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Indigenous Capacity and Leadership in Research Connection Grants – SSHRC
The Indigenous Capacity and Leadership in Research (ICLR) Connection Grants will contribute to Indigenous leadership and self-determination in research.

Film Screening: Smoke Signals
In celebration of Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day, join the Indigenous Film Collective and Innis College for a special screening of Smoke Signals (1998) — a groundbreaking film in Indigenous cinema – on June 18.

Sessional Lecturer, Winter Term 2026 – Museums and Indigenous Communities
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is seeking a sessional lecturer for the course, Museums and Indigenous Communities: Changing Relations, Changing Practice (MSL2360H).

John Borrows awarded Ontario’s Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing
John Borrows, professor and Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law at the Faculty of Law, has been awarded the 2024 David Walter Mundell Medal by the Government of Ontario.

Sessional Lecturer, Winter Term 2026 – Indigenous Data Governance Foundations
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is seeking a sessional lecturer for the course, Indigenous Data Governance Foundations (INF2151H).

Indigenous Health in Indigenous Hands
Attend the Boehm Lecture on Public Health and Healthcare, brought to you in collaboration with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and CBC Ideas. Kathy Loon will explore the innovative ways in which Indigenous health leaders are now working to embed Indigenous cultures in Canadian health care – both for the benefit of their […]

Sarah Hazell, Alicia Hawkins and partners from Sagamok Anishnawbek, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation receive Ontario Heritage Award
Sarah Hazell and Alicia Hawkins are part of a team of scholars and Indigenous community partners to be recognized with a Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation.

Indigenous hub planned for St. George campus
By: Kay Kelly A new Indigenous hub is planned for the University of Toronto’s St. George campus – an idea that has been a longstanding vision of Indigenous community members at the university. The project, which now has a confirmed site near the intersection of St. George and Bloor Streets, will be a new home […]

JHI SSHRC Grant Writing Bootcamp 2025
Note: Registration Extended to May 12, 2025, 4:00 PM Are you planning to apply for a SSHRC Insight Grant or Insight Development Grant in an upcoming competition? Do you feel daunted by the SSHRC grant writing process? Join the Jackman Humanities Institute for its annual 8-week intensive bootcamp, which is designed to help you prepare a winning grant application […]

OISE doctoral student centers youth and land in climate education
By: Marianne Lau John Pierre Craig’s research on land education and climate justice will offer an often-underrepresented perspective at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), an annual meeting that brings together scholars from around the world to share the latest research in education. In Denver, Craig will present a paper based on a land education […]

Ian P. Sharp Lecture – Weaving the Future: Indigenous Knowledge and the Ethics of AI
As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in our lives, urgent questions arise about whose knowledge systems shape its design and whose are excluded. The 2025 Ian P. Sharp Lecture brings together two distinguished speakers to explore how AI can be shaped with respect, relationality, and responsibility, rooted in Indigenous ethical frameworks. Key Themes: This […]

Indigenous-led, multi-institutional research project to re-envision approaches to pollution risk
By: A&S News A collaborative, Indigenous-led research initiative to re-envision chemical risk management in a time of environmental crisis has received $22 million in funding from the federal government’s New Frontiers in Research Fund. Led by the Technoscience Research Unit (TRU) at the University of Toronto and in partnership with researchers and institutions in Canada and Aotearoa (New […]

IBET Momentum Fellowships
The Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology (IBET) Momentum Fellowships aim to provide pathways that encourage and support the pursuit of graduate studies by under-represented groups. The program goal is to remove historical and systemic barriers to participation by Indigenous and Black scholars and increasing the number of Indigenous (First Nations, Metis and Inuit) and Black engineering professors […]

Pharmacy lab builds students' Indigenous health knowledge
By: Eileen Hoftyzer Cloé Lafleur was among the first University of Toronto students to participate in a novel lab at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy that focused on counselling Indigenous patients on medication and health issues – and says she got so much out of the initiative last year that she decided to get involved. […]

