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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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Fourth year Engineering Science student Emerson Grabke on top of Mount Fuji. (Photo courtesy Emerson Grabke)

International exchanges help U of T Engineering students expand their horizons

Professor Jonathan Rose with lecturers from Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT) in Ethiopia in 2011. Rose, now a member of the board of Academics Without Borders, hopes to enable more professors to travel to the developing world to help strengthen academic institutions. (Photo courtesy Jonathan Rose)

Strengthening educational capacity abroad through Academics Without Borders

Teachers from the Toronto District School Board attend a robotics and computer coding workshop hosted by U of T Engineering in February 2016. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Federal budget supports digital literacy and work-integrated learning

Dawn Kilkenny, an assistant professor, teaching stream, in biomedical engineering, helped raise $2 million for equipment and renovations at this teaching lab in the Lassonde Mining Building (Photo: Geoffrey Vendeville)

Early Career Teaching Award: Q & A with Dawn Kilkenny