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

“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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

As pioneers in co-operative education, Waterloo was one of the first to recognize the educational value of connecting students and industry.

As the president of a university that treasures the principles of free speech, I am extremely disappointed that a guest invited to speak at a University of Waterloo Federation of Students-sanctioned club event on Wednesday, March 13, was interrupted by vociferous protest by a group of nearly two-dozen Waterloo and non-Waterloo students.

This summer, Larry Swatuk will pack his bags, just as he has for the last 12 years, and return to the University of Western Cape in South Africa where he’ll teach a three-week course in water security pro bono.

The shock was so great when seven people died from drinking water in Walkerton, Ontario in May 2000, that it forever changed how the provincial government manages and protects its municipal water, says an environment and resource studies professor.

WATERLOO, Ont., (Thursday, March 14, 2013) – A new laparoscopic suturing tool and a system of artificial vision for the visually impaired are among the innovative projects that fourth-year engineering students will present at a public event at the University of Waterloo starting tomorrow.