Bioethanol is well-established as an alternative to petroleum-based fuels. A current roadblock in ethanol fermentation is end-product inhibition: where the increasing concentration of ethanol slows the growth of the yeast cells and their ability to ferment biomass. There is work being done to use existing separation technologies to remove ethanol throughout the reaction to avoid […]

Multiple coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2 have infected humans in the last two decades. In particular, the current COVID-19 pandemic triggered by SARS-CoV-2 has affected the entire human population, caused millions of deaths and negatively impacted the global economy. Vaccines have helped to reduce the severity of the infection; however, the virus continues to […]

UrbanSim is a simulation framework that facilitates the evaluation of land and transportations policies in the housing and land markets. Current approaches in the UrbanSim, being developed through CHMC to represent the Greater Toronto Horseshoe, do not consider price expectation formation in land and housing market models. The goal of this research project is to […]

Big data and analytics are pervasive within society and the ability to collect and interpret data sets has changed the operations and management of organizations impacting areas such as consumer purchasing decisions and transforming the methods and measurements used by managers. This is no different in sport where data analytics was first used for on-field […]

The applicants propose to develop a new glue that surgeons will use to glue broken bones back together instead of using metal implants like screws and plates. Such a product has been sought for decades because of potential benefits to the surgeons and patients, including ease of operation when reassembly the puzzle of a complex […]

Interns will help collect various data about Ontario’s bat species, and use these to investigate their distributions, use of different land cover, and interactions with the human environment in the Greater Toronto Area. One project will use ultrasonic recorders to monitor bat echolocation activity, and identify temporal and spatial activity patterns in an urban gradient, […]

As the company is actively looking for scaling opportunities, the business data quality assessment & monitoring project aims to unlock the unrealized value of data from internal systems such as CRM and Inventory Proprietary Inventory System to discover high-impact insights for internal stakeholders. The data project is looking to align data extracted from such systems […]

Justice is a core element of a healthy democracy. However, during the pandemic Canada has been confronted with critical questions about how individual notions of justice interact with collective democratic principles. Where is the line between democratic participation and harmful discourse? How does partisanship politicize our protected rights and rule of law? What tools does […]

Small Food Enterprise Outreach (SFEO) Project: economic resiliency, ethnocultural food enterprise and urban sustainability collaboration (Phase 1). The Culinaria Research Centre of the University of Toronto Scarborough is collaborating with the Economic Development & Culture Division of the City of Toronto under the direction of the Centre’s Associate Professor Jayeeta (Jo) Sharma, on a Small […]

Wildlife Preservation Canada’s (WPC’s) Bumble Bee Recovery Program is mainly focused on the recovery of the Special Concern (may become threatened or endangered) yellow-banded bumble bee (Bombus terricola). The intern will be taking on a project that will help WPC assess the health of bumble bee queens in the wild and queens that are being […]

The development of an educational learning tool in the form of a mobile and desktop game. Intended to be accessed by people who do not have ready access to a consistent education due to factors varying from poverty to gender discrimination. The learning tool will allow users to learn at their own pace in an […]

This applied research project builds directly on discussion generated by the 2021 CivicLabTO Academic Summit, an unprecedented exchange among academics from all eight Toronto-area Higher Education Institutions and representatives of the City of Toronto. Locating and elucidating key questions and opportunities shared during Summit discussions, Next City Video Documents seek to frame Toronto’s civic development […]