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Monday, October 20, 2014

Go Eng Girl inspires future engineers

From the front page of the Waterloo Region Record -- October 20 

In the future, Emily Loberto feels sure that there will be flying cars, even if she has to invent them herself.

She wants there to be a cure for cancer. If there isn't one by the time she's older, she wants to help find it.

"I think I want to invent things to help the future," said Loberto, 12, of Cambridge.

Drew Higgins
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

PhD student receives top honours for fuel cell research

Drew HigginsDrew Higgins, a chemical engineering doctoral candidate, has been awarded the grand prize in the 2014 Dr. Bernard S. Baker Student Researcher Award for Fuel Cell Research. The purpose of the award is to encourage and recognize exceptional student research relating to fuel cell technologies.

Sandy Liu
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Drug-infused nanoparticle is right for sore eyes

For the millions of sufferers of dry eye syndrome, their only recourse to easing the painful condition is to use drug-laced eye drops three times a day.
Now, researchers from the University of Waterloo have developed a topical solution containing nanoparticles that will combat dry eye syndrome with only one application a week.
The eye drops progressively deliver the right amount of drug-infused nanoparticles to the surface of the eyeball over a period of five days before the body absorbs them.