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Javier Romualdez inside of a plane

Follow UTIAS PhD Graduate Dr. Javier Romualdez’s Blog About His Antarctica Research Adventure

December 6, 2018

Well, it’s our first Condition 2 weather here in McMurdo, so I have some time to post a few pictures highlighting a phrase that we hear all the time here: “Antarctica: it’s a harsh continent”. Up until now, we had, as a group, repeated this over-stated slogan incessantly (e.g. someone […]

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UTIAS Professor Jonathan Kelly Receives Dean’s Catalyst Professorship

November 22, 2018

Twenty-seven U of T Engineering assistant professors have been appointed to early-career professorships across three new programs for tenure- and teaching-stream faculty members. The professorships, created by Dean Cristina Amon, will enhance research in emerging areas and practices in engineering education across the Faculty. Three new early-career professorships accelerate innovation in […]

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Two U of T Engineering faculty named Canada Research Chairs

November 13, 2018

Professors Angela Schoellig (UTIAS) and Piero Triverio (ECE) have been awarded new and renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC), respectively, by the Canadian federal government. The announcement was made by The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, at the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus. Two U of T Engineering faculty named Canada […]

Craig Steeves with Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School students

UTIAS researchers launch drone outreach program in Thunder Bay

October 10, 2018

By Amanda Hacio This spring, a team of researchers from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) partnered with Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School (DFC), a high school in Thunder Bay, Ont. serving Indigenous students from communities in northern Ontario. The researchers delivered a series of online and […]

UTIAS is Part of Canadian Consortium of Researchers Awarded a $5.5 M NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant in Robotics

August 21, 2018

Professors Steven Waslander and Angela Schoellig are representing UTIAS in the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network (NCRN), a consortium of leading robotics researchers from across Canada that includes members from universities, industry, and government. In a quick Q & A, Professors Waslander and Schoellig outline what they hope to achieve as […]

Students from UTIAS’s Space Flight Laboratory Win Awards at Small Satellite Conference

August 14, 2018

Graduate students at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) received first and second place awards for technical papers relating to microspace missions developed by SFL. The awards were bestowed last week during the prestigious Frank J. Redd Student Competition at the 32nd Annual Small […]

Next-generation Blue Sky Solar car is put to the (wind) test in Prof. Philippe Lavoie’s lab

July 31, 2018

The Blue Sky Solar Racing team is a year away from unveiling their newest vehicle — and they’re not leaving any aspect of its design to chance. In July 2018 the team conducted wind-tunnel tests of 3D-printed models of two retired vehicle designs, Horizon and Polaris, in the lab of U of T […]

Spatial Genome Organization and Rocket Science?!

July 13, 2018

Understanding precisely how damaged DNA gets repaired is an important avenue in developing better treatments for various diseases such as cancer. Molecular biologists at work in this field sought fresh insight recently from a non-traditional source: University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies. The results – published in Nature Communications […]

From U of T to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab: UTIAS alumna Janis Chodas receives an honorary degree

July 10, 2018

“Juno is a go for launch.” Janis Chodas (EngSci 7T8, MASc. UTIAS 8T0) will never forget those words – the verbal go-ahead she gave to launch the Juno spacecraft in 2011 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the time, the U of T Engineering alumna was the project manager for the […]

Bombardier invests in Toronto aerospace hub, creates U of T research centre on aircraft noise

June 21, 2018

Bombardier Inc., the Canadian aerospace giant, is planning to spend millions to help establish an aerospace research hub near Downsview Airport with the University of Toronto and other local academic institutions as key partners. The Montreal-based maker of planes and trains said Thursday it will invest $1.5 million over five […]