Executives from General Motors Corporation, General Motors Research and General Motors Canada visited campus this week to learn more about innovation at the University of Waterloo - a leader in North America for advanced automotive research.
One of the leading anti-sexist, male activists in the U.S. will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Waterloo tomorrow on the topic of gender violence.
The Equity Office at Waterloo is hosting Jackson Katz, educator, author, filmmaker and cultural theorist renowned for his pioneering work on gender violence prevention.
Local high school students arrive on campus this Friday to learn about some of the most important invasive species affecting Southern Ontario, including Asian carp, zebra mussels, gypsy moth, and invasive worms.
The event begins with smaller breakout sessions from 9:30 to 10:15 in the J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall (RCH) and the Mathematics & Computer Building (MC), followed by a feature lecture by TD Walter Bean Visiting Professor, Dr. Tom Stohlgren, from 10:30 to 11:30 in Federation Hall (Fed Hall).
The study, from researchers at the University of Waterloo and published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, suggests that smartphone users who are intuitive thinkers — more prone to relying on gut feelings and instincts when making decisions — frequently use their device’s search engine rather than their own brainpower. Smartphones allow them to be even lazier than they would otherwise be.
In a perfect world, computer science Professor Jo Atlee would like to glance around her classroom and see an even mixture of male and female students.
“It's not an impossible goal to reach,” says Atlee, a professor in Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science. “But it will take time, considering the low number of women enrolling in computer software programs and those working in the field.”
Leadership has boomed into its own industry. The US alone spends over $14 billion a year on it; you can get a PhD in it; and we promote it to kids as the way to get ahead in life. But new research from a University of Waterloo lecturer and his wife reveals there might be something most employees are overlooking and, if you don’t do it well, will probably get you fired.
People with low self-esteem are more likely stay in unhappy relationships, suggests new research from the University of Waterloo.
Sufferers of low self-esteem tend not to voice relationship complaints with their partner because they fear rejection.
A Nobel laureate whose most recent book is being lauded as the best business book of the year is giving a public lecture about grassroots innovation at the University of Waterloo.
Edmund S. Phelps, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2006, will speak on Thursday, March 5 at the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum Nano Centre.
Sufferers of low self-esteem tend not to voice relationship complaints with their partner because they fear rejection.
“There is a perception that people with low self-esteem tend to be more negative and complain a lot more,” says Megan McCarthy the study’s author and a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology. “While that may be the case in some social situations, our study suggests that in romantic relationships, the partner with low self-esteem resists addressing problems.”
Building a quantum computer can be accomplished by following three simple rules — yet it’s viewed by many as the pinnacle of scientific endeavour.