Spring 2023

Rohingya student Jaivet Ealom arrived in Canada in 2017 with $45 to his name after fleeing Myanmar’s brutal regime and being held for more than three years in an offshore Australian detention centre. Now a fourth-year student, his inspiring and courageous story is this issue’s cover feature. Also: U of T Mississauga scholars make the case for studying video games. And as food bank use in Toronto soars, a U of T Scarborough lab seeks new ways to address the city’s hunger pains.

Featured Posts

Cover of University of Toronto Magazine Spring 2023 issue, showing a black and white photo, from the waist up, of U of T student Jaivet Ealom, wearing a black overcoat and looking off camera, with a large open body of water in the background. The article title,

Journey to Freedom

The inspiring and courageous story of fourth-year student Jaivet Ealom, who fled a brutal regime and found refuge in Canada Read More

Illustration of a gamer's desk, depicting a video game console, monitor, two controllers, an open notebook, and a video game character wielding a sword coming out of the console, next to a stoppered potion bottle with red liquid

Game Time

Most of today’s students play video games. Why not study them, too? Read More

Suman Roy, wearing a hooded sweatshirt with the words

Hunger Pains

Food bank use in Toronto is soaring. Can a U of T Scarborough lab help? Read More

In This Issue

A woman covers a tray of type as she prepares to use a 19th century iron hand press. Another woman in the background works at a desk, making her own green ink.

We’re Going to Print Like It’s 1899

Having grown up with all things digital, these students are learning how to make books the old, old-fashioned way Read More

Reinhard Grassmann is holding a robotic arm steady with one hand and a plastic block under the grip of the cobot with the other, while Puspita Dewi, who is wearing a hijab, is adjusting the cobot's grip on the block.

Meet the ‘Cobot’

U of T Mississauga is home to one of Canada’s most advanced robotics teaching labs Read More

A cloth mural, depicting symbols sewn around a green outer ring as well as green inner ring, on top of the back of a turtle, with a medicine wheel in the centre, is spread out on the ground. Mandy Nelson is applying finishing touches on the inner ring of the mural.

Creation Story

A huge, new mural at U of T Scarborough honours Indigenous culture Read More

Colour graphite sketch of the front three quarters of a bicycle and the legs and arm of a person riding it

What Are You Doing to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint?

We asked 100 U of T students. This is what they told us Read More

U of T President Meric Gertler and Prof. Joseph Wong, VP, International are sitting at a long table in a library with youth in the Giants of Africa program in Rwanda. One student, wearing a pink hoodie sweatshirt, is standing and talking with them.

The Value of ‘Being There’

A sound international strategy has become essential to U of T’s success Read More

Digital illustration of two racially diverse high school students seated at a table, with a black instructor or teaching assistant sitting between them. The student on the left is writing notes, while the others are watching her.

New Paths to Success

Youth from under-represented communities get a taste of post-secondary life and pick up useful skills through a recently expanded U of T program Read More