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Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency’s Timmins stratospheric balloon base.

START1 takes flight: U of T Engineering student team explores radiation risks in space

Aniss Zaoui

How a recent grad’s second PhD prepared him to develop next-generation sustainable materials

Yu Zou and team

New metal matrix composites — made with 3D printing — could lead to light, yet strong components for aerospace and other industries

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Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld (MSE, Chemistry, Physics) will play a key role in helping U of T's Acceleration Consortium reach its goal of reducing the time and cost of developing new materials that do not exist yet. (Photo courtesy: Anatole von Lilienfeld)

Acceleration Consortium at U of T welcomes Anatole von Lilienfeld as inaugural Clark chair in advanced materials discovery

The University of Toronto community gathered virtually for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, to remember the 14 women killed in the École Polytechnique massacre. (Image courtesy: University of Toronto)

‘Change the system’: U of T marks 32nd anniversary of École Polytechnique massacre

Eman Shayeb (Year 1 EngSci) is one of only 30 recipients from across Canada to be named a 2021 Loran Scholar.

Artist, activist, engineering student: Meet Loran Scholar Eman Shayeb

(L-R) Andrew Gillis, CEO of Aurora Hydrogen, Professor Erin Bobicki, University of Alberta, and Professor Murray Thomson (MIE), University of Toronto. The three have developed a new method for generating emissions-free hydrogen, and are seeing interest in their technology from the energy sector. (Photo courtesy: Murray Thomson)

Spin-off company co-founded by U of T Engineering professor creates hydrogen without carbon dioxide emissions