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Professor Brenda McCabe Receives the SWAAC Recognition Award

Professor Brenda McCabe, Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering (CivE), has been selected to receive the 2013 SWAAC Recognition Award from the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada. This award is given to a SWAAC member who has continually demonstrated…

Goodbye to Plastic?

In the latest issue of U of T Magazine, Professor Emma Master (ChemE) discusses how she is using plants to create new materials and chemicals. The article poses the question: What if we could make plastic from renewable biomaterials instead of environmentally harmful…

Inspiring Inclusiveness – One Pink Shirt at a Time

Five years ago in a Nova Scotian high school, two teens started an anti-bullying movement in support of a ninth grader who was picked on for wearing pink. In 2008, Pink Shirt Day involved a mere 50 students. Today, schools…

Showing a ‘LOT’ of Appreciation

Off the heels of National Engineering Month, the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) celebrated U of T Engineering’s emerging student leaders on April 3. ILead’s annual Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Appreciation Night was an opportunity to build community…

Next Generation of Inventors Lights Up Design Fair

Mind-controlled computing, an app for diversifying your stock portfolio, a new chip that could one day revolutionize airport security – these were just a few of the futuristic concepts brought to life by enterprising fourth-year undergraduates at this year’s ECE Annual Design…

ChemE Researchers’ Accidental Discovery May Lead to Improved Polymers

The accidental discovery by Chemical Engineering Professor Tim Bender and Post-Doctoral Fellow Benoit Lessard of an unexpected side product of polymer synthesis could have implications for the manufacture of commercial polymers used in sealants, adhesives, toys and even medical implants, the researchers say. Bender…
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