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Strides Made in Optical Invisibility

If young Harry and friends had not cruised around Hogwarts unseen, hidden by an “invisibility cloak,” much of the hype surrounding metamaterials might itself never have seen the light of day. But when, half a decade ago, researchers made tentative…

Halloween Science: The Bleeding Edge of Forensics

In fictional television shows such as Dexter and CSI, patterns in blood splatters at the scene of the crime can be counted on to lead investigators to the killer. In real life, they’re a useful tool, but an imperfect one. Scientists who have…

Professor’s ASR Research Project Will Save Ontario Government $72 Million

A University of Toronto alkali-silica reaction research project led by Professor R. Doug Hooton (CivE), who holds the Industrial Research Chair in Concrete Durability and Sustainability at U of T, correlated short-term laboratory tests with long-term performance to predict concrete behaviour, which…

Skule™ Arts Festival Chair is Recognized with Arts Award

Taryn Davis (ChemE, 1T0), the Chair of the 2010 Skule™ Arts Festival, has been honoured with a University of Toronto Arts Council Award for Student Engagement. The award recognizes Davis’s contribution to the arts community within the Faculty of Applied Science…

Astronaut Touches Down On Campus

Astronaut Robert Thirsk, the first Canadian to live on the International Space Station (ISS), visited the University of Toronto on October 27th. His visit was an opportunity to review the results of an experiment Thirsk conducted while aboard the ISS,…

Professor’s Company to Develop Canada’s New Space Arm Technologies

Engineering Services Inc. (ESI) announced today that it has signed a $3-million contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop robotic arm technologies for lunar missions, with an option for a second arm in a contract worth $500,000. Along…
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