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A sense of community is crucial to student success in the Faculty of Arts & Science. That’s why smaller-scale avenues for collaboration and learning are growing in response to student needs.

Every month or so, an email appears in Professor Emeritus Stephen Cook’s inbox from someone claiming to have solved one of the most important questions in computational science.

Assistant Professor Ashton Anderson and undergraduate student Isaac Waller are trying to answer how the nature of our engagement with online communities determines how we’ll behave on those platforms in the future, what kinds of interactions we’ll be part of and what types of information we’ll end up taking away.

“Language is a lens into the mind,” says U of T computer scientist Frank Rudzicz. “How you’re feeling, what you’re thinking, what your cognitive performance is – it’s all revealed through your language.”

“Change is threatening for many people, and the only way you address that is by bringing them into the conversation,” says Steve Easterbrook, director of U of T’s School of the Environment.

Celebrating Our Best: HR/Payroll Assistant Lisa DeCaro receives the A&S Outstanding Staff Award for Administrative Service.