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Thalmic Labs, a company founded by three Waterloo Engineering graduates, announced a series B raise of US $120 million today.

Leading the future of human-computer interaction with its Myo gesture control armband, the company has plans to further build out its workforce in Kitchener-Waterloo and San Francisco, and accelerate development of new technologies and products. 

The investment was led by Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund and Fidelity Investments Canada.

Palihapitiya lifting ‘self-inflicted’ fear of failure from budding entrepreneurs

From lessons learned while on academic probation to his view of Waterloo Engineering as one of the top schools on the planet, celebrated alumnus and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya shared his humour, honesty and insight during a free-wheeling discussion on campus today.

A team led by Philip Beesley presented Epiphyte Chamber at an exhibition in Seoul.

An experimental research team led by an architecture professor at the University of Waterloo has been awarded close to $2.5 million in federal funding to pursue a vision of living, breathing buildings.

Two researchers at Waterloo Engineering have been recognized by a prestigious national organization for emerging scientific leaders.

Zhongwei Chen and John Tze Wei Yeow were named today to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.

Medella members, winners of a national startup award, pose for a team picture.

A student startup with strong ties to Waterloo Engineering has taken first prize in Canada in the annual James Dyson Award competition for its work on smart contact lenses to monitor glucose levels for people with diabetes.

John McPhee, Jamie Clark, Nasser Azad, Daiene Vernile, Pierre Normand, Pearl Sullivan and Brian May officially open the GAIA Research Facility.

A state-of-the-art automotive research and testing facility that was five years in the making officially opened at the University of Waterloo today with a twist on the old ship-christening tradition.

With more and more robots headed for the commercial world, a Waterloo Engineering researcher hopes to speed their arrival by developing cheaper, general-purpose control systems.

At the moment, the high cost of customized robotics applications in workplaces such as warehouses and manufacturing plants largely limits them to huge companies with plenty of money to invest.

Academic excellence and passionate extracurricular interests have paid off handsomely for two incoming Waterloo Engineering students.

Mackenzie Collins of Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, and Colin Daly of Hamilton, Ontario, will each receive $80,000 over four years through the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships program for high school graduates pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

A second-year student at Waterloo Engineering is the winner of a $5,000 scholarship from an organization that has promoted engineering as a career choice for young women in Canada for more than 25 years.

Laura Bingeman, who is studying systems design engineering, was selected for the award by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation as an ambassador and role model to further the cause through her example and extracurricular activities.

A tight timeline was only fitting when engineers at the University of Waterloo took on a special project for the Canadian track cycling team headed to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Lending their expertise in a world where winners and losers are typically decided by tiny fractions of a second, Professor John McPhee and research engineer Carin Yeghiazarian had just one week in June to produce a small but technically complex piece of hardware.