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Mike McCauley, co-founder of Buffer Box, has been named the Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. He was honoured at the chamber's Business Excellence Awards dinner held February 20 in Kitchener.

Waterloo environmental engineering co-op student Eugenia Acosta is featured on the cover of New Technology magazine's January/February 2014 edition.  

She is holding the Clearpath Robotics Kingfisher Unmanned Surface Vessel outside a mine in Northern Ontario.

Alison Brooks' latest award is only one of many impressive achievements since her graduation from Waterloo Architecture in 1988.

Tracey Winton, a professor with the School of Architecture, has won an international Creative Achievement Award for architectural education by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.The honour recognizes a theatre term project she manages with her second year cultural history class at the school.

Would You Lie for Me? is the title of the op-ed written by Waterloo Engineering Professor Vanessa Bohns that ran in the     
New York Times Sunday Review.

A graduate from Waterloo's School of Architecture has been named one of the most influential people in Great Britain by the Sunday Times newspaper.

Nomination Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2014

The Centre for Teaching Excellence is seeking nominations for the Amit and Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student. From the Centre for Teaching Excellence web site:

A Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor is the recipient of an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship – the prestigious award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) – for his work in understanding how people view the quality of images and videos.
 

The University of Waterloo, Maplesoft, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada are the recipients of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Synergy Award for Innovation, which recognizes their success in collaborating on the model-based design and control of automotive systems that improve vehicle safety and comfort while reducing fuel consumption and emissions.