A massive volume of trash tires is generated globally, posing an environmental hazard. This dictates the development of effective technologies to recycle and utilize them. Tires are non-biodegradable, inert materials that are incredibly hard to treat. Various processes have been developed in recent years to process, treat, and use this kind of trash. However, the […]

Le projet de recherche a pour but de valoriser les sous-produits et résidus miniers de l’industrie de l’aluminium. Pour rendre possible cette valorisation, le projet consiste à évaluer des options d’utilisation des résidus de bauxite et sous-produits, comme ingrédients dans les recettes d’enrobés bitumineux (enrobés de surface, enrobés de liaison et grave-bitume). L’objectif principal est […]

The proposal focuses on using safe, non-toxic fatty acids as bio-derived and recyclable solvents for extraction of biomass polymers/waste plastics (e.g. wood chips, woody or agricultural biomass, algae, oil bottles). We will employ a new approach using fatty acids that are responsive to pH changes such that their properties can be switched from hydrophobic to […]

Foliar diseases in the vegetative year such as Sphaerulina leaf spot, leaf rust and Valdensia leaf spot pose problems to wild blueberry growers in Atlantic Canada. The pathogens that cause foliar disease infect the leaf tissue and create chlorotic or necrotic areas that prevent the plant from photosynthesizing. When a plant cannot photosynthesize, it is […]

This project aims to identify gaps remaining within the Canadian education technology sector. Although adoption of new technologies for the classroom in recent years have enabled greater collaboration between students and improved lesson planning procedures, it has also shone a light on the limitations of accelerated edtech adoption. The intern will spend her time analyzing […]

Le projet de recherche a pour but de valoriser les sous-produits et résidus miniers de l’industrie de l’aluminium. Pour rendre possible cette valorisation, le projet consiste à développer de nouvelles méthodes de mises à la terre (MALT) à base de géopolymères électriquement conducteurs qui seront par la suite utilisées dans les grandes structures électriques telles […]

Le projet de recherche a pour but de valoriser les sous-produits et résidus miniers de l’industrie de l’aluminium. Pour rendre possible cette valorisation, le projet consiste à développer un géopolymère conducteur chauffant en utilisant des résidus industriels. L’objectif principal est le développement de produits manufacturés et/ou matières premières alternatives qui implique le développement de procédés […]

Toronto has been experiencing a housing affordability crisis for almost two decades and the house prices continue to increase. The increasing unaffordability causes many problems in the city including increasing social inequality and difficulty of accessing affordable housing essentially for newcomers and racialized communities. This project aims at focusing on the discussion of “missing middle” […]

Microplastics are emerging anthropogenic particulate pollutants that pose risks to both societal and environmental health. As such, there is a need to characterize the distribution of microplastics both within the environment and at potential points of release. Current analytical techniques – primarily thermogravimetric analysis, Raman spectroscopy, and infrared spectroscopy – used to characterize microplastics offer […]

In nature, animals must make decisions about where to find food. Looking for food, however, exposes animals to the risk of being eaten by predators and forces them to compete with other animals for food. This combination of risk and competition is stressful, and animals respond by releasing hormones help them cope. Initially, a common […]

I n effort to reduce the environmental footprint and improve the sustainability of wastewatertreatment plants, this study is focused on the production of energy and the recovery of valueadded products from municipal wastewater via the chemical precipitation of magnesium ammonium phosphate (struvite). The method employs the controlled addition of a suitable magnesium compound such as […]

The oceans today are under a variety of stressors including warming, acidification, eutrophication, and deoxygenation. Due to their increasing impacts on marine environments, there is a huge push for new monitoring and environmental assessment techniques to understand and mitigate change. Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to the tiny pieces of DNA shed by all living things […]