
Diesel trains may expose passengers to exhaust
Levels of certain airborne pollutants are up to nine times higher in train cars directly behind diesel locomotives than on busy city streets.

Heat, housing and health: Marianne Touchie and the complexity of multi-unit residential buildings
Professor Marianne Touchie is working with Toronto Community Housing and The Atmospheric Fund to better understand how changes to energy use affect indoor environmental quality in multi-unit residential buildings

Bike lanes on Bloor Street: U of T Engineering partners with Miovision, City of Toronto to help evaluate pilot and track traffic safety
Matthew Roorda (CIvE) performing conflict analysis to help cities evaluate the impact to safety of any changes to a streetscape

The next generation of solar pioneers: Electrifying a nation
U of T Engineering alumni John Paul Morgan and Shawn Qu are entrepreneurs whose ingenuity is lighting up parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Clean water, clean air: U of T Engineering research addresses big sustainability questions from resource scarcity to climate change
Ramin Farnood is an established leader in water decontamination — now he’s applying that expertise to tackle climate-warming emissions

U of T team advances to next round of Carbon XPRIZE competition
A team of U of T researchers led by Professor Ted Sargent had advanced to the second round of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE international competition.

New research consortium aims to build critical bridge between environmental and health data
Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) will study the role of environment in determining Canadians’ health