The Vancouver Sun May 8, 2012 One in seven Canadian adults could be living with some form of vision loss, according to a new study conducted by CNIB and the University of Waterloo School of Optometry. The Canadian Uncorrected Refractive error Study (CUReS), the first of its kind in Canada, also found that Read More...

April 19, 2012, Tech Finance.com -  The University of Waterloo has launched the School of Public Health and Health Systems in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. The school will be headed by Dr. Paul W. McDonald, Professor and School Director. Main faculty members include Dr. Carlos Rojas-Fernandez, Assistant Professor; Dr. Philip Read More...

March 2, 2012, The Star -  John Tze Wei Yeow is a hard man to find. Try to talk to him and he’s in Taiwan. Try to reach him by email and he’s travelling in Asia. It’s been that way for his whole life: kindergarten in Malaysia, primary school in Scotland, junior Read More...

February 19, 2012, CNI.NC -  Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research In Motion, the Canadian company that developed the Blackberry, says more risk taking and investment in scientific research is needed to develop new ideas for future breakthroughs. Speaking Friday in Vancouver at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting, Read More...

February 8, 2012, Digital Journal - New "BioReady™" On-Line Tool Offers Hope for Unemployed Manufacturing Workers BioTalent Canada, a national organization that addresses skills and human resources issues to ensure the bio-economy has access to job-ready people, was in Kitchener / Waterloo today launching an on-line skills transfer tool designed to Read More...

January 25, 2012 - Market Watch -  WATERLOO, Ontario, Jan 25, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Maplesoft today announced a major adoption of its products by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). JPL is implementing Maple, MapleSim, and MapleNet in its various projects. Whether creating America's first satellite, Explorer 1, sending the first Read More...

December 21, 2011, Market Watch - TORONTO, Dec 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ontario, Canada is helping Novocol Pharmaceuticals of Canada Inc. expand and modernize its Cambridge facility, including converting an outdated production line into an R&D centre. The entire project will help the company diversify and develop new infection Read More...

December 14, 2011, The Record - CAMBRIDGE — A Cambridge pharmaceutical company is getting a $10 million interest-free loan from the Ontario government to help it expand. Novocol Pharmaceutical of Canada Inc. is building a $54-million addition at its plant on Wolseley Court. The loan will help the manufacturer of dental anesthesia Read More...

November 1, 2011, BioOptics World - It can take a long time for a powerful technology to find its perfect problem. Just ask the team at Huron Technologies, a company that emerged from the University of Waterloo labs in 1994 and is now finally hitting its stride. The optical imaging company Read More...