Future students

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. 

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.

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.  

December 6 marks Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The day commemorates the 14 women, mostly engineering students, who were killed at École Polytechnique de Montréal (now Polytechnique Montréal) in 1989 by a lone gunman — because they were women.

WatSPEED at the University of Waterloo recently announced the launch of a new Chief Technology and AI Officer (AI-CTO) program — a six-month, live-online executive program designed to help senior technology leaders translate complex architectures and AI innovation into measurable business outcomes.