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Muhaddisah Batool and four other participants in a zoom chat sing together,
April 1, 2020
Theatre student at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mississauga takes the show online amid COVID-19

Amid theatre closures and live show cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one theatre and drama studies student at the University of Toronto…

Coronavirus, Drama, Global, Theatre, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mississauga, Undergraduate Students
A reusable plastic face shield is held up on display
April 1, 2020
Â鶹ÊÓƵ researcher and Toronto Public Library form partnership to make face shields with 3D printers

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and personal protective equipment supplies dwindle, one University of Toronto researcher is working on a novel…

Coronavirus, Faculty of Medicine, University Health Network
Portrait of Gimmy Chu
April 1, 2020
Eco-lighting startup, built by Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumni, pivots to sourcing medical gear for hospitals

Two weeks ago they were making light panels. Today they’re sourcing medical equipment.  Nanoleaf, a company…

Coronavirus, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, Startups
Portrait of Kumar Murty taken at street level outside of his elm st office
March 31, 2020
Nine Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers receive federal grants for COVID-19 projects

When it comes to assessing the risk of transmission of an infectious disease like COVID-19 and evaluating the effectiveness of measures like physical…

Coronavirus, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Biochemistry, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Arts & Science, Faculty of Medicine, Fields Institute, Mathematics, Mount Sinai Hospital, Physiology, Psychiatry, Research & Innovation, Sunnybrook Hospital, University Health Network
An image of the molecular structure of the novel coronavirus's spike protein pictured here
March 31, 2020
Researchers at Â鶹ÊÓƵ developing antibodies to 'neutralize' novel coronavirus before it invades cells

  University of Toronto researcher Sachdev Sidhu and his collaborators are engineering antibody molecules that can neutralize…

Coronavirus, Resarch & Innovation, Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Molecular Genetics
Photo of a laptop displaying a graphic of COVID-19 cases around the world
March 31, 2020
What does that graph mean? Â鶹ÊÓƵ statistician on understanding COVID-19 numbers

As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the world, Canadians have been presented with a profusion of statistics, graphs and other data visualizations…

Coronavirus, Faculty of Arts & Science, Statistical Sciences
portrait of David Naylor leaning against a large table at Simcoe Hall
March 30, 2020
Better data crucial to Canada’s recovery from COVID-19: David Naylor in the Globe and Mail

As hospitals brace for a wave of COVID-19 patients, policy-makers need to strike a balance between slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus,…

Coronavirus, David Naylor, Faculty of Medicine
A woman works on a laptop at a table at home
March 30, 2020
Working from home? Here are five tips from Â鶹ÊÓƵ experts

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended people’s daily work and personal lives in ways we could never have imagined only a few weeks ago. While there’s…

Coronavirus, Management, Rotman School of Management, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Scarborough
A worker lifts boxes of personal protective equipment supplies amidst stacks of other boxes
March 30, 2020
Â鶹ÊÓƵ donates masks, gowns and other critical supplies to health-care workers combatting COVID-19

The University of Toronto is scouring labs across its three campuses for masks, gloves and other badly-needed protective equipment to donate to…

Coronavirus, Joint Centre for Bioethics, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mississauga, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Scarborough, Vivek Goel
March 30, 2020
Â鶹ÊÓƵ launches podcast focusing on COVID-19 public health challenges and next steps

A new podcast hosted by the University of Toronto’s Vivek Goel offers timely and reliable information about the COVID-19…

Coronavirus, COVID-19 Podcast, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mississauga, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Scarborough, Vivek Goel
March 27, 2020
Â鶹ÊÓƵ infectious disease expert's AI firm now part of Canada's COVID-19 arsenal

  On New Year’s Eve, the software company BlueDot pushed out a notification to its customers about a mysterious illness that appeared in…

Coronavirus, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Global, St. Michael's Hospital
a man and a woman light an olympic cauldron together in tokyo
March 27, 2020
How the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics could heal a post-coronavirus world: Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Bruce Kidd

The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics should bring the world back together in a reinvigorated spirit of Olympism – the ideal that sport…

Coronavirus, Tokyo 2020, Bruce Kidd, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education, Olympics, The Conversation, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Scarborough