Research by graduate student Kim Van Meter and professor Nandita Basu shows wetland loss follows a strong pattern, with smaller, isolated wetlands being lost in much greater numbers than larger wetlands.
Jeff West, associate professor and associate chair of undergraduate studies in the department of civil and environmental engineering will receive one of the 2015 Distinguished Teacher Awards.
Senior-year Waterloo Engineering students will showcase innovative projects ranging from a hockey bag that dries itself, a diabetic foot monitor to a low-cost prosthetic hand, as part of the annual Capstone Design symposia, which starts March 20.
Eight research partnerships between Waterloo Engineering professors and industries have been awarded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Strategic Project Grant funding.
Kitematic, a software startup dedicated to making the Docker development environment accessible to a wider range of developers, has been acquired by Docker Inc. Founded by engineering alumni Jeffrey Morgan and Sean Li (both BASc 2013, Software), and electrical engineering student Michael Chiang, Kitematic sold for an undisclosed amount last week.
A marker that indicates when sunscreen is to be reapplied and innovative propulsion technology for microsatellites captured first and second place in the innovative design category at the 2015 Canadian Engineering Competition. Over 170 students from across the country attended the competition held March 5-8 at Memorial University in St. John's.
Parmit Chilana, a management sciences professor, has been honoured with an Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) CHI conference best 
paper award. Chilana's winning paper, co-authored by two University of Washington professors, is entitledFrom User-Centered to Adoption-Centered Design: A Case Study of an HCI Research Innovation Becoming a Product.
Perceptiv Labs, a startup founded by Waterloo mechatronics engineering alumni Neil Mathew, Yan Ma and Prasenjit Mukherjee, has launched its first product that offers filmmakers and others an affordable, yet advanced way to capture pans, zooms and fly-by shots with its computer vision technology.
SHIFT is a vision-guided camera motion control platform that enables filmmakers to capture high speed precision tracking shots when filming dynamic subjects, in a way that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to film by a human operator.
Chris Eliasmith, a Waterloo systems design engineering graduate and professor, has been recognized with this year's John C.