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For Global Entrepreneurship Week, we’re spotlighting some incredible University of Waterloo entrepreneurs making a difference for humanity and our world.

Kwaku Owusu Twum’s (PhD and MBET in progress) entrepreneurial journey from Ghana to Waterloo is nothing short of inspiring. Alongside his co-founder, Daniel Buston Yankey, Twum is building Mapmate, a digital platform transforming the agricultural landscape for small-scale farmers.

Remembering the first recipient of the University of Waterloo’s biomedical engineering degree. Celebrating friendship and the Class of 1970. Ensuring students have access to the resources they need. 

These are just some of the reasons donors say they give to the University and its affiliated institutions. And during Waterloo’s second annual thank-a-thon, donors shared dozens of stories like these. 

Twelve University of Waterloo researchers have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2024 list from Clarivate. The list identifies individual researchers and scientists who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research.  

Researchers named on the Highly Cited Researchers™ list are those whose publications rank in the top 1 per cent of citations from an international and wide-ranging network of citing authors.  

The University of Waterloo has been recognized for its academic excellence across a broad range of disciplines in the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) subject rankings released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

For Global Entrepreneurship Week, we’re spotlighting some incredible University of Waterloo entrepreneurs making a difference for humanity and our world.

For Global Entrepreneurship Week, we’re spotlighting some incredible University of Waterloo entrepreneurs making a difference for humanity and our world.

Mariak Achuoth’s journey to the University of Waterloo began in a Kenyan refugee camp, far from campus. Displaced by war in South Sudan, he dedicated himself to pursuing formal education, knowing it was his best hope for a better future beyond the camp. 

 His hard work opened a life-changing opportunity—a chance to apply to Canadian universities through the World University Service of Canada’s (WUSC) Student Refugee Program. 

Nine researchers at the University of Waterloo have been awarded $7.5 million in funding to support their research as part of the illustrious Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program.  

Each year, the CRC program invests up to $311 million to attract and retain some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds.  

Do you really want to know what we were doing on April 19? Listening to Taylor Swift’s double-album release, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, of course.  

Waterloo graduate Kiyoumars Zarshenas (PhD ’23) has been named a winner of the Science Exposed 2024 Jury Prize sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) with a striking image captured with a scanning electron microscope.  

The Science Exposed contest highlights photos of Canadian research to foster interest and curiosity in the sciences. Each year, 20 images are selected as finalists for the English contest and showcased by various means, including exhibitions.