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Fourth-year students at the School of Architecture will showcase their ideas to keep the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo healthy, habitable, lively and attractive as they go through an unprecedented building boom.

Eight projects by 16 students make up an exhibit called Fuori le Mura/City at the Edge in the Crystal Ballroom at the Walper Hotel in downtown Kitchener from Aug. 10 to Aug. 13.

Two teams featuring Waterloo Engineering students took home $5,000 each at the recent Concept $5K pitch competition for spring 2021.

House AI and Maesos were among four winners at the virtual event, with one of the winners, MedAtlas, collecting an additional $5,000 for the top health-related idea.

An alumnus of Waterloo Engineering who went on to a professional football career will be honoured with a mural in his Ontario hometown after a successful campaign by a determined group of kids.

Students in a grades 7 and 8 French immersion class at J. Douglas Hodgson Elementary School urged politicians in Haliburton to recognize the achievements of Taly Williams (BASc ’94, civil engineering) and his sister Lesley Tashlin alongside five local athletes already featured on an arena wall.

A research project co-led by Marc Aucoin, a chemical engineering professor at Waterloo Engineering, is recruiting participants to help understand how our bodies build immunity to COVID-19.

Aucoin and co-lead Brian Dixon, a professor of biology, are working to understand the nature of immune responses in all members of the campus community, regardless of vaccination status.

An opinion piece in The Globe and Mail takes a look at the role Waterloo Region and the country needs to play in ethical artificial intelligence (AI).  

Mary Wells, the University of Waterloo's dean of engineering, and Mark Giesbrecht, the University of Waterloo's dean of math, and Chris Albinson, Communitech's chief executive officer and president, discuss the opportunity to lead the world "in creating and commercializing applied, ethical artificial intelligence, which will be critical to meeting the other big, gnarly, global challenges bearing down on us." 

The following message was sent by Mary Wells, dean of engineering, to engineering staff and faculty.

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great sadness, that I am writing to let you know of the passing of Sue Gooding, a long-serving staff member. Sue served our University and Faculty with unmatched dedication for an incredible 44 years. Sue died on Saturday July 24^th, 2021 after a courageous battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

Manh-Kien Tran will receive $50,000 annually for the next three years from the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to further develop his research focused on building a smart cloud-based battery management system.

The new chemical engineering doctoral student believes advancements in energy storage systems will result in a safer, cleaner, and more energy-efficient society.

Mary Wells, dean of Waterloo Engineering, fondly remembers Pearl Sullivan in the spring 2021 issue of Waterloo Magazine.

Dean of the Faculty for seven years, Sullivan died in November 2020 after a 12-year battle with cancer.

"Under her leadership as the first woman dean of Waterloo Engineering from 2012 until 2019, the Faculty reimagined engineering education and research with revolutionary spaces including the spectacular Engineering 7 building and transformative programs that will ensure Waterloo remains a leader in engineering well into the future," writes Wells.

With people throughout the world now being immunized against COVID-19, many are questioning how mRNA vaccines work and what benefits they provide.

Bill Anderson, professor emeritus in chemical engineering, responds to common queries about the vaccines and their development. 

See Q and A with the experts: mRNA vaccine production for the full story.

Waterloo’s student-led autonomous vehicle team placed second in the final stage of the four-year international SAE AutoDrive Challenge.

The challenge, which ended last month, had teams convert a stock Chevrolet Bolt EV into a fully autonomous vehicle.

WATonomous completed the last leg of the competition with its best results to date, improving on the team’s third-place finish in the third year of the competition.