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Professor Ethan Ritz (CivMin) at the University of Toronto main gates. (photo by Phill Snel)

‘You’re going to learn your whole life’: Meet Ethan Ritz, CivMin’s newest faculty member

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How BMO National Scholar Maeesha Biswas turned a U of T capstone project into an AI startup with global ambitions

“Engineering offered the bridge between theoretical discovery and practical impact,” says Professor Oliver Boodram (UTIAS). “In graduate school, this helped me focus on aerospace engineering and the application of the theory of orbits to real-world spacecraft.”  (photo by Jennifer Li)

‘I hope students will come away with both curiosity and confidence’: Meet Professor Oliver Boodram

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The fourth annual NSBEHacks, a 24-hour virtual hackathon, was hosted on Gather Town. (Screenshot: Genevieve Aguigwo)

Toronto’s first-ever Black student-run hackathon tackles algorithm bias and builds community

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’

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

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