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U of T Engineering recognized 10 alumni and students at the 2023 Engineering Alumni Network Awards, held at Hart House on November 2. Left to right: Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivMin), Atul Patidar (ECE MEng 1T5), Lauri Hiivala (ElecE 6T5), Professor Emerita Jane Phillips (ChemE 5T3), Professor Mark Kortschot (EngSci 8T4, ChemE MASc 8T5), Nick Stark (MechE 7T8), Michael Kropp (ElecE 8T6), Dean Chris Yip, Professor Alison McGuigan (ChemE PhD 0T5), Safdar Mahmood (ElecE 0T3), Wing Yan Chan (IndE 2T2 + PEY), Eva Lau (IndE 9T2) and Liane Catalfo (ChemE 0T8 + PEY, MEng 1T0). (Photo: Paul Terefenko

Alumni and students honoured with 2023 Engineering Alumni Network Awards

November 3, 2023

Awardees were celebrated for their career accomplishments and their contributions to the Skule™ community

The Self-Driving Lab for Human Organ Mimicry will use organoids and organs-on-chips – a well plate is pictured here – to allow researchers to move potential therapeutics to human clinical trials more rapidly. (Photo by Rick Lu)

U of T ‘self-driving lab’ to focus on next-gen human tissue models

October 27, 2023

The Self-Driving Laboratory for Human Organ Mimicry is one of six self-driving labs launched by the Acceleration Consortium to drive research across a range of fields

From left to right: Professor Jonathan Rocheleau (BME) and BME PhD candidate Cindy Bui.

U of T Engineering researchers unveil sensor for real-time cellular analysis in living zebrafish embryos

October 11, 2023

Researchers led by Professor Jonathan Rocheleau (BME) share their findings in a new paper published in Science Advances

Dean Christopher Yip outside the Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

Christopher Yip reappointed Dean of U of T Engineering

October 11, 2023

Dean Yip’s second term will be from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029

Representatives from the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation, a South Korean government institution funding this program, visited U of T in July 2023 to discuss the applied AI program for South Korean graduate students. (Photo: Aaron Demeter)

U of T partnership will bring graduate students from South Korea to Toronto for six-month applied AI program

September 29, 2023

Initiative will be run through the Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering (CARTE) and housed in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Left to right: Matthew Nguyen (BME PhD candidate) and Professor Warren Chan (BME found that about 45% of nanoparticles that accumulate in tumours end up exiting them. (Photos: submitted)

U of T researchers challenge long-standing theory guiding nanoparticle treatment of tumours

September 28, 2023

Study could explain why some cancer treatments are struggling in clinical trials

A composite photo of U of T Engineering professors Alberto Leon-Garcia (left) and Tom Chau (right).

Professors Alberto Leon-Garcia and Tom Chau named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

September 6, 2023

The two professors were elected based on exceptional contributions to scholarship in their fields

IBET Momentum Fellow Chantel Briana Campbell fabricates multilayered biomaterials that can help repair damaged hearts, eyes and muscles

September 5, 2023

The PhD candidate is working with collagenous multilayered biomaterials and their atypical structure

Meet five U of T Engineering graduate students awarded 2023 Vanier Scholarships

August 29, 2023

Funding supports research in income pools, enhancing nanomaterials, matching performance, drug delivery and space debris

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