SCIENCE
Scientists @ Vic: Samuel Dumas
Kieran Guimond
March 24, 2024
The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Samuel Dumas: I’m in my third year, and my major is mathematics. What is your research? My research focuses primarily on invertebrate biodiversity. It’s a project in urban ecology and I’m working with the stormwater ponds in Brampton. What’s ...
Scientists @ Vic: Jackson Leslie
Kieran Guimond
February 29, 2024
The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Jackson Leslie: I’m in my fourth year. I specialize in Neuroscience, and I do a major in Fundamental Genetics. What is your research? Right now, I am doing research in Dr. McLaurin’s lab at Sunnybrook. My project looks at ...
Life sciences programs—a rundown
Daria Draskovic
February 29, 2024
Upper-year students talk program selection, experiences, and advice.
An amateur ecologist’s list of love and sex in the natural world
Silas Peters
February 29, 2024
Highlights include penis fencing and long-distance friendships
Scientists @ Vic: Emilie Nero
Kieran Guimond
February 7, 2024
The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors? Emilie Nero: My name is Emilie Nero. I am in fourth year now, and I’m doing a double major in Biology and Health and Disease. What is your research? We’ve all heard of microplastics and how they’re getting into ...
Sliced, stitched, supercharged: the DIY cyborg movement
Khairatun Yusuff
February 7, 2024
“Don’t stop at five senses when you can install a sixth one,”—a DIY cyborg (probably)
Neuralink: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the computer
Tristan Gosselin
February 7, 2024
Neuralink’s controversial implantable brain-computer interface is commencing its clinical trials
Sustainability spotlight: UofT Trash Team and MealCare Toronto in conversation
Khairatun Yusuff
November 29, 2023
UofT's Trash Team and MealCare inspire change in community and campus
Scientists @ Vic: Sara Ciganovic
Kieran Guimond
November 1, 2023
The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors? Sara Ciganovic: I’m in fourth year, and I’m doing a pathobiology specialist. What is your research? My lab studies how the brain develops and the stem cells that are creating the brain using mice models. We’ve done a lot ...