Posts Tagged: research

Meet Engineering’s 2011 Vanier Scholars

Four graduate students from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering are among the 167 individuals named recipients of Canada’s prestigious Vanier Graduate Scholarship this year. The scholarships, which have been likened to the Rhodes Scholarship, are part of an…

$20 Million for Water Research Benefits U of T Engineering

University of Toronto researchers will benefit from a $19.58 million investment in water technologies announced today by FedDev Ontario, an agency created in 2009 as part of Canada’s Economic Action Plan. Peter Kent, Canada’s minister of environment, was on campus…

IBBME Professor’s Start-Up Earns $2-Million Licence Fee

Another technology commercialization success story emerges from U of T. Interface Biologics Inc (IBI), a company founded by Professor Paul Santerre, Director of the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME),  announced the successful conclusion of a licensing evaluation period…

U of T Engineers Help Build an Antenna for Light

University of Toronto researchers have derived inspiration from the photosynthetic apparatus in plants to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light. Their findings are reported in Nature Nanotechnology , released on July 10,…
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