News | Wednesday, January 21, 2026
BRN IGNITE Grant project examines how documents contribute to land dispossession in Kenya
A developing research project led by Kariuki Kirigia is examining how land documents – including maps, title deeds and leases – are being used in ways that contribute to...
News | Monday, January 19, 2026
Black Research Network members receive Connaught New Researcher Awards
Seven members of the Black Research Network have received Connaught New Researcher Awards for 2024-25.  Provided annually, Connaught New Researcher Awards support early-stage researchers...
News | Wednesday, January 14, 2026
BRN Brilliance Season 2 puts research, teaching and collaboration in focus
From public health and sport inclusion research to dance studies and environmental justice, members of the Black Research Network (BRN)...
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News | Monday, January 12, 2026
BRN IGNITE Grant project aims to preserve traditional Yorùbá recipes
Growing up in the city of Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State, Nigeria, Adébísí Ògún learned to cook traditional Yorùbá dishes at her paternal grandmother’s side, memorizing recipes passed...
News | Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Lauren Cramer recognized with Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award
Lauren Cramer, an assistant professor at the Cinema Studies Institute in the Faculty of Arts & Science has received a...
News | Thursday, November 27, 2025
Kamari Maxine Clarke receives SSHRC’s 2025 Insight Award
Kamari Maxine Clarke, a Distinguished Professor of transnational justice and sociolegal studies, and director of the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal...
News | Tuesday, November 25, 2025
BRN IGNITE Grant helps researcher develop AI tool for community-based disease surveillance in Ethiopia 
When Gelan Ayana Zewdie was growing up near Bedele in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, his community became deeply concerned when a...
News | Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Black Research Network members receive Canada Research Chairs 
Four members of the Black Research Network have been awarded Canada Research Chairs in recognition and support of their work.   Abdi Aidid, an...
News | Wednesday, November 12, 2025
IBET Momentum Fellow Paige McFarlane aims to use microfluidics to design faster, more accurate medical tests
For Paige McFarlane (EngSci 2T5, BME PhD student) biomedical engineering was the perfect middle ground between two paths.   “Where I come from, there’s this...
News | Tuesday, October 28, 2025
‘More than just fantasy’: How this UTSC undergrad found her calling in outer space policy
Long before studying outer space policy, Leah Wolfe was captivated by the characters and worlds of science fiction novels like...