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A new short film inspired by the work of a Waterloo School of Architecture professor is now available online.

Philip Beesley worked on the film entitled Cradle with Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, who are both based in London, England, and Salvador Breed, who is based in Amsterdam.

A media release on Cradle's premiere said that the film evokes the birth of life on earth.

Five Waterloo Engineering faculty members were elected fellows by the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) at its annual general meeting held on June 13. 

The new fellows include David Clausi of systems design engineering, Duane Cronin and Zhongchao Tan of mechanical and mechatronics, Karim Karim of electrical and computer engineering and Maria Anna Polock of civil and environmental engineering.

A graduate of the Waterloo School of Architecture has been recognized by a national organization for young entrepreneurs for her work to make fashion greener.

Iris Redinger (BAS ’21) was one of five winners of Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards honoured at a recent event in Montreal for her Waterloo-based startup company, Material Futures.

Four graduating Waterloo Engineering students will represent their class at spring convocation ceremonies on June 17 and 18.

Ellen McGee (BASc ’22, systems design engineering), Chukwunonso Jeffery Moneme (BASc ’22, chemical engineering), Siddharth Kumar (BASc ’22, mechanical engineering) and Veraj Paruthi (BASc ’22, computer engineering) were chosen by their peers based on social and academic contributions.

A key puzzle piece fell into place today with the announcement of $1.65 million in federal funding for a joint training program involving the University of Waterloo and partners in Germany.

Support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) gives the green light to a nine-year initiative to train dozens of graduate students and help bring promising new two-dimensional materials out of the laboratory and into the marketplace.

A student at Waterloo Engineering has won a $1,000 scholarship through a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Royal Canadian Air Force.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been granted almost $91,000 for a research project under a federal program to improve rail safety.

The proposal by Liping Fu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, was one of 147 projects across the country announced today by Transport Canada.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been awarded $140,000 over five years under a provincial program to help new researchers build their research teams.

Chris Bachmann, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, is one of eight campus-wide winners of Early Researcher Awards for 2022. Winners also receive $50,000 each from their home institutions.

Wood-derived materials can be used to harvest electrical energy from everyday movements such as walking, according to a new study from researchers at Waterloo Engineering and the University of Toronto Engineering.

In a paper recently published in Nano Energy, the team demonstrated the use of lignocellulosic nanofibrils, derived from tree bark, in a prototype self-powered device capable of sending a wireless signal to a smartphone via Bluetooth.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering is in the running in a national contest designed to showcase striking images captured by researchers.

Zhao Pan, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, is co-creator of one of 20 images in the finals of the 2022 edition of Science Exposed, a contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.