Awards, Honours and Rankings
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) announced more than $15 million in funding to support research at the University of Waterloo today.
The Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology) and Kitchener-Waterloo MP, Peter Braid revealed the investment of more $5.3 million in 11 strategic research partnerships between academics and industry to generate new technologies.
Professor Geoffrey Fong received one of the American Cancer Society’s Luther R. Terry Awards for Outstanding Research Contribution.
Professor Fong, of the Department of Psychology and the School of Public Health and Health Systems at Waterloo, founded the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Project in 2002. It has been at the forefront of research that combats tobacco use, the number one cause of preventable death in the world.
A Nobel laureate whose most recent book is being lauded as the best business book of the year is giving a public lecture about grassroots innovation at the University of Waterloo.
Edmund S. Phelps, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2006, will speak on Thursday, March 5 at the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum Nano Centre.
Pebble is at it again.
The smartwatch company founded by Waterloo engineering grad Eric Migicovsky has set a new record for a Kickstarter campaign with the launch of its latest smartwatch, the Pebble Time.
A University of Waterloo alumnus has won the Oscar for best animated feature for Big Hero 6.
Chris Williams, who graduated in 1990 from the University of Waterloo with a BA in fine arts, is the co-director of the popular Disney movie that has grossed more than $500 million at the box office.
Three Waterloo academics are named among Canada’s Top Natural Sciences and Engineering Researchers for 2015 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) today.
The work of these researchers is advancing human brain research using computer models, decreasing the environmental impacts of mining and increasing our understanding of invasive species.
A former University of Waterloo student is among seven Canadians shortlisted for the Mars One mission attempting to set up a human colony on Mars.
Ben Criger is one of 100 men and women selected to move to the third round of training for the one-way trip to Mars. Mars One aims to create a colony on Mars by sending four men and women in the first mission and following with four people every two years.
Three Waterloo academics are named among Canada’s Top Natural Sciences and Engineering Researchers for 2015 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) today.
The work of these researchers is advancing human brain research using computer models, decreasing the environmental impacts of mining and increasing our understanding of invasive species.
Waterloo’s award winners are:
Three Waterloo academics are named among Canada’s Top Natural Sciences and Engineering Researchers for 2015 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) today.
The work of these researchers is advancing human brain research using computer models, decreasing the environmental impacts of mining and increasing our understanding of invasive species.
Waterloo’s award winners are:
Each day, contaminants from pharmaceuticals make their way into municipal water systems. Add in things like caffeine and artificial sweeteners poured down kitchen sinks and you have a mix of pollutants that can’t fully be removed by conventional treatments like filtration or chlorination.
Nanotechnology engineer Stuart Linley has been working on safely eliminating naphthenic acids, one of the most scientifically challenging contaminants in our water reservoirs.
