SCIENCE
Dismantling racial disparities in healthcare: the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity
In the fall of 2020, the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity was assembled upon recommendation by the City of Toronto to address the stark inequalities in COVID-19 vaccination rates and barriers to vaccine uptake in Black communities. The Task Force, comprising a group of Black physicians, healthcare professionals, ...
UofT launches Canada’s first Black Research Network
Celebrating Black excellence through mentorship, community, and investment
The natural disasters that struck 2021 and their link to climate change
How extreme weather events work, the damage they inflict, and what can be done to mitigate their impacts
Vaccines versus variants
How can we keep up with an evolving pandemic?
Unpacking the crypto craze in university students
Crypto’s growing appeal to university students has numerous stakeholders weighing in on the legitimacy and future prospects of the digital currency
Life on the move in a warming world
The impact of mitigating climate change on the behaviours and movements of vulnerable ectotherms
When science can’t be trusted
The growing replication crisis plaguing our papers
Benzos, barbiturates, and bioinformatics
A brief look at how computation has changed the face of drug discovery
Balancing school while battling a pandemic
On November 9, 2020, pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. announced that their vaccine candidate against COVID-19 was found to be successful in Phase 3 trials. Shortly after, on December 21, Ontario hospital Trillium Health Partners administered their first COVID-19 vaccine in the Peel Region. The rapid development of Trillium Health Partners’ ...
Burnt out
The science behind burnout