Research

Five of those also received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) as part of the same announcement.

The following Canada Research Chairs from the University of Waterloo were included in today's announcement:

Clark Dickerson (Applied Health Sciences), Canada Research Chair in Shoulder Mechanics — new Tier 2

Roxane Itier (Arts), Canada Research Chair in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Face Perception — Tier 2 renewal

The annual event celebrates and investigates the complexities of the human mind, with contributions by recognized neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers and computer scientists. The event is free and open to the public.

The following experts will present their latest research:

·      9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Kenneth Miller (Columbia University) on The Stabilized Supralinear Network: A Simple Circuit Motif Underlying Cortical Multi-input Integration

Jeffrey Azzolin has been hitting the ice almost as long as he’s been hitting the books.

The mechanical engineering grad (BASc ’13) first laced up as a minor hockey player in grade school. He spent his elementary and high school years playing rep hockey in Ajax, Ontario. At Waterloo, he was part of an intramural team.

Sitting behind your desk all day is bad for your health and experts have long been advising people to stand at their workstations for about 15 minutes an hour. But a University of Waterloo professor says his research shows that people should be standing for at least 30 minutes per hour to get health benefits.

Using advanced ergonomic and health risk calculations, Jack Callaghan, a professor in Waterloo’s Department of Kinesiology, has found that the ideal sit-stand ratio lies somewhere between 1:1 and 1:3  – a vast departure from traditional wisdom. 

The maker movement — a global do-it-yourself culture of people who make things — has inspired a group of Waterloo Engineering students to create a soldering iron that’s safe and easy to use.

“We specifically designed the Solder Otter for the Maker Market,” said Vanessa Guido, a systems design engineering student and chief executive officer of Solder Otter. “We’ve had a lot of great feedback on our product.”

The study, published in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, also found that gradually increasing the total number of innings pitched per season has no effect on young MLB pitchers’ risk of future injury.

While fashion comes and goes your eyes are forever so one Waterloo researcher is cautioning people who wear contact lenses - but love the drama of heavy eye makeup - to consider wearing daily disposable lenses.

Alison Ng, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Contact Lens Research (CCLR), studied how eyeliner applied to the “waterline,” the inner part of the eyelash line, moves onto the tear film - the thin, wet layer that protects the eye.

Ecologists will be able to use a powerful new statistical tool developed at the University of Waterloo to more accurately predict how native fish will be affected by invasive species like Asian carp.

People who apply eyeliner on the inner eyelid run the risk of contaminating the eye and causing vision trouble, according to research by a scientist at the University of Waterloo. This is the first study to prove that particles from pencil eyeliner move into the eye.

3MT is a university-wide competition for research-based master’s thesis and doctoral students. The competitors have three minutes and one static slide to convey the breadth and significance of their research to a non-specialist audience.

The event is open to the public and there is an opportunity for audience members to vote for their favourite contestant. The winner will advance to the provincial competition held at Western University later this month.