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As hunter-gatherers began living in larger populations of early settled agriculturalists, the spread of STIs could explain a shift towards the emergence of social norms that favoured one sexual partner over many.
The fluctuations of your heartbeat may affect your wisdom, according to new research from the University of Waterloo.
The study suggests that heart rate variation and thinking process work together to enable wise reasoning about complex social issues. The work by Igor Grossmann, professor of psychology at Waterloo, and colleagues based at the Australian Catholic University, appears in the online journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
An artist’s impression of quantum frequency conversion in a diamond quantum memory. (Credit: Dr. Khabat Heshami, National Research Council Canada)
A new partnership between the Centre for Mental Health Research (CMHR) at the University of Waterloo and Parkwood Institute’s Operational Stress Injury Clinic (OSIC), part of St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s), will deliver specialized mental health services for Canada’s veterans, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP closer to home.
Members of the media are invited to attend the launch of this new service.
A research collaboration between a University of Waterloo biologist and the Kluane First Nation is coming up with good news for the Yukon community - so far, the research team is finding extremely low levels of mercury in the fish.
Rapid climate change, high mercury levels in fish and unaffordable store prices are just some of the threats to food security in Canada’s northern communities. Members of the Kluane First Nation are working with Heidi Swanson, a University Research Chair in the Faculty of Science, to test fish mercury levels as part of a larger food security project.
Velocity is an entrepreneurship program at Waterloo, providing the knowledge, space, community, and funding that startups need to thrive. In addition to receiving a share of today’s $125,000 in funding, today’s winners will be admitted to the Velocity Garage, the largest free startup incubator in North America.
University of Waterloo graduate students, working on everything from early warning signals of vaccine scares to community-based approaches to marine conservation, will present their work at the fourth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Thursday, March 31st.
Each student will share a snippet of their thesis research with a three minute presentation and just one static slide.
The 15 finalists competing in the third-annual Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design have 90 seconds make the case for their projects. Judges selected them from a field of applicants who participated in the Capstone Design symposia recently held at Waterloo. More than 700 senior engineering students spent months designing and building the more than 150 projects showcased at that event.
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Velocity is a comprehensive entrepreneurship program at Waterloo.
Ten companies will compete for four prizes of $25,000. Judges will present one winner with an additional $10,000 for the top hardware pitch. Another 10 startups will compete for one of three awards of $5,000.
Companies competing for the Winter 2016 Velocity Fund $25K are:
Indigenous youth from the Kluane First Nation will visit the University of Waterloo next week as part of an initiative to test fish mercury levels in Northern Canada in light of changes to traditional food sources in the Yukon.
The group will visit Professor Heidi Swanson’s biology lab to test fish mercury levels from samples the children collected from Kluane Lake, the largest lake in Canada’s Yukon Territory.