Waterloo students, researchers and alumni are at the forefront of unconventional innovation, shaping industries and increasing productivity.
Dr. Troy Glover (PhD ’00)
Faculty of Health
This year brought countless reasons to celebrate as Waterloo students, alumni and researchers took bold new steps to innovate and create solutions for a complex future.
As we wrap up 2025, we reflect with pride and share just a glimpse of student success, on-campus initiatives and groundbreaking research of our Waterloo community.
Although at times bewildering, the tunnels and bridges connecting buildings at the University of Waterloo have become beloved spaces for the generations of students who pass through them. So much so, in fact, that in March 2025, Waterloo students spontaneously held a funeral for an unlikely subject: the bridge between the Davis Centre (DC) and Math and Computer Building (MC).
At the University of Waterloo, our work builds a healthier, more sustainable and more prosperous future for humanity and our planet.
We do this by bringing together some of the most unstoppable people from Canada and around the world who live our values of working together, acting with purpose and thinking differently.
In the spirit of Waterloo at 100, we asked members of our community to look ahead and imagine what Waterloo will be most famous for at our 100th anniversary in 2057.
A new documentary is shining the light on Waterloo Region as a global innovation hub. A constant linkage between the region’s many entrepreneurial and technology success stories is the University of Waterloo.
Since its founding, the University of Waterloo has emerged as a leading global research-intensive university renowned for entrepreneurship and innovation. Initially inspired to champion co-operative education, the University continues to pair rigorous research with real-world work experience and entrepreneurial thinking to deliver bold, future-focused solutions.
Researchers at University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have reached a milestone in quantum information science: using a quantum computer to simulate how matter can behave in extreme environments, like the early universe after the big bang.
WatSPEED, the University of Waterloo’s professional, executive and corporate education arm, recently joined forces
Four Indigenous students at the University of Waterloo are the recipients of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) awards. The $392,000 in funding supports research in the Faculties of Arts, Environment and Health and bring together Traditional Knowledge and western science.