A University of Waterloo math alumnus and CEO of an e-commerce startup valued at $3.5 billion has been named to the 2015 Forbes Top 40 Under 40.
As political leaders gather in Paris to negotiate a global agreement on climate change, students from Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment will be on the ground keeping a close eye on the historic negotiations.
Apoorva Mehta, an alumnus of the University of Waterloo’s electrical engineering program, has been named to the annual Forbes Top 40 Under 40 list. The list highlights America’s richest entrepreneurs under 40.
A researcher at the University of Waterloo who authored new exercise recommendations for people living with osteoporosis has won the prestigious Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health.
A researcher at the University of Waterloo who authored new exercise recommendations for people living with osteoporosis is the winner of the prestigious Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health, announced today.
The University of Waterloo is 25th in the world and first among ranked Canadian institutions for graduate employability as part of a pilot initiative that UK firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) unveiled today.
The inaugural ranking scores universities in five categories: employer reputation, alumni outcomes, partnerships with employers, employers’ presence on campus and graduate employment rate.
Sometimes, we don’t know what we’re missing until we look.
A missing umbrella is no big deal until it rains. An executive panel full of male faces may be accepted without a second thought, until someone has the audacity to question the absence of diverse voices.
Unintentional bias is like that. It’s a part of our culture that feels so comfortable that we tend not to notice. It becomes engrained in our social norms, so that non-normative items or individuals are overlooked, dismissed or somehow seen as lacking.
The Institute of Performance and Learning awarded the Silver Award for Training Excellence to the Office of Organizational & Human Development for the Principles of Inclusivity program, a seven-part certificate program that develops and reinforces inclusive behaviours and skills. Organizational & Human Development is Waterloo’s non-academic support unit dedicated to personal and professional learning and development.
Research into entangled photons and arctic governance at the University of Waterloo was recognized recently as two promising graduate students received prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships to help them pursue and complete doctoral degrees.
The printer, created by Alroy Almeida, Katarina Ilic, James Pickard, and Jesús Zozaya as their 2013 Engineering Capstone Design project, enables circuit boards to be prototyped within minutes, eliminating the frustrations with traditional fabrication processes and drastically reducing hardware development time.
The Voltera V-One