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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 Jason Hattrick-Simpers has joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. (Photo courtesy Jason Hattrick-Simpers)

MSE welcomes new faculty member Jason Hattrick-Simpers

June 28, 2021

Left: Professor William Cluett (ChemE), Director of the Division of Engineering Science. (Photo courtesy Will Cluett) Right: Claire Kennedy (ChemE 8T9), outgoing Chair of U of T’s Governing Council. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Engineers Canada Awards honour U of T Engineering professor and alumna

June 28, 2021

Professor Parham Aarabi (ECE) is one of a group of AI experts behind HALT AI, a U of T service that tests for bias in AI systems across a variety of diversity dimensions, such as gender, age and race. (Photo: Johnny Guatto)

New U of T initiative to assess bias in AI systems

June 25, 2021

Alumna Claire Kennedy (ChemE 8T9) has served as chair of U of T's Governing Council since 2017.

Overseeing a ‘small city’: Claire Kennedy reflects on her time as chair of U of T’s Governing Council

June 23, 2021

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