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Users can scroll through Fyyne’s app for the latest hair trends, find an artist who will best suit their needs and book an appointment with just a few clicks. (Image: Fyyne)

A cut above: U of T startup Fyyne makes hair services more accessible

U of T Engineering’s Olugbenga Olubanjo (CivE MASc 1T9) launched the social marketplace to help connect Black hair artists with customers looking for beauty services

University of Toronto researchers Tara Colenbrander Nelson and Dr. Kelly Whaley Martin collecting water samples at Hudbay’s 777 mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba for use in their innovative “reactive sulfur” monitoring technique. (Photo: Lesley Warren)

Academic-industry partnership leads to improved methods for managing sulfur compounds in mining sites

Hudbay receives regulatory approval for new monitoring technique co-developed with University of Toronto Engineering Professor Lesley Warren (CivMin)

Professor Marianne Touchie’s (CivMin) research will look for links between specific aspects of the built environment and wellness outcomes of the people living and working in these spaces. (Photo: Kevin Soobrian)

New research project to prioritize well-being in U of T’s building retrofitting process

Initiative co-led by Professor Marianne Touchie (CivMin) aims to make U of T’s building retrofits ‘people positive’

As part of their research on water equity in India, a multi-disciplinary team at U of T will examine water distribution infrastructure, such as this tube well seen in New Delhi, India in 2017. (Photo: iStock)

How data science could enhance water practices and equity in India

A Catalyst Grant from U of T’s Data Sciences Institute will help launch a new cross-disciplinary research project co-led by Professor David Meyer (CivMin, CGEN)

Featured image with photo portraits of interviewees for a U of T Engineering Black History Month segment

Community Matters: Black experiences at U of T Engineering

University Professor Emeritus Michael Patrick Collins in 2016. (Photo: Neil Ta)

University Professor Emeritus Michael Patrick Collins appointed to the Order of Canada

Honours for outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation also recognize bioengineering pioneer Professor Peter Zandstra

Professor Ibrahim G. Ogunsanya in front of the Galbraith Building. (Photo: Phill Snel)

Meet new CivMin professor Ibrahim G. Ogunsanya 

Ogunsanya joins U of T Engineering as an assistant professor of civil engineering, with a research focus on concrete materials

Professor Jeffrey Siegel (CivMin) shows an air filter in a lab setting. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

Indoor air quality expert shares tips to stay safe over the holidays

Professor Jeffrey Siegel (CivMin) discusses risk assessment, layers of protection and improving air quality

Left to right: Professors Aimy Bazylak (MIE), Vaughn Betz (ECE) and Frank Vecchio (CivMin) have been elected 2022 Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Three professors elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada

U of T Engineering faculty recognized for their contributions to advancing clean energy, computing hardware and safer infrastructure