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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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D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika (ChemE/ISTEP PhD Candidate (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

IBET Momentum Fellow D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika aims to re-frame engineering education

September 1, 2021

Professor Vahid Sarhangian (MIE) is the Director of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering, and one of four U of T Engineering professors with projects funded by the Connaught New Researcher Awards. (Photo: Liz Do)

Optimizing patient prioritization for admission to rehab among four projects powered by Connaught New Researcher awards

August 27, 2021

Professor Li Qian (ECE), shown in her lab pre-pandemic, is part of a research team that proposed a new quantum fingerprinting protocol, which is used to quickly and securely identify whether information from two sources is the same. (Photo: Don Figer)

Quantum ‘fingerprints’ made smaller and delivered faster

August 26, 2021

Michael Sefton, a U of T tissue engineer and executive director of Medicine by Design, is investigating whether dendritic skin cells can aid in the successful transplantation of insulin-producing islet cells in diabetes patients. (Photo: Neil Ta)

With a focus on skin cells, U of T’s Michael Sefton seeks ‘huge step forward’ in diabetes treatment

August 26, 2021

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