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Left to right: Computer Science student Vishwa Dave and Hudson Jantzi (Year 1 CompE) both received a 2025 Schulich Leader Scholarship. (photos courtesy of students)

2025 Schulich Leaders grateful for ‘life-changing’ scholarship to study STEM at U of T

Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency’s Timmins stratospheric balloon base.

START1 takes flight: U of T Engineering student team explores radiation risks in space

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How a recent grad’s second PhD prepared him to develop next-generation sustainable materials

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The team developing a more sensitive test for COVID-19 (Photo: Alexandros Sklavounos).

Meet the U of T Engineering team developing an on-the-go test for COVID-19

Nini Chen, Prof. Gisele Azimi, and Prof. Farid Najm are among the 14 staff and faculty members honoured with awards from the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering this year.

Fourteen engineering professors and staff members honoured for excellence by the Faculty

Fourth-year engineering students Kejdi Kola (back left), Calvin Rieder (back middle) and Anton Meier (back right) met with community members in Las Arrugas, Guatemala to design a water purification system for the community. (Photo courtesy Kejdi Kola)

Clean water for Las Arrugas: U of T Engineering team designs water filters for Guatemalan community

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