Posts Tagged: Brendan Frey
Preserving food. The changing demographics of Canadian society. Horizontal enlightenment through meditation. These were just some of the topics attendees learned about at the fifth annual TEDxToronto conference last week. The University of Toronto co-sponsored the event, and U of…
Two of the 12 speakers chosen to present at TEDxToronto this fall are U of T Engineering professors. Professor Steve Mann (ECE), widely recognized as the father of wearable computing and inventor of the concept of ‘sousveillance’, will speak about his quest to “understand…
It’s been a decade since the Human Genome Project finished sequencing our genome, and everyone and their grandmother knows that gene expression controls critical biological processes. Genes encode proteins, and proteins are the building blocks of the human body. But…
A team of Toronto-based researchers may be one step closer to a ‘recipe’ for large-scale production of stem cells for use in research and therapy. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be of great value for medical research because they…
The Government of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced $46.2 million in research and scholarship investment to the University of Toronto on May 21. Several U of T Engineering faculty members and students…
U of T research got a big boost on March 15, when the federal government announced $18.7 million in funding for 23 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRCs), seven of which come from U of T Engineering. Chairholders will…
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