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Dec. 7, 2018Waterloo student design team wins silver at 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition $Waterloo iGEM team poses at competition$
A team of University of Waterloo undergraduate students, including 6 from the Faculty of Mathematics, returned with a silver medal from the 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition in Boston.
Dec. 4, 2018Professor Shai Ben-David and colleagues win best paper award at NeurIPS 2018 $Professor Shai Ben-David$
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Shai Ben-David, his former PhD student Hassan Ashtiani, now an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, along with colleagues Christopher Liaw, Abbas Mehrabian and Yaniv Plan, have received a best paper award at NeurIPS 2018, the 32^ndAnnual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Nov. 29, 2018Student-led hackathon offers CFM first years the chance to explore $Students collaborating around laptops.$