During her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, Professor Nicole Weckman (ISTEP, ChemE) developed a new technique to rapidly detect antimicrobial resistant genes in a pathogenic fungus ...

Recent PhD graduate Gabrielle Migliato Marega (CivMin) developed an improved tool for estimating how much water from heavy ...

Today there are more than 7 million electric vehicles (EVs) in operation around the world, compared with only about 20,000 a decade ago. It’s a massive change — but according to a group of U of T ...

The program offers Black high school students interested in science and technology a chance to discover the difference they ...

More than a dozen students are already enrolled in specialized courses leading to new qualifications in nuclear engineering ...

Taller buildings get a bad rap. New research from U of T Engineering’s Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment (CSBE) has found that while adding height does slightly increase embodied emissions, ...

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the ...

An artificial intelligence-driven chatbot being developed by U of T researchers could soon deliver therapy that will help people in Canada quit smoking. In the medium term, the chatbot could help ...

Researchers at U of T Engineering, led by Professor Yu Zou (MSE), are leveraging machine learning to improve additive manufacturing, also commonly known as 3D printing. In a new paper, published in ...

This communication link is known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in Professor Brokoslaw Laschowski’s Computational Neuroscience Lab could soon make these interfaces more ...

This article originally appeared in the 2016 issue of Skulematters magazine. George Klein in the electric wheelchair he helped design. Photo courtesy of the National Research Council of Canada. In ...