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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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Seven U of T Engineering faculty members named Canada Research Chairs

From left: U of T Engineering researchers Professor Axel Guenther (MIE), Navid Hakimi (MIE PhD candidate) and Richard Cheng (IBBME PhD candidate) have created the first ‘skin printer’ that forms tissues in situ for application to wounds. (Credit: Liz Do)

U of T Engineering researchers develop handheld 3D skin printer

Xiwen Gong (ECE PhD candidate, centre) with Wendy and Eric Schmidt. The Schmidt Science Fellows program administered in partnership with the Rhodes Trust provides postdoctoral opportunities in areas different from those in which they completed their PhD research. (Courtesy: Schmidt Science Fellows).

U of T Engineering’s Xiwen Gong among inaugural class of Schmidt Science Fellows

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Pedram Mortazavi wins 2018 TA Teaching Excellence Award