The Jain Family Award for Entrepreneurship kicks off

Monday, February 6, 2023

Two Waterloo Engineering research teams have received the first two $5,000 Jain Family Award for Entrepreneurship instalments, a defined term award designated to University of Waterloo students working with Velocity.  

The 2022 recipients are Mechano-metamaterial spinal implants for its innovative work to improve the lives of spinal patients and Blackbird for its important advancements in flood risk mapping.  

Over the next ten years, two $5,000 awards will be presented each winter term. 

Anuj and Nitin Jain are both Waterloo Engineering alumni.

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