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Professor Chou, left, looks at a screen with purple splotches displayed. A researcher sits at the table in the lab, pointing at one of the images on the screen.

Professor Leo Chou receives Ontario Early Researcher Award to advance vaccine and immunotherapy delivery

a medical practitioner wearing a stethoscope points at an AED

Launch of PADmap translates graduate research on defibrillators into a potentially life-saving tool

Milica sits on a bench, smiles at the camera. A concrete pillar, walls and glass panelling are in the background.

Professor Milica Radisic receives a Governor General’s Innovation Award

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A freshwater well on Corn Island, Nicaragua. As part of their fourth-year capstone design project, a team of U of T Engineering students is designing a system to protect a freshwater spring elsewhere on the island from the incursion of salt water. (Photo: Monica Pramanick)

Protecting a freshwater spring on Nicaragua’s Corn Island

A research team led by Professor Willy Wong (ECE, IBBME) developed a quick solution for monitoring patients’ respiratory status using small but powerful single-board Raspberry Pi printed circuit boards. (Photo: Harrison Broadbent via Unsplash)

U of T Engineering team programs single-board computers to remotely monitor COVID-19 patients and protect health care workers

Alison Olechowski (MIE, ISTEP) studies the future of work and how engineering teams reach reliable decisions when designing new products. (Photo: Pam Walls)

How engineers can keep innovating — while working from home

Dubbed the Buddy Badge, the wearable device acts as a transponder, using a system of sensors connected to hand-washing stations, doorways, and critical routes to patient rooms. (Photo by Christine Sandu on Unsplash)

U of T startup’s wearable tech encourages hand hygiene to prevent the spread of COVID-19