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Palette, a company that created a freeform hardware interface that can be built like Lego to control your favourite software, won the first-ever award for best hardware-based startup at the Velocity Fund Finals, and was one of several big winners at the event that took place at the University of Waterloo today.

Wildlife Preservation Canada has selected Martin Kastner, a student from the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, for “Canada’s New Noah,” a program providing practical training and field experience in managing and conserving endangered species.

Each year, more than 100 candidates—including undergraduate, master's, and PhD students, practicing wildlife biologists and veterinarians—apply for the one coveted position.

Entrepreneur and angel investor, Mike Stork, is giving back to the Waterloo Region startup community with a generous donation of $1 million to Velocity at the University of Waterloo.

PiinPoint, a location analytics startup, has become the latest company from University of Waterloo incubator Velocity, to participate in the Y Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley.

The startup was one of four $25,000 winners at the Velocity Fund Finals in November.

Public institutions in Canada should accommodate on the grounds of religious freedom, says a professor of religious studies at the University of Waterloo.

A student who designed a study that showed a prostate cancer centre reduced by two months the time from suspicion of cancer to treatment, is among six outstanding co-op students that the University of Waterloo will honour as part of National Co-op Week.

One co-op student from each of the University's six faculties will receive the 2013 University of Waterloo Co-op Student of the Year Award. The honour is as a result of exemplary performance during a 2013 work term and other factors, including community involvement, contribution to co-op, and academic achievement. 

The Waterloo Innovation Summit is an annual conference bringing together global thought leaders to facilitate the expansion of an innovation culture through the continued development of technologies, approaches, and industries.

This year’s Innovation Summit will explore what makes a great innovation economy from the perspective of business leaders, budding entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and international collaborators.

Keynote speakers include:

High school students with a passion for designing, building and programming robots will compete this week at the University of Waterloo in the qualifying round for an international robotics competition.

Thirty teams with names such as SWAT, Warp7, Simbotics, Ice Cubed, BeaverworX, REBotics and Ram-ferno will vie for an invitation to the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, where they will compete with teams from all over the world for the title of 2014 FRC World Champions.

A woman returns to her dusty village carrying two bottles of water filled from a pool two hours away.

What happens next puts Hyung-Sool Lee on edge. In the typical scenario, repeated daily in dry villages around the world, she fills a bowl for her thirsty toddler.

The child may later become a grim statistic — one of 760,000 children under five years of age swept away by diarrheal disease every year.

Harnessing electricity that bacteria produce