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.
Waterloo students have designed a synthetic organism that may one day help doctors treat MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant superbug.
The synthetic bacterium, Staphylocide, “turns off” the antibiotic-resistance gene in MRSA, making it sensitive again to antibiotics and easier for doctors to treat. MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - is a superbug at the core of many skin infections that spread easily and can cause serious, untreatable infections for hospital patients.
Startup founder and investor Alexis Ohanian liked what he saw when he came to the University of Waterloo last year on his book tour. This year he’s back with his show, Small Empires, to find out why Waterloo is such a hub for entrepreneurship.
Students from the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo will offer a day of free family programming in Waterloo on Saturday.
When it comes to planning an event, liquid nitrogen and spoons don’t usually top the list of supplies — unless you are a student in Zara Rafferty’s Recreation and Leisure Studies class.
This Saturday, students in her program management and evaluation course will put their event planning — and ice cream making — skills to the test as they host a day of free family activities at the Stork Family YMCA and Harper Library.
A Waterloo historian is leading a team of researchers to unearth the remains of a lost medieval village in the south of England, hoping to find lessons about climate change.
Today, Velocity announces the 10 finalists for its Fall 2014 Velocity Fund Finals, taking place later this month. The entrepreneurship program from the
Engineering students with the University of Waterloo chapter of Bridges to Prosperity recently returned from Totolima, Bolivia after building a bridge there to help residents access essential services.
An atmospheric research project based at the University of Waterloo is helping a global team of researchers uncover the mysteries of the Earth’s ozone layer.
Satellite data gathered, in part, by Waterloo’s Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) are helping scientists understand why an ozone-depleting gas in our upper atmosphere increased recently after many years of falling concentrations.