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‘A Lume in every room’: U of T Engineering alumni are reimagining home robotics — starting with your laundry

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Rayla Myhal receives Honorary Alumni Award

In this prototype carbon capture apparatus, a solution of potassium hydroxide is wicked up into polypropylene fibres; circulating air evaporates the water in the solution, concentrating it to very high levels. The white crystals are nearly pure potassium carbonate, formed from carbon removed directly from air. (photo by Dongha Kim)

New ‘rock candy’ technique offers a simpler, less costly way to capture carbon directly from air

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U of T Engineering student team wins national competition with Canada’s first-ever experimental hybrid rocket launch

Professor Myrtede Alfred (MIE) joined U of T Engineering in August 2021. She noted the search committee’s strong emphasis on equity, diversity and inclusion throughout the hiring process. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

Attracting top talent: How one U of T Engineering search committee redesigned its hiring process

A new way to deliver therapeutic proteins to the body, developed at U of T Engineering, could help treat degenerative eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. (Photo: Mark_Kuiken, via iStock)

New strategy for delivery of therapeutic proteins could help treat degenerative eye diseases

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‘Ask again later’: Why some first-year students keep their options open with TrackOne