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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 student from George Harvey Collegiate Institute presents a diabetic foot brace designed as part of the Discovery outreach program in June 2019. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s program successfully pivoted online. (Photo: Bill Dai)

How one U of T Engineering educational program kept thriving during COVID-19

LegUp co-founder Andrew Canis (CompE PhD 1T5) at U of T's startup showcase, True Blue Expo, in 2019. (Photo: www.legupcomputing.com)

U of T Engineering spinoff LegUp Computing acquired by leading microelectronics company, Microchip

A microfluidic chip shown with a single droplet which can carry contents of individual cells for genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses. (Photo courtesy Wheeler Lab)

U of T researchers develop new tool for scooping contents of individual cells from local environment

Dean Christopher Yip met virtually with undergraduate students in time zones around the world during the first-ever Dean's World Tour on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020.

Dean’s World Tour: Checking in with U of T Engineering students across the globe