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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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This illustration by Jen Ma (IBBME PhD candidate) depicts competition between a population of cells. A new paper by U of T Engineering researchers indicates that cells known as “elite” are more competitive than others in the process that transforms them into stem cells (Image: Jen Ma)

Not all stem cells are created equal

March 21, 2019

Saara and Ali Punjani are the brother and sister team behind Structura Biotechnology, a U of T startup that uses AI to create 3D visualizations of never-before-seen proteins for pharmaceutical companies (photo by Chris Sorensen)

Run by brother-sister team, this U of T startup is leading Big Pharma out of the dark

March 21, 2019

Allen Lau, co-founder and CEO of Wattpad, has taken a "global-first" approach when it comes to adapting the story-sharing platform's content for the entertainment business (photo courtesy of Wattpad)

The content ‘factory’: How U of T alumnus Allen Lau is disrupting the way books, movies and TV shows are made

March 21, 2019

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The evolution of PEY Co-op: 40 years of work-integrated learning at U of T Engineering

March 20, 2019

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