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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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Rainwater harvesting system

How solar-powered technology could enhance rainwater harvesting in Mexico

Elham Marzi

Professor Elham Marzi earns U of T Early Career Teaching Award

Helen Bright with students

Meet Helen Bright, U of T Engineering’s new Faculty Registrar

The average life expectancy after a glioblastoma diagnosis is around 15 months (Image: Li Chen, Siqi Ou)

Robotic nano-surgery shown effective at treating aggressive brain cancer in mice