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The primary focus of the class might not be Twilight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The Vampire Diaries, but the resurging popularity of vampires has certainly helped stimulate interest in Our Vampires, Ourselves, a  first-year German studies course.

To video gamers, the name Microsoft Kinect is synonymous with the Xbox 360 video game console. To University of Toronto graduate student Uzma Khan, the motion-sensing input device offered a myriad of other possibilities.

Khan, a master’s degree student in applied computing, used the course Topics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to explore the ways Kinect might be used in elementary school classrooms for gesture and speech recognition.

Two groups of MBA students from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto will be kicking off the New Year by exploring the opportunities and challenges of doing business in the global economy. One group will be exploring the still emerging economy of China while the second will be exploring the established economies of Europe. The tours come at an interesting time as the global economy continues to search for a way forward from the economic downturn of recent years.
 

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Steven Wang, a graduate of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, has been named an Ontario Rhodes Scholar for 2012. Wang is one of 11 Canadians to earn one of the world’s most celebrated academic honours. 

Established in 1903, the prestigious and highly competitive scholarship comes with a stipend and tuition expenses to pursue a degree or degrees at the University of Oxford.

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The World Health Organization considers HIV a worldwide pandemic. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, more than 22 million people are living with it.

James Dou, a University of Toronto PhD candidate in electrical and computer engineering, and his supervisor, Professor Stewart Aitchison, vice-dean (research) for the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, have developed an affordable and efficient lab-on-a-chip that can revolutionize HIV monitoring in developing countries.