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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

Two of the world’s top innovation universities hope to accelerate breakthroughs in research and commercialization with a new agreement signed during a joint conference in Israel on March 18.

The agreement between the University of Waterloo and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology brings together some of the top minds in quantum information science, nanotechnology and water for pure and applied research. Research in these important areas has the potential to:

·       improve human health

A Pharmacy Investment Club (PIC) at the University of Waterloo is preparing students for careers in an evolving profession that may not always include working at the community pharmacy.

Two of the world’s top innovation universities hope to accelerate breakthroughs in research and commercialization with a new agreement signed during a joint conference in Israel today, Tuesday March 18, 2014.

The agreement between the University of Waterloo and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology brings together some of the top minds in quantum information science, nanotechnology and water for pure and applied research.

A new theatre production opening this week at the University of Waterloo addresses mental health and the troubling story of Ashley Smith, the teenager who died from self-asphyxiation at Kitchener’s Grand Valley Institution for Women in 2007.

From Solitary to Solidarity: Unravelling the Ligatures of Ashley Smith is a multi-media production that runs March 19 to 22.

As Canada celebrates Co-operative Education Week, it’s good to reflect on a few facts that make the University of Waterloo a global leader in co-operative education:

A financially secure retirement is becoming the exception not the norm, says Lee Anne Davies, CEO of Agenomics, a consulting firm specializing in money management and aging.

Today, more and more Canadians are finding themselves burdened with debt during retirement—a worrying trend that shows no signs of slowing.