Brian Luptak and three other students on his fourth-year design team all expected to be hungry for a full-time job when they graduated this week with a degree in mechatronics engineering from the University of Waterloo.
When Alessia Danelon graduates from mechanical engineering this week, she says she’ll be sitting amongst her people - curious students who like to take risks and push boundaries.
Danelon, who will start a full-time job at Apple Inc. in Northern California in August, says the dynamic culture at Waterloo is a two-way street: Waterloo encourages innovation and entrepreneurialism, but its renowned co-operative education program actually draws young people hungry for change.
Waterloo, Ont. (Monday, June 10, 2013) – More than 5,400 students will cross the stage at the University of Waterloo's 106th Convocation this week. There will be 4,554 undergraduate and 918 graduate degrees handed out at ceremonies taking place over five days.
Among the honours the university will award are nine honorary doctorates.
Ceremonies by Faculty are as follows:
Tuesday, June 11 at 10 a.m.
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Tuesday, June 11 at 2:30 p.m.
Faculty of Environment
WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, June 5, 2013) – Research projects that will investigate new techniques of analyzing Big Data are among the many projects from the University of Waterloo that received more than $1.6 million in funding today from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Leaders Opportunity Fund.
Lucas Palmer’s average is 99 per cent.
The Windsor high school student is also captain of his varsity volleyball team and he’s organized charity events that raised $11,000. Every student has to log 40 hours of community service to graduate – Palmer has done 550 hours.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, June 3, 2013) — Two Ontario high school students set to attend the University of Waterloo in September are among the winners of the coveted 2013 Schulich Leader Scholarships.
Lucas Palmer from Windsor and Chloé Simms from Pembroke each won the awards worth $60,000 that go to top students who plan to study in the areas of science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Schulich winners must possess at least two of the following attributes: academic excellence, financial need, or outstanding community, business or entrepreneurial leadership.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, June 3, 2013) – The board of the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) today announced the appointment of Professor John Ravenhill as director of the school.
Geoff Fong, a professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo, has been awarded a World No Tobacco Day Award by the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization. Fong, who is cross-a
WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Nov. 12, 2012) - A research project with its roots at the University of Waterloo has found that human activity is raising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the uppermost layers of the atmosphere.
It is the first hard evidence that such levels are increasing there at a faster rate than can be explained by solar activity or exhaust from rocket launches. The project’s CO2 measurements are reported in the latest issue of Nature GeoScience.
It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while someone actually does build a better mousetrap. For James Coleman, a first-year student in Waterloo’s School of Planning, it wasn’t mice that his invention aimed to catch, but sunlight.
