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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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Then-electrical engineering student Dr. Donald Studney (ElecE 6T3, IBBME MASc 6T7, MD 7T0), sits at his first amateur radio station in 1961. (Courtesy: Donald Studney)

On the air: From Hart House to Vimy Ridge

Professor Nikolai DeMartini develops new strategies to help pulp and paper mills deal with contaminants such as salts and metals in their processes. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

U of T Engineering receives three new NSERC Industrial Research Chairs

From right: George Myhal (IndE 7T8), Dean Cristina Amon and Rayla Myhal. As the finishing touches are made on the eight-storey building ahead of its official opening on April 27, George and Rayla Myhal have bolstered their commitment to engineering innovation and entrepreneurship with a generous gift that will name the new building in their honour.

Myhal family champions next-generation engineering innovation and entrepreneurship

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Modular labs installed on U of T Engineering rooftop enable building science research