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Two recipients of the prestigious national Loran Award have chosen the University of Waterloo for their academic careers.
Garvit Jain of electrical engineering and Steven Yang of software engineering will begin their undergraduate degrees this fall.
The following is a transcript of a video message shared with University of Waterloo students on August 31, 2023
Hello everyone
I’m Vivek Goel, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo. I use the pronouns He/Him
It is my privilege to welcome you to our Fall 2023 term.
For some of you, this will be your first time on our campuses. For others, we welcome you back.
While research and learning on our campuses continues throughout the year, every September, there is a sense of a new beginning.
Dr. Lai-Tze Fan wants to make a more equitable AI. Critical approaches to advancing artificial intelligence are urgent, she says. “We tend to want AI to do more and more tasks for us and not be involved ourselves. But if that tendency continues, critical thinking in the process of generation is going to collapse in on itself and we won't have a responsible role in the technology anymore. And that could make AI a dehumanizing tool.”
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Dr. Nikolas Knowles, a professor who joined the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences in 2022, has received a $100,000 grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). He is one of 13 recipients at the University of Waterloo.
While a typical course of study at Waterloo includes co-op work terms and on-campus coursework, these Math students found they had a lot to learn by traveling much farther. Here’s what they had to say about their adventures thousands of kilometers from home.
North America has 10 million kilometres of overhead power lines, and when vegetation come into contact with one, it can be like tinder to a flame.
“Once they come in contact with trees, the risk of forest fires increases,” says Anson Maitland (PhD ’19), co-founder of Enerza, a company at Velocity, University of Waterloo’s startup incubator. “With our robot, utilities can spot vegetation risks, corrosion or birds' nests near the line and send out a team to handle it.”
The SDSS/BOSS/eBOSS collaborations have been awarded the 2023 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize of the European Physical Society, recognizing an outstanding contribution to particle astrophysics and cosmology in the last 15 years.
Waterloo professor Will Percival and colleagues Kyle Dawson (University of Utah) and Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard University) accepted the award on behalf of the collaborations.
In a rapidly changing world research universities are essential for ensuring that Canada had the knowledge and talent necessary to keep up.
That’s why the University of Waterloo recently developed our Global Futures, a focus on five interconnected problem areas that can only be tackled with transdisciplinary scholarship and action.