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A new institute at the University of Waterloo will focus on fostering campus-wide research into artificial intelligence (AI) and provide a portal for organizations to access its extensive expertise in the rapidly growing field.

Launched today, the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute will bring together almost 100 faculty members to tackle practical and fundamental problems brought to them by partners in business, government and the non-profit sector.

Going above and beyond for their students are similar qualities noted about an Waterloo Engineering faculty member and a doctoral student who have both been recognized for exceptional teaching in the classroom.

The University of Waterloo is partnering Tsinghua University in Beijing, China on a research collaboration centre that will advance science in the areas of nanotechnology, energy, and pollution control.

The centre—known as Tsinghua University – University of Waterloo Joint Research Centre for Micro/Nano Energy & Environment Technology—officially opened on March 29.

A leading international researcher is joining Waterloo Engineering as part of a federal initiative to attract top-tier scientists and scholars to do groundbreaking work in Canada.

Kerstin Dautenhahn, one of the founders of the field of social robotics, was announced today as a Canada 150 Research Chair with funding for the next seven years.

A sense of purpose trumped flat-out fun when four mechatronics engineering students finally settled on a project to cap their undergraduate years at the University of Waterloo.

Now they have confirmation it was the right way to go.

John Curticapean, Ben Hudson, Tony Qu and Malcolm Williams took one of six $10,000 prizes this week as student startups pitched their business ideas at the Esch Entrepreneurship Capstone Design Awards competition.

Startups with ties to Waterloo Engineering figured prominently again today with $130,000 in funding up for grabs at the Velocity Fund Finals.

They took three of four $25,000 awards, plus a $10,000 bonus for top hardware company, as well of two of four $5,000 prizes for early stage startups.

A chemical engineering doctoral student took first place as the University of Waterloo hosted its annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition this week.

Gregory Lui topped a field of 14 presenters at the Theatre of the Arts with a 180-second explanation of his research on using photocatalysts to convert pollutants in wastewater into electricity.

A team of science and engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo has found that achieving water quality goals for the Gulf of Mexico may take decades.

The results, published today in Science, suggest that policy goals for reducing the size of the northern Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone may be unrealistic, and that major changes in agricultural and river management practices may be necessary to achieve the desired improvements in water quality.

A startup company with deep roots at Waterloo Engineering got noticed in Silicon Valley this week as budding entrepreneurs made pitches to a select audience of investors.

Vena Medical, which began as a Capstone Design project by mechanical engineering students Phil Cooper and Michael Phillips last year, is one of 141 companies from 23 countries at the Y Combinator startup school in Mountain View, California.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed technology to reliably and affordably increase the efficiency of internal combustion engines by more than 10 per cent.

The product of a decade of research, the patented system for opening and closing valves could significantly reduce fuel consumption in everything from ocean-going ships to compact cars.