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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

September 25, 2012

University of Waterloo researcher wins grant for research into earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease

A University of Waterloo professor leads a team of researchers that has developed a new method of detecting Alzheimer's disease by looking into the eye

September 20, 2012

The Quantum Symphony: A Cultural Entanglement

A collaboration between the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony led to the creation of “Quantum: Music at the Frontier of Science.” On September 30 — as part of the grand opening celebrations of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre at the University of Waterloo — the concert will be performed inside the remarkable new building.

Frank Gu standing in the engineering lab

September 17, 2012

In nanotechnology, what you can't see may help you

Tiny machines being developed at the University of Waterloo will someday move through the bloodstream of a cancer patient to attack a tumour. Wild science fiction? Not at all, says Frank Gu.

September 11, 2012

One amazing building, two great institutes: The world is about to change

It’s a curious building for curious people, supported by an entrepreneur driven by curiosity. The Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre on the main campus of the University of Waterloo is ready for its starring role — a gateway to a future shaped by incredibly small devices, advanced materials and powerful technologies based on the laws of quantum mechanics.

September 7, 2012

Getting to quantum computing is as exciting as being there

While fully working quantum computers may be decades away, the world is already seeing remarkable advances in quantum communications, encryption and extremely sensitive quantum sensors. Raymond Laflamme, director of the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing, says Waterloo will continue to lead the way as the institute moves into the new Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre.

September 7, 2012

Turning Waterloo into a nanotechnology leader

As the institute’s first director, Arthur Carty is responsible for moving the four-year-old Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology into the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC), and making the nanotechnology institute a big player in the world of the very small.

Chemical composition of a lithium-ion battery

August 23, 2012

Building better batteries

Canada Research Chair Linda Nazar is turning her attention to lithium-sulfur (Li-S) and lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) batteries. Because of their energy density, they have the potential to achieve a far higher energy density than their lithium-ion counterparts.

August 23, 2012

Managing the risk of new contaminants

Mark Servos, who is Canada Research Chair in Water Quality Protection, studies the cumulative effects of diverse human activities in watersheds on ecosystem health.