A University of Waterloo student team has been selected as one of 16 in North America to take part in the ‘EcoCAR3’ Advanced Vehicle Technologies Competition (AVTC) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors (GM).
Lin Tan has one goal in mind when working on her research — improving the lives of ordinary people.
Hacking government files and helping people usually don’t go together.
But that’s exactly what Carlos Saavedra and his partner did when they built newRoots - an app that matches new immigrants with Canadian cities that offer the greatest opportunity for success.
Critical research into health care operations, medical imaging systems, micro-nano devices for cancer detection and smart energy distribution received a boost with four University of Waterloo engineering professors receiving new and renewed appointments as Canada Research Chairs today.
The appointments add more than $2 million in funding to the University.
Graduate students present their research at conferences, lab meetings and committee meetings. They can also share their research at the University of Waterloo’s Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
The innovative event, being held at the Humanities Theatre in Hagey Hall on March 27 from 2:30 until 4 p.m., gives students the opportunity to explain the significance of their research to a general audience in three minutes using one static slide.
A student who designed a study that showed a prostate cancer centre reduced by two months the time from suspicion of cancer to treatment, is among six outstanding co-op students that the University of Waterloo will honour as part of National Co-op Week.
One co-op student from each of the University's six faculties will receive the 2013 University of Waterloo Co-op Student of the Year Award. The honour is as a result of exemplary performance during a 2013 work term and other factors, including community involvement, contribution to co-op, and academic achievement.
Greg Westlake has already experienced the glory of winning an Olympic gold and he wants nothing less when he leads Canada’s National sledge hockey team in Sochi.
“Anything less than a gold medal will be disappointing,” says Westlake, who won a gold at the Paralympic Games in Torino in 2006. “We have the talent and drive to win a gold medal, so I know in my heart that if we don't get that, then we probably under-performed.”
Everyone from parents to politicians have an opinion about improving education. But when it comes to great teachers, it seems students are the experts.
This year, Waterloo’s Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) asked local students: What makes a teacher a really GREAT teacher? The question is part of the centre’s annual Loving to Learn Day, an initiative that started in 2006 and has spread to other universities across Canada and as far as Australia.
Talk about a power meeting.
One day last spring, four University of Waterloo Students — Usman Chaudhry, Andrew George-Parkin, Ying Wu, and Helen Xiangxiang Zhang — joined a group of men and women who ordinarily speak of dollars in terms of millions or billions.
Seven subjects at the University of Waterloo rank among the top 100 universities in the world, according to results published today.