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Monday, March 27, 2023

Empowering women in STEM

Scholarship created by family of Waterloo alumni gets first-year students off to a good start

During high school in the Waterloo Region, Rachel Wormald attended Go ENG Girl, an outreach program hosted by the University of Waterloo that introduces grade 7 to 10 girls to the world of engineering.

She was immediately hooked.

James Tweel, systems design engineering (SYDE) PhD candidate was awarded the W.S. Rickert Graduate Fellowship in Science. This scholarship, valued at  $25,000 for three terms is awarded to a graduate student conducting research in the areas of Nano-medicine, biotechnology, and biomedicine at the University of Waterloo. Tweel conducts optical imaging research under the supervision of Dr. Parsin Haji Reza at PhotoMedicine Labs and illumiSonics Inc

On March 22, the SYDE-BME community gathered for a favourite tradition, the Coffee House. This event features artistic, athletic, and comedic performances by SYDE and BME students, faculty, and staff. 

Thank you to the SYDE-BME undergraduate social reps for their work organizing the event! 

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Chatting up a storm

ChatGPT is breaking new ground in conversational AI but professor says it can’t be trusted – yet

The release of ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) created by OpenAI, has refreshed debates on the ethical creation and use of new technologies.

Monday, February 27, 2023

Celebrating SYDE Alum George Yu

Engineering alumnus makes his mark as a scientist, craftsman, musician and artist

It takes a great artist to create a great violin. The result is even more inspiring if that artist is an intrepid scientist and first-rate engineer. George Yu (BASc ’86, systems design engineering) is all of these things and more.