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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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Professor Chirag Variawa (centre) teaches both graduate and undergraduate students and is encouraging them to address educational challenges through engineering design. (Photo: Alan Yusheng Wu)

Engineering the educational experience

February 22, 2017

Professor Angela Schoellig has been awarded a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowshop from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The award will advance her research into autonomous aerial vehicles for environmental monitoring, health care delivery and many other applications. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Angela Schoellig awarded a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship

February 21, 2017

The invisible clean-up crew: Engineering microbial cultures to destroy pollutants

February 17, 2017

The new perovskite solar cells have achieved an efficiency of 20.1 per cent and can be manufactured at low temperatures, which reduces the cost and expands the number of possible applications. (Photo: Kevin Soobrian)

Printable solar cells just got a little closer

February 16, 2017

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