Black Research Network: ‘The UTSC community has given me a lot’: Maydianne Andrade reflects on 25 years of research, leadership and impact

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...

Black Excellence BRN Natural Sciences UTSC

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...

Computer and information sciences Social Sciences

University of Toronto alum Hannah Flores.

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...

Black Excellence Natural Sciences

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...

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Roselaide Decker (Photo credit: UTSC Development and Alumni Relations Office)

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...

Natural Sciences STEM UTSC

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...

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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...

Natural Sciences UofT

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...

Indigenous Natural Sciences Sustainable Development Goals

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Mulu Geletu Heye

Mulu Geletu Heye is a senior research associate at the Gunning Lab in the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences...

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Medical, Health, and Life Sciences

News | Wednesday, March 27, 2024

‘A black box in astronomy knowledge’: PhD researcher probes the earliest stars in the universe

As a child, Margaret Ikape had a prime view of the stars from her hometown of Lagos, Nigeria. “When I was really...

Natural Sciences STEM UofT