Research

The calculated killing of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of others as Nazi Germany spread across Europe, remains a potent catalyst for debate sixty-eight years after the end of the Second World War.

James Thompson saw trouble when he was working on his doctorate a few years before the credit collapse that started in 2008.

Photo credit:Patty Mah

Melanie Campbell wants people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease to know they have the fatal illness sooner rather than later.  “Early diagnosis has an impact on treatment and will give people a better quality of life,” says Campbell, a professor in the University of Waterloo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and the School of Optometry and Vision Science.

This week is National Non-Smoking Week. The following University of Waterloo experts are available for comment in media stories about tobacco use.

Professor Geoffrey Fong

Department of Psychology and the School of Public Health and Health Systems

WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013) - A research facility that will one day develop the technology that enables hybrid vehicles to feed energy into the power grid is among the innovative research initiatives at the University of Waterloo that received major funding announced today. 

Alexander Wong could have spun what he learned as a University of Waterloo student into a career in consumer electronics.

Research being undertaken at the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Contact Lens Research (CCLR) could offer huge benefits for millions of people who suffer from myopia, or near sightedness, says Deborah Jones, clinical scientist at the centre.