Black Research Network: Maydianne Andrade

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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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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...

Natural Sciences UTM UTSC

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...

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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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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

News | Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Aspiring pharmacist using a new biology award to share knowledge and build bridges

It was the height of the pandemic when 17-year-old Ifedinma Agbatekwe walked up to the owner of a Shopper’s Drug Mart and...

Black Excellence Natural Sciences UTSC

News | Monday, May 15, 2023

From providing a deeper understanding of learning disabilities to bio-production, student researchers share insights at 2023 BGSA Conference

Currently, there is little data about the diverse learning needs of Black youth in Canada, leaving researchers to turn to...

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News | Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Making 70 years of snow and ice data in the Central Canadian High Arctic accessible

Since 1979, the Arctic has warmed almost four times faster than the rest of the globe, attributed to oceanic heating,...

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