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A graduate of Waterloo Engineering who went on to make a global mark in business will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo during virtual convocation ceremonies on Saturday.

Chuck Magro (BASc ’93, chemical engineering) climbed the corporate ladder to lead Nutrien Ltd., the largest fertilizer provider in the world with more than 27,000 employees and over $20 billion in annual sales.

The recruitment team at Waterloo Engineering has been recognized by a global association for its quick pivot to an online March open house for prospective students when the COVID-19 pandemic scuttled the in-person event last year.

The last-minute effort, led by Daniella Cross, Ryan Pyear and Erica Clement-Goudy, with key support from digital media partner Angle Media (an alumni-founded company), took home a gold medal in the special event category of the annual Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) awards.

A non-contact laser imaging system developed by Waterloo Engineering researchers could help doctors diagnose and treat eye diseases that cause blindness much earlier than is now possible.

The new technology is designed to detect telltale signs of major blinding diseases in retinal blood and tissue that typically go unseen until it is too late.

With current testing methods, diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma — which have no symptoms in their early stages — are usually diagnosed only after vision is irreversibly affected.

A student team at the University of Waterloo has climbed to the top of the standings in an international robotics competition.

UWAT, which has been growing since its launch in 2018, is ranked first among 77 teams from around the world, including China, Mexico, Spain and Morocco, in the VEX U event operated by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation.

An alumnus of Waterloo Engineering who parlayed his graduate research into a startup company that is out to solve worldwide water problems has been recognized by a national innovation organization.

Jason Deglint, a co-founder of Blue Lion Labs, is one of five winners of a Mitacs Entrepreneur Award for turning research into businesses that impact the lives of Canadians.

An outreach program at the University of Waterloo that gets kids interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through hands-on activities has been awarded almost $325,000 in federal funding over three years.

The money will be used by Engineering Science Quest (ESQ) to support full-time staff and a free workshop program designed to reach more girls, disadvantaged youths, Indigenous youths and youths with disabilities.

The past weeks have been hard for so many.

We share the heartbreak and horror of the deadly terrorist attack on a Muslim family in London, Ontario. Our hearts go out to our Muslim friends - colleagues, students, and the wider Muslim community. 

We also share the profound sense of loss of futures cut short with the remains of the 215 children buried at the former Kamloops Residential School. 

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been recognized by a leading industry association as one of the 20 most influential academics in smart manufacturing.

Mihaela Vlasea, associate research director of the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Lab, is one of just three women and two academics from Canada who made the list, which was announced today by the SME.

From self-driving cars to intelligent voice assistants to smart factories, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming every sector of the economy and the very fabric of society in fundamental ways. The University of Waterloo, a long-time leader in innovation, has been at the forefront of this transformation for decades, but especially so since the 2018 launch of the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute – Waterloo.AI.

Four high-risk, high-reward research projects led by Waterloo Engineering professors were awarded a total of $1 million in federal funding this week.

Each of the projects is eligible for up to $250,000 over two years under the New Frontiers in Research Fund 2020 Exploration program, which brings researchers from different disciplines together to pursue breakthrough ideas.