The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo will break ground Friday for a new 56,000-square-foot facility to support teaching and research.
There are strong economic incentives for governments to invest in early childhood nutrition, reports a new paper from the University of Waterloo and Cornell University. Published for the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, the paper reveals that every dollar spent on nutrition during the first 1,000 days of a child’s life can provide a country up to $166 in future earnings.
Third-year therapeutic recreation student Laura Barkin was one of four St. Paul's GreenHouse students to receive funding from a new $5,000 Social Innovation Fund for startups.
Barkin's Moving Libraries initiative aims to make studying an active experience by bringing FitDesks to the University.
Over the next week, more than 1,300 high school students from across Ontario will participate in the University of Waterloo’s annual Kinesiology Lab Days event running from December 3 to 12.
Students from the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo will offer a day of free family programming in Waterloo on Saturday.
Student researchers making their mark
The more time you spend getting to and from work, the less likely you are to be satisfied with life, says a new study by Applied Health Sciences faculty, Margo Hilbrecht, Steven Mock, and Bryan Smale.
When it comes to planning an event, liquid nitrogen and spoons don’t usually top the list of supplies — unless you are a student in Zara Rafferty’s Recreation and Leisure Studies class.
People with Parkinson’s disease drive faster, have slower reaction times on their brakes and struggle to assess dangerous driving conditions, according to University of Waterloo research.
Newly published findings from the University of Waterloo are giving women with bad backs renewed hope for better sex lives. The findings—part of the first-ever study to document how the spine moves during sex—outline which sex positions are best for women suffering from different types of low back pain. The new recommendations follow on the heels of comparable guidelines for men released last month.