Research

Experts from the University of Waterloo are available for media interviews about the first G8 summit on dementia, taking place in London. Canada is currently the only G8 country without a national dementia strategy.

Lisa Loiselle, associate director of research for the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program.

Companies can now say goodbye to tedious food testing processes, thanks to a new innovation from kinesiology postdoctoral fellow Adam Metherel.

Luna Khirfan travelled with students to the island of Tobago and did something radical:  She asked ordinary people for their ideas about protecting mangrove forests and wetland habitats in the face of climate change.

A first-of-its-kind, world-class laboratory that could lead to the creation of quantum materials for use in a new generation of technologies will open at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) on December 12, 2013.

Armaghan Salehian’s research group has developed technology she hopes will dramatically reduce the number of times people have to get their pacemakers replaced.

If pacemaker batteries can last longer with this hybrid technology, patients will have to endure fewer open-heart surgeries.

Over the next week, more than 1,300 high school students from across Ontario will participate in the University of Waterloo’s annual Kinesiology Lab Days event running from December 4 to 13.

It’s an experience all too common among cancer survivors— when chemotherapy or radiation ends, so does the outpouring of support.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, November 20, 2013) – A University of Waterloo professor and expert on home-grown terrorism joins a public discussion next week to talk about Canadian terrorists.

Professor Lorne Dawson joins researchers from four other universities at Research Matters, a panel discussion moderated by journalist and broadcaster Piya Chattopadhyay, on November 26, at the London Children’s Museum. The free event is open to the public and the second of five in the Research Matters speaker series that takes place across Ontario during the next six months.

Although President Kennedy was frail from Addison’s disease and suffered chronic back pain, he had “the metaphorical spine to drive his hawkish advisers up the wall,” write James Blight and janet Lang in their forthcoming book:  JFK's Backbone: Defeating the Hawks and Waging Peace in a Dangerous World.

“He resisted them, he frustrated them, and he angered them,” write Blight and Lang. “He asked hard questions and took nothing on faith.”

Strategies to improve relations between aboriginal communities and resource-based companies will be the topic of discussion at an event the University of Waterloo's School of Environment, Enterprise and Development is hosting in Toronto this week, with the Right Honourable Paul Martin and Phil Fontaine among the panelists.