Research

Systems design engineering master’s student Sara Greenberg working in Waterloo’s Motion Research Group lab with doctoral candidate Borna Ghannadi.

Before last January, Sara Greenberg often felt she was two different people. By day, she was a student working at a desk. At night, she was a circus performer flying through the air.

The University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy will host a free public lecture and panel discussion, entitled The Opioid Crisis: A Local Perspective on an International Epidemic on Thursday, November 10.

Prescription opioids play an essential role in minimizing the pain and suffering of patients in the healthcare system. However, opioids, such as fentanyl, have quickly become a prescription drug problem. These drugs are highly addictive, often misused, and can lead to injury and death.

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016

Startup companies are cropping up all over Waterloo Region, but to grow they often need support.

That’s where University of Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor Zhongchao Tan steps in, helping to sow the seeds for success.

A University of Waterloo student team that is building a high-speed pod to compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Challenge in California will share a major milestone with a video unveil event on campus event this week.

The report, Climate Change and the Preparedness of Canadian Provinces and Yukon to Limit Potential Flood Damage, surveyed 103 government representatives across 91 provincial and territorial ministries, departments and agencies between December 2015 and April 2016.

Occupying space in the Lang Tannery building, Velocity has grown by more than 29,000 square feet to provide space for up to 120 startups to work and collaborate, and to benefit from co-location with Communitech’s network of industry partners and supports.

The expanded facilities will allow Velocity’s software, hardware, life-sciences and social entrepreneurship startups, currently housed in separate buildings, to grow as a community under one roof, and share insights through peer mentorship.

Date: Friday, October 28, 2016

The designation under Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities is based on performance of a balanced set of input, output, and impact measures and recognizes superior achievement in both earning research income and publishing research in leading scientific journals. Waterloo ranked 12^thamong Canada’s top 50 research universities on the 2016 list for sponsored research income with $180 million.

New research from the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science and CNIB found nearsightedness in children increases drastically from Grade 1 to Grade 8, with almost a third of the cases going undiagnosed and uncorrected.

"It is so important for me to connect with students, as I’ve done with many, including from this graduating class,” said Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of Waterloo. “They are filled with excitement about what comes next for them, and I am confident that their years of hard work here, their curiosity and their will to make the world a better place will support them as they start the next exciting stage of their lives."

Gordon Pennycook is a psychology expert on how humans think, reason and make decisions. His passion for cognitive science may well be connected to his own extraordinary ability to think fast.