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Unlocking our potential takes a combination of experience and insight.

Whether you’re about to embark on your first career or figuring out the next step in your personal journey, the fall 2016 issue of Waterloo Magazine has information you can use.

Want to learn more about how your reaction to failure can motivate success? Check out Not Afraid to Fail, for research and lessons learned the hard way.

In a first for Canada, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation, the Honourable Steven Del Duca, announced today that the province approved Waterloo’s three-year autonomous vehicle research program, under its AV pilot program. The Waterloo team is using a Lincoln MKZ hybrid sedan nicknamed Autonomoose.

“The 2008 recession stole our leisure time, our volunteer time, our living standards and our sleep – and we never got them back,” said Bryan Smale, director of the CIW. “There is a massive gap between how well the economy is doing and Canadians’ wellbeing, and that gap grew during the recession.”

In 2008, the gap between GDP and the CIW was 21 per cent. By 2010 it was 24.5 per cent. By 2014 it had grown to 28.1 per cent.

Great universities aren’t just bricks and mortar, they rise with the dreams and achievements of the people who pass through their doors.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović will visit the University of Waterloo to find out about Canada’s most innovative university and to tour the Institute for Quantum Computing

A smart contact lens that monitors glucose levels captured one of two international runner-up awards in this year’s James Dyson Award competition, the third University of Waterloo student project to win a top prize in three years.

Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of Waterloo, and Tony F. Chan, president of HKUST, signed an agreement for a cotutelle, a dual doctoral degree program offered by two institutions. Selected students from any Faculty will study under the guidance of scholars from both universities, spending close to equal time in both locations. This agreement broadens the two universities’ existing partnership on a dual engineering PhD degree, signed last year.

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider today welcomed Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo and a senior-level delegation of representatives to its global operations headquarters in Shenzhen, China. 

In support of the visit, Huawei and the University of Waterloo announced they have signed an agreement on a strategic research partnership that will serve as a framework for existing and future investment. 

University of Waterloo is the top school in Canada for computer science and engineering, according to the US News' Global University Subject-area Rankings.

The US News ranking rates 1,000 universities in more than 60 countries in 22 subject disciplines. Computer science at Waterloo moved up one spot to 18^th this year while engineering held strong in the 47^th spot.

The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program at Waterloo are hosting the hackathon, which is for technical and social-minded students to inspire collaboration and social innovation.

The two-day event includes students, community members, researchers and patients living with the neurological diseases. Participants will compete in a pitch competition for a chance to win prizes totalling $40,000 in product development.