The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) selected nine researchers from the University of Waterloo for increased funds to support their research deemed to be novel or potentially transformative, and likely to contribute to groundbreaking advances.
Leakage from oil and natural gas wells and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions present is of greater environmental concern than fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, say environmental scientists and engineers at the University of Waterloo and Geofirma Engineering, Ltd.
“Hydraulic fracturing is not the main risk,” said Maurice Dusseault, a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences. “The main risk is poor well completion that can cause methane leakage.”
The largest Canada Day party in Waterloo Region will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year as the University of Waterloo welcomes more than 50,000 people to the Columbia Lake playing fields.
Over the years, the celebration has flourished, along with the community. Thirty years ago, bands at Waterloo’s Canada Day party played from the back of a flatbed truck. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the community celebration, Juno-nominated Born Ruffians and Canadian musical icon Steven Page will take the stage.
When it comes to protecting your bones, doing the right combination of exercises can make all the difference, says a Waterloo kinesiology professor who helped draft new recommendations for people with osteoporosis.
“We propose a shift away from aerobic-only exercise regimes to those that emphasize strength training and balance training in addition to aerobic training, to achieve the greatest health benefits,” says Lora Giangregorio.
50 Shades of Grey has been credited with sparking a new era in women’s sexuality. For the first time women can claim — some without shame — that they read sexually explicit material and enjoy it.
Yet, long before women were publicly toting their copies of Fifty Shades, they were reading it on e-readers and discussing its content in online forums — a simple act that, according to two Waterloo researchers, is complicating our understanding of women’s sexuality.
New multicomponent exercise recommendations combine muscle strengthening and balance training as a means of reducing falls and resulting fractures for people living with osteoporosis
People with osteoporosis, and those at risk of developing it, can prevent bone loss, fractures and falls by combining specific types of exercises, says new recommendations that Osteoporosis Canada released today.
An affordable biofiltration water treatment system that uses extracts from seeds of the Moringa plant – known locally as malunggay or the tree of life – is set to begin an 18-month trial in the summer of 2014 in rural areas of the Philippines.
You just know it’s going to be a good party when an Asian elephant named Buke is on the guest list and there’s an attempt at breaking the record for the world’s largest Twister game.
Kashif Memon navigated through complex supply chains of feudal lords and military forces to transport food from Pakistani farmers and fishermen to a Persian Gulf port and on to Britain.
Teens who use menthol cigarettes smoke more cigarettes per day than their peers who smoke non-menthols, says a new study. The findings from the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact at the University of Waterloo mark the first time that menthol cigarettes have been directly linked to elevated nicotine addiction among youth in Canada.