“Nowhere else on the planet will you find the same advanced robotics technology under one roof. It will place Canada at the forefront of this strategically important emerging field. ”
Prof. William Melek, Director of Mechatronics Engineering
With visually impaired athletes competing in everything from cycling to judo at the 2015 Parapan Am Games in Toronto, spectators may wonder how organizers keep the competition fair for all athletes.
How do athletes know they are competing against others who share a similar visual impairment? How important, for example, are certain types of vision for each sport?
While watching the evening news the charismatic weathercaster warns that your area should expect a month’s worth of rain in the coming hours. Should you be worried? Is this climate change? But the weather forecaster is smiling, so it’s probably just some weird weather right?
“Some folks say that ‘global weirding’ would be a better description of what’s happening than climate change,” says Vanessa Schweizer, an assistant professor in Waterloo’s Department of Knowledge Integration.
As quantum mechanics fundamentally redefine what is possible in computing, Michele Mosca, co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, is working to develop cryptographic tools that will protect the personal information you share over the Internet in the age of quantum computing.
You walk into a neighbourhood variety store to pick up bread and milk, and - sure, why not - a scratch ticket from the lottery display.
Nothing comes up in the first two panels as you scrape away with a dime. But the third panel reveals one jackpot icon, then a second . . .
Oh, so close.
Professor Paul Craig, from the Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo, will receive a grant of $120,000 from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund for his research on the long-term impact of anti-depressants and climate change on fish populations. This work is in collaboration with Barb Katzenback, a Banting postdoctoral fellow from the Department of Biology at Waterloo.
From advanced engineering to developing a deeper understanding of the Arctic, graduate and post-graduate students at the University of Waterloo are critical contributors to research that benefits Canadians.
It’s a competitive field, where top students from institutions across Canada strive to prove that their research deserves to be funded. At Waterloo, postgraduate and postdoctoral students are awarded more funding per capita for that research than at any other institution in Canada.
Physicist Raffi Budakian understands the furious excitement about Pluto these days.
In one close swoop earlier this month, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft revealed new things about the dwarf planet. Scientists scurried off to rewrite the Pluto story that had been based on observations from distant Earth since 1930.
Participants in the announcement include Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, and members from the University of Waterloo Athletics community as well as the local hockey community.
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2015
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: CIF Arena, University of Waterloo, Hagey Boulevard, Waterloo
Parking for media will be available in the contractor lot adjacent to Columbia Icefield.
