Aleks Poldma and Spencer Kelly have started their own business but they aren’t in it for the money.
The fourth-year mechanical engineering students are co-founders of Hydrated World, a clothing company that donates money to the Safe Water Project in Africa for every fifth item sold.
On April 14 and 15, the University of Waterloo will be at the centre of a global innovation conversation during the Waterloo Innovation Summit held on campus.
Watch the summit online and join the conversation April 14 at 1:00 p.m. and April 15, at 9:00 a.m..
Media are invited to attend the first annual Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design. The event will award six winning teams from the 2014 Capstone Design Symposia with prizes of $10,000 each.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest authoritative scientific report on the global consequences of climate change in Yokahama, Japan today.
The report indicates that changes in climate in recent decades have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. The risks of climate change are going to increase substantially as the climate continues to change in the decades ahead, the report’s authors conclude.
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.
Public institutions in Canada should accommodate on the grounds of religious freedom, says a professor of religious studies at the University of Waterloo.
