Research at Waterloo - Profile Archives
Total Results: 102
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Biosphere reserves: Earth to Waterloo
George Francis – Environment
2010-11-01George Francis, retired environment professor, has studied biosphere reserves ― areas that combine environmental protection with sustainable employment ― since the 1960s.
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Can you spare a Euro?
Robert Mundell – Arts
2010-11-01Former Waterloo economics professor Robert Mundell is called one of the fathers of the Euro; his optimum currency idea is a key concept in modern international economics.
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Exploring the private world of quantum cryptography
Michele Mosca – Science
2010-11-01Driven by the call to safeguard individual and corporate privacy, Institute for Quantum Computing scientists are making breakthroughs in encryption of unprecedented security.
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Electric cars enter the fast lane
Amir Khajepour – Engineering
2010-09-08Amir Khajepour’s team is paving the way for electric vehicles’ entry into the mainstream market. Thanks to $8 million from the Ontario Research Fund, their vision is gaining traction.
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This hip bone’s connected to innovation
Andre Hladio, Armen Bakirtzian, Richard Fanson, Ara Hasserjian, Avenir Medical – Engineering
2010-09-01In Ontario, over 12,000 hip replacements are performed each year. Andre Hladio and his team at Avenir Medical are developing a device to reduce the nearly 18 per cent of patients requiring follow-up interventions.
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Tools to harness the quantum universe
David Cory –
2010-09-01Inside his new, 10,000-square-foot laboratory at the Institute for Quantum Computing, David Cory is developing tools for navigating and harnessing the quantum universe.
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Links to enabling communities
Leah Sadler – Applied Health Sciences
2010-09-01With a rapidly aging population, cities are facing a time crunch to update their infrastructure. Leah Sadler and her colleagues at MAREP have launched a new website to speed up the transition.
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Making sustainability the norm
Amelia Clarke – Environment
2010-09-01In 1996, Amelia Clarke founded the Sierra Youth Coalition, Canada’s primary vehicle to support campus sustainability. Now, as graduate officer for a new masters program, she is training the next generation of sustainability professionals.
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Exporting the future of architecture
Philip Beesley, Rob Gorbet, School of Architecture – Engineering
2010-09-01Philip Beesley’s stunning installation, Hylozoic Ground, has been chosen to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale in Architecture. The highly collaborative work is laying the foundation for a new, responsive architecture.
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Life or death chosen at flick of biological switch
John Thompson – Science
2010-04-27In his breakthrough research on senescence (biological aging), John Thompson has determined how life or death is chosen at the flick of a molecular switch.
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Divine bovines tweet and twitter
Marcel O’Gorman and Ron Broglio – Arts
2010-04-26Got milk? That’s the question 12 lactating Holsteins are answering each day on — wait for it — Twitter. The quirky, collaborative project is compliments of Waterloo’s Critical Media Lab.
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Cardio researcher probes puzzle of fainting astronauts
Richard Hughson – Applied Health Sciences
2010-04-26Astronauts are more physically fit than most people, yet many experience light-headedness, even fainting, on return to Earth. Why? Waterloo kinesiology professor Richard Hughson is seeking answers.
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