Research

It’s one thing to try and design a vehicle to travel on SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s proposed Hyperloop transportation system. It’s another to try and explain how it all works on live television in just a few minutes. Rather than make viewers struggle to imagine what that future will look like, Nicolas Achkarian managed it by using a visual metaphor from the past.

Professor Hammond is one of the world’s preeminent experts in tobacco control and nutrition labelling. He has helped international governments shape and advance critical public health policies. In addition to preparing reports for the US Surgeon General and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Hammond has drafted guidelines for the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and testified at the European Parliament on the new tobacco products directive. He is among the top 10 most published authors in the field of tobacco control.

Garbage, nutrients and tiny animals are pushed around, suspended in the world’s oceans by waves invisible to the naked eye according to a new 3-D model developed by mathematicians at the University of Waterloo.

David Deepwell, a graduate student, and Professor Marek Stastna in Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics have created a 3-D simulation that showcases how materials such phytoplankton, contaminants, and nutrients move within aquatic ecosystems via underwater bulges called mode-2 internal waves.

Students will face off in endurance races, driving the cars they have designed and built on a temporary racecourse set up on Waterloo’s East Campus.  

Unique to Waterloo Engineering, the challenge involves engineering knowledge, experiential learning, fabrication skills, and teamwork. There are prizes for the best results on the racetrack, as well as excellence in engineering design and manufacturing.

The Centre for Extended Learning at the University of Waterloo, a leader in online learning in Canada, will host the joint conference of the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education and the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education.

Corporations use big data mining to find out everything from the kind of car you want to buy to your favorite holiday destination. Now, doctors are using it to make sure when somebody is diagnosed with cancer - they’ve got it right.

Waterloo Region MED TECH: Bridging the Gap 2016 is the inaugural conference presented by the Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineeringat the University of Waterloo, Grand River Hospital, Communitech and the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network (WWLHIN).

Respected Waterloo professor, Larry Smith, will speak at a sold out special event on Tuesday celebrating the launch of his new book called No Fears, No Excuses: What You Need to Do to Have a Great Career.

Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Federation Hall, University of Waterloo

Results of a study from the University of Waterloo and CNIB bolster the argument for changes in the way pharmacies print instructions to patients. The researchers tested prescription labels based on recommended guidelines and found a significant improvement in their readability over the ones in use now.

Master’s candidate Jingjie Zheng and Professor Daniel Vogel have recently filed a patent that would allow computer users to trigger different shortcut commands by pressing the same keyboard key with different fingers, hands, or hand postures.