Tag: technology
A new screening solution: COVID-Net
Over the past several months, PCR has become the gold standard for testing COVID-19 cases. But is it the best type of test?
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UW alumnus uses tech to help tackle mental health challenges
An unexpected path led UW engineering alumni Yuri Quintana from being a professor at Harvard Medical School to developing software to help teens take...
The new locally developed app helps prevent users from losing their...
A new app, developed by a UW student, tracks its user’s movements, ensuring cell phone users no longer have to worry about losing their...
Kitchener Resident Colleen James Recognized as Top 100 Black Women to...
Colleen James, a Professor at Conestoga College School of Business and the CEO and Principal Consultant at Divonify has been recognized as one of...
Virtual Reality Oral Histories for Reconciliation Education
Digital Oral History for Reconciliation (DOHR) is a project that leverages groundbreaking virtual reality technology to create a digitally rendered representation of the Nova...
Sexism called out at UW’s School of Computer Science
Male students and faculty members at UW’s school of computer science often make misogynistic comments and microaggressions towards female colleagues and classmates according to...
An innovation at Engineers Without Borders
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) was founded at UW, and fittingly, it is also the place for the newest innovation in the organization’s history.
As this...
Are hackers targeting UW?
Students are seeing a rise in scam and phishing campaigns delivered straight to their university email.
UW students particularly receive emails such as tax refund...
Blackberry x UW: innovation lab
Although historically a mobile device company, Blackberry holds a strong presence within the cybersecurity industry. But as technological needs grow exponentially, innovation within the...
UWaterloo’s health and tech breakthroughs
Michelle Przedborski, a Department of Applied Mathematics postdoctoral fellow, determined a way to use math to treat cancer and prevent relapse.
Supervised by Mohammed Kohandel,...