Kind, genuine and incredibly modest, Arts & Science alumnus David B. Fraser was more interested in lifting up the next generation of scientists and researchers than focusing on his many accomplishments, including securing more than 75 U.S. patents.

PhD Student Mohamed Shaaban is one of the researchers involved in the superBIT project

The Loudon-Hines Gold Medal and Scholarship in Physics was established in 2018 through the generosity of two anonymous donors. The 2020-2021 recipient is: Mathew Bub

The Physics Student Union (PhySU) Teaching Award is an annual award intended to recognize exceptional pedagogy in undergraduate courses in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto.

The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) held its annual awards ceremony on June 9, 2021 and members of the Department of Physics were honoured.

A giant telescope carried on a balloon the size of a football stadium will soon allow researchers to gaze at distant gas planets known as “hot Jupiters” – and a University of Toronto startup is playing a key role in the endeavour.

The title “University Professor” is the University’s highest and most distinguished academic rank.

The Bell Prize is administered by the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control at the University of Toronto.

Since March 2021, 38 Black students from high schools in the GTA have been taking part in science workshops provided by science departments in the Faculty of Arts & Science through a program called Pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).

Undergraduate student Patrick Fraser's 2020 summer project published in Physical Review D.

Announcing the Xanadu Award for an Outstanding Publication by a PhD Student

Paul Kushner, a professor of atmospheric physics in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Physics, has been awarded the 2019 Patterson Medal Award for Distinguished Service to Meteorology in Canada.

For his remarkable contribution to the advancement of the Canadian Space Program and a lifetime of achievement in space science and technology.

Dr. Fogal leads a team of researchers monitoring the weather and climate change in the Arctic

U of T Physics' Professor David Curtin among four Arts & Science researchers to receive a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship

The Icicle Atlas featured in the Chicago Tribune

U of T Physics Professor Emeritus James R. Drummond is the recipient of the 2020 Alouette Award from the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI).

Physics World has selected the quantum tunnelling-time experiment as one of their quantum highlights for 2020.

On December 16, 2020, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced that the Government of Canada is investing approximately $195 million to support 259 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs at 47 institutions across Canada.

The 2020 Polanyi Prize in Physics was awarded to Dr. Miriam Diamond from the Department of Physics for her new insights into dark matter and the nature of the universe.

Green Sahara—a phenomenon that is known to have occurred periodically over the past several million years is perhaps one of the most enigmatic transitions in our climate system.

U of T Physics Graduate student Aaron Goldberg (supervised by Professor Daniel James) and colleagues have found a way to characterize “quantumness” or the chasm between the classical and quantum realms.

The Van Krandendonk Awards are given annually to four graduate students to recognize their outstanding contribution to the teaching of undergraduate physics. Graduate student teaching assistants are nominated by undergraduate physics students.

On September 22, 2020, NASA's Chandra X-ray Center released musical renditions, or sonifications of the Milky Way that were created by U of T Physics' Matt Russo and a colleague.

Professor Josh Milstein featured on View to the U: An eye on UTM Research