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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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Build more, pollute less: New academic-industry partnership to balance infrastructure needs with environmental integrity

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New catalyst design could make better use of captured carbon

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Three U of T Engineering professors honoured by the Engineering Institute of Canada

Professor Salma Emara (ECE) is an award-winning teacher who creates inclusive learning environments and structures her courses so that students can learn by doing. (Photo: Matthew Tierney

‘Be patient when you’re learning something new’: Meet Professor Salma Emara