WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, July 12, 2012) - The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering is the best Canadian engineering school, according to a recent survey by Business Insider, a respected U.S.-based website.
Waterloo, Ont. (Tuesday, July 10, 2012) - An estimated 1,500 students starting at the University of Waterloo in the fall will preview campus life this month and next when they take part in two-day sessions called Student Life 101.
Positive messaging is the elixir of the age, but what if all of those warm, supportive words were actually doing more harm than good?
In new research poised to shake up our upbeat-loving culture, University of Waterloo psychology professor Mark Zanna and colleagues have found that positive messaging can actually enforce negative ideas.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, June 27, 2012) – The University of Waterloo and its Federation of Students are bringing the region’s favourite community party back to Columbia Lake Fields this Canada Day.
The always popular Canada Day Celebrations organized by the University of Waterloo and its Federation of Students promise to be bigger than ever. This year marks the 145th anniversary of Confederation.
Thousands of local residents are expected to join the university community on Sunday, July 1, at the Columbia Lake Fields on Columbia Street West.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, June 26, 2012) – The University of Waterloo today received two prestigious grants designed to enable leading scientists to mentor and train promising young researchers in quantum information science. Professors David Cory and Michele Mosca, both from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), received grants worth $1.65 million each to pursue unique training programs in cutting-edge quantum research.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, June 25, 2012) – The University of Waterloo is pleased to announce that Nicole Pitre, of Burlington, Ontario, and Nicole Shum, of Burnaby, British Columbia, have been chosen to represent their high schools as inaugural Schulich Leaders.
Originally, only 20 high school students across Canada were to receive the four-year, $60,000 Schulich Leader Scholarships. Due to the overwhelming number and calibre of the nominees, the number of scholarships was doubled to 40.
At a university renowned around the globe for its water research, Michel Fich is boldly going where none of his campus colleagues have gone before: beyond the Earth’s moist atmosphere.
Hon. Roy Romanow (left) and Professor Bryan Smale. Photo Credit: Jonathan Bielaski
Step aside, GDP. An innovative initiative is underway at Waterloo to demonstrate that measuring well-being is as important as measuring money.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, June 14, 2012) - Groundbreaking two-way wireless technology resulting in vastly superior voice and data services has been developed by a University of Waterloo engineering research team led by Amir K. Khandani, the Canada Research Chair in Wireless Systems.