WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, May 17, 2013) – A team of undergraduate students from the University of Waterloo has won a significant microrobotics competition, and they did it in less than one second.
Co-op students at the University of Waterloo graduate with less debt and report being more satisfied with their co-op experiences than students surveyed at other universities in Ontario, according to a report.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, May 8, 2013) - The University of Waterloo Stratford Campus began accepting submissions from presenters today for an international conference on gamification - the term for using game design in a range of tasks to make them more fun, engaging and motivating.
Small but sunlit, the composure room in the new Health Services Building at the University of Waterloo highlights the attention to detail being paid these days to mental-health care.
Most of the services on the second floor focus on mental health. The composure room offers a refuge where overwhelmed clients can collect their thoughts. The building opened in February. The Canadian Mental Health Association has designated May 6 – 12 as Mental Health Week, with a focus on youth this year.
This summer, Jessica VandenBussche will put the pedal to the pavement—and gravel, and dirt roads.
Longueuil, Quebec, April 29, 2013 – After making over 35,000 observations and logging more than 25,000 hours of studying the Universe, the Herschel Space Observatory has exhausted its supply of liquid helium, which is required to cool the telescope's instruments to make highly precise measurements. Now that the school-bus sized telescope will cease its active duty, astronomers from 14 countries, including Canada, will devote their full attention to analyzing the prolific telescope's legacy of data.
Speech communication professor Jennifer Simpson asks an important question: So what? How can educators make issues of public good and social justice relevant to students? Higher education provides an environment for faculty and students to learn to deal with difference. Educators have an opportunity to make social issues real to students. In doing so, those students can leave university with an understanding of their role in society and ability to contribute to public justice.
In today’s world, the goal is “one.” One language, one culture, one way of thinking. French Studies professor François Paré comes to the defense of plurality. With the globalizing trend toward monoculture, where minority languages are threatened with extinction, he proposes a worldwide ecology of cultures and languages. Through his scholarship and public consultation, Paré hopes a diversity of languages will remain relevant in a multicultural and multilingual society.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, April 24, 2013) - More than 200 grade-school students from across Waterloo Region will test their scientific knowledge in an annual national science competition at the University of Waterloo this Friday.
When Christine McWebb helped design the new Master of Digital Experience Innovation (MDEI) program she created partnerships with industry so graduates would be better positioned to work in careers they love.
