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The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is opening a cybersecurity lab and investing $1.78 million into research at the University of Waterloo to develop advanced cybersecurity and privacy tools.

Luke Postle and Peter Nelson have been awarded a Bordeaux-Waterloo Research Grant to collaborate with University of Bordeaux researchers Marthe Bonamy and Frantisek Kardos.

Sherry Shannon-Vanstone told a crowd of academics, business professional and entrepreneurs that people don't buy what you do, but why you do it. To explain what she meant, Shannon-Vanstone opened her toolbox and shared her tools to commercialize information technology.

Professor William Cook delivered an MAA invited address entitled "Information, Computation, Optimization: Connecting the Dots in the Traveling Salesman Problem" at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego.

Professor Karen Yeats has been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Combinatorics of Quantum Field Theory.

Professor Fan Chung Graham was awarded an honorary doctorate in mathematics (D.Math.) at the October 20 convocation ceremony at the University of Waterloo.

Eight C&O graduate students were awarded their degrees at the Fall 2017 convocation ceremony.

Professor David Jao received a Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching at the 2017 Faculty Reception on September 21, 2017.