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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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Christine Gabardo, co-founder and technology director at U of T startup CERT Systems, is using electrochemistry "to tackle one of our world’s biggest challenges, which is climate change.” (Photo: Schatzypants Inc)

Turning CO₂ into shampoo and lawn furniture? U of T startup doing what ‘no one has done before’

March 8, 2022

Vivian Kang (Year 2 ElecE) solders an electronic circuit board during a hardware design class in the Myhal Fabrication Facility. The new course, titled ECE 295: Hardware Design and Communication, debuted this winter. (Photo: Sean Hum)

New ECE hardware design course taps into maker culture

March 3, 2022

Jiayue (Jenny) He, a U of T Engineering alumna, is the co-founder of a Silicon Valley startup that's rethinking how home construction and renovation services are delivered (Photo: Jenny He)

From driveways to mRNA, startup founders bolster U of T’s rapid rise in entrepreneurship space

March 1, 2022

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

March 1, 2022

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