BRN Brilliance

More than 600,000 young people in Canada drop out of sports during adolescence, with girls and youth from equity-owed groups most...

A collaborative research initiative led by Seika Boye is uniting scholars, artists and communities to preserve Black performance histories in Canada.

Ferdinand (Reke) Avikpe is using computational modelling to identify the biochemical and mechanical conditions that allow heart cell tissue to grow efficiently in the lab.

Kariuki Kirigia’s project aims to avert land loss among the Massai of southern Kenya.

From public health and sport inclusion research to dance studies and environmental justice, members of the Black Research Network (BRN)...

De-Lawrence Lamptey has dedicated his career to understanding the experiences of racialized children and youth with disabilities in Canada. As the...

An estimated 750,000 people live with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia in Canada. With no cure for the disease and...

Black at UTM, a growing initiative at U of T Mississauga, is nurturing Black flourishing on campus, ensuring community members...

In the 1990s, astronomers discovered two distant, massive galaxies that had completely stopped, or quenched, their star formation. The discovery...

Rebuilding the traditional structures of a classroom is at the root of SA Smythe’s teaching philosophy.  For Smythe, an assistant professor of...