May 15, 2012, Daily Commercial News -  Power tools roared and sawdust filled the air as students worked on day-long projects to prove they were the best in the province at the recent Ontario Technological Skills Competition (OTSC). On May 1, 1,900 students from across Ontario competed in 63 career fields at Read More...

The Cord, Yvonne Lemieux May 10, 2012 April 16 marked an important day for women working in science and mathematical fields in Waterloo region, as the Wilfrid Laurier University senate approved the development of The Centre for Women in Sciences. The centre will open this fall and reach out to Laurier and the Read More...

May 10, 2012, The Cord -  April 16 marked an important day for women working in science and mathematical fields in Waterloo region, as the Wilfrid Laurier University senate approved the development of The Centre for Women in Sciences. The centre will open this fall and reach out to Laurier and the Read More...

May 4, 2012 The Record - Ottawa —The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo are pleased to announce that His Excellency, the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will give a keynote address on the opening day Read More...

May 3, 2012, Digital Journal -  STRATFORD, ON, May 3, 2012 /CNW/ - Members of industry, government and academia gathered April 24-25 in Stratford for the fourth annual CDMN Canada 3.0 2012 digital media forum, to accelerate the Moonshot goal that anyone in Canada can do anything online by 2017. Emerging Read More...

The Exchange Magazine April 30, 2012 WATERLOO - Students from the University of Waterloo’s first-ever graduating class in international development have returned from their eight-month field placements abroad. They will share what they learned at a one-day conference next week. The 23 students volunteered in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Peru and Vietnam. Read More...

April 27, 2012, Daily Exchange -  WATERLOO – The University of Waterloo and the University of São Paulo today signed a new agreement that will promote international collaboration in water research and education. Feridun Hamdullahpur, president & vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, signed the agreement, which will link Canadian and Read More...

April 24, 2012, Daily Exchange -  WATERLOO - The University of Waterloo named a respected business leader and community volunteer as its new vice-president, university relations. Tim Jackson has filled the role of vice-president, external relations at Waterloo on an interim basis since last June. It was a secondment from his Read More...

April 23, 2012, Daily Exchange -  WATERLOO - Parks are often perceived as pristine. In fact, researchers at the University of Waterloo and other institutions work hard to restore them and keep them sustainable. To continue that work, the Ontario government has extended for three years the funding of a major Read More...

April 19, 2012, Daily Exchange -  WATERLOO - The University of Waterloo renewed and expanded its cooperation with King Saud University yesterday. Feridun Hamdullahpur, president & vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, and Abdullah A. Al-Othman, university rector at King Saud University, signed the agreement, which expands on the existing collaboration Read More...

April 4, 2012, The Record -  WATERLOO — The University of Waterloo is among seven Ontario universities that will be working with tech giant IBM in computer research, accessing a virtual “cloud” computing centre from all seven schools. The $210-million public-private partnership will allow professors and graduate students to share research and Read More...

April 4, 2012, Daily Exchange -  Kitchener - Conestoga showed its entrepreneurial spirit on March 28, when five teams represented the college at a local Pitch Night competition. The Edge Challenge 2012 Pitch Night, hosted by Kitchener tech company Desire2Learn, challenged teams of local students to develop mobile application solutions that would Read More...

March 20, 2012, Market Wire -  WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 20, 2012) - The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, today announced six new projects supported by the Automotive Partnership Canada initiative. The projects advance research and development (R&D) in Canada's automotive industry by supporting new technologies Read More...

March 16, 2012, Daily Exchange -  Waterloo - The University of Waterloo, the world’s leader in co-operative education, will honour six accomplished co-op students during National Co-op Week. As part of the week’s celebrations, which occur March 19 - 23, one co-op student from each of Waterloo’s six faculties will receive the Read More...

March 6, 2012, Market Watch -  TORONTO, Mar 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Over the course of the next several weeks, students from 94 high schools (78 from Ontario, 8 from Quebec, 2 from Alberta, 4 from the United States and 2 from Mexico) will take part in the FIRST Robotics Read More...

March 2, 2012, Toronto.com -  WATERLOO—It was a different world in 2007 when Jim Balsillie launched his great philanthropic work, a school of international studies. The business over which he presided, Research in Motion, was riding high, well along the road to ubiquity, and the money rolled in. Though he had failed Read More...

March 2, 2012, Market Ware -  KITCHENER, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 2, 2012) - Harold Albrecht, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Conestoga, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), announced today an investment of up to $825,000 for Conestoga Read More...

March 1, 2012, Kitchener Post -  So you’re in a new city trying to navigate without a brain-held guide. What to do? You just click “save location” and “find me,” and go ahead and explore, according to Kaitelyn Drost, one of more than 30 students who — instead of travelling to an Read More...

February 18, 2012, The Record -  WATERLOO — They’ve only been out of high school for a couple of years, but 19-year-olds William Zhou and David Kim are already helping teachers around the world with their lesson plans. Zhou and Kim initially became partners in a business called Design Vetica, which they Read More...