Waterloo history professor Geoffrey Hayes has been researching Canada’s role in the Second World War for more than 30 years, but this year a study tour of Dutch battlefields held special significance.
Heather Whiteside is a University of Waterloo history student who was selected to take part in the Canadian Battlefields Foundation academic study tour of Europe in early May. This year’s study tour coincided with the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War.
The Faculty of Arts Entrance Scholarship for Waterloo Region offers up to $2,000 top-up funding to 316 new students whose Grade 12 marks are between 95+ and 80 per cent and have applied for full-time studies in the Honours Arts or Honours Arts and Business programs.
“These new scholarships recognize the strength of our local students and to encourage them to stay in the region to earn their bachelor’s degree, and go on to join the thriving regional workforce,” said Douglas Peers, dean of arts.
The University of Waterloo received a federal grant announced today to develop a training program that will help drive innovation in areas as diverse as automotive, aerospace, energy, manufacturing and healthcare. It will provide the knowledge and skills required to engineer the next generation of cyber-physical systems, such as autonomous vehicles that network with one another.
Media wishing to attend any portion of the royal visit MUST register in advance by contacting Nick Manning (519-888-4451) at the University of Waterloo no later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 21, 2015. Space is limited for media for parts of the event program.
Two University of Waterloo scientists are investigating how a giant reed from Europe - regarded as Canada’s worst wetland invasive plant - is destroying bird habitats.
Researchers have identified new molecules that kill cancer cells while protecting healthy cells and that could be used to treat a variety of different cancers. The research shines a light on what happens to cells at the moment they become cancerous.
The research and pre-clinical trial results were published this month as an open access article in EBioMedicine, a new joint research-clinical journal from the editors of Cell and The Lancet.
Published in the journal Nature nanotechnology this week, Amir Yacoby from the University of Waterloo, along with colleagues from University of Basel and RWTH Aachen University, propose a theoretical scheme that could lead to enhanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging of biological materials in the near future by using weak magnetic fields.
Research underway at Canadian universities today will change the way we live tomorrow.
Research2Reality, a new social media and television campaign by six of Canada’s top research institutions — including the University of Waterloo — aims to bring high-impact university research to the living rooms and laptops of millions of Canadians.
Splitting a pill in two usually means cutting its strength in half as well. But what if the active ingredient was dispersed improperly and concentrated on only one side? That half pill could either be rendered inert or worse, poisonous.
Systems design engineering graduate Olga Pawluczyk is the president and CEO of P&P Optica Inc., a company that develops advanced spectrometers for biomedical and other purposes.