Waterloo News

An illustration in the style of some African art, of two hands grasping each other

February 2, 2026

Celebrating Black History Month 2026

A message from the President and Vice-Chancellor

Geometric shapes representing the five Global Futures elements

January 19, 2026

2026 Global Futures: Innovation Update

Defying convention to shape our global futures

January 12, 2026

Waterloo’s IP model sparks global research commercialization recognition

New Zealand adopts researcher-centric principles after studying Waterloo’s pioneering approach to IP ownership

Insignia for Companion, Officer and Member of the Order of Canada against a wood backdrop

January 7, 2026

Four Waterloo leaders appointed to the Order of Canada

Alumni and honorary alumni recognized for shaping Canada’s health, policy, justice and financial sectors

January 6, 2026

Scientists discover first method to safely back up quantum information

Quantum information researchers solve longstanding “no cloning” problem with encryption workaround, fully quantum ‘cloud services’ now a potential reality

January 17, 2017

Welcoming the Year of the Rooster

An array of festivities to celebrate the new year

January 15, 2017

Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics launches anniversary celebrations

Faculty members who were at the University of Waterloo for the start of the Faculty of Mathematics will share stories of its early days during a special event to launch the Faculty’s 50^thanniversary celebrations

January 13, 2017

Do skyscrapers stress you out?

Psychology researcher is examining how dense urban areas affect our physical and mental health

January 12, 2017

$32.6M in federal funding for new Engineering 7 building

New building will house research on machine intelligence, mobile robotics, autonomous vehicles and wearable biomedical devices

January 12, 2017

University of Waterloo entrepreneurs on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list

Waterloo engineers who started companies in their graduating year among young talents named to the Forbes 30 Under 30

Professor Ken Stark taking a sample of blood in Waterloo laboratory

January 12, 2017

Omega-3 supplements can prevent childhood asthma

Taking certain omega-3 fatty acid supplements during pregnancy can reduce the risk of childhood asthma by almost one third according to new study

January 12, 2017

Celebrating 60 years of innovation

From 74 engineering students in 1957 to 198,000 alumni six decades later

January 12, 2017

How racism affects health and well-being

January 12, 2017

Government of Canada commits $32.6 million for new Waterloo Engineering building

The federal government today announced it will contribute $32.6 million for the construction of a state-of-the-art engineering building at the University of Waterloo

January 10, 2017

University of Waterloo awarded funding to expand access to the Internet

Research at the University of Waterloo that has the potential to affordably connect billions of new users to the Internet via intelligent antennas will receive $6.1 million in joint funding from C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (C-COM) and the federal government

January 9, 2017

Wastewater treatment upgrades result in major reduction of intersex fish

Upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant along Ontario’s Grand River, led to a 70 per cent drop in fish that have both male and female characteristics within one year and a full recovery of the fish population within three years, according to researchers at the University of Waterloo

January 6, 2017

Cybersecurity researcher takes aim at the ‘impossible’

Vijay Ganesh has developed cybersecurity programs to help software developers fend off hacker attacks