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UC graduate Iriza Stessy will always remember the day she arrived in Canada from Kenya in 2022. Eager to make her place in a new country, she wasn’t sure where to begin. A class in microeconomics changed her life, and she soon found herself on the path to a promising career in banking and finance. Today, Stessy will graduate with a major in economics and two minors in mathematics and African studies. “Perhaps my story will help somebody else who is new to Canada and feeling lost. I hope it encourages them to know that they, too, can make it.”
Before this year's fall graduates walk across the stage at Convocation Hall, they were new students, just like those who arrived at the college in the first weeks of September.
Catch up on the standout moments from this year's 2026 orientation programming that welcomed our newest students to University College, and follow along as we cheer on our newest UC graduates!
The recording of the 2026-27 Alexander Lecture in English Literature "Joseph Brant's Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism" presented by Dr. Robbie Richardson is now available on YouTube.
On September 30, members of the University College community came together to observe Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honouring the experiences of residential school survivors, their families, and communities while reflecting on the ongoing work of truth, reconciliation, learning, and healing.
Three dragon boat clubs from the University of Toronto, including the New Dragons x University College (NDUC) club, recently competed in an international competition in Taiwan, collectively paddling away with 30 medals and memories that will last a lifetime. The NDUC club won a total of seven gold medals — the most of any U of T team.
Andrew Stuart never met his great-grandfather, Charles Luther Burton, but the values of his family’s patriarch — and the philanthropic legacy he created — remain an important part of Stuart’s life today.
In 1956, C.L. Burton established trusts at University College, St. Michael’s College and the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto. Seven decades later, those trusts continue to provide funding, supporting students and ensuring C.L. Burton’s generosity continues to have an impact.
When Stephen Wright (BSc 1994 UC) became dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, a pleasant familiar feeling returned.
“I felt like an undergrad again, but without the exams.”
As dean, he’s filled with the same intrigue and enthusiasm for all of the research, discoveries and accomplishments happening across the faculty’s departments, interdisciplinary centres, schools and institutes, and the institutional strategic initiatives it supports, just as he was when he cracked open his notebook as a first-year UC student in 1994.
