How do you go from being a new grad of an undergraduate engineering program - to studying for a PhD at Princeton University?
100 local citizens representing the diversity of our country have been selected to act as Canada’s voice in the ambitious project.
The World Wide Views project is the largest-ever global consultation on climate and energy. Beginning at dawn in the Pacific Islands and ending at dusk in the West Coast of the United States, participants will answer identical questions on how climate change relates to them.
Professor Janusz Pawliszyn, a chemistry professor from the University of Waterloo, along with researchers from Concordia University and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health are teaming up to develop a new brain probe that can be used on live subjects.
Madelaine Liddy (BASc '14) has always had an interest in a wide range of subjects. Once she was in the engineering program at Waterloo, she took great interest in electronics and quantum mechanics, steering her into nanotechnology. Most students would be satisfied with the workload thrust upon them in engineering but Madelaine quickly realized she was missing something important: music. "I always found playing piano to be a big stress reliever," she explains.
Professor Markus Moos is the founder of Generationed City, a research project about the employment and housing challenges facing people in cities in Canada and the U.S., particularly young adults and millennials.
The talk aims to put forth a new way to frame the conversation on intergenerational inequalities — a frame that recognizes the unique challenges facing different generations.
A new research centre at the University of Waterloo that will revolutionize the ability to predict and delay illness and injury associated with aging is receiving $1.3 million toward wireless wearables and other devices and technology.
The contribution from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) will support a variety of diagnostic and measurement tools in the Advanced Aging ResearCH Centre (ARCH) at Waterloo, which will house Canada’s most comprehensive collection of equipment focused on aging.
With a long-awaited federal report on residential schools due to be released on June 2, Llewellyn says this is an important time to remember that first-hand historical accounts make an impact on the listener, and should be shared even if they paint a dark picture of Canada’s past.
A Waterloo graduate student with a rich family history in the Canadian military is among the first to receive an historic scholarship that honours Canada’s role in the liberation of the Netherlands in the Second World War.
With a long-awaited federal report on residential schools due to be released on June 2, Llewellyn says this is an important time to remember that first-hand historical accounts make an impact on the listener, and should be shared even if they paint a dark picture of Canada’s past.
With a long-awaited federal report on residential schools due to be released on June 2, Llewellyn says this is an important time to remember that first-hand historical accounts make an impact on the listener, and should be shared even if they paint a dark picture of Canada’s past.