Science

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 very weird matrices. We’ve heard […]

UofT’s Trash Team and MealCare inspire change in community and campus

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 of sequencing analysis on the

The ghosts of your past trauma might be the methylation patterns on your DNA (amongst other things)

Did time feel different during the COVID-19 lockdowns? Can you remember? Although the lockdowns that resulted from the global pandemic may have felt neverending as we trekked through our ‘new normal,’ it seems now that it swept past us in a confusing, jumbled-up blur. In order to determine what has caused recollections of the lockdown

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Maximus Caron: I’m in fourth year and my majors are forest conservation and human geography, and then I have a minor in political science. What is your research? I was working with the City of Mississauga as an invasive species forester and summer student.

Don’t end up on a crow’s bad side

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Naomi: I’m going into third year, and my major is psychology. What is your research? There’s something that’s been studied for a long time with a probe tone method that’s pretty well known—people widely agree on certain sounds to fit with a musical tonality.

Louis Pasteur rolls in his grave every time someone mentions raw milk

This year I am introducing a new segment to the Science section, where I will be interviewing a student who has done science research at UofT. This gives them a chance to share their work and show other students the types of research that exist at the university. If you are interested in being interviewed,