Posts Tagged: awards & honours
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has honoured a team of U of T Engineering alumni for designing a wearable device that helps blind people read. On September 12, Ruben Larsson, Fraser Le Ber, Chang Liu and Rustom…
Engineering professors Levente Diosady (ChemE) and Brendan Frey (ECE) have been elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) on the basis of their exceptional contributions to Canadian intellectual life. The Society’s mission is to recognize scholarly, research and…
Four U of T engineers have received Ontario Professional Engineers Awards in honour of their outstanding contributions to the engineering profession and their wider community. Awarded by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), recipients…
Paper or plastic? This seemingly mundane question captures one of our biggest sustainability challenges: although paper is renewable and biodegradable, for many uses non-degradable plastic still wins out due to its resilience and versatility. Now, thanks to a new grant from…
When ECE Professor Natalie Enright Jerger received the Borg Early Career Award a few weeks ago, there was a certain sense of passing the torch. “I remember when my co-supervisor, Li-Shiuan Peh received this same award in 2007 when I…
Professor Milos Popovic (IBBME) has been named the recipient of the University Health Network (UHN) 2014 Inventor of the Year Award for his creation of MyndMove, a non-invasive device that delivers electrical stimulation to paralyzed muscles producing movement in arms and hands.…
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