Posts Tagged: graduate
What do Beethoven and a boulder have in common? They both compose music. While one is enjoyed over dinner, the other could be used to predict earthquakes. In a recent paper published in Nature Scientific Reports, three researchers from U…
From former industrial sites to rail yards and abandoned gas stations, there are an estimated 22,000 environmentally contaminated sites across the country. These areas are polluted with hazardous chemicals that could impact human health, ecosystems and the drinking water supply.…
Professor En-hui Yang asked information theorists from across the world to doubt absolutely everything — except, of course, their decision to study information theory (IT). Yang spoke at the IEEE North American School for Information Theory (NASIT’14), hosted this month…
Márta Ecsedi (CivE 7T6) knows a little something about being first. During her undergraduate degree at U of T Engineering, she was the first woman to lead the Engineering Society. Later, she served as the first woman president of the…
Genetically engineering algae to produce biofuel. Growing artificial spinal discs in a lab. Using nanotechnology to fight malnutrition. These are just some of the ideas presented at the 16th annual CSChE Ontario-Quebec Biotechnology Meeting on May 15 – 16, 2014, which brought…
When recent U of T Engineering graduate Mauricio Curbelo (CivE 1T4) was in his second year, he helped lay the groundwork for one of the largest donations in Engineering Society (EngSoc) history. He just didn’t know it at the time.…
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