Computer Whiz
Dag Spicer talks tech at his Silicon Valley museum
Stories tagged ‘Trinity College alumni’
TV’s Troubled Surgeon
Caterina Scorsone explores mental health issues while playing Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the show Private Practice
The Making of a Judge
George Carter, the first Canadian-born black judge in the country, worked as a train porter to pay his tuition
Tweet the Vote
Social media will be a force in this fall’s Toronto election, if a group of recent grads have their way
The Boy in the Moon
Journalist Ian Brown offers a profoundly honest portrayal of life as a parent of a disabled child
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author Malcolm Gladwell looks beyond individual traits of the wildly successful
So You Want to Write for Pictures?
From movies to TV and comedy to animation, here is a small sampling of U of T alumni who wrote their way to success south of the border
Ben Barry
Modelling agent promotes women of all ages, shapes and sizes
Wendy Yu
Marketing whiz is bringing the NBA to China
Al Jazeera’s Bridge-builder
Shereen El Feki is host of current affairs show, People and Power
A Time to Rebuild
A former Varsity Blues football player makes the case for U of T athletics
A Twist of Fate
Raymond Reilly was looking for a better way to diagnose breast cancer. Instead, he discovered a new way to treat it
Everyone Is Interesting
Toronto author Sheila Heti finds literary inspiration all around her
Judd Palmer
Puppeteer blurs the lines between adults’ and children’s theatre
Catherine Manoukian
Violinist debuted with Vancouver Symphony at age 12, and is now working on her fourth CD
Two for the Rhodes
Trinity College students will peruse graduate studies at Oxford University in England
MuchMore Sung
U of T degree taught alumna Hannah Sung to see all sides of a story
Star Turns: William Hutt
“I saw this hemorrhaging of talent across the border. If everyone left, we would never have a cultural picture in this country.”
Prize Writer
Austin Clarke wins $25,000 Giller Prize for his latest novel, The Polished Hoe
Michael Ignatieff & Bob Rae
Friends vied for the campus spotlight as student activists in the 1960s
Anthony Burton, Doug Cooper & Atom Egoyan
Trinity College friends
Making History
Dominion Institute aims to inform Canadians about their own history
A Geodetic Monument
Sculpture celebrates U of T grad who helped develop the theory of plate tectonics
In Their Own Write
Kenneth Oppel, Andrew Pyper, Lynn Crosbie, Cristina Kuok, David Layton and Tim Long
There Are No Small Potatoes
To New Yorker scribe Malcolm Gladwell, little things make a huge difference. Right now, he has his eye on his next big idea – french fries
Compete and Prosper
Rotman creates the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Chair in Competitiveness
A Lifetime of Study
Alumna earned a U of T degree at age 87
Alphabet Soup
More than a decade ago, a bunch of U of T characters began to dine from A to Z using the Yellow Pages as a restaurant guide
The GG and U of T
The Right Hon. Adrienne Clarkson is sworn in as Governor General
