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Six U of T Engineering graduate students awarded $150K Vanier Scholarships

Funding supports research in fields including human-robot interaction, therapeutic applications of reversing blindness, investigating chronic pain

IBBME Professor Milos Popovic, left, speaks with an alumnus at a networking event. Popovic is the 2018 recipient of the March of Dimes Canada’s Jonas Salk Award, recognizing his sustained scientific contributions to improving the lives of people with physical disabilities. (Photo: Jonathan Sabeniano)

Milos Popovic receives March of Dimes Canada lifetime achievement award

Jonas Salk Award recognizes his sustained scientific contributions to improving the lives of people with physical disabilities

Professor Tom Chau, a University of Toronto paediatric rehabilitation engineer, works with two graduate students to develop a brain-computer interface for children. Chau has been named a 2018 Governor General’s Innovation Award recipient for contributions to the country’s success and inspiring the next generation. (Credit: Neil Ta)

Tom Chau receives Governor General’s Innovation Award

U of T paediatric rehabilitation engineer to be honoured for contributions to country’s success and inspiring the next generation

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Seven U of T Engineering faculty members named Canada Research Chairs

CRC program enables U of T to attract and retain the best and most promising researchers from around the world

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Lab-on-a-chip delivers critical immunity data for vulnerable populations

Research team validates first-of-its-kind portable diagnostic technology at refugee camp in remote northwestern Kenya

Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (IBBME) and PhD student Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa led a study that has shed new light on how wounds repair without scars in fruit fly embryos. Their work could advance the way we treat wounds in humans. (Credit: Luke Ng).

U of T Engineering researchers uncover mechanism of scar-free wound healing in fruit fly embryos

Study published by Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez sheds light on how a network of proteins drive a wound repair process that leaves no scars

Cressy Award winners 2018

U of T Engineering celebrates student leadership at 2018 Cressy Awards

Undergraduate and graduate engineering students were recognized for their exceptional contributions to the Engineering and University communities with 2018 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards

Then-electrical engineering student Dr. Donald Studney (ElecE 6T3, IBBME MASc 6T7, MD 7T0), sits at his first amateur radio station in 1961. (Courtesy: Donald Studney)

On the air: From Hart House to Vimy Ridge

A passion for amateur radio took alumnus Dr. Donald Studney from the Hart House Amateur Radio Club in the 1960s to Vimy Ridge in 2017 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War battle

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Purple Day: Meet U of T Engineering students researching new ways to understand epilepsy

Several teams of IBBME graduate students are working on solutions to improve treatments and quality of life for individuals facing the neurological disease