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Doctor of Courage
Dr. Alexander T. Augusta. Photo: National Library of Medicine Almost a century before Rosa Parks defied Alabama’s racial segregation laws, Trinity graduate Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta refused to give...
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The Spy Among Us
Pat Bayly. Courtesy Town of Ajax Archives Pat Bayly (BASc 1930) landed in New York on December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and brought the United States into the Second World War....
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Anatomy of an Illustrator
Maria Torrence Wishart. Photo courtesy Master of Science in Biomedical Communications program, U of T Mississauga In November 1925, Maria Torrance Wishart founded the Department of Medical Art Service...
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Where Do You Go, My Lovelies?
Norah and Fred Urquhart. Photo: courtesy U of T Scarborough “Those who have had a dream and have lived to see that dream come true will have some conception of my feelings when I first entered the...
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She Walks in Beauty
Helen Sawyer Hogg helped establish that we are outliers, on the edge of the Milky Way. Photo: Courtesy of Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics “Beautiful” is an adjective that the renowned astronomer...
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Seeking Refuge from Nazi Persecution, the MS St. Louis Was Turned Away at...
Passengers aboard the St. Louis. These refugees from Nazi Germany were forced to return to Europe after both Cuba and the U.S. denied them refuge. May or June 1939. Photo from United States Holocaust...
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This “Bomber” Actually Saved Countless Lives
Dr. Harold Johns pioneered advances in radiation therapy. His major achievement was developing radioisotope techniques that could target deep tumours without damaging the skin. Photo: U of T...
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Outside the Box
Margaret Russocki, in the 1970s. She was leading a busy architectural practice in Toronto when she died tragically at age 44. It was the sort of day you appreciate at the end of the Ontario summer:...
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