Posts Tagged: research
Cancer; climate change; aging infrastructure; heart disease: these 50 letters can cost billions of dollars and countless lives. On August 14, four U of T engineering students received Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships – prestigious awards from the Government of Canada…
From the breakdown of natural wastes to the production of fossil fuels, many fundamental processes on Earth are performed by organisms too small for the eye to see. Professor Radhakrishnan Mahadevan (ChemE) specializes in the utilization of these vital micro-organisms,…
Want faster Internet? Professor Wei Yu (ECE) is on the case. Professor Yu was recently named to Thomson Reuters’ rankings of the most highly cited scientific researchers in the world, one of 19 University of Toronto professors to make the…
When three-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves speeds around the track at this month’s Indy races, he’ll be driving a racecar propelled by decades of materials research that makes him faster, safer and more efficient. But with the opening of…
When it comes to washing dishes, the verdict may be out for “sponge versus washcloth” – but for cleaning oil spills, engineering PhD student Ali Rizvi (MIE PhD 1T4) is all sponge. Rizvi has designed a cost-effective commercial sponge, similar…
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…
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