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WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, Oct. 21, 2011) - Kevin O'Leary, a celebrity on CBC's Dragons' Den, will share key secrets on entrepreneurship when talking about his new book at an event hosted by the University of Waterloo bookstore on Monday, Oct. 24.

The book, entitled Cold Hard Truth, is both a personal story - success against the odds - and a practical business book. It features quizzes, questionnaires and lists designed to help average businesspersons hone their entrepreneurial and financial instincts.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011) - Canada has become a world leader in measuring wellbeing with the launch of a new comprehensive composite index set to challenge the gross domestic product (GDP) as the sole measure of our country's progress, says the Honourable Roy Romanow, advisory board chair for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW), located at the University of Waterloo.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011) - The former chief scientific advisor to the British government will give the annual Arthur J. Carty lecture at the University of Waterloo this week.

Sir David King, currently the director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University, was the British government's chief scientific advisor under prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and head of the government office for science from 2000 until 2007.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011) - A prominent expert in nuclear and particle physics will give a public lecture today on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment at the University of Waterloo.

Art McDonald, director of the SNO and a physics professor at Queen's University, will give a talk entitled Exploring the Universe from Two Kilometres Underground.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011) - A University of Waterloo professor, Geoffrey Fong, has received the largest operating grant ever awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for his team's groundbreaking work on tobacco smoking control policies around the world.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011) - A leading meteorology expert will examine new perspectives being used by the climate change community to assess threats to critical resources of water, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function during a public lecture this week at the University of Waterloo.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011) - The senior research advisor to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing - a national index measuring wellbeing that goes beyond the gross domestic product - will give a public lecture at the University of Waterloo this week to share insights on its creation.

Alex Michalos, Hallman Visiting Professor, will be on campus Wednesday, Sept. 28 to talk about the challenges of developing a national wellbeing index and give some initial thoughts on the full composite index that will be released in October.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Sept. 26, 2011) - Internationally acclaimed philosopher Ian Hacking will discuss the human use of mathematics during a prestigious public lecture at the University of Waterloo next week.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011) - More than 100 young women interested in what a future in engineering could hold for them will make their way to the University of Waterloo next week for the seventh annual Go Eng Girl! event.

The girls, in Grades 7 to 10, will have a chance to discover firsthand what engineering is all about at the all-day event, which will take place Saturday, Oct. 1.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011) - Several thousand new students at the University of Waterloo will launch their academic careers next week with more than 100 events, including an inaugural invocation ceremony, designed to help them make a successful transition from high school to university.