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Six researchers arrive with six new questions

A federal talent initiative brings expertise in health, technology, ecology, finance and the search for life to U of T.

Reported by Adina Bresge

Six new research chairs join U of T through a federal talent initiative.
ResearchSix new research chairs join U of T through a federal talent initiative.Photo: University of Toronto / supplied and credited portraits

Six researchers are joining U of T through a federal initiative designed to draw global talent to Canada. Their work ranges from MRI and digital health to AI for nature, political economy and planetary sensing.

The useful summer signal is not a single breakthrough. It is the infrastructure around discovery: a university making room for people whose questions cross disciplines and borders.

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  1. Original reporting · utoronto.ca
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