Research

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011) - A University of Waterloo health researcher is collaborating with colleagues around the world to develop a program to reduce incidences of childhood dental caries among First Nations populations.

The unique program designed for pregnant First Nations women will begin this spring in several communities across Ontario and Manitoba. First Nations populations have a higher-than-average rate of dental caries - a bacterial disease that results in tooth decay.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011) - The successful rescue efforts in last year's Chilean mine disaster will be explored during a free public lecture at the University of Waterloo next week.

Maurice Dusseault and Steve Evans, professors in the department of earth and environmental sciences, will examine the geoengineering triumph in a lecture entitled Disaster and Deliverance: The Chilean Mine Rescue.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, Jan. 28, 2011) - The University of Waterloo and its Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT) today officially launched the new $1.5 million endowed Norman W. McLeod Chair in Sustainable Pavement Engineering, which will focus on advanced pavement research, collaborative projects with industry, and graduate student teaching and supervision.

The main goal of the new chair is to develop roads and highways that are safer for drivers and better for the environment, using green pavement technology.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010) - A University of Waterloo engineering professor will investigate the future of the Internet while another will probe wireless communications networks with support from new Canada Research Chairs.

They are two of the four Waterloo researchers to receive $5.6-million in new funding announced by the federal government today at the 10-year celebration of the CRC program. A third Waterloo engineering professor will study nanotechnology in radio-frequency systems and a fourth will explore multimedia data compression.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Nov. 15, 2010) - Harry … Hogwarts ... Just mentioning these names transports millions of us vividly into the mind and world of Harry Potter, especially with a new movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, due for release on Friday.

Good teachers have always known that stories engage students in a way that facts and figures rarely do.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010) - A research team at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing has taken an important step forward in measurement-based quantum computing, describing their results in the most recent edition of Nature Physics.