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Professor Chou, left, looks at a screen with purple splotches displayed. A researcher sits at the table in the lab, pointing at one of the images on the screen.

Professor Leo Chou receives Ontario Early Researcher Award to advance vaccine and immunotherapy delivery

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Launch of PADmap translates graduate research on defibrillators into a potentially life-saving tool

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As part of the Climate Positive Campus initiative, the area beneath Front Campus will be used for a large-scale ground source heat pump — a technology pioneered in part by Professor Frank Hooper (MIE). (Illustration: Nicolas Demers, courtesy of U of T Facilities & Services)

Canada’s largest urban geoexchange system builds on legacy of Professor Frank Hooper

Left: A map of Toronto showing 17 of the TTC’s 75 stations. Right: A sample network connecting those 17 nodes, created by a computer model of a slime mould, Physarum polycephalum. (Images courtesy: Raphael Kay)

Could a ‘virtual slime mould’ design a better subway system?

A new study of zebra mussels, like this one growing in a tank in the lab of Professor Eli Sone (BME, MSE), could offer insights into new medical adhesives as well as ways to prevent fouling of water intake pipes. (Photo: Angelico Obille)

Zebra mussels could point the way toward non-stick surfaces and medical adhesives

University Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, BME, Donnelly) part of Mend the Gap, an international collaboration developing new ways to treat spinal cord injuries. (Photo: NSERC/CRSNG – Sylvie Li)

Mending the Gap: Professor Molly Shoichet joins multidisciplinary team working to develop new treatments for spinal cord injuries