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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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Mojtaba Abbasnezhad’s Facebook profile photo. Abbaznezhad was a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto. He was killed in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752. (Photo: Facebook)

Remembering Mojtaba Abbasnezhad

Super stretchy, transparent and self-powering, researchers Xinyu Liu (MIE) and Binbin Ying (MIE, pictured) believe their AISkin will lead to meaningful advancements in wearable electronics, personal health care, and robotics. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

Skin-like sensors bring a human touch to wearable tech

As a PhD student, Pavani Cherukpally researched the use of polyurethane foams to adsorb droplets of oil in wastewater. (Photo: Kevin Soobrian)

Oil-adsorbing sponge could prevent environmental contamination

Professor Craig Simmons (MIE, IBBME) is among the four U of T Engineering professors and one alumnus to be inducted into the Engineering Institute of Canada for 2019. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Professors and alumnus elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada