A team of students from the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo has joined efforts with musician Jack Johnson to research and further develop All At Once, Johnson’s community-based, social action network.
For every dollar that the Ontario government spends on the University of Waterloo, the university returns nearly nine times that amount in economic impacts to the province, according to a new independent report.
The report, prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, examines the institution’s role in driving prosperity in Waterloo Region and Ontario. It reveals that Waterloo generates more than $2.6 billion in total annual spending impacts and more than 20,000 jobs in Ontario.
The University of Waterloo is “Canada’s Silicon Valley” and the place to be “if you’ve got a big technology idea to turn into a billion-dollar company,” according to the annual Globe and Mail Canadian University Report released this week.
The University of Waterloo has named its Student Design Centre – where students fall “in love with engineering” – in honour of Adel Sedra, former dean of engineering.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, October 17, 2013) – Alexis Ohanian, founder of social media website reddit, is set to speak to students at the University of Waterloo this fall.
His mission is to make the world “suck less.” At Waterloo, he will address an audience of students, entrepreneurs and community members to motivate and inspire the next generation of innovative change-makers.
But the buzz lately has shifted to the second floor where the University of Waterloo's Student Design Centre (SDC) runs a 3D Print Centre, featuring a Fortus 360mc three-dimensional printer.
For those who use it, it's an innovation machine.
STRATFORD, Ont. (October 1, 2013) – The University of Waterloo Stratford, Canada’s new collaborative campus for digital media technology and commercialization, is hosting the world’s first conference to truly bridge academic research and business opportunity in the area of gamification. Gamification 2013 is the premier event to share ideas, collaborate with academics and industry experts, and explore the future of gamification.
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A successful entrepreneur who has made his mark in the high-tech world by providing data protection is returning to the University of Waterloo after launching a new fund to support budding entrepreneurs studying engineering.
The Planboard team: Suraj Srinivas, William Zhou, Tony Cui and Ryan McKay.
When William Zhou started his computer science degree at the University of Waterloo he was also in the midst of launching his first company.
It was 2010, but after spending his first term as tech support for the startup that eventually got sold to a UK firm, Zhou vowed to focus on his studies.
But apparently, you can’t keep a good entrepreneur down.