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four people stand in front of a research poster. One holds a bowl containing pieces of cacti.

This cactus-based material could help improve rainwater harvesting for communities across rural Mexico

Students in Professor Karl Peterson’s lab examine concrete samples from the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Left to right: Wisdom Okoh, Katia Ossetchkina, Professor Karl Peterson and Amy Montgomery. (photo by Phill Snel)

This team of CivMin researchers is studying the Gordie Howe International Bridge — down to the microscopic level

Alex Kurk (MechE 2T6), left, is the 2026 winner of the Troost ILead Difference Maker Award. Sanjay Malaviya, right, is the donor for this award. Malaviya holds one of the 3D-printed interfaces designed by Kurk to help people with low vision navigate software user interfaces. (photo by Tyler Irving)

Solutions for people with low vision helped Alex Kurk earn the 2026 Troost ILead Difference Maker Award

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U of T Engineering's Professor Mark Fox (MIE) leads the initiative to create a Canadian catalogue of urban data sets. (Photo: Laura Pedersen)

U of T’s Urban Data Centre to help ‘wrangle’ the data needed to build smarter cities

July 12, 2022

This model heart ventricle, made with real living heart cells, beats strongly enough to pump fluid inside a tube. It can be used to study heart disease and test out potential therapies, without the need for invasive surgery. (Photo: Sargol Okhovatian)

Reverse engineering the heart: U of T Engineering team creates bioartificial left ventricle

July 8, 2022

ECE Professor Parham Aarabi has developed an artificial computer memory that mimics several properties of human recall, which could enhance artificial intelligence applications and support tools to help people with memory loss. (Photo: Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images)

ECE professor uses ‘fuzzy’ computer algorithms to help people with memory loss

July 7, 2022

Dr. Darlee Gerrard and Ethan Boyer co-lead the Indigenous Design & Engineering Academy (IDEA). (Photo: Safa Jinje)

Enrichment program for Indigenous high school students connects traditional Land-based knowledge systems and STEM fields

July 7, 2022

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