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Rafiq is interviewed by UoT

October 29, 2025

Rafiq answers questions about getting involved in undergraduate research, balancing different extracuriculars and more in an interview with his home institution, the University of Toronto. Read the interview here: https://www.mie.utoronto.ca/qa-enhancing...

Haritosh Receives Young Investigator Award!

September 10, 2025

At the latest Hydrocephalus World Congress, Haritosh received a Young Investigator Award from the Hydrocephalus Society. He spoke on "Bioinspired anti-fouling catheter material and design." His work is advancing the frontiers of biomaterials and efficient...

Hydrocephalus paper published in PNAS and highlighted by SEAS

July 22, 2025

Haritosh, Amy, and Duygu led the development of a fluid dynamics model aimed for modeling hydrocephalus, a disease in which cerebrospinal fluid collects in the brain. The model helps guide the design of shunts - medical devices that drain the excess fluid...

Reena & Hamed attend Liquid Crystal GRC

July 10, 2025

This week, Hamed and Reena had an amazing experience at the 53rd liquid crystal GRC, held at the Southern University of New Hampshire. They note the incredible connections they made, fulfilling discussions, and the multidisciplinary perspective on the...

Catalyst Affected by Nanoscale Wetting, Published in Nature Communications

July 09, 2025

In Nature Communications, Garrick et al. report how the sequence of preparing Pd 8Au 92/SiO 2 catalysts (depositing Au on support then overgrowing Pd, or vice versa) is affected by nanoscale wetting effects at the Au/support interface. These effects tune...

Fritz and Jacopo attended the 74th Lindau Meeting

July 08, 2025

Jacopo and Fritz report an incredibly rewarding experience participating in the 74th Lindau Nobel Meeting (Chemistry), learning from Nobel Prize winners and meeting a vibrant community of peers. Among others, they had a great time conversing with former...

Bella in the news

July 02, 2025

Bella worked in the lab on developing an electronic nose for continuous and accurate sensing of harmful gases in nail salons together with lab partner Zora. Read about their experience here.

Garrick wins award from International Precious Metals Institute!

July 02, 2025

Garrick was awarded the IPMI Sabin Metal Corporation Ron Bleggi Student Award at the 49th Annual International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. See the full list of winners here and more details of each of their work in this...

Methane sensing project gets recognized

July 01, 2025

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability highlighted our team's work on the development of a methane sensor for tracking methane emissions from cattle. Read the article here.

cSNAP: a creative and energy efficient way to keep cool, Published!

June 24, 2025

In a joint effort with the Grinham Research Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, we designed, built, and tested a highly energy and water efficient regenerative indirect evaporative cooler using ceramic materials and a metal oxide vapor barrier...

Brice's project in the news

May 14, 2025

Harvard SEAS wrote about Brice's Senior Capstone Project focused on scaling up our liquid windows platform. Check out the story here!

Project Receives Hydrocephalus Research Grant

May 12, 2025

Last year, we won a Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Research Grant to support our research and development in the hydrocephalus space . We are truly committed and excited to be creating a solution for patients. Read about this project here. Thanks also...