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A venture capital company is donating $1 million to the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo to support research and education initiatives involving partners in the Greater China area.

GCI Ventures Ltd., which is based in Toronto and focuses on investing in technology and innovation, will provide funding over five years for international partnerships with institutes and corporations, and to hire a manager at Waterloo to oversee the activities.

A laboratory at Waterloo Engineering is part of a consortium that recently won up to $49 million in federal funding to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technologies in health care.

The Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis (KIMIA) lab is headed by Hamid Tizhoosh, a systems design engineering professor and expert in medical image analysis.

A mechanical and mechatronics professorhas recently published her first collection of poems in English and Persian titled Tales of Existence, A Collection of Poems.

Shahrzad Esmaeili, pictured on the right, credits the University of Waterloo, where she began teaching in 2004, for providing inspiration for some of her poems.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have combined new artificial intelligence (AI) software with low-cost testing tools to enable communities in the developing world to routinely monitor water quality.

The technology builds on work previously done by Sushanta Mitra, an engineering professor who heads the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, and post-doctoral fellow Naga Siva Kumar Gunda on inexpensive kits to test for potentially deadly E. coli bacteria.

Management Sciences undergraduate and graduate students took a number of top awards at the recent Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) annual conference held in Saskatoon.

A team of management engineering students came first in the undergraduate category of the CORS Student Paper Competition.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed new technology to convert wasted food into a clean substitute for fossil fuels.

The system engineers natural fermentation to yield a chemical called carboxylate, which can be used to produce fuel and chemicals for products including drugs and plastic packaging instead of those derived from petroleum.

Three professors at Waterloo Engineering were among 10 campus-wide recipients this week of federal funding for researchers believed to be on the verge of breakthroughs.

Teams from Waterloo Engineering took the top two prizes in a recent international student design competition involving the use of 3D printing technology to manage the heat created during energy generation, conversion, transfer and storage.

Technical challenges and ethical issues are both on the agenda as Waterloo Engineering researcher Kerstin Dautenhahn continues her work on social and intelligent robots.

Michelle Liu carefully plans each hour of each day three weeks in advance to figure out where she needs to be and when.

Between volunteering up to 40 hours a month in several different roles on and off campus and keeping on top of her graduate studies, she constantly checks her changing calendar.

“I call it 80 productive hours a week, divided between volunteering and my studies,” Liu says with a laugh.