SCIENCE
BIPOC students face disadvantages with exam monitoring software at the University of Toronto
Experts question need for online proctoring
ReGen 21
UofT’s student-run stem cell conference
Why do we sleep?
From rats to dolphins: the search to understand why we spend a third of our lives unconscious
Why are social media companies under so much scrutiny?
Reset by Professor Ronald Deibert explores social media’s amplification of social media
Learning online, losing sleep
Online classes worsen student sleep schedules
The failures of academic categorization
Gifted programs are a common feature in public grade schools and foster accelerated learning for “high-ability” children, who are classified as such based on their intelligence quotient (IQ). Since the rise in popularity of gifted programs in the 1950s, there has been minimal change to the gifted categorization process, which ...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in STEM
Findings highlighted from Canada-wide survey of graduate studies by the Toronto Science Policy Network at UofT
How UofT students are hacking, engineering, and running competitions during COVID-19
The resilience of student organizations in finding online solutions during a pandemic
The mitochondrial gene therapy that could redefine parenthood
How three-way IVF raises questions about heredity, ethics, and reproductive rights
The viruses within our bodies may contain clues to fighting cancer
Retroviruses are locked within host genomes, like insects in amber