Talent

They are travelling from as close as Oakville, Ontario and as far away as Coquitlam, British Columbia, but this year’s Schulich Leader scholarship winners were all drawn to the Univeristy of Waterloo by its reputation for innovation, high standards, and entrepreneurial spirit.

For some, calling Waterloo home will mean the realization of a lifelong dream:

From advanced engineering to developing a deeper understanding of the Arctic, graduate and post-graduate students at the University of Waterloo are critical contributors to research that benefits Canadians.

It’s a competitive field, where top students from institutions across Canada strive to prove that their research deserves to be funded. At Waterloo, postgraduate and postdoctoral students are awarded more funding per capita for that research than at any other institution in Canada.

For some, it’s building a wind turbine to harness enough energy to race a car. For others, it’s creating a boat out of cardboard and duct tape. For six-year-old Max Griffiths, there isn’t  just one highlight of his first camp experience in 2015 — there  are many.   

Engineering Science Quest, better known as ESQ, celebrates its 25^th anniversary this year. The milestone will be marked July 22 at a breakfast event in Engineering 5’s Sedra Student Design Centre. One of the speakers will be Michelle Miller, who co-founded the ESQ summer camp in the fall of 1990.

So you’ve started a business and you’re growing your team. As a new business leader, you have the opportunity to create an awesome work culture from scratch. You know you don’t want to lead a herd of sheep. Instead, think about assembling a wolf pack.

Every year four University of Waterloo professors are honoured with a Distinguished Teacher Award.  They will receive their awards at the 2015 Spring Convocation ceremonies being held between June 9-13.

We asked the four winners to reflect on how they engage millennial learners:

Only one semester after its launch, the University of Waterloo’s new Grade 12 online math courseware is already being used by students and teachers in almost 90 countries - everywhere from Russia and China to the U.S. and Germany.

“We are thrilled to see the rapid spread of our courseware, and are glad that teachers and students are making use of it,” says Ian VanderBurgh, director of Waterloo’s Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC).

Student experience will literally reach new heights in Robozone, part of the vision of the $70 million Educating the Engineer of the Future campaign launched by the Faculty of Engineering.

Building a quantum computer can be accomplished by following three simple rules — yet it’s viewed by many as the pinnacle of scientific endeavour.

Kartik Talwar wanted something more out of the University of Waterloo when he arrived as a student in 2010: information, and lots of it.

It wasn’t that it didn’t exist; it was just in scattered digital nooks and crannies. Talwar, who graduates this year in math and physics, sought a single source from which to shape his student life, a giant repository of data about programs, courses, timetables and services.

So he built one, invited others to contribute and collaborate, and thus added his weight behind the University’s advance into the world of open data.

When Bessma Momani teaches her students about past and current conflict in the Middle East, she tries to focus on one important point – the human side of struggle.