SGS News
15 doctoral students receive Connaught PhDs for Public Impact fellowships
From U of T Celebrates. Fifteen doctoral students at the University of Toronto have received Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowships for 2024-25. The annual fellowships are designed to offer…
Postdoctoral fellows Athanasios Litsios and Lucie Wolf receive Donnelly Centre’s Research Excellence Awards
Athanasios Litsios and Lucie Wolf receive Donnelly Centre’s Research Excellence Awards Postdoctoral Fellows Athanasios Litsios and Lucie Wolf (supplied images) From U of T Celebrates. Full story originally appeared in…
International exchange program highlights importance of fostering global academic collaborations
Jatta Muhonen’s research is focused on how well athletes are able to recognize and react to emotional abuse by coaches. The PhD student from the University of Helsinki was inspired…
Mastercard Foundation Scholar brings mission to improve livelihoods to U of T
Growing up in Uganda, Naturinda Emmanuel aspired to be a medical doctor and health leader. He wants to eliminate barriers to healthcare access for those in underserved, remote communities. Naturinda Emmanuel is…
PhD researcher draws on refugee experience to study plight of asylum-seekers in Canada
“We’re using criminal justice mechanisms to deal with what should be an administrative process” Jona Zyfi, a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, is using a…
Canada’s Talent Advantage: PhD graduates in increasing demand from industry
Photo by Matthew Volpe The University of Toronto is Canada’s primary engine of advanced talent creation. With approximately 1,000 PhD graduates every year, U of T trains one in seven…
2024 Dorrington Award recognizes graduate students innovating myopathy research, mapping the liver and advancing personalized medicine
Pictured, left to right: PhD Candidates Heta Lad, Delaram Pouyabahar and Justin Sing Story originally appeared in The Donnelly Centre for Cellular + Biomedical Research News by Anika Hazra The…
Three PhD alumni receive Governor General’s Gold Medal
Former University of Toronto graduate students Karl Manis, Chido Muchemwa and Tatiana Ruiz-Bedoya have received the 2024 Governor General’s Gold Medal in recognition of academic excellence at the graduate level…
In photos: SGS Athletics celebrates volleyball, field hockey and Ultimate frisbee championships during an exciting 2023–24 season
With files from the SGS Athletics Report: 2023-2024 written by Rheannon Demeter and all photographs by U of T Intramural Photographers The numbers are in and hundreds of graduate students…