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Aniss Zaoui

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Yu Zou and team

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Professor Fae Azhari (MIE, CivE) holds a sample of the self-sensing concrete she designed. Her work helps monitor the structural health of crucial infrastructure such as bridges, roads and hydroelectric dams. (Credit: Roberta Baker).

Concrete check-up: Fae Azhari develops diagnostics for critical infrastructure

Professor Levente Diosady (centre) and his team developed a way to fortify salt with both iron and iodine. The product is now being distributed to more than 24 million people in India’s Uttar Pradesh state. (Photo: Mark Balson)

Double-fortified salt to improve nutrition for 24 million in Uttar Pradesh

U of T research teams led by Brent Sleep (CivE, pictured at centre), David Lie (ECE) and Mark Fox (MIE) are winners of this year's Connaught Global Challenge Awards. The internal awards are designed to support new multidisciplinary collaborations involving U of T researchers. (Photo: Roberta Baker) .

Interdisciplinary U of T Engineering projects receive funding from relaunched Connaught Global Challenge Award

Professor Angela Schoellig (UTIAS, at right) demonstrates one of her flying robots to a future innovator. Schoellig was part of a panel convened to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, 2017. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

STEM needs women: International Day of Women and Girls in Science