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A company founded by two former Waterloo Engineering students has joined forces with a smaller startup in Israel to add video to its hugely popular chat platform.

Kik Interactive, which began as a mobile chat app at the University of Waterloo’s Velocity incubator in 2009, announced the addition of the 35-employee company, Rounds, in a press release today.

A startup company co-founded by a master’s student at Waterloo Engineering has been selected to join a high-profile San Francisco accelerator that focuses on the water sector.

EMAGIN Clean Technologies Inc., which is based at the University of Waterloo’s Velocity Garage in downtown Kitchener, earned one of 12 spots at Imagine H2O in a competition featuring more than 180 applicants from 20 countries.

As construction of Engineering 7 continued right next door, cabinet minister Bardish Chagger announced $32.6 million in federal funding Thursday for the seven-storey building that will be the future home of both expanding student enrolment and ground-breaking research.

Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini has been immersed for more than 15 years in the complex technical details of his work on intelligent antenna systems for Internet connectivity.

A fourth-year Waterloo Engineering student took the bus home from Toronto today with the $10,000 top prize in a contest for undergraduate biomedical research.

Nidhi Juthani was recognized by the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) for her work on a cheaper, easier way to make cell sheets for use in areas including the repair of damaged heart tissue, corneal transplants and rebuilding cartilage.

A local startup company with ties to Waterloo Engineering went public this week with a new home security system that uses wireless signals, not traditional cameras and motion detectors.

Cognitive Systems Corp., which was founded in 2014 and has offices at the headquarters of Quantum Valley Investments in Waterloo, unveiled the system, called Aura, at the huge Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Kankar Bhattacharya of electrical and computer engineering has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to electricity markets and reactive power ancillary services. Bhattacharya, a member of Waterloo Engineering's Power and Energy Systems Group, became a fellow on January 1.  

Expertise in autonomous vehicles has taken a team led by three Waterloo Engineering professors from a snow-covered parking lot in Stratford to a demonstration course in sunny Las Vegas.

More than 25 researchers from Waterloo are at the high-profile Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week to help showcase a highly automated car developed by Renesas Electronics America in collaboration with numerous partners.

Two students from Waterloo Engineering are among six finalists for a $10,000 award for excellence in undergraduate research in the biomedical field.

Nidhi Juthani and Wesley Walker are scheduled to outline their research projects to a panel of judges and answer questions Jan. 6 at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) in Toronto.

As a “guy who likes to solve puzzles,” James Craig is certainly in an appropriate field.

There is no end of tough ones to tackle as the University of Waterloo civil and environmental engineering professor pursues the development and refinement of computer models to predict what will happen in watersheds.