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Left to right: Dr. Monica Regalbuto, Vice-President of Science and Technology, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories; Fred Dermarkar, President and CEO, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited; Prof. Leah Cowen, Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives, U of T. (photo by Aaron Demeter)

Strengthening Canada’s nuclear talent pipeline: U of T joins Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ Academic Partnership Program

Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) applies a people-centred approach towards teaching and mentorship in operations research. (photo by Aaron Demeter)

‘You have to get along as people first’: Tim Chan on graduate mentorship and student success

NSERC Indigenous Student Ambassador Shilo Chislett (ChemE MEng student) in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. (photo by Shilo Chislett)

ChemE grad student Shilo Chislett brings STEM outreach to Nunavut youth

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Team AVAIL — left to right, Caulan Rupke (Year 4 EngSci), Neell Young (EngSci 1T4 + PEY, UTIAS MASc candidate), Andrew Ilersich and Michael Lawee (both Year 4 EngSci) — has designed a physics experiment that will be carried out in simulated microgravity. Their results could accelerate the use of 3D printers to address key challenges for long-term space missions. (Photo credit: Team AVAIL)

Unraveling a physics mystery in microgravity: U of T Engineering students fly their experiment

U of T Engineering students Andy Liao (Year 2 CivE), Ernesto Diaz Lozano Patiño (CivE 1T5 + PEY, MASc candidate), Alejandro Sarellano Acevedo (ECE MEng candidate), and Mackenzie de Carle (Year 3 CivE) are members of the team that earned a $20,000 prize for their proposal to install solar-powered street lighting in Mexico City’s Toltenco community.

Engineering student team lights up low-income Mexico City community

Clockwise from left, Marian Daniel (Year 2 ECE), Patrick Howell (ECE 1T7), Professor Jonathan Kelly (UTIAS) and Maya Burhakpurkar are just a few members of the research team who have developed a low-cost system that enables electric wheelchairs to become partly or fully autonomous.

Wheelchairs get robotic retrofit to become self-driving

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Julie Payette, astronaut and U of T Engineering alumna, named next Governor General