It’s not hard to get fair trade coffee from Kenya or Indonesian wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
But it’s harder to track where metals in our electronics come from.
MARKHAM, ON (December 4, 2014) - The U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities applauds the official launch of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched the Fund today, accompanied by Ed Holder, minister of state for science and technology, at an event attended by representatives from the post-secondary education sector and industry.
Pearl Sullivan was a young engineering student, just completing her PhD at the University of British Columbia, when she heard that 14 women had been gunned down at an engineering school in Montreal on December 6, 1989.
Twenty-five years later, Sullivan is now leading the largest engineering school in Canada.
As the dean of Waterloo Engineering, Sullivan witnesses daily the passion and potential of young women, which makes the loss of life in Montreal especially poignant.
Rainwater harvesting tanks that have been abandoned for modern canals and groundwater wells could become an important water source for people in southern India, according to a University of Waterloo researcher.
India’s ancient rainwater harvesting system forms one of the largest man-made wetland systems ever built, says Nandita Basu, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Climate change and the overuse of groundwater have governments concerned there won’t be enough water to support agriculture by 2050.
Social innovation student startups from an app that aggregates news stories and uses analytics to distill fact from opinion, to a program that will strengthen early childhood education in urban slums around the world are competing for $5,000 in funding from a new fund at St. Paul’s GreenHouse.
The live-in social innovation community at St. Paul's University College at the University of Waterloo will award $5,000 in funding to student innovators at the GreenHouse Social Innovation Showcase, taking place on Wednesday, December 3.
Social innovation student startups from an app that aggregates news stories and uses analytics to distill fact from opinion, to a program that will strengthen early childhood education in urban slums around the world are competing for $5,000 in funding from a new fund at St. Paul’s GreenHouse.
The live-in social innovation community at St. Paul's University College at the University of Waterloo will award $5,000 in funding to student innovators at the GreenHouse Social Innovation Showcase, taking place on Wednesday, December 3.
"The Federal-Provincial Government Conference Simulation, which is popularly known as Fed-Prov, is unique in Canada," said Professor John Jaworsky, who teaches political science at Waterloo. "The conference is an excellent opportunity for students to become interested and engaged in politics while in high school."
The Department of Political Science at Waterloo and the heads of history at each of the region's high schools organize the annual event, which has been held at the university for last 49 years.
People with Parkinson’s disease drive faster, have slower reaction times on their brakes and struggle to assess dangerous driving conditions, according to University of Waterloo research.
Several researchers from the University of Waterloo are applying their scholarship and teaching in support of actions to end gender-based violence, and a number of these experts are available to speak with the media on a variety of topics relevant to this global issue.
Just named one of the world’s top 50 CMOs by Forbes, Waterloo caught up with Recreation and Leisure Studies alumna Dorothy Dowling to chat about her role as senior vice-president marketing and sales for Best Western International and her advice for aspiring marketing gurus.
