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Guest lecturer Professor Justin Hess presenting at the 2026 Fred Kan Lecture. (photo by William Suarez)

Building a culture of ethical inquiry in engineering: The legacy of the Fred Kan Lecture Series

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U of T to receive nearly $1M for global online project in mining education

Rahul Goel holding a prototype of a 3D printed Hadfield Rocket Engine in front of a "nordspace" logo, two flags and a rocket model

Reflections on giving with student, alumnus, entrepreneur and philanthropist Rahul Goel

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Jun Ho Sung (Year 1 Track One) and Adrian Humphry (Year 3 EngSci) describe the mechanics of the UTP1. (Credit: Erica Rae Chong)

Lofty goals: UTAT gears up for milestone competitions

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

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

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