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Waterloo is a leader in sustainability research and education. Home to the largest Faculty of Environment in Canada, Waterloo has been a catalyst for environmental innovation, solutions and talent for 50 years.

Prestigious mathematics organization's satellite campus will offer research, study, collaboration opportunities Mathematicians like to put their heads together to solve tricky problems.

Leveraging co-op opportunities, Waterloo students have been making a huge impact across various industries including business, technology and health. Many of these breakthroughs occur at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Canada's largest single hospital research institute, and one of Waterloo's top co-op employers.

The University of Waterloo is dedicated to solving complex global challenges through research excellence and deep industry and community partnerships.

For Dr. Brian Orend (BA '94), a professor of philosophy and Waterloo alum, the quest for happiness has been both a professional endeavour and a personal journey.

Researchers at Université de Montréal's teaching hospital say the discovery could help lessen and even eliminate viral loads in people undergoing antiretroviral therapy.

First-of-its-kind study involving Montreal treatment centre addresses gap in research on psychosis relapses New findings from McGill researchers could help clinicians understand the course of delusions in youth and young adults that signal the need for a timely intervention to prevent a full relapse of psychosis.

SFU scientists are among a team of researchers from universities across Canada that has received a multimillion-dollar government grant to build a state-of-the-art neutrino telescope off the B.C. coast.

New assistant professor Valérie Hervieux brings her expertise in workplace health and safety to UdeM's School of Industrial Relations.

Over the summer, UdeM students learned about new practices and approaches in spiritual care during an intensive internship at Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland.

For the last decade, people who use drugs in Quebec have been partially sheltered from Canada's drug overdose epidemics. But since 2020, the picture has changed. The contamination of the drug market is now present in Quebec, and what happened in British Columbia and Ontario is now happening here, says expert Sarah Larney.

When Japanese samurai repelled the Mongols, their victories were attributed to typhoons whipped up by divine forces.

Back to school! Here are some science-based tips and tricks to improve your retention skills and maximize your chances of a successful semester. Would you like to start the new year off on the right foot and do everything in your power to ensure a successful session? To achieve this, why not use effective means to improve knowledge acquisition, retention and retrieval? Gyslain Giguère, lecturer in Cognitive Processes 1 at the Université de Montréal's Department of Psychology, gives an overview of human attentional and memory processes, and presents ways of exploiting them to promote learning.

The increasing cost of flood damage has seen property insurance become less affordable for many Canadians. New research from the University of Waterloo shows that if insurers and local governments pooled information on investment in flood-risk management, that data could result in more affordable insurance coverage and premiums.

The "Solving the crisis:" series explores the pressing challenges of our time, including climate change, biodiversity collapse, housing affordability and more.

A deeper understanding of the communication inside the body when someone is going through opioid withdrawal has led to a new clinical trial at the University of Calgary.