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In recognition of the tragic events that took place in Ottawa yesterday, the University of Waterloo has lowered the national flag on its main campus.

This act of observance reflects the sentiment expressed yesterday in an open memo to the campus community from Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor.

The University of Waterloo hosts its fall convocation ceremonies on Friday October 24 and Saturday October 25, 2014. Watch this video to hear about the dreams Waterloo alumni have for the future.

As the University’s 109th convocation ceremonies begin this week, Waterloo is pleased to welcome graduating students to an alumni club with 172,000+ members living around the world.

The physicist who successfully demonstrated quantum entanglement, a defining moment in modern physics, will give a free public lecture at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo this Thursday.

Professor Alain Aspect from Institut d'Optique in France is internationally recognized for performing a series of experiments in 1982 that demonstrated that one of the strangest predictions of quantum mechanics—quantum entanglement—was true. This discovery sparked the second quantum revolution and directly led to the birth of quantum information processing.

A collaboration between a team of professors and students from the University of Waterloo and radical fashion designer Iris van Herpen mesmerized critics at Paris Fashion Week.

Athletes use weight training to improve their game and now a Waterloo researcher is hoping vision training - exercises for an athletes’ visual system - will take their performance to the next level.

Experts from around the world will gather in Ottawa this week to discuss cybersecurity in a quantum world.

Media are invited to attend a town hall meeting at the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus. The meeting is an opportunity for residents and businesses in Stratford to hear an update on the latest work of the University’s digital media satellite.

Commander Chris Hadfield made his University of Waterloo debut as Professor Hadfield to geography and aviation students Friday afternoon.

A Waterloo student has founded a company that is tackling every job-seekers Catch-22: employers want experience but you need a job first to get that experience.

Melissa Morgan, a Global Business and Digital Arts (GBDA) student co-founded uIntuition as a way for post-secondary students to build a portfolio, network and generate income while employers get professional work for a competitive price.