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September 28, 2020

Pharmacy co-op program participants rise to pandemic challenges

Pharmacy co-op students, employers and staff collaborated to achieve 100 per cent co-op employment for pharmacy students throughout 2020

February 22, 2016

Mild electrical stimulation of the brain could help treat lazy eye

Waterloo researcher finds twenty minutes of low-voltage electric currents can temporarily improve sight for adults with lazy eye

February 4, 2016

Waterloo physicists discover new properties of superconductivity

Superconductivity could have implications for creating technologies like ultra-efficient power grids and magnetically levitating vehicles

February 2, 2016

Canadian physicists discover new properties of superconductivity

New findings from an international collaboration led by Canadian scientists may eventually lead to a theory of how superconductivity initiates at the atomic level, a key step in understanding how to harness the potential of materials that could provide lossless energy storage, levitating trains and ultra-fast supercomputers

January 22, 2016

46-Hours: First-ever Waterloo Hacks held at Waterloo

Students will “create something awesome” and hear about the next wave of web innovations from Kik CEO Ted Livingston

Justin Trudeau poses with a group of Waterloo students

January 14, 2016

Prime Minister announces $12M for new water tech partnerships

Waterloo’s Velocity Science entrepreneurs meet with Trudeau and the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development

Students conducting experiments in the Velocity Science lab

January 13, 2016

Velocity Science expands and Velocity Start program launches

Velocity Science has grown from a student-initiated group of entrepreneurs to an internationally-recognized community of successful startups

November 26, 2015

Velocity expands to become largest free incubator in North America

Velocity expansion in downtown Kitchener will double the workspace for startups

Sue Ann Campbell, Nerissa Wong and Beth Coleman

November 23, 2015

#UWCeilingBreakers: Challenging the status quo

Special issue of Waterloo Magazine celebrates women who lead, and explores equity in education and the workplace

Women entrepreneurs Rachel Friesen, Alexa Roeper and Laura Smith

November 19, 2015

UN Women’s Entrepreneurship Day: Celebrating Waterloo founders

Waterloo women are leading startups that will allow you to use your smartphone to detect eye problems and a medical fabric to promote faster healing

November 19, 2015

Vision test gives insight into the effect of prenatal exposure to recreational drugs

Children exposed to marijuana in the womb show a significant improvement in their ability to track moving objects at age four, according to new vision research

Graduate students at the opening of their exhibition

November 18, 2015

UN Year of Light: Waterloo grad students create light exhibit

THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener is hosting LIGHT Illuminated, an exhibit with activities that include a race against light and laser maze

November 13, 2015

Waterloo graduate students win Vanier scholarships for transformational research at Waterloo

Two promising graduate students received prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships to help them pursue and complete doctoral degrees