The former director of athletics who navigated the University of Waterloo’s football team through the worst doping scandal in Canadian university history, has developed an anonymous online survey for teams that he hopes will protect athletes from dangerous behaviours.
Professor Evan F. Risko, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, led a recent study where the team asked about 100 participants a series of general-knowledge questions, such as naming the capital of France. Participants indicated if they knew the answer or not. For half of the study, participants had access to the Internet. They had to look up the answer when they responded that they did not know the answer. In the other half of the study, participants did not have access to the Internet.
She collected data on Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) for the report. STEC is the same bacteria responsible for the E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario in May 2000.
The World Health Organization found that each year, foodborne diseases cause 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths around the word.
As political leaders gather in Paris to negotiate a global agreement on climate change, students from Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment will be on the ground keeping a close eye on the historic negotiations.
Reconstructing the early history of French Ontario from letters, journals and other writing by French missionaries and explorers has heightened meaning this year as Canadians mark the 400th anniversary of Francophone presence in the province.
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The University of Waterloo is partnering with the insurance industry to find ways to protect Canadians from damage to their homes and communities brought on by the intense storms of climate change.
A spacecraft carrying supplies for a new physiology experiment led by a University of Waterloo researcher will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, the Canadian Space Agency announced.
Professor Richard Hughson, of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging, leads the experiment, which will link changes in astronauts’ hearts and blood vessels with specific molecules in the blood to determine why astronauts experience conditions that mimic aging-related problems and chronic diseases on earth.
Intact Financial Corporation (TSX : IFC) and the University of Waterloo announced the creation of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (ICCA) today. The centre will focus on research and building awareness for innovative adaptation solutions to climate change risks facing Canadian homeowners, communities, industries and governments.
Speaking at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, Professor Feridun Hamdullahpur outlined Waterloo’s efforts to transform higher education to support real-world talent development, startup formation, foreign direct investment and high-end commercialization and manufacturing.
Supported by a donation from Intact Financial Corporation, the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (ICCA) at the University of Waterloo will bring together university researchers, consultants, industry specialists and NGOs to apply research-based solutions and technologies most needed to manage the threat of intense precipitation, damaging winds and a host of other extreme weather events.