Engineering professor leads a team of microfluidics experts creating next-generation compression sleeves for cancer survivors living with lymphedema
Chemical engineering labs cut waste, save water and share virtual tools for free — earning Green Lab Gold for a second straight year
A research powerhouse quietly shaping global AI, advancing health, climate and smart cities through cutting‑edge innovation and real-world impact
Two University of Waterloo affiliated health-tech companies secure major provincial investment to bring lifesaving innovations to market
Waterloo co-op student applies engineering and tech skills at Caivan to support purpose-built housing and build land-development expertise
The world’s largest working brain model helps show how brains break, and how we can fix them.
An international network linking researchers, students and institutions enhances Waterloo's global reputation as a nanotechnology leader.
Student installations bring 'wow-factor' to holiday displays
On Dec. 6, two University of Waterloo events will mark the anniversary of the day a gunman walked into Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique and killed 14 women. The shocking act of violence deepened Mary Wells' drive to be an advocate for women in engineering.
Founded by two University of Waterloo Engineering students, Engineers Without Borders now has 45,000 members. Staff and volunteers in Canada and Africa work to fight poverty in struggling communities.
A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo has built the world's largest simulation of a functioning brain
Autonomous robots that can perceive and react to the ever-changing scenarios have the potential to tackle situations too dangerous for humans.
Dave Kroetsch and Michael Peasgood started playing with flying robots as undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo. After graduating, they found a market hungry for a reliable eye in the sky.
An idea sparked by a missed parcel delivery fuelled an award-winning fourth-year engineering project that grew into a successful business. BufferBox, a consumer-friendly delivery system, is popping up in locations across Ontario.
As University of Waterloo students, Matthew Stevens and Christopher Mendes saw an entrepreneurial niche in simplifying the confusing realm of emerging automotive technologies. They created CrossChasm Technologies Inc. to help fill that niche.
Innovative groundwater research earned James Craig an Ontario Early Researcher Award, but the University of Waterloo professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is also studying ways to make geothermal energy systems more efficient and cost-effective.
Leading-edge research with the potential to improve human health has earned national recognition for four Waterloo professors, whose Canada Research Chair grants were announced on Friday, Oct. 12.
