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Diversity is one of the defining qualities of the city of Toronto but you’d never know it by the way municipal by-laws are designed and enforced, says criminology and socio-legal studies professor Mariana Valverde.

In fact, some of the city's most popular mechanisms for civic engagement – such as public meetings – do not support inclusion but actually disadvantage marginalized groups, who are less likely to attend or speak up, and who often encounter prejudice at the meetings if they do, Valverde says.

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Hundreds of world-leading scientists are gathering at the University of Toronto this week to hear the latest research in immunology, global health and biological rhythms and celebrate The Canada Gairdner Awards. 

For the last 42 years, U of T’s Faculty of Medicine has hosted a lecture for Gairdner Award winners past and present. This year, the Faculty will also host a symposium, New Insights into the Brain on Oct. 26, with a special focus on neuroscience.

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Professor Clare Pain likes to quote the Ethiopia Amharic saying “der biaber anbessa yaser” which translates as: “together, a spider web will tie a lion.”

Dr. Pain is seeking to tame the lion of mental illness in Ethiopia as part of a team that includes Dr. Dawit Wondimagegn and Dr. Atalay Alem of Ethiopia, and Dr. Paula Ravitz, a professor in the department of psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

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When Woodsworth College student Zachary Prong travelled to China after finishing high school, he intended to stay no more than two months. Several years later, China had become his home.

Now back in Canada and studying at the University of Toronto, Prong remains deeply affected by his time there – something that led him to enrol in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s new Contemporary Asian Studies program.

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Jill Cressy was three hours into a six-hour class when she realized that her shoulders were tense, her back was aching and she was beginning to lose her focus. The issue wasn’t the subject – Educational Finance and Economics. It was the sitting.

“I approached the professor, Dan Lang, and asked if I could lead a movement break,” she says. “Something to get our muscles moving and our circulation flowing.”