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Friday, January 1, 2016

Systems student is Newsmaker of the year in Guelph.

‘This issue needed some leadership’

Guelph Mercury Newsmaker of the Year: Jim Estill

​GUELPH — As a teenager Jim Estill had to give up his bedroom to Ugandan refugees.

He wasn't immediately happy with his parents' decision to open the Estill home in Woodstock up to two young men who were among the tens of thousands expelled from Uganda in 1972 by dictator Idi Amin. [Read more].

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

SYDE Prof. was interviewed on Hometown Hockey on Sunday night.

The Kitchener-Waterloo area is a hub of innovation. From Research in Motion, to Google, some of the smartest people in the world congregate here. At the University of Waterloo, science and sport go hand in hand, and Dr. Kristine Dalton is helping athletes perform better and recover smarter at theSchool of Optometry & Vision Science.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

SYDE Professor quoted in a USA Today story on the Popemobile.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As he cruised past cheering crowds in Naples, Italy, earlier this year, Pope Francis received an unexpected gift. A local pizzeria owner jogging alongside the papal car jumped over a barrier and handed Francis a pizza, which the smiling pope willingly accepted.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Improving vision in the developing world

Ashutosh Syal (BASc ’14, Systems Design) was on track
to become a Toronto Bay Street trader when John Zelek
presented his third-year class with an issue. Hundreds of
millions people in the developing world have uncorrected
vision problems, said the Waterloo systems design
engineering professor. The mobile eye camps that serve
rural areas simply can’t keep pace with demand. Meanwhile,
many discarded smartphones end up overseas.
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Hack the North Encore

Bouncy castle? Check. Bubble soccer balls? Check. Enough
Red Bull ® and poutine to fuel over 1,000 hackers throughout
the weekend? Check and check. The University of Waterloo
students organizing Hack the North 2015 know exactly what
it takes to pull off Canada’s largest international hackathon.
Last year, they attracted more than 1,000 students from
around the world to the first Hack the North for 36 hours
of coding, hardware development, plus a lot of fun.
Friday, August 14, 2015

SYDE Prof. Ed Jernigan reflects on the 30 years he spent in the SHAD program.

It might not have been the path he would have chosen for himself when Ed Jernigan came to the city in 1976 to teach math and system design engineering at the University of Waterloo from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

But the sacrifices he made to inspire the best and brightest students from across the country through the SHAD program over the last 30 years have laid the groundwork for the next generation of innovators, and he’s proud of the part he played in touching the lives of more than 3,000 people.