News archive - May 2022

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Painless patch for diabetes monitoring now being developed

Wearable patch will send crucial readings to users' smartphones

Researchers are developing a tiny, painless, wearable patch for people with type 1 diabetes which will send crucial readings to their smartphones.

The new project, funded by the JDRF (formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), involves the use of hundreds of tiny microneedles to sense glucose and ketone levels.

Friday, May 20, 2022

Completing the arc: Varma family donates $1 million for professorship six decades after Waterloo gamble paid off

By Brian Caldwell
Faculty of Engineering

Six decades after travelling halfway around the world to take a chance on a new university in Canada, a proud alumnus is helping it grow in a way he would never have imagined possible.

Nityan and Varma was the proverbial immigrant with eight dollars in his pocket when he left his native India in the early 1960s to do a master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Fixing the Internet: Alumni startup Tailscale Inc. achieves unicorn status with simpler alternative to VPN systems

By Brian Caldwell, Faculty of Engineering

A growing startup company that was co-founded by two Waterloo Engineering graduates is in unicorn territory after securing US $100 million in new funding.

Friday, May 6, 2022

Electrical and computer engineering professor, Claudio Canizares, honoured for supervision of grad students

A longtime professor at Waterloo Engineering has been honoured after supervising well over 150 graduate students.

Claudio Cañizares, a professor of electrical and computer engineering since 1993, is one of three campus-wide winners of the Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision.

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