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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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Researchers in Professor Warren Chan’s (BME) lab. Ben Ouyang (second from top left) and team, under the supervision of Chan (top left), discovered the dose threshold that improves drug delivery to tumours. (Photo courtesy of Ben Ouyang)

How to get more cancer-fighting nanoparticles to where they are needed

August 10, 2020

A photo of Beirut’s harbour taken in 2013. (Photo: Rachid H, via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachidh/9335102510/">Flickr</a>)

Forensic engineering expert on what happens next in Beirut

August 7, 2020

A crowd spills along Bloor street after a transit disruption in November 2009. U of T Engineering research have designed an algorithm that they say can more efficiently dispatch buses to deal with downed subway lines. (Photo: Sweetsop, via Flickr)

Is there a better way for transit systems to deal with service disruptions?

August 5, 2020

Sinisa Colic joined MIE as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in July 2020. (Photo courtesy of Sinisa Colic)

MIE welcomes new faculty member Sinisa Colic

August 4, 2020

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