News

'U of T has changed my worldview': Graduate Eray Sonmez

9 Nov 2018 - 10:11am
Eray Sonmez

When Eray Sonmez crossed the stage at Convocation Hall, he marked the end of a journey that began when he left his home in Adana, Turkey at the age of 17.

Sonmez, who first came to Canada to attend an international high school, chose to remain here to study political science, history and Canadian studies at U of T Mississauga.

 “U of T has a global reputation,” Sonmez says. “I know that when I put my U of T diploma on the wall, that name will make a difference; it will open many doors to me.”

Chew on This: Two new studies reveal secrets of early dinosaur and mammal tooth evolution

7 Nov 2018 - 3:43pm
The wavy appearance of the enamel of Changchunsaurus in thin section and under cross-polarized light.

Two new research papers take a bite out of the mysteries around how early dinosaurs and mammals evolved their unique tooth replacement and anchoring systems.

The studies, involving Professor Robert Reisz, a paleontologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga, appear in the latest issues of PLOS ONE and the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In the first paper, Reisz and his colleagues at Jilin University in China examined the teeth of Changchunsaurus parvus, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous period.

Convocation: Ecuadorean family establishes new tradition

5 Nov 2018 - 9:21am
Mother and daughter graduates

Crossing the stage at Convocation Hall during the U of T Mississauga convocation ceremony is fast becoming a tradition for Martha Cedeño and her children. Cedeño and her daughter, Claudia Sánchez, will both be graduating this fall with B.Sc. degrees; her son, Diego Sánchez, will earn his UTM B.Sc. degree in the spring.

U of T places No. 1 in Canada, No. 20 globally

31 Oct 2018 - 9:33am
Students studying at UTM

The University of Toronto has once again been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the number one school in Canada and among the top 10 public universities in the world.

With a focus on research output and reputation, the Washington, D.C.-based news and information firm’s 2019 Best Global Universities ranking shows U of T holding on to the same 20th-place position globally among both public and private institutions that it occupied last year.

Pages