Media are invited to attend a photoshoot for the launch of the University of Waterloo’s involment in the UN Women’s HeForShe Campaign.
Around 150 students, faculty and staff from Waterloo will assemble on Tuesday, May 5, to form the HeForShe logo. Overhead shots will be possible from the Math 3 roof garden.
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Phosphorus is one of those nutrients that can be helpful or harmful, depending on its location. As a soil fertilizer it provides an essential nutrient for food crops but in our waterways it’s an unwelcome fertilizer providing the essential missing nutrient for toxic algae.
Several companies and charities in Waterloo region send their archives to the University of Waterloo Library. It was while cataloguing a box belonging to YWCA Kitchener-Waterloo that Jessica Blackwell, one of the librarians, noticed something unusual tucked inside and showed her colleague.
Popular Science, one of the most well-read science and tech publications in the world, has chosen an invention created at the University of Waterloo to be one of the Top 10 innovations for 2015.
A $1.6-million gift to the University of Waterloo and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology by The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation is enabling world-changing research in a range of disciplines, including lung diseases and quantum computing.
Student experience will literally reach new heights in Robozone, part of the vision of the $70 million Educating the Engineer of the Future campaign launched by the Faculty of Engineering.
Nearly 250 students in grades 6, 7 and 8 from Waterloo region will unite to explore, discover and compete tomorrow at the Let’s Talk Science Challenge. The event is hosted at the University of Waterloo by Let’s Talk Science, an award-winning national charitable youth development organization.
There are two great reasons to conserve energy: It saves money and the planet. But as Faculty of Environment researcher Paul Parker explains, some of the worst energy offenders are the small devices in our daily lives.
Geography professor Paul Parker left, Elena Krakjevska and Shane O’Neill explore energy efficiency at the REEP house in Kitchener.
One thing about working at a startup — the orientation tour is pretty short.
Not that Kaley Bibic has any complaints about that. A University of Waterloo student in systems design engineering, Bibic zeroed in on Waterloo Region’s startup community when she set out to find her first co-op placement.
She wanted “real, hands-on opportunities.
E-cigarettes are taking the global nicotine market by storm, spurring researchers to ask whether the new devices are a helpful quitting tool for smokers or a serious threat to public health.
