Starting university and moving away from home is always a big transition. But what if you’re also moving from another country and English isn’t your first language?
Welcome math and computing teachers!
The Waterloo Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) will host 150 elementary and secondary school teachers from across the province and around the world at two conferences this month.
STRATFORD, Ont. (Monday, August 12, 2013) – A student from the University of Waterloo is set to release an anthology of stories about life in the Ontario city of Stratford that could otherwise be lost for future generations.
Riding on the wagon with workers during Stratford’s General Strike of 1933, gathering milkweed pods for the war effort, distributing the first electric lawn mower—Gather by the Avon collects stories from the memories of 50 Stratford seniors.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, April 12, 2013) – Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and BlackBerry Co-Founder Mike Lazaridis will headline a University of Waterloo-hosted conference aimed at building a plan for economic growth and prosperity for Ontario and Canada – with Waterloo’s model for innovation at its heart.
Collaboration between an architecture professor from the University of Waterloo and an avant-garde fashion designer blurs the boundaries of clothing and architecture, and could influence how cities of the future might look.
One of Iris van Herpen's designs from her Wilderness Embodied collection.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, August 2, 2013) – Researchers and students from around the globe gather this week at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing to discuss progress in the field of quantum cryptography.
Today, cryptographic schemes keep everyday transactions on the Internet secure. In the not-so-distant future, quantum computers will be able to break even the most secure schemes easily. But the same technology that can break today’s cryptography, can add unbreakable key exchange and other tools to tomorrow’s cyber security arsenal.
For the past 29 years, the University of Waterloo has proudly welcomed our community to campus for our annual Canada Day Celebration. This year, 50,000 people joined the party!
Check out some of this year's highlights:
A big thank-you to our students, faculty, staff and community for your continued support. See you again next year!
To see more of this year's event, visit our Canada Day 2013 photo gallery.
Gaby Sabados was like so many students – she loved health and science but didn’t quite know how to turn her passion into a career.
That all changed during her second year of health studies at Waterloo when she learned about midwifery.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, July 25, 2013) – A wearable health monitor and music-making application were among four winners awarded $25,000 funding from the University of Waterloo VeloCity Venture Fund today.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, July 23, 2013) – WestonExpressions, a startup currently operating with the University of Waterloo’s VeloCity startup program, today launched the Linkett Interactive Digital Signage System. Linkett equips existing televisions and digital signs with motion and mobile capabilities, enabling highly targeted, on-the-spot promotions to passersby.