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A professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science has been named a winner of the Humboldt Research Award, better known as the Humboldt Prize, a lifetime achievement award for internationally renowned scientists.

Dr. Matthias Schonlau is only the second Canadian statistician to have won the prestigious award, after Christian Genest of McGill University.

A professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, along with one of his graduate students and a colleague from MIT, have made a breakthrough on research related to the Unruh effect.

Achim Kempf, a professor of applied mathematics and member of the Institute for Quantum Computing at Waterloo, and Barbara Šoda, a PhD student in physics, recently published a paper in the top-tiered journal Physical Review Letters.

Anyone who is taking a diuretic and a renin-angiotensin system (RSA) inhibitor for high blood pressure should be cautious about also taking ibuprofen, according to new research.

Two students from the Faculty of Mathematics have been named winners of this year’s Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA) Leadership Award. The award recognizes students who have shown exemplary dedication to fostering community and supporting others through their involvement in the university and in extracurricular activities.

Ryan Goldade, a recent PhD graduate fromt the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has received the 2021 Alain Fournier Dissertation Award for his thesis titled “Efficient Liquid Animation: New discretizations for spatially adaptive liquid viscosity and reduced-model two-phase bubbles and inviscid liquids.”

In developing countries, people with substance-abuse issues can sometimes face shame and find it difficult to get help.

Now, a research team is using machine learning and anonymized data to get a clearer picture of the underlying factors that influence tendencies to abuse drugs and alcohol.

When Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas in the Fall of 2019, Waterloo-based satellite imagery startup SkyWatch was quick to assist the reeling nation.

The company gave relief agencies emergency access to its vast satellite image datasets. This enabled these organizations to survey the damage in real-time and coordinate their response accordingly.

Karl Zhu, a double degree student in computer science and business, was awarded a prestigious medal to recognize his ongoing efforts as a volunteer.

The Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers is an annual award that recognizes exceptional dedication to community service.

Climate change is making wild weather increasingly common—and raising the stakes for weather forecasters.

The Layton Lab is producing videos to communicate research impact to a broad, non-academic audience.

The Lab is directed by Anita Layton, Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine, professor of applied mathematics, computer science, pharmacy, and biology, and the Faculty of Mathematics’ associate dean for research and international.