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The Aerovelo team (left to right: Trefor Evans, Tomek Bartczak, Cameron Robertson, Todd Reichert, Michael Kiiru, Jenny Reichert, Alex Selwa), co-founded by U of T Engineering Alumni, set a new world record for the fastest human-powered vehicle on earth, breaking their own record set the year before. (Photo: Anupam Singhal)

U of T Engineering alumni set world record for fastest human-powered vehicle — again

U of T Engineering alumni Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson broke the world-record they set last year for the fastest human-powered vehicle on earth at the 2016 World Human Powered Speed Challenge

Professor Hani Naguib (MIE, MSE) has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Naguib is an international leader in in manufacturing new multifunctional smart materials. (credit: Tyler Irving)

Hani Naguib elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

College is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership

A landmark bequest from Erwin Edward Hart (CivE 4T0, centre) created the Percy Edward Hart and Erwin Edward Hart Professorships, awarded to seven U of T Engineering researchers.

Hart Professorships awarded to seven early-career faculty members

Professorships created by a landmark bequest from the estate of alumnus Erwin Edward Hart (CivE 4T0)

Converting greenhouse gas emissions into energy-rich fuel using nano silicon (Si) in a carbon-neutral carbon-cycle. (Credit: Chenxi Qian).

Multidisciplinary research cluster closer to converting CO₂ emissions to fuel

Team has found a way to convert climate-warming emissions into energy-rich fuel in a carbon-neutral cycle that uses inexpensive and abundant silicon

Vahid Raeesi (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Multi-functional, modular nanoparticles could help fight cancer

New cancer-fighting nanoparticles developed at U of T Engineering carry out multiple functions to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy ones alone. They consist of a gold nanorod core (yellow, at left) surrounded by smaller gold spheres and linked via strands of DNA containing anti-cancer drug (red). The spheres are coated with a polymer film […]

U of T researchers Sonya MacParland (right) and Kim Tsoi (IBBME PhD 1T6) are the lead authors on a four-year study that showed how the liver and spleen trapped cancer nanomedicine, preventing them from reaching their intended targets. (Photo: Peter Church)

Understanding a key roadblock behind nanoparticle cancer drug delivery

A new paper from Prof. Warren Chan and colleagues is shedding light on how the liver interacts with nanoparticles

University Professor Emerita Ursula Franklin passed away on July 22, 2016. (Photo: Mark Neil Balson)

Remembering University Professor Emerita Ursula Franklin (MSE)

The world is mourning University Professor Emerita Ursula Franklin (MSE), one of Canada’s most accomplished scientists and educators and one of its most renowned feminists and peace activists. “Throughout her life and career, University Professor Ursula Franklin made remarkable contributions to the U of T Engineering community, the engineering profession and the world,” said Cristina Amon, dean of […]

Nazir Kherani (at right) is just one of the six U of T Engineering professors and five alumni inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering today. (Photo: Jacklyn Atlas)

11 U of T Engineering professors and alumni inducted into Canadian Academy of Engineering

Six professors and five alumni named fellows in the CAE’s Class of 2016

Professors Birsen Donmez (MIE), Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivE), Keryn Lian (MSE) and Prasanth Nair (UTIAS) are this year’s recipients of Discovery Accelerator Supplements from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In total, 80 professors and graduate students from U of T Engineering received support today in the form of research funding or scholarships from NSERC, totalling $10.4 million.

U of T Engineering researchers receive $10.4 million in NSERC research funding

Of the 51 U of T Engineering professors included in the investment, four received prestigious Discovery Accelerator Supplements