Monday, December 22, 2025
As we enter the holiday season, it’s hard to believe that another year is drawing to a close. A lot has happened this year in the Faculty of Mathematics! Here are twelve stories from 2025 that you might have missed the first time around:
- Coding for a greener internet (January 20): Waterloo researchers find a way to reduce data centre energy use by up to 30 percent
- Will paper cups help you ‘Roll Up to Win’? (February 21) Biostatistics professor Dr. Michael Wallace is back for another year of cracking open the iconic Tim Hortons contest
- Remembering Siv Sivaloganathan (March 7) – The Faculty of Math bids farewell to a beloved colleague
- High blood pressure? Eat more bananas (April 14) – Researchers discover an unusual impact of potassium intake on the body
- Making virtual reality more accessible (May 5) – Working with users with disabilities to make video game movements customizable to user needs
- WWII codebreaker and mathematician Tutte honoured with stamp (May 8) – C&O founder finally recognized for his top-secret war work
- From biostatistics to transforming community health (July 4) – Waterloo alum Dr. Zainab Abdurrahman (MMath '03) becomes first Black female president of Ontario Medical Association
- Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes (July 23) – Waterloo researchers discover how to remove much-touted AI security feature
- Optimizing M4 (September 8) – C&O profs on the unique optimization problems that come with a new building
- Google partners with University of Waterloo to shape the future of work and learning (October 1) – Dr. Edith Law named Google Chair in the Future of Work and Learning
- Carrying the “math bundle” (October 29) – Hagey Lecturer Dr. Edward Doolittle on Indigenizing mathematics
- Predicting disease outbreaks using social media (November 18) – Chris Bauch applies the theory of “tipping points” to vaccine skepticism on social media