A team of University of Waterloo researchers will launch an international study on the global implementation of community sustainability plans, at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio+20”) later this week in Rio de Janeiro

When you picture a laboratory, what do you see? Complex machines, beakers and lasers, maybe a person hunched over a microscope?

Forget it all. The next generation of labs will small enough to fit inside a handbag, and Waterloo’s researchers are forging new frontiers in their design and efficacy. 

The Canadian Index of Wellbeing, headquartered at Waterloo, goes beyond GDP in measuring the quality-of-life factors that matter to Canadians.

A joint initiative between the University of Waterloo and Soochow University in China, has received close to $1 million in funding.

International efforts to fight terrorism are taking a leap forward now that the University of Waterloo and its research partners have launched a major project that will bring together experts from every aspect of the issue