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Left to right: Aaron Tan and Angus Fung sit behind their laptops in an office.

‘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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Dean Chris Yip with four of the five of this year’s Pearson Scholars. From left: Santiago Gomez Montenegro, Urvi Verkhedkar, Dean Yip, Jose Pablo Siliezar Carillo and Silvia Lopez Portillo. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

‘Incredible and incredibly busy’: International Pearson Scholars on their first month at U of T Engineering

October 17, 2019

Co-founders Weiwei Li (left) and Catherine Chan (right) poses in front of a mural in Toronto depicting participation and volunteerism. Honeybee Hub provides the general public the opportunity to participate and volunteer in research studies to advance knowledge. (Photo: Honeybee Hub, Inc.)

Honeybee Hub has researchers buzzing

October 15, 2019

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Soft robot programmed to move like an inchworm

October 4, 2019

CivE PhD Candidate Pedram Mortazavi, MASc, P.Eng, poses with a cast steel link in the Structures Lab at the University of Toronto’s Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering. Photo: Phill Snel, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering/ U of T

PhD candidate honoured by Canadian Institute of Steel Construction

October 2, 2019

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