April 1, 2016
How does Bolsa Familia, Brazil’s conditional cash transfer program, reach the country’s poorest citizens? Joseph Wong and a team of student researchers traveled to Brazil to learn the keys to the program’s success.
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March 11, 2016
It’s not unusual for university students to develop proposals for governments or businesses as part of their classwork. It’s less usual for those organizations to actually implement such policies. But students in Dan Breznitz’s Innovation, Institutions, Governments and Growth class...
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March 8, 2016
On March 8, International Women’s Day, 43 female students from the University of Toronto visited the Parliament of Canada, a day after a stop at the Supreme Court. Read about their Ottawa experience in U of T News.
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March 1, 2016
Its studious name notwithstanding, Reading Week is seen by many students as a time to leave their books behind and unwind before exam season rushes in. But several students from the Munk School of Global Affairs used the week off...
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March 1, 2016
Sara Charney, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board and niece of the late Lionel Gelber, announced Scott Shane as the winner of the 26th annual Lionel Gelber prize for his book Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of...
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March 1, 2016
“You’re less incognito than you think.” That’s the blunt message that greets visitors to the recently created Hygiene in the Digital Public Square website, a joint project of U of T’s Munk School of Global Affairs and online security specialists...
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March 1, 2016
On June 23, citizens of the United Kingdom will vote on whether their country will remain a part of the European Union. The so-called “Brexit” (British Exit) is big news throughout the EU, and has important ramifications for Europe and North...
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February 23, 2016
University of Toronto undergrad Jing Zhou knows a lot about surveillance issues in China and Canada, but even she’s surprised by findings that hundreds of millions of people are at risk of hacking and surveillance because of a popular internet...
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February 12, 2016
Canadians sometimes wonder why Americans take two years to pick a president. This question comes to mind especially in the midst of the drawn-out series of United States presidential primaries.
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February 10, 2016
The Honourable Catherine McKenna, minister of Environment and Climate Change, recently gave a talk on climate change and a sustainable future at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Read about the event in U of T News.
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