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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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A Reeddi power capsule, shown at right, provides affordable and sustainable electricity for short-term needs. A startup created by Olugbenga Olubanjo (CivE MASc 1T9) is piloting the technology in Nigeria. (Photo: Leke Alabi Isama/GGImages/Proof Africa)

Reeddi powers up: Startup brings portable, renewable electricity to rural areas

Professor Lydia Wilkinson joined ISTEP as a faculty member in January 2021 after nearly 15 years of teaching at U of T Engineering. (Photo courtesy Lydia Wilkinson)

ISTEP welcomes new faculty member Lydia Wilkinson

From left: HOPE Pet Foods; Xesto; Themis; and, Reeddi.

U of T Entrepreneurship Week: Four engineering startups to watch

As an ISTEP faculty member, Professor Shai Cohen hopes to improve how mathematics is taught to engineering students. (Photo courtesy of ISTEP)

ISTEP welcomes new faculty member Shai Cohen