Professor Barbara Moffatt has been named Distinguished Professor Emerita, the first in Biology at Waterloo. Her recipe for success? Choose to do things that challenge you and look for ways to make them fun.
Mark Servos, a Biology professor and one of the lead scientists in Ontario for monitoring wastewater COVID levels, has been granted a $900,000 NSERC Alliance Advantage grant to monitor high-risk substances (drugs of abuse) in our wastewater.
The Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo is dedicated to amplifying Indigenous histories and cultures, driving the initiative to transform science education by weaving Indigenous and Western scientific teachings into the classroom.
Leading this initiative are Savannah Sloat, Manager of Science Indigenous Initiatives, and Kirsten Müller, Chair of the Biology department, who have redesigned an old biology course to include Indigenous knowledge frameworks for an inclusive educational experience.
Science alum Yasmeen Alshehabi BSc '23 (Biomedical Sciences) reflects on her impact on healthcare through research, as she continues her work on neurodegenerative diseases during her graduate degree with Dr. Dale Martin.
Kevin Shen (BCS ’24) and Rikard Saqe’s idea to apply computational modelling to understand how fish cells grow and transform, has earned them more than $700,000 in grants from the Good Food Institute (GFI), Mitacs and New Harvest to scale their research efforts.
Waterloo plant ecologist Dr. Julie Messier, alongside her collaborators from Sherbrooke, is uncovering vital insights into the changes affecting our forests — knowledge that could be crucial in safeguarding Canada’s temperate forests.
Dr. Rebecca Rooney, a biology professor, discovered a new invasive plant that threatens Ontario's wetlands.
Tiffany Chan isn’t just any student; she’s a science enthusiast, a musician and a savvy world traveller. With her violin and biology books, Chan pursued her passions for science and the arts during an exchange at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Travis Craddock aims to find new insights into our scientific understanding and potential treatments of Neuroinflammatory diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. During the latest installment of Science’s New Faculty Lecture Series, Craddock shared his research goals with alumni, students, faculty, and members of the Waterloo community.
Along with collaborators from the University of Guelph, Dr. Dale Martin, biology professor, was awarded $150,000 from the Navigator Research funding program from the Huntington Society of Canada (HSC) for their research project DLK as a novel therapeutic target to treat Huntington Disease.