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The International Student Experience Team runs programs designed to support international students at the University of Waterloo.  The Global Representative program helps new students connect with current students from their home country before they start university while the International Peer Mentor program pairs international students with upper-year students who help them navigate the campus and the community.

WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada (June 18, 2013)- Equinox Summit: Learning 2030 will bring visionaries and innovators in education related fields from across the globe together in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from September 29 - October 3, 2013 to draft a blueprint for the School of the 21st Century.  

Gamblers like noisy slot machines -- it reinforces the rewarding feeling after a win

Winning sounds on slot machines make gambling more exciting, according to a new study by Mike Dixon and colleagues from the University of Waterloo in Canada. Moreover, their work shows that sounds also cause players to overestimate the number of times they won while playing on slot machines. The study is published online in Springer's Journal of Gambling Studies.

Devon Rizzo has the shot of a lifetime and it might just be coming at the right time for the fourth-year University of Waterloo varsity golfer. 

Rizzo, an engineering student, has been granted an exemption to play in the one-day qualifying event for the 2013 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic. The Warrior golfer is coming off an impressive second place finish at the Eastern Provinces Championship in Kingston, an event well-known for its deep field of recognized amateur women golfers.

Ellsworth LeDrew has a scene on his mind.

A party of Inuit hunters sets out from a settlement. One of them stops, pulls out a smart phone and snaps a picture of a crack in the shore ice that affects his route.

The hunter instantly uploads the photo to a public database, which shares the image with anybody who has an interest in ice conditions in the area.

"It’s like a traffic alert on your Magellan,’’ LeDrew says, referring to a popular digital navigator.

Canada Day will be bigger and better this year with more than 40,000 guests expected to mark the national holiday at the University of Waterloo’s Columbia Lake Fields.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, June 21, 2013) – Canada Day in Waterloo is set to be bigger than ever as the University of Waterloo and Federation of Students unveil new plans to mark the national holiday at the Columbia Lake playing fields.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, June 17, 2013) – A million electric cars could be on roads across North America before the end of the decade with the help of research by the United States Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Waterloo.

Professor Zhongwei Chen is part of a team led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory looking to develop non-precious materials to replace the expensive platinum catalysts in fuel cells.

The Masters of Digital Experience Innovation Student Showcase will take place this week at the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus.

Highlights of the showcase include:

Anyone with a smart phone and a ruler can help Richard Kelly gather data about all things snow – from the severity of a storm system to the shrinking of the snow season.