Natural Sciences

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...
News | Wednesday, September 17, 2025
‘The UTSC community has given me a lot’: Maydianne Andrade reflects on 25 years of research, leadership and impact 
When Maydianne Andrade reflects on her legacy, it’s not just her research and leadership that come to mind – it’s...
Events | July 22-25, 2025
COMPASS 2025
COMPASS is an international forum for the presentation and publication of original research that supports the growth of sustainable societies...
News | Monday, June 2, 2025
U of T grad – and celebrated slam poet – champions environmental science
Curious and full of questions about everything at home, Hannah Flores was painfully shy in elementary school. Her mother and grandmother nudged...
Network | Researcher Profile
Maydianne Andrade
Maydianne Andrade is an award-winning biologist and University Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research examines how social...
News | Tuesday, February 25, 2025
‘Science and possibility’: UTSC student steps towards research career with national funding program
When Roselaide Decker first started at the University of Toronto Scarborough, she made a list of research programs to pursue. A top...
News | Tuesday, January 7, 2025
U of T researcher solves decades-old mystery, redefines how plant metabolism is understood
Sonia Evans’ path to becoming an award-winning researcher started with her grandmother – a woman who had no formal education. Her...
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...
News | Tuesday, July 23, 2024
OISE’s Fikile Nxumalo wins federal funding to launch a project on climate-responsive school gardening in South Africa
The inspiration for Fikile Nxumalo’s most recent climate justice project emerged from funded research in her home country of Eswatini, in Southern...
Network | Researcher Profile
Mulu Geletu Heye
Mulu Geletu Heye is a senior research associate at the Gunning Lab in the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences...