Eileen Girard, Medical Laboratory Technician (retired), Ophthalmic Pathology Interviewed December 2015 at St.Micheal’s Hospital Interview and camera: Erich Weidenhammer, Victoria Fischer and Sophie LeBlanc Video montage:…
By Emma Hoffman Before conducting research on this series of three objects, the idea of a radiation detector was so foreign to me that it…
Jack O’Donnell, Scientific Glassblower at the University of Toronto Chemistry department Interviewed February 2016 in the Glassblowing workshop Photographs: Victoria Fisher Interview and camera: Victoria…
David Mazierski, Medical Illustrator and Associate Professor in Biomedical Communications Interviewed February 2016 at the University of Toronto St George Campus Interview and camera: Victoria…
Gabby Resch, PhD candidate, Critical Making Lab Interviewed February 2016 at Critical Making Lab, Semaphore Research Cluster Interview and camera: Sophie LeBlanc and Erich Weidenhammer…
By Kira Lussier An unremarkable box, barely larger than a deck of cards, contains UTSIC’s version of psychology’s most iconic object—the Rorschach test. Before (gingerly)…
By: Riiko Bedford In preparation for UTSIC’s “Science in Colour” exhibit (currently showing on the third floor of Victoria College until April 2015) I was…
By Riiko Bedford There is an instrument sitting on the shelves of UTSIC’s room in the basement of Sid Smith that looks like it was…
By Adam Richter Alongside the many glass prisms in the UTSIC collection is a triangular prism made from a colourless, translucent substance which came to…
by Erich Weidenhammer, in memory of Professor Douglas Creelman (1933-2014). The University Of Toronto Department Of Psychology’s collection of scientific material includes a humble-looking object whose purpose…