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Archive: Technology
Making the case for small modular reactors
A Q & A about what role SMRs could play in our energy future
Funding awarded to U of R researcher for critical mineral exploration
Geobiologist Dr. Leslie Robbins awarded $382,744 from CFI and Saskatchewan Innovation to create the Environmental Geochemistry and Interfaces (EGI) Lab.
If you build it, will they run?
Mapping EV infrastructure to meet drivers’ needs, achieve emissions target
Transforming sludge
A U of R researcher is helping to transform wastewater sludge into useful and environmentally friendly products.
Research to help provide clean drinking water to First Nations communities
University of Regina environmental engineer secures federal funding to develop a self-powered, portable device for water disinfection and pollutant removal
Managing our mask mess
Engineer Dr. Denise Stilling is turning used face masks into weather-resistant landscape bricks that can withstand a Prairie winter.
Recycling Saskatchewan’s ag waste
Engineer Dr. Denise Stilling is taking flax residue and turning it into something useful – pole caps that can preserve the wood of utility poles.
A picture is worth a thousand emotions
Master’s student Dami Egbeyem has created a way to show us our emotions
Stellar design: The story behind Project Airlock
U of R engineering student’s competition-winning design is attracting interest from the aerospace industry.
Climate in a box
PhD student Jared Suchan has developed a climate in a box, called the Bench-Scale Atmospheric Simulator.
Physics and the principles of collaboration
U of R physicist Zisis Papandreou and his team have built the Generation-II BioPETx nuclear imaging detector – one of the world’s most advanced tools for looking inside living plants.
In real time
Tarun Katapally is using citizen science to tackle COVID-19 in Indigenous communities.
Tracking COVID’s trash toll
Environmental engineer Kelvin Ng is working with the City of Regina to develop a waste prediction model over the remaining waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding (NSERC)
U of R researchers awarded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council funding
Funding (SSHRC)
U of R researchers awarded Social Sciences and Humanities funding
Real-world collaboration provides insights for all
Eman Almehdaw put her research into action and helped Access Communications accomplish their goals (and more).
Megan Smith’s virtual reality
There’s potential for emotions to run high whenever an RCMP officer responds to a call. Their decisions can sometimes mean life or death.