The three-day Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge started in the capital of the United Arab Emirates and wound through city streets and desert landscapes. Fifteen international university teams were competing in the Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge that started Thursday at Yas Marina Circuit. The ADSC was sponsored by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and hosted by Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, The Michigan University team won first place, while second place went to the United Arab Emirate’s, Petroleum Institute.

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The University of Toronto Mississauga is a vibrant and active undergraduate and graduate campus that offers the benefits of a University of Toronto education in a beautiful park-like campus. The campus consists of a number of buildings arranged across a large, treed lot. The surrounding suburban neighbourhood is a fairly affluent section of the city of Mississauga. Established in 1967, UTM is the second largest division of U of T, with 11,700 undergraduate students, 500 graduate students, 740 staff and over 40,000 alumni. The campus is home to 15 academic departments and an Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology, where the new $37-million Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex joins the recently opened $70-million Instructional Centre and numerous other award-winning buildings and residences.

Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre

Instructional Centre exterior

Instructional Centre exterior

Health Sciences Complex

Health Sciences Complex

CT Building

CT Building

Deerfield Hall

Deerfield Hall

Deerfield Hall

Bus stop

Pond

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Coimbra is one of Portugal’s oldest cities and is home to one of the world’s first universities. It was the capital of the country from 1139 to 1256 and its university was founded in 1290. Situated on a hill overlooking the city, the University of Coimbra with its colleges grew and evolved over more than seven centuries within the old town. The city and the surrounding region offer exceptional conditions for countless leisure activities, which range from the practice of several sports to numerous suggestions at cultural and artistic levels and to events in unique historical sceneries, just to mention some possibilities among many others.

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