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Christine Logel visits the Sedra Student Design Centre, a state-of-the-art 20,000 square foot facility that is home to over 20 of the Faculty of Engineering student competition teams.

While educators and business leaders struggle to attract and retain women in science and engineering, a team of psychology researchers have proven that small interventions can produce dramatic results.

Girls in high school are getting a head start in the world of startup businesses with a new camp from the University of Waterloo, Google and the Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo Region.

More than 150 experts from around the world are set to convene at the University of Waterloo to tackle issues of gender equity in the science, engineering and technology sectors.

The conference, called Science, Technology, and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities, takes place on August 10 to 13, 2014.

Research by a civil engineer from the University of Waterloo is helping shed light on the way wounds heal and may someday have implications for understanding how cancer spreads, as well as why certain birth defects occur.

PumpUp, the first photo-based community for healthy and active living, recently closed a $2.4 million seed financing round led by General Catalyst Partners. The most recent startup to successfully launch from Velocity, PumpUp has more than 1.7 million members on their app and is growing quickly. They have a new office in downtown Toronto and are on a hiring path to expand their highly skilled team.

The University of Waterloo is hosting the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition (IARRC). Members of the media are invited to attend as engineering students from four schools in the U.S. and Canada race modified robot-controlled cars or robots they built.

The real challenge for teams isn’t the racing, but in creating and testing a robot that will work autonomously and correctly on its own, with limited supplies and funds.

A hardware and software company that stands to revolutionize how we give presentations was the biggest winner at the Velocity Fund Finals, a pitch competition for startups, which took place at the University of Waterloo today.

A team of engineering students from the University of Waterloo will compete at the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition (IARRC) on campus this weekend.

The event, happening on Saturday July 26, includes drag and circuit races between student-built robots, and provides students with real-world, hands-on design challenges.

It is with sadness that Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, issues the following statement on the death of a Waterloo alumnus, Andrei Anghel, who was killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on Thursday.

Ten startups from diverse backgrounds - everything from biotech to computer science - will pitch their businesses for a share of $100,000 at the Velocity Fund Finals (VFF) at the University of Waterloo.