Community

Friday, April 5, 2013

Virtual communities replace neighbourhoods for modern moms

by Christine Bezruki, Applied Health Sciences

Diana Parry
As a new mother, Diana Parry was guilty of stroller-stalking.

In an attempt to connect with other mothers, she would bundle up her daughter and walk around her neighbourhood hoping to meet women with children the same age as her own.

But today, instead of pounding the pavement to meet other mothers, Parry, like thousands of women across the country, simply logs into a social networking site.

Technology drives motherhood

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

MEDIA ADVISORY: UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO EXPERT

by Media Relations

Homegrown terrorism and religious radicalization: University of Waterloo expert

University of Waterloo’s Professor Lorne Dawson is available to talk about the recent reports that two, or possibly three, young men from London, Ontario were involved in the terrorist attack on the gas facility in Algeria in January.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Playing with fire

by Christian Aagaard, Communications and Public Affairs

Game theory applied by a University of Waterloo researcher could help crews battle raging forest fires in Canada.

Kate Larson

“Forest fires are inherently unpredictable,” says Kate Larson, associate professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. “You get situations where the (individual) provinces don’t have the resources to fight these fires. In times of need, they share.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Using data to treat patients right

by Christine Bezruki, Applied Health Sciences

Joon Lee is changing the way doctors make decisions and patients receive care.

Joon Lee

For the last three years, Lee, a health informatics researcher with the School of Public Health and Health Systems, has been collaborating with researchers at MIT to answer some of Boston’s top clinicians’ most difficult questions.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Every drop counts:

by Christian Aagaard, Communications and Public Affairs

Philippe Van Cappellen uses a quick lesson in human anatomy to explain the work he does at the University of Waterloo.

Philippe Van Cappellen, Faculty, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo
Philippe Van Cappellen,  Faculty, University of Waterloo, Department of  Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Waterloo launches United Kingdom alumni chapter

by Emily Huxley, Alumni Affairs

Ken McGillivray, Vice-President, Advancement joined a full house of local alumni in London, England on Thursday, March 14 to officially launch the University of Waterloo’s London/UK alumni chapter.

University of Waterloo Alumni in London, England

Ken McGillivray with members of the UK alumni chapter in the North Tower Lounge at the historic Tower Bridge in London.