Sujay Arora is a Waterloo engineering student now but he grew up in New Delhi, a city where recent public protests have raised awareness about violence against women.
When Armen Bakirtzian watched his father replace a patient’s hip, the orthopedic surgeon explained to his son that tools used to align the joints were time-consuming and costly.
Managing your health could soon be as easy as using your smartphone along with a diagnostic tool you buy at the pharmacy.
That’s the vision for Nicoya Lifesciences, a company launched by a University of Waterloo graduate who developed a unique home diagnostic tool that may one day help screen for cancer, monitor your heart and diagnose infectious diseases.
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.
Just one year after graduating from the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering, three young entrepreneurs have secured $14.5 million in funding for their company, Thalmic Labs. The startup has already pre-sold 30,000 armbands that control computers and smartphones with gestures.
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.
Many salespeople can’t find energy efficient televisions and they don’t have information when buyers probe for eco-options, a University of Waterloo study has found.
The maker revolution has resulted from the wide availability of low-cost digital media tools, with more and more people producing content for broad exposure. Glenn Stillar, associate professor and director of Waterloo’s digital arts communication program, examines the theory and practice of how we create new meaning with tools that produce highly visual and immediate communication. He suggests ‘visualacy’ is becoming equally important in society as literacy.
Research, entrepreneurialism and venture capital all have a vital role to play in fuelling economic growth and prosperity for Ontario, Canada and the world.
To spark high-level discussion about the steps and policy levers needed to advance global economies, the University of Waterloo is hosting the Leadership Innovation Conference (LINC) on April 22 and 23, at its Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre.
Education really does change the world.
John Baker discovered that when he founded the next-generation learning provider, Desire2Learn, as a University of Waterloo student in 1999.
Today, D2L's 750 employees in Waterloo Region and around the world provide access to world-class education to learners on almost every continent.