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.
While the world looks to international organizations to reduce our global carbon footprint, Sarah Burch says innovative climate change initiatives happen at the local level.
Mitigating climate change is about much more than saving the icecaps and rainforests— it’s about protecting our health.
Convocation is a ceremony of ancient traditions and weighty symbols.
Once graduating students have entered the ceremony, faculty members enter walking two by two, followed by university officials, all in their academic finery. Near the end of the procession, a selected faculty member will carry the Mace, a traditional symbol of the university’s authority.
Kids' party to mark groundbreaking of new child care facility
Media are invited to attend an event at the University of Waterloo to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new amalgamated child care facility.
Bright Starts Co-operative Early Learning Centre Inc., located behind the Optometry & Vision Science building on Columbia Street, will amalgamate three of Waterloo’s existing child care centres and create 16 new toddler spaces and 10 new infant spaces later this fall.
WATERLOO, Ont (Wednesday, June 5, 2013) – Canadian astronomer David H. Levy - one of the most successful comet discoverers in history – will give a public lecture on his experiences and observations in astronomy on Thursday at the University of Waterloo.
The internationally renowned Canadian astronomer and science writer, famous for his 1993 co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which collided with Jupiter in 1994, will join a star-gazing party following the lecture, weather permitting.
Date: Thursday June 6, 2013, 7:00 p.m.