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Left to right: Aaron Tan and Angus Fung sit behind their laptops in an office.

‘A Lume in every room’: U of T Engineering alumni are reimagining home robotics — starting with your laundry

5 individuals stand in front of a banner for a photo together

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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The Entrepreneurship Hatchery: Three student startups to watch

May 31, 2016

Ashis Ghosh (MechE 1T5 + PEY) and Karim Koreitem (ECE 1T5 + PEY) are two of the four U of T Engineering students striving to bring their business ideas to fruition in this year’s cohort of The Next 36. (Photo: Stephanie Lake/The Next 36)

Four recent U of T Engineering graduates go through business bootcamp at The Next 36

May 31, 2016

teaBOT creates customized, robot-blended cups of loose-leaf tea, brewed in under 30 seconds. Its machines are deployed in Toronto and various cities in California. (Photo courtesy of teaBOT)

U of T Engineering startup teaBOT expands across North America

May 31, 2016

Left to right: Jaclyn Obermeyer, Malgosia Pakulska and Irja Elliott Donaghue, supervised by University Professor Molly Shoichet, are the first to show controlled release of proteins without encapsulating them in nanoparticles. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Simple attraction: U of T Engineering researchers control protein release from nanoparticles without encapsulation

May 27, 2016

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