Research

WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, September 17, 2012) - Could gravity become a tool in quantum information science? Is sustainability able to incorporate both human and environmental needs? Can we build a computer that sees? Three top researchers at the University of Waterloo have been awarded prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships to probe these and other questions.

Age may be getting the best of them, but there is much to learn from the silver-haired residents who will soon be living on the University of Waterloo’s North Campus.

In an initiative that’s the first of its kind in Canada, a long-term care facility will be built as part of the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging (RIA). 

Ron Schlegel, the former health studies and gerontology professor who co-owns Schlegel Villages, is the primary donor and driving force behind the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging. 

It’s his way of patiently dealing with a question on a difficult topic: The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) has been around for 10 years. How soon before we get a viable quantum computer?

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012) - An international research team including several scientists from the University of Waterloo has achieved quantum teleportation over a record-breaking distance of 143 kilometres through free space.

The experiment saw the successful teleportation of quantum information — in this case, the states of light particles, or photons — between the Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife.  The breakthrough is a crucial step toward quantum communications via satellite.

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and pure electric vehicles are better for the planet. They generate less pollution and less greenhouse gas emissions.

So why don't we see more of them on the roads? Blame the battery. The lithium-ion versions currently used simply don't have the capacity that drivers want. A Nissan Leaf, for example, can travel only 100 miles on a single charge.

Mark Servos works on a water testing project with graduate students Jennifer Kormos, centre, and Heather Loomer, right.

Most of today’s water treatment systems are good at removing solids, bacteria, and parasites.

* Implementation of graphic labels at 80% of the pack size front and back led to increased awareness of the risks of smoking *

* Ban on multiple brand presentations reduced smokers’ false beliefs that some cigarettes (e.g., “light” or “mild” cigarettes) are less harmful *

* Strong support for tobacco control policies among smokers*

Palm trees, an empty stretch of sand and a lacy fringe of surf on a turquoise sea: It is a brochure image that draws millions of work-worn people to brief vacations as pampered castaways.

Kelly is one of many researchers at the University of Waterloo closely studying how climate change will reshape civilization.

Everyone knows that the best way to beat a hangover is to avoid it in the first place.

But that still doesn’t stop many of us from reaching for that next glass of wine.

Judgment is something Mark Zanna has been studying for decades as a professor in the psychology department at the University of Waterloo.

His work on what influences the choices people make, from health warnings on cigarette packages to their views about other cultures, earned him the Killam prize in 2011, a $100,000 nod of appreciation for a lifetime of research.