BRN Brilliance

De-Lawrence Lamptey
News | Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Holland Bloorview and BRN collaboration advances research to highlight experiences of racialized children and youth with disabilities in Canada
De-Lawrence Lamptey has dedicated his career to understanding the experiences of racialized children and youth with disabilities in Canada. As the...
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equity Medical, Health, and Life Sciences Public and Population Health
Chinaza Dibia
News | Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Temerty Medicine PhD candidate investigates non-invasive gene therapy approaches to treat Alzheimer’s disease
An estimated 750,000 people live with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia in Canada. With no cure for the disease and...
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Medical, Health, and Life Sciences Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects
Black at UTM team
News | Wednesday, October 23, 2024
‘A place where you belong, not just in words but in action’: UTM initiative champions Black excellence 
Black at UTM, a growing initiative at U of T Mississauga, is nurturing Black flourishing on campus, ensuring community members...
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Black Excellence Leadership UTM
Jacqueline Antwi-Danso
News | Wednesday, October 9, 2024
NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow explores puzzling questions of how the earliest galaxies came to be
In the 1990s, astronomers discovered two distant, massive galaxies that had completely stopped, or quenched, their star formation. The discovery...
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Natural Sciences UofT
SA Smythe
News | Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis brings scholars, artists and archivists together for a deeper understanding of Black life 
Rebuilding the traditional structures of a classroom is at the root of SA Smythe’s teaching philosophy.  For Smythe, an assistant professor of...
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Black Studies BRN Humanities and the Arts UofT
News | Wednesday, September 18, 2024
BRN Brilliance: New multimedia series to spotlight Black-led research and initiatives at U of T
A new multimedia series from the Black Research Network will spotlight Black-led research and initiatives at the University of Toronto....
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Black Excellence Leadership Research