Summer programs for high school students offer unique introduction to medicine and law

There is a small buzz of activity on an early July afternoon in Flavelle House as a group of students, including Cidnee Vaykovich of Penticton, B.C., and Anya Reshetnyak from Ukraine sift through crime scene evidence and prepare for DNA analysis of their findings and a mock trial.

Social Work student wins first Hilary Weston Scholarship

Alan McLuckie, a PhD student at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work is one of the two inaugural recipients of the province's Hilary M. Weston Scholarship, newly created in honour of Ontario's former lieutenant governor

Rower ready to Rumball

Incoming medical student headed to Olympics

Thirty-year-old Jane Rumball was supposed to start medical school at the University of Toronto last year but instead followed her life-long dream of qualifying for the Olympics in Beijing. A world champion rower, Rumball has been rowing five hours a day, six days a week in London, Ont., since deferring her admission last year to compete on the world stage next month where she will compete in the women's eights.