https://youtu.be/zRV1Kt7tnno What is the relationship between pollution and colonialism in Canada? How can AI and related technologies avoid perpetuating racism and gender bias? These are some of the questions explored in episode four of...
New ISI ready to tackle Climate Change
Canada has formally committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – and since 78 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions globally are related to energy, finding cleaner sources is a big part of the puzzle. Researchers at the University of Toronto have...
Groundbreakers: The Future is Robotic
Can tiny, worm-like robots revolutionize the way surgeons work? How will human-robot interactions be improved? Can AI and robotics create self-driving cars that make winter driving safer? These are just some of the questions explored by the University of Toronto...
Groundbreakers: U of T’s Acceleration Consortium rethinks the laboratory to optimize the discovery-to-commercialization process
What does the lab of the future look like? When it comes to advanced materials, can we accelerate the process of discovery to commercialization from 25 years to 10, five or even one? These are some of the issues explored by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, director of the...
The people behind the research’: Video series focuses on unique collaborations launching across U of T
November 29, 2021 - 'The people behind the research': Video series focuses on unique collaborations launching across U of T (utoronto.ca) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xl7Mk7-PpQ Inequality, climate change, infectious diseases – these are just a few of the global...
Preventing the next pandemic: U of T’s EPIC consortium
The University of Toronto’s Combined Containment Level 3 (C-CL3) unit, equipped to safely study pathogens that cause infectious disease, was among the first labs in Canada to enable researchers to work with SaRS-CoV-2 samples. While similar facilities elsewhere...
Groundbreakers: U of T’s Data Sciences Institute to help researchers find answers to their biggest questions
September 16, 2021 Berton Woodward | Link to the original article. Researchers working with the multi-university CHIME radio telescope in B.C. are collaborating with experts at U of T's Data Sciences Institute to solve computational and processing problems (featured...
Groundbreakers: U of T initiative brings together experts to address major societal issues
September 02, 2021 Patchen Barss Goldie Nejat envisions a world where growing old is improved by robots that care. The Canada Research Chair in Robots for Society and professor of mechanical engineering in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied...