With Damaged Organs, a Chance for “Regrowth”
Prof. Michael Sefton imagines being able to treat diabetes with a single injection Read More
Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences
Oxford Bound
Rhodes Scholar Stephanie Gaglione is interested in vaccine development Read More
Hungry for Hazardous Waste
How pollution-eating microbes could help clean up toxic sites Read More
Arctic Sea Ice in Century-Long Decline
U of T scientist uses long-lived algae to track annual changes in northern climate back to 1300s Read More
The Geography of Pollution
A PhD candidate’s low-cost sensors could be deployed across cities to gather highly local air-quality data Read More
Garbage into Gas
An idea developed at U of T would help turn polluting oilsands waste into clean-burning hydrogen gas Read More
Goodbye to Plastic?
Emma Master imagines a world with much less garbage, thanks to new organic materials she’s researching Read More
Is Air Quality Affecting Your Health?
A U of T prof is looking at the relationship between traffic emissions, health and how close people live to major roads Read More
Intelligent Paper
Chemical engineer Ramin Farnood is developing “smart” packaging that could warn consumers if a food product is tainted Read More