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Illuminating Inspiration

In her engaging keynote address, “Perspectives on a Spectacular Profession – Inspiration for our future,” at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI), Audra Geras mused about what it takes to be a biomedical illustrator: “We are part scientist, part artist, part interpreter, and part communicator.”

Sunny Days

Bonnie Le, a first year PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the U of T Mississauga, is a recipient of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).  After just having started her program at U of T in September, Le was thrilled to find out she received this distinction in May.

Fruit flies are LinkedIn: Genes may determine social skills that could shed light on human behaviour

The fruit flies hovering around your kitchen compost bin have an active social life.  As they eat, court and fight, the flies change their behavior depending on who they hang out with—just as humans do.

Crime scene campers learn investigation techniques

When 10-year-old Ryan snapped on his blue latex gloves and ducked under the police tape, he discovered the scene of a robbery: a laptop, wallet, television and jar full of Mrs. Baker’s home-made cookies had been stolen in broad daylight.

Ryan, and 18 other junior sleuths, tried to piece together what happened as part of their activities at U of T Mississauga’s forensic science summer camp.

Street View opens campus to armchair explorers

What has three wheels, nine ‘eyes’ and weighs 250 pounds?

A Google Street View tricycle—a high-tech trike rigged with nine directional cameras, a GPS unit and three laser scanners.

The cycle-mounted camera system snaps 360-degree photos anywhere a person can walk, giving viewers a peek at places that cars can’t reach: national parks, monuments, zoos, and, by the end of this year, the lush footpaths of the University of Toronto Mississauga. 

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