With its first Ontario-focused study released today, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) at the University of Waterloo analyzes how well people in the province are really doing in the areas of their lives that matter the most.
Media are invited to attend a public lecture by Peter Gleick, president and co-founder of The Pacific Institute based in California, hosted by the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute.
Gleick, named by the BBC as a visionary on the environment, will describe the three ages in water, from early use through the industrial revolution to what he considers the ongoing transition to a sustainable water future. He will cover the current challenges posed by climate change, energy, agriculture, and ecosystems and will give his vision of a sustainable future.
A Waterloo biologist is developing a tool that will assess the health of the small marshes that are part of Alberta’s disappearing wetlands.
More than 50 per cent of the province’s northern wetlands have been lost due to oil sands development. Calgary has lost 70 to 90 per cent of its wetlands through urban expansion.
Biologists have discovered how an outer shield over T-type channels change the electrochemical signaling of heart and brain cells. Understanding how these shields work will help researchers eventually develop a new class of drugs for treating epilepsy, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
The study from the University of Waterloo is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry today and is featured as the “Paper of the Week” for its significance.
A University of Waterloo student team has been selected as one of 16 in North America to take part in the ‘EcoCAR3’ Advanced Vehicle Technologies Competition (AVTC) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors (GM).
Benefits often coexist with the negative and stressful outcomes for parents who have a child born with or later diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, says a recent study led by a researcher at the University of Waterloo.
While the challenges are numerous and life-changing and stress levels high, the vast majority of parents who participated in the Waterloo-led research reported positive outcomes as well, a phenomenon known as posttraumatic growth. The findings appear in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) is pleased to launch its Equinox Fellowship, a program that funds projects initiated by young people between the ages of 18 and 30 inspired by the priorities outlined in the Equinox Blueprint: Learning 2030 (PDF) which launched globally last week in Oxford, UK at the World Literacy Summit.
Children hear as much sophisticated information about animals when parents read picture book stories about animals as when they read flashcard-type animal vocabulary books, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.
Want a crisp cool white light to wake you up in the morning and a warm yellow glow to wind you down at night? How about a spray for your windows that will let sunlight in during the day but illuminate your living room at night?
Scientists at the University of Waterloo are working to actually give consumers these options with a new nanotech light bulb that could revolutionize energy-efficient lighting.
One day this summer, David Johnson hopes to catch up with friends in the shadow of a wind turbine turning in the breeze wafting in from Hudson’s Bay.