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As the plane touches down in Guatemala, Yvonne Joseph hopes the supplies she has packed in her suitcase will be enough to provide free emergency dental care to the underprivileged communities here.

For the last three years, Joseph, a certified dental assistant and team leader in the orthodontic department at the Faculty of Dentistry, takes one to two weeks of her vacation time to travel to rural parts of Guatemala to perform oral hygiene services for the poor. This, despite not knowing a word of Spanish or having any prior knowledge of Guatemala.

At U of T, students, faculty and staff study, work and live on its three campuses. With some of the most prestigious architecture and beautiful green space in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, each one has its strengths. It’s not often however we hear that a staff member has worked on all three campuses. Jacqueline Dean, faculty affairs co-ordinator at the dean’s office at U of T Scarborough, Yvonne Rodney, director of the Career Centre at St.

By Nick Mount

Thank you Chancellor Peterson, Principal Desloges. Welcome, parents and friends. For the rest of you, hands up if you couldn’t understand the parts [of the ceremony] in Latin.

That’s a good thing. It shows you’ve got something left to learn.

By Michael Wiley

Outside the main door of room 2170 in the Medical Sciences Building there is a photograph of a fellow named Harry Whittaker. The photograph is mounted next to a plaque that celebrates the 53 years that Whittaker devoted to teaching histology, the microscopic structure of cells, tissues and organs, to students in the Faculty of Medicine at this university. The inscription includes the notation: “The

By Nick Eyles

Japan is one of the most dangerous places to live anywhere on Earth: “earthquake central” with volcanoes thrown in for good measure. It lies where four plates come together and they don’t like each other. In a relatively small, densely urbanized island such as this, the effects of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis are magnified. Acceptance of natural disasters and the tough times that follow is hard-wired into the national psyche.