The Canadian and American Olympic boxing teams competing in Rio de Janeiro may just have the upper hand – thanks to a wearable technology innovation from a U of T Engineering alumnus. 

Nancy Quinn is a sport physiotherapist and U of T alumna who researches the intersection of sport, disability and media. Writer Alyson Musial spoke to Quinn and department of physical therapy’s Karen Yoshida about the representation of Paralympic athletes in the media.  

Mark Taylor is the recipient of this year’s McLean Award for his research on sugars. 

The University of Toronto is continuing to monitor the case of student Tahmid Khan, one of two men held by authorities in Bangladesh following last month’s hostage taking at a restaurant in Dhaka.

For more than 40 years, an international group of researchers based in the French department at the University of Toronto has been reading Françoise de Graffigny’s mail. They spoke to writer Sean Bettam about their work and findings. 

The noise, traffic and pollution of a concrete jungle can sometimes seem inescapable. But a city’s parks – big and small – serve as an oasis from the chaos. In this fifth instalment of the mapping the city series, U of T News spoke with OISE’s Cosmin Marmureanu and Scott Davies, who are looking at whether access to trees and parks makes for better students. 

These staff, faculty and students tell us which athletes and teams they are cheering for at the 2016 Summer Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro.

U of T’s Dinah Hampson is at the 2016 Summer Olympics with Team Canada as part of the Health Sciences Team. She spoke to writer Julia Soudat about sport physio, excitement inside the Athletes’ Village and how she found her calling as a department of physical therapy lecturer and sport physiotherapist. 

A $50,000 donation from Grammy-award winning star The Weeknd will help the University of Toronto launch the first program for Ethiopian studies in North America. 

A proposed 21-acre downtown Toronto park is being touted as a bold project that will help redefine the city. But will it? U of T News spoke with Gabriel Eidelman, of U of T’s School of Public Policy and Governance, and Larry Richards, professor emeritus and former dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, about why Toronto needs this park – and whether it’ll ever get built. 

Kim Skead, a recent U of T graduate, and four student researchers spent a week travelling through South Africa as part of a six-country research project by the Munk School’s Joseph Wong. Called “Reaching the Hard to Reach,” the project focuses on how social services successfully reach communities that need them most.