< News | Monday, January 31, 2022

We’ve launched the Ignite Grant!

We’re excited to announce the inaugural launch of the Ignite Grant, an initiative of the University of Toronto’s BRN to provide annual research funding to support Black faculty, librarians, and post-doctoral scholars working broadly in any disciplinary category at U of T. To find out more details, check our Opportunities page!

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News | Wednesday, November 12, 2025

IBET Momentum Fellow Paige McFarlane aims to use microfluidics to design faster, more accurate medical tests

For Paige McFarlane (EngSci 2T5, BME PhD student) biomedical engineering was the perfect middle ground between two paths. “Where I come from, there’s this...

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News | Thursday, October 16, 2025

BRN talk centres Black, Indigenous histories in the classroom

A recent talk hosted by the Black Research Network (BRN) invited participants to consider how institutions can better reflect the...

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