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Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency’s Timmins stratospheric balloon base.

START1 takes flight: U of T Engineering student team explores radiation risks in space

Aniss Zaoui

How a recent grad’s second PhD prepared him to develop next-generation sustainable materials

Yu Zou and team

New metal matrix composites — made with 3D printing — could lead to light, yet strong components for aerospace and other industries

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Brendan Frey (centre) and his team developed a system that teaches computers to ‘read the human genome’ and rate likelihood of mutations causing disease (pictured with first co-authors Leo Lee and Hui Xiong) (Photo: Jessica Wilson).

Machine learning reveals unexpected genetic roots of cancers, autism and other disorders

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Engineering startup makes buildings earthquake resistant

Wheeler Lab

U of T Engineering team delivers $1 detection system for measles and rubella

James Ham

Former Engineering dean inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame