WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, Mar. 15, 2012) - A University of Waterloo geographer is leading a trailblazing effort to reclaim environmentally important peatlands that once covered more than half the Athabasca landscape but have been scraped away by oil sands mining.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012) – For the second year in a row, University of Waterloo students from the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) program dominated the RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge, taking home first prize and $20,000 in cash.
Waterloo surpassed four finalist teams from other established Canadian institutions.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, Jan. 13, 2012) - A three-member international team of theoretical physicists, including a University of Waterloo professor, made a notable discovery about the unusual behaviour of electrons, with implications for all of physics. Their findings appear today in Science, one of the world’s pre-eminent journals for original, peer-reviewed scientific research.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Jan. 23, 2012) - The University of Waterloo named an award-winning professor and accomplished researcher as its new dean of engineering.
Professor Pearl Sullivan is currently the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at Waterloo. She joined the university as a professor of mechanical engineering in 2004.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, March 14, 2011) - Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) and Senator Roméo Dallaire, who commanded the UN forces in Rwanda during the genocide of 1994, will give a public talk this week at the University of Waterloo.
Dallaire will deliver the arts student union’s 2011 keynote lecture on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre, located in the J. G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, March 11, 2011) - Feridun Hamdullahpur has been appointed the sixth president of the University of Waterloo.
His appointment was approved Friday by the university’s senate and board of governors and announced by Robert Harding, chair of the board and chair of the presidential nominating committee.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Oct. 25, 2010) - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dr. Robert (Bob) Thirsk will visit Waterloo Region this Thursday to share his experiences from last year’s sixth-month expedition aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with keen students and seniors.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010) - David Johnston, Governor General Designate, is among four people being honoured during the University of Waterloo's fall convocation to be held next month.