.

MindFest is a full-day event on May 6 celebrating the university’s engagement in National Mental Health Awareness Week, hosted by the Department of Psychiatry and Hart House.

Posted Friday, May 3, 2013

From the pitcher's mound to the world of medicine

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Meet alumnus Ron Taylor
Author: 
Angela Pirisi
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photo of Ron Taylor's baseball card

For Blue Jays fans, images of the back-to-back World Series championships are still vivid.

There was the near triple play in the ’92 Atlanta Braves series, denied by a call. Roberto Alomar’s golden glove. The lightning speed of Devon White. Joe Carter’s walk-off home run to clinch the ’93 title.

As the team’s physician, University of Toronto alumnus Ron Taylor saw them all — from the bench.

Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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