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Waterloo Engineering lecturer Nadine Ibrahim posed a compelling question in a recent opinion piece: can we use lessons learned during the COVID-19 crisis to also set our resolve to tackle climate change?

Ibrahim, who holds the Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering, argues that the structural and behavioural changes forced by the global pandemic could pave the way towards a truly sustainable - and still prosperous - way of life.

A glowing editorial published today in The Waterloo Region Record highlights the far-reaching mark made by Douglas Wright, the founding dean of Waterloo Engineering.

Wright, who died last week at the age of 92, went on to serve as the third president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo as it grew into a world-class institution of higher learning and research.

The editorial argues Waterloo Region would be a far different, far poorer place, had it not been for Wright's vision and determination to help bring academia and industry together.

Tarek Hegazi, a civil and environmental engineering professor, has won an award from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) for a paper published in the CSCE journal.

Hegazi is receiving this year's CSCE Stephen G. Revay Award for his work entitled Multi-dimensional optimization model for schedule fast-tracking without over-stressing construction workers.

Douglas Wright, the founding dean of Waterloo Engineering and the third president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, has died at the age of 92.

Wright, who played a major role in the development of both the Faculty and the University, passed away at home Thursday while surrounded by his family.

Engineering professor Zhou Wang will lead a new research partnership between the University of Waterloo and entertainment technology company TiVo.

The partnership is scheduled to begin with a project involving the investigation of methods to enhance user quality-of-experience for 360-degree omnidirectional video on head-mounted devices.

Three students at Waterloo Engineering were recently recognized for finding and analyzing important problems affecting their employers during co-op work terms.

Charvi Choudhary, Samuel Muller and Sharan Dev Shankar were among five campus-wide 2019 Co-op Problem Award recipients honoured by The Problem Lab, a program that fosters disruptive innovation.

Three projects led by Waterloo Engineering professors have each won $250,000 in funding through a federal competition designed to bring disciplines together to explore new research directions.

Parsin Haji Reza, Sushanta Mitra and Valerie Ward all made successful bids to the New Frontiers in Research Fund through the 2019 Exploration program to promote risk-taking and innovation.

They were among eight successful applications campus-wide at the University of Waterloo. Across the country, $46.3 million was awarded over two years to support 186 research projects.

Teachers in Pakistan have an extensive online resource to draw on during the coronavirus pandemic thanks to hundreds of graduate students at Waterloo Engineering.

The students have spent more than three years building an online library of over 15,000 videos, assignments and exercises that follow the national curriculum by grade and subject.

With children forced to stay home because of the COVID-19 crisis, teachers are now using the library to prepare lessons they can send to their students by email.

A health care startup company founded by two Waterloo Engineering graduate students took first place and the US $25,000 top prize in a recent pitch contest in Africa.

Folake Owodunni and Maame Yaa Afriyie Poku launched Emergency Response Africa (ERA) after meeting in the master of business, entrepreneurship and technology (MBET) program at Waterloo.

The University of Waterloo announced today that it will take a combined approach to the upcoming fall term in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

That means all large classes will be held online, with in-person delivery of some small classes and supports if conditions allow and with strict adherence to social distancing guidelines.