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Using tiny technology to aid in the fight against cancer

By Sarah McDonald|July 18, 2014

This year’s McLean Award winner Aaron Wheeler (IBBME) believes the solution to the colossal challenge of personalizing medicine for cancer patients may be a tiny one. Funded jointly by U of T alumnus

Understanding how wounds heal

By Erin Vollick|July 17, 2014

Whether you fall off your bike and scrape your knee, or knick your finger cutting onions, you know it’s only a matter of time before your injury has scabbed and healed. But what really just happened

UT2: U of T engineers explore sustainable materials at U Tokyo

By Nina Haikara|July 14, 2014

Planning a flight during the winter holidays? Sometimes Canada’s frigid winters can leave you waiting in the airport for hours – or even days – longer than you anticipated. One of the biggest

Designing cleaner, safer ways to cook in South India

By Engineering|July 14, 2014

How do you design an inexpensive stove that’s better than open fires or rudimentary appliances, and then convince people halfway across the world to use it? That’s what a multidisciplinary team

Oil-spill sponges and a future manufacturing leader

By Nina Haikara|July 11, 2014

When it comes to washing dishes, the verdict may be out for “sponge versus washcloth” – but for cleaning oil spills, engineering PhD student Ali Rizvi (MIE PhD 1T4) is all sponge. Rizvi has

From pulsars to particles: What can engineers do with big data?

By Marit Mitchell|July 9, 2014

The information available today, between books, the Internet and more, amounts to approximately 1,200 exabytes – that’s 1,200 billion gigabytes – of data. If all of that were stored on CDs,

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