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Centre for Healthcare Engineering partners with William Osler Health System to improve clinical practice

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Professor Emma Master named the Robin Korthals Chair in Sustainability

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U of T and BASF partner on self-driving labs to advance agriculture, medicine and more

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Professors Lisa Austin (Faculty of Law) and David Lie (ECE) — photographed before COVID-19 struck — are among a team of researchers and legal experts studying the privacy implications and the technology behind exposure notification apps. (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Can COVID-19 contact tracing and exposure notification apps protect both your health and your privacy?

U of T Engineering postdoctoral fellow Xue Wang installs a membrane electrode assembly cell for testing the performance of a catalyst. Made by coating copper with a layer of carbon-doped nitrogen, the catalyst is designed to efficiently convert CO2 into ethanol. (Photo courtesy Xue Wang)

Converting emissions into valuable fuel

Professor Shurui Zhou combines advances in tooling and software engineering principles with insights from other disciplines to help distributed and interdisciplinary software teams collaborate more efficiently. (Photo courtesy of Shurui Zhou)

ECE welcomes new faculty member Shurui Zhou

A new model, created by Professor Swetaprovo Chaudhuri (UTIAS) and his international collaborators, uses fundamental physics to predict the behaviour of the microscopic droplets that spread the COVID-19 virus. (Photo: Fusion Medical Animation via Unsplash)

Understanding the spread of COVID-19 through physics-based modeling