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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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FLATTEN.ca is an online tool built by a team of volunteers, including U of T Engineering students. It uses self-reporting to create a heatmap of potential COVID-19 cases across the GTA. (Image courtesy FLATTEN.ca)

FLATTEN: Engineering students create free online map to help track the spread of COVID-19

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Air filtration and COVID-19: Indoor air quality expert explains how to keep you and your building safe

Professor Dionne Aleman’s (MIE) research uses agent-based data to simulate a pandemic outbreak in urban areas. (Photo: Clay Banks / Unsplash)

COVID-19 and the ‘what if machine’: How simulations and models help predict pandemic spread

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Jason Bazylak receives U of T’s Joan E. Foley Quality of Student Experience Award