News archive - September 2021

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Inaugural Excellence in Science Research Awards announced

Congratulations to Professor Avery Broderick for being selected as one of the first recipients for the new Faculty of Science Excellence in Science Research Award!

Monday, September 13, 2021

Groundbreaking technique yields important new details on possible ‘fifth force’

A group of researchers have used a groundbreaking new technique to reveal previously unrecognized properties of technologically crucial silicon crystals and uncovered new information about an important subatomic particle and a long-theorized fifth force of nature.

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Meet Brianna Thomas, Science's 2021 Schulich Leader

The Schulich Leader Scholarships are a national undergraduate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) scholarship, established by businessman and philanthropist Seymour Schulich to encourage the next generation of entrepreneurial-minded, technology innovators. This year, the Schulich Foundation is celebrating their tenth anniversary, and in 2021 they’ve awarded up to 100 scholarships to students across Canada entering university. Since 2012, the University of Waterloo has ranked as the top recipient with the largest number of qualifying applicants.

Friday, September 3, 2021

New research opens the book on entangled qubits

Researchers have developed a new way to measure how quantum information behaves in correlated quantum systems that could be useful for understanding and improving quantum devices and quantum error correction codes.

“We are all excited about the potential of quantum entanglement for quantum information processing,” said Mohamad Niknam, who was a postdoctoral fellow at IQC when he co-authored the paper.