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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 Paul Yoo (right) and PhD candidate Zainab Moazzam are part of a team working on a novel therapy for overactive bladder disorder, an affliction faced by 18 per cent of Canadian adults. (Credit: Luke Ng)

Paul Yoo awarded AGE-WELL research grant for treating overactive bladder disorder

Ted Sargent: “Our ability to continue to recruit the best students from around the world hinges on our global reputation." (Credit: NSERC).

Ted Sargent appointed U of T vice-president international

Professors Birsen Donmez (MIE), Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivE), Keryn Lian (MSE) and Prasanth Nair (UTIAS) are this year’s recipients of Discovery Accelerator Supplements from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In total, 80 professors and graduate students from U of T Engineering received support today in the form of research funding or scholarships from NSERC, totalling $10.4 million.

U of T Engineering researchers receive $10.4 million in NSERC research funding

Lipsitz and his fellow volunteers delivered workshops and healthy meal planning, food composition and gardening.

Let’s Talk Science partners with U of T Engineering and Sandy Lake First Nation to combat diabetes