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Waterloo School of Architecture graduate Paul Dowsett, principle of Sustainable.TO, and a number of other company architects were featured in the Globe and Mail for winning the New York category of the Designing Recovery competition hosted by the American Institute of Architects and Brad Pitt's Make It Right foundation, among others. 

Dowsett recently toured a site struck by Hurricane Sandy in Far Rockaway neighbourhood of Queens, New York where Resilient House, Sustainable.TO's winning entry, will be built.

Graduate student researchers in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo will present 54 research projects across various disciplines at the annual WE INNOVATE conference in Waterloo tomorrow, November 14 in the Sedra Student Design Centre.

A researcher at the University of Waterloo examines some of the latest groundbreaking technologies as an investigative scientist for the second season of Stephen Hawking's Brave New World, premiering on Discovery World this Friday.

Reflecting on his career, Rick Haldenby says his proudest accomplishments as a Waterloo School of Architecture faculty member were the launching of the school’s Rome program and the establishing of its Cambridge campus, both which happened on exactly the same date – 25 years apart.

Excerpt of article published October 31, 2013, Written by Caroline Winter

Waterloo Engineering expressed its gratitude to Magna International for the company's ongoing support of the Faculty by naming Engineering 5’s computer commons the Magna International Computer Commons.

Recent civil engineering graduate Aleks Kivi received the best paper award for 2013 at the Transportation Association of Canada Conference.  Kivi wrote the paper when he was an MASc student.  His master's supervisor was Susan Tighe, a civil and environmental engineering professor.  

The University of Waterloo has been named Canada’s top university for innovation for the 22nd consecutive year by Maclean’s magazine.
 

The Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT) and the Norman W. McLeod Chair recently hosted the third annual graduate student poster symposium in the E5 Student Design Centre. Industry members, faculty, staff and students attended the event that featured 19 student participants who prepared posters on their current research projects. Work completed by graduate students Marcelo Gonzalez, Xiomara Sanchez and Andrew Northmore was recognized at the event.

Making sure people are safe at a railway crossing involves considering everything from the condition of the road and railway, to accident history and speed of the traffic and trains.