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Professor Sepehr Assadi has won the 2025 Presburger Award.

The Government of Canada has awarded over $32 million to Waterloo for research purposes.

Professor Craig S. Kaplan has been named a 2025 Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, an honour that recognizes his exceptional contributions to mathematics.

Dr. Jennifer Clapp, Environment professor, was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize for her ongoing contributions to Canada's cultural and intellectual heritage related to global food security and sustainability. 

The Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) recently profiled Dr. Geoffrey Fong, professor at the University of Waterloo and founder and chief principal investigator for the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project.

Distinguished professor, Dr. Linda Nazar, was awarded the prestigious Killam NRC Paul Corkum Fellowship and will accelerate research on new and potentially disruptive battery technologies, aligning it with the NRC's Critical Battery Materials Initiative.

Waterloo’s creator-owned intellectual property (IP) policy, Policy 73, is a key differentiator for the University. Unlike most universities, Waterloo researchers inherently own what they invent, which incentivizes Waterloo’s attraction of the most entrepreneurial faculty and students. It is also a major draw for industry partners.

Recently, the New Zealand Government announced that it will be implementing a similar model.

Six researchers at the University of Waterloo have been awarded more than $7.5 million in funding to support their research.  

Kinesiology and Health Sciences Professor Lora Giangregorio has been awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Bone Health and Exercise Science, with a funding allotment of $1.4 million.

Sandra Klemet-N’Guessan, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, is the focus of an article published by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). They sat down with her to talk about ecology, her field of study and her life as a francophone researcher in an anglophone environment.