Posts Categorized: News

It doesn’t have a brain and survives on rotting vegetable matter — but it could offer valuable insights into city planning, according to a team of U of T researchers. […]

A cross-disciplinary research initiated by Prof. Chandra Singh and his collaborators, Gurjot Dhaliwal (PhD. Candidate, MIE) and Prof. Prasanth B. Nair (Professor, UTIAS), has led to the discovery of novel […]

  MSE Professor, Jason Hattrick- Simpers and his collaborators combine high-throughput experimentation and machine learning to discover exceptionally hard and wear-resistant  alloys which  exhibit hardness greater than 25 GPa, which is […]

  A water tank full of coin-sized invertebrates may not be the first thing you’d expect to see in a materials science and engineering research lab. But Professor Eli Sone (BME, MSE) […]

  MSE alumnus, Andrew Forde, recently rejoined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) as an adjunct professor. Currently he is an Associate Partner at IBM and has built […]

  MSE alumnus, Phil De Luna, recently rejoined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) as an Adjunct Professor. He received his PhD specializing in nanostructured electrocatalysts for CO2 Conversion […]

  Machine learning and physical chemistry specialist Anatole von Lilienfeld has been named the inaugural holder of the Clark Chair in Advanced Materials at the Vector Institute and the University of Toronto, becoming a […]

Forensic Engineering expert, Prof. Doug Perovic (MSE) comments about the inspection of a couple of balconies at an apartment in London, Ont., where a one-year-old girl fell to her death […]

Something transformational happened to Art Chow (MSE PhD 6T6) when he was in second year of his program in 1956: the undergrad student was on his way to the gym at Hart House […]

  A team of researchers from U of T Engineering and Rice University have reported the first measurements of the ultra-low-friction behaviour of a material known as magnetene. The results point […]