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Student entrepreneurs learn life and business lessons

31 Jan 2019

In business, as in life, the Golden Rule applies. This was the central message of alumnus and entrepreneur Rory Altman (BEng ’92), who spoke at the 6th Annual John Thompson Entrepreneurial...

Engineering students share their passion for STEM

24 Jan 2019

As society becomes increasingly integrated with technology, the need to educate students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) becomes ever more paramount. However, Canada lags...

Landmark gift to ۲ݮƵ’s Faculty of Engineering deepens support for doctoral students and graduate research

16 Jan 2019

A landmark $15-million gift from ۲ݮƵ alumnus Les Vadasz, a founding member of Intel Corporation, and his wife Judy Vadasz, will enhance the prestigious doctoral fellowship program that bears...

Why wait for grad school?

19 Dec 2018

Poke your head into a ۲ݮƵ research lab – particularly in the summer – and you might walk away thinking that some of those graduate students look awfully young. There is a reason for that. They...

Imitating nature to build a more sustainable world

28 Nov 2018

What could be greener than solar panels? They generate renewable energy, a key to fighting climate change. Yet the components that go into them often include toxic or non-sustainable materials....

۲ݮƵ and Ubisoft join forces to create believable virtual characters

28 Nov 2018

The often quoted idiom “seeing is believing” is put to the test in virtual gaming worlds, where despite recent advances, 3D graphics applications still fail to reflect the physics of motion,...

۲ݮƵ Alumnus Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao Named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Energy

14 Nov 2018

Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, M.Eng. 16’ in Materials Engineering from ۲ݮƵ, currently a Ph.D. student in the Erickson Lab at Cornell, is named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List in Energy – Class of 2019, for...

A science fair fit for a king, or a Prime Minister

14 Nov 2018

School science fairs, it must be admitted, are nothing new. Typically, a group of young students stand in front of posters or beakers, explaining their projects to nervous parents or equally...

Mining mentorship programs abound but don’t solve industry’s retention challenge

6 Nov 2018

When Stephanie Saliba was in her second year of ۲ݮƵ University’s mining engineering co-op program, she joined the Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering (POWE) group to help mentor...

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