The University of Waterloo has once again placed in the top 100 universities in the world on the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2022. This year, Waterloo moves up 46 spots on the list to number 53.
A company founded by two University of Waterloo graduates was named among the 2022 C100 Fellows.
Float, which was co-founded by Cheriton School of Computer Science alums Griffin Keglevich and Ruslan Nikolaev, offers corporate credit card and accounting services.
The University of Waterloo ranked in 29 of 51 featured subject areas in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022, released on April 6. In the report, QS evaluated and ranked approximately 1,543 universities in 51 disciplines, grouped into five broad subject areas. Indicators for the subject rankings were drawn from a peer review survey, employer survey and citations data.
A business pitch to reduce plastic water bottle waste through technology that adsorbs pollutants earned a senior-year engineering team $50,000 in financial backing from a venture capitalist.
Reduce, Carbonize, Adsorb, a chemical engineering team’s Capstone Design project, is the winner of this year’s Palihapitiya Venture Creation Fund Award sponsored by Chamath Palihapitiya (BASc '99, electrical engineering), founder and CEO of Social Capital.
Demonstrating their impressive engineering design and debating skills, Waterloo Engineering students won the most first-place awards of any school participating in this year’s Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC).
Undergraduate teams captured three top prizes and one third-place finish in the remote competition hosted by the University of New Brunswick this month.
On February 17, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced that the National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC) will receive up to $80 million to lead the Cyber Security Innovation Network.
Startups supported by the University of Waterloo’s flagship incubator, Velocity, along with others founded by alumni and students are well represented on the FoundersBeta Top 100 Tech Companies to Watch for in 2022. FoundersBeta is a global network of more than 5,000 founders, students and professionals interested in connecting around and building startups. The 2022 list profiles over 100 companies, and about a third of them have connections to the University of Waterloo.
An engineering master’s student and a staff member have been honoured with provincial awards of excellence for exceptional contributions on campus, across the community and beyond.
Waterloo mechanical engineering master’s student Lucas Wen Tang (BASc ’21, mechanical engineering) was recognized in the Minister’s Awards of Excellence Rising Star category.
Velocity companies at the University of Waterloo have now raised a cumulative total of $3.6 billion in funding. The total funding raised by founders just five months ago was $2.4 billion.
Growth-stage alumni companies from the University’s flagship incubator, such as ApplyBoard, Faire and Embark Trucks, led the charge while, back at Velocity,current early-stage companies raised more than $30 million collectively in 2021 — a glimpse at the momentum of Velocity’s next generation of alumni. It had taken two years for companies to go from $1 to $2 billion.
The University of Waterloo has been designated Research University of the Year in the Canadian universities comprehensive tier by Research Infosource Inc. for the 14th consecutive year.
Waterloo also ranked 13th in Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities for sponsored research income with more than $211 million. Among comprehensive universities, Waterloo placed first for corporate research income with more than $31 million.