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Modelling study provides support for the ‘housing first’ approach to addressing addiction and homelessness

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U of T Engineering researchers and startup boutIQ solutions partner to advance heart repair therapies

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Professor Caitlin Maikawa wins 2024 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Chemistry

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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

BME PhD candidate Betty Li holds up the microfluidic device she designed for growing breast cancer cells in an environment that mimics conditions inside the human body. The device could offer new insights into complex processes such as cancer metastasis. (Photo: Michael Dryden)

Credit-card sized tool provides new insights into how cancer cells invade host tissues