Except sometimes, it does. This spring, Lee was one of three winners to pick up $5,000 in a campus giveaway.
But instead of having the maddest spring break on record, Lee turned around and gave half of it away in a $2,500 donation to the high school scholarship he won just a few years earlier.
The Waterloo community, along with the rest of the country, will pause to remember Canada's war dead on Sunday, November 11, at 11:00 a.m.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, November 7, 2012) – A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia leaves both the person with the illness and their family members with many unanswered questions. Researchers at the University of Waterloo and McMaster University are leading a project that has resulted in the creation of a new web-based resource that provides valuable information that will help navigate the journey of living with dementia.
Every time Geoffrey Hayes heads to Europe with a group of students to visit battlefields, he comes back with a souvenir.
Another angle on Canada at war.
Collaboration Includes Creation of Cisco Research Chair, to Further Smart Grid Research
TORONTO and WATERLOO, ON--(Marketwire – November 1, 2012) - The University of Waterloo and Cisco today announced an agreement to establish a Cisco Research Chair in Smart Grid, which will promote, support, and lead research, development and innovation within the use of technologies and solutions for smart power grids.
“The businesses we accept into the Accelerator Program are already off the ground. What we do here is get them up to full throttle so they can soar into the clouds,” says Tim Ellis, the Accelerator Centre’s CEO.
On the afternoon of October 25, following an accident in uptown Waterloo, German exchange student Amelie Limberger passed away.
On behalf of the University of Waterloo, I extend our deepest condolences to Amelie’s family, friends and colleagues. Our entire university community is shocked and profoundly saddened by this loss.
TORONTO, Ont. (Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012) – The recession hit Canadians harder than economic numbers such as GDP have indicated and the decline in our wellbeing continues despite subsequent economic recovery, says the Honourable Roy Romanow, advisory board co-chair for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW), housed in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012) – More than 1,900 students crossed the stage at the University of Waterloo’s 105th Convocation this week. There were 1,170 undergraduate degrees and 769 graduate degrees handed out at ceremonies taking place over two days, ending today.
Among the highlights:
There were 660 master's degrees and 109 doctoral degrees conferred.
Waterloo presented four honorary degrees, recognized three distinguished professors emeriti and two people became honorary members of the university.