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As a young girl, Pampa Dey lived with her parents and two siblings in a small one-room house in the remote village of Ranibandh, India where a kerosene lamp was often the only source of light. Starting at the tender age of 10, she worked as a part-time cashier in her father’s small sweet shop to help support her family.

A decade of research at Waterloo Engineering has yielded promising new technology to boost the efficiency of internal combustion engines.

Capstone Design awards are the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in engineering design. At Waterloo Engineering we celebrate with the Capstone Design Symposia spanning two weeks in March.

A new institute, the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute, will focus on fostering campus-wide research into artificial intelligence (AI) and provide a portal for organizations to access the University of Waterloo’s extensive expertise in the rapidly growing field.

Curiosity on a summer drive through local farm country helped inspire an idea that could change the way homes are heated and industries are powered.

Zoya Leonenko
Professor, Faculty of Science
> Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN)

A lack of understanding of Alzheimer’s disease at the molecular level is one of the biggest obstacles to finding a cure, says a Waterloo researcher.

Cecylia Bocovich (MMath ’14)
PhD Student, Faculty of Mathematics
> David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
> Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research

The information age is making the world much smaller for most of us.