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WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012) – For the second year in a row, University of Waterloo students from the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) program dominated the RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge, taking home first prize and $20,000 in cash.

Waterloo surpassed four finalist teams from other established Canadian institutions.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, Feb. 24, 2012) - The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded a Killam Research Fellowship to University of Waterloo physics professor Michel Gingras.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, Feb. 22, 2013) – A research project at the University of Waterloo that will lead to lighter automotive components that will be stronger in a crash was among the initiatives that received funding from Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) announced today.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012) - The innovative work of some the University of Waterloo’s top scientists is on an international stage at one of the most widely recognized science events in the world.

Leading Waterloo researchers will share their expertise and the results of their work at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting that runs until Feb. 20 in Vancouver. Researchers, journalists, students and policy-makers from nearly 60 countries attend.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, Jan. 13, 2012) - A three-member international team of theoretical physicists, including a University of Waterloo professor, made a notable discovery about the unusual behaviour of electrons, with implications for all of physics. Their findings appear today in Science, one of the world’s pre-eminent journals for original, peer-reviewed scientific research.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012) - The University of Waterloo announced today a new program to enhance the depth and effectiveness of student learning at the institution.

Geoff McBoyle, vice-president academic & provost at Waterloo unveiled the University Teaching Fellows program to guests at Back to Class, an event highlighting innovation in teaching at the university. Local and provincial elected officials attended the presentation, which took place in tandem with similar activities at other universities in Ontario.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012) - Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis continue to show their generous support of post-secondary education and world-class research with a gift of $21 million to the University of Waterloo’s faculties of science and mathematics.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012) - A generous donation to the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy is funding a new professorship that promotes innovation and research initiatives in pharmacy.

The Ontario College of Pharmacy (OCP), the regulating body for pharmacists in Ontario, recently gave $600,000 to the school to establish the Ontario College of Pharmacists Professorship in Pharmacy Innovation. Professor Nancy M. Waite, the associate director of practice-based education at the school, now also holds this new position.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012) - A breakthrough that could keep secret information safe from prying eyes would prove key to bringing quantum computing into real-world use, according to a team that includes a researcher at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Jan. 23, 2012) - The University of Waterloo named an award-winning professor and accomplished researcher as its new dean of engineering.

Professor Pearl Sullivan is currently the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at Waterloo. She joined the university as a professor of mechanical engineering in 2004.