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Hossain wins Jim Davey Award in CTRF 2021 student paper competition

By David Goldberg | December 13, 2021

Elmorshedy wins 1st prize in ITS Canada 2021 student essay competition

By David Goldberg | December 9, 2021

Bridge Testing Day In CIV102

By David Goldberg | December 6, 2021

Meet your CivMin club leaders

By Phill Snel | November 30, 2021

$U of T's Élyse Caron-Beaudoin and Marianne Hatzopoulou are working together to shed light on how fracking impacts air quality for B.C. communities and residents' exposure to contaminants (photo by Johnny Guatto)$

Researchers investigate health effects of fracking in B.C.’s Northeast

By Phill Snel | November 25, 2021

Professor Heather MacLean (CivMin) was recently appointed U of T Engineering’s first Vice-Dean, Strategic. (Photo submitted)

Meet U of T Engineering’s new Vice-Dean, Strategic

By Phill Snel | November 25, 2021

Prof. Marianne Touchie receives OBEC Rising Star Award

By Phill Snel | November 22, 2021

Left to right: Professors Miriam Diamond (Earth Sciences, ChemE), Greg Evans (ChemE, ISTEP), Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivMin) and Senior Research Associate Dr. Cheol-Heon Jeong (ChemE) are some of the members of the multidisciplinary team that has earned NSERC’s 2021 Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

U of T Engineering team earns Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering

By Phill Snel | November 17, 2021

CivMin’s Maya Chai-Foo recipient of Andrew Forde Polymath Award

By Phill Snel | November 2, 2021

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA; SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 2021 — GRAD STUDENT ATHLETE— A photo of Giuliana Frizzi (MASc Candidate) at a Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory (GRIT LAB) on the rooftop of the University of Toronto Student Commons Building on Thursday, September 30, 2021. Frizzi is a graduate student in the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering (CivMin) in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) with faculty supervisor Prof. Jennifer Drake. Frizzi plays for the U of T Varsity Blues Women’s Lacrosse team as a midfielder (jersey # 16). (Photo by Phill Snel, CivMin)

PROFILE: Giuliana Frizzi, CivE MASc candidate

By Phill Snel | October 26, 2021

The CECA U of T presentation team (left to right): Yiyang Hu (Year 3 CivE), Sarah De Sousa (Year 4 CivE), Joanna Melnyk (Year 4 EngSci), Zhiyuan Zhu (Year 4 Architecture), Ruth Zachariah (Year 4 CivE) and Lina Mollazadeh (Year 3 CivE). (Photo supplied)

U of T student success at U.S.-based ECIC competition: Third place overall

By Phill Snel | October 19, 2021

The carbon footprint of concrete is mainly due to the chemistry of Portland cement, one of its key ingredients. Research by U of T engineering professor Doug Hooton (CivMin) shows that a few simple substitutions can cut this carbon footprint in half. (Photo: twenty20photos, via Envato Elements)

CivMin professor on a mission to lower concrete’s carbon footprint

By Phill Snel | October 14, 2021