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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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Professor Alex Mihailidis (BME, Medicine) was the principal applicant for a federally funded training platform that aims to accelerate digital health solutions for older adults. (Photo: Nick Iwanyshyn)

National platform to prepare researchers to lead digital health solutions for older adults

April 5, 2022

Some call the digital market the Wild, Wild West. It has evolved so fast that government lawmakers don’t know what to do with it. (Photo: Tezos on Unsplash)

Explainer: Professor Andreas Veneris on digital assets, blockchain and the new ‘Wild, Wild West’

April 5, 2022

Professor Levente Diosady (ChemE) has developed novel technologies to fortify staple foods, which has helped improve the health of millions of people in developing countries. (Photo: Submitted)

Professor Levente Diosady Receives U of T President’s Impact Award

April 1, 2022

Professor Gisele Azimi (ChemE, MSE) and her lab group have received a 2022 Connaught Innovation Award for their work on high-performance and cost-effective aluminum batteries for electric transportation and renewable energy storage. (Photo: Roberta Baker).

Beyond lithium-ion: New battery technologies among nine projects supported by 2022 Connaught Innovation Awards

March 31, 2022

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