Research

Five students from the University of Waterloo are the first Canadians to win the prestigious CFA Institute Research Challenge. The global competition requires university students to work in teams to research and analyze a publicly traded company, providing them with mentoring and hands-on training in financial analysis.

Research that offers the promise of a pharmaceutical fix for age-related sight loss earned a Waterloo PhD candidate top honours in the provincial Three-Minute Thesis competition.

Three times more Canadian teenagers are gambling online than previously thought, according research from the University of Waterloo and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Researchers found close to 10 per cent of adolescents—or an estimated 58,000 teenagers— had gambled online in the past three months. Earlier reports suggested the rate was closer to 3 per cent.

The Department of Kinesiology at Waterloo hosts the event, which allows students in grades 9 to 12 to test their knowledge about neuroscience.

Students will compete for prizes by answering multiple-choice questions using clicker technology. The first-place winner will take home $400 and will qualify for the National Canadian Institutes of Health Research Brain Bee.

Gah-Jone Won, a PhD candidate in Vision Science and Biology at the University of Waterloo was selected as the winner of the Ontario Provincial Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, yesterday.

Won’s research focuses on the development of a pharmaceutical treatment for presbyopia, an age-related condition that causes the eyes to lose the ability to focus on nearby objects. The treatment specifically targets and softens the crystalline lens in order to restore nearby vision. 

Gah-Jone Won, a PhD candidate in Vision Science and Biology at the University of Waterloo was selected as the winner of the Ontario Provincial Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, yesterday.

Won’s research focuses on the development of a pharmaceutical treatment for presbyopia, an age-related condition that causes the eyes to lose the ability to focus on nearby objects. The treatment specifically targets and softens the crystalline lens in order to restore nearby vision. 

Two University of Waterloo researchers specializing in population health are winners of the prestigious Trailblazer Award, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) announced today.

A new University of Waterloo professor who was part of a research team that has discovered 1,000 new microorganisms, is hoping the team’s revised “tree of life” will hold clues to cleaning up environmental contamination.

The tree of life is one of the most important organizing principles in biology. It’s been used to trace how life has evolved and diversified since Charles Darwin first sketched it back in 1837.

The students will present their groundbreaking research projects and compete for top honours, including the chance to represent Ontario at the SBC 2016 National Final in Ottawa on May 2 and May 3.

Media are invited to attend the day-long event. Students will give a brief oral presentation followed later by a public research poster viewing during which they will be available for photos and to answer questions.

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