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* Canada Excellence Research Chairs to meet
* Esch Award winners named
* Remembering Jim Stone and other notes

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Canada Excellence Research Chairs to meet

by Victoria Van Cappellen.

The 5th Annual Canada Excellence Research Chairs Meeting brings together the
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) holders from across Canada to the
University of Waterloo to share key developments and the latest discoveries
in their respective research programs next week from Monday April 13 to
Tuesday, April 14.

The public are invited to attend the two-day conference and meet these
world-renowned researchers to get an overview of Canada's latest scientific
achievements.

Day one features plenary lectures by the most recently appointed
chairholders and ends with a poster session and reception in the afternoon.

Day two begins with three parallel sessions in Environment, Health and
Quantum Information. These short research talks will highlight global issues
such as the impact of dams, cars of the future and Arctic ecosystems.

The program ends in the afternoon with two outreach events lead by the
University of Waterloo Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Local elementary
and high school students will learn about the importance of wetlands from
CERC Philippe van Cappellen and quantum information research with CERC David
Cory. This session is closed to the general public.

Launched in 2008, the CERC Program awards world-renowned researchers and
their teams up to $10 million over seven years to establish ambitious
research programs at Canadian universities. These awards are among the most
prestigious and generous available globally.

For more information and a detailed program, please [12]visit the event
page.
Space is limited, so [13]please register in advance.

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A man holds a Solder Otter and a conventional soldering iron side by side.
Esch Award winners named

[15]Solder Otter, a safe, easy-to-use soldering iron with built-in fume
extraction, was one of six major winners at the second annual Norman Esch
Capstone Design Awards competition for engineering students held on
Thursday, April 2.


The company's five founders are mechanical engineering and systems design
engineering students. Their impressive pitch won them $10,000 to help cover
startup and other costs.


"We specifically designed the Solder Otter for the Maker Market," said
Vanessa Guido, a systems design engineering student and chief executive
officer of Solder Otter. "We've had a lot of great feedback on our product
that includes a HEPA filter and validation on it as well. We'll use the
money we won today to help patent our design."


The other $10,000 winners include:
* Grasp: a bike lock that can be used with a single hand
* Vitameter: a hand-held device that measures your vitamin levels within
minutes
* Suncayr: UV-responsive marker that indicates when to reapply sunscreen
* Pegasus: low-cost survey drone for widespread industrial use
* Boogaloo Bunks: modular privacy pods for shared sleeping spaces such as
hostels

People's Choice winner of $3,000:


* Autowalk: a motorized kneebrace that helps straighten the leg


Suncayr and Vitameter were also grand prize winners at last week's pitch
competition for Velocity, a University of Waterloo entrepreneurship program.


During the event, 15 teams had 90 seconds to pitch their businesses to a
panel of judges who included engineering professors and faculty members of
the Conrad Entrepreneurship, Business and Technology Centre. Judges weighed
the overall pitch, and product innovation, market potential and viability.
The emcee for the event was Matt Stevens, chief executive officer of
Waterloo-based CrossChasm Technologies Inc., a company that develops next
generation vehicles.


"The presentations were all extremely solid and well done," said Stevens, a
Waterloo chemical engineering graduate. "I was especially impressed by the
way each team focused on the end user of its project and how it would be of
benefit to the individual."


Judges selected the finalists for the competition from 60 applicants who all
participated in March's annual Capstone Design symposia. The five-day event
showcased over 150 projects senior engineering students spent months
designing and building.


Funded by The Esch Foundation, the Norman Esch Capstone Design Awards
support creative and entrepreneurial students in the pursuit of research and
development and its commercialization for the benefit of Canada. Previous
Capstone projects have given rise to groundbreaking ideas leading to the
creation of companies such as Athos, BufferBox, Thalmic Labs and Pebble.


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Remembering Jim Stone and other notes

Jim Stone in 1975. Human Resources has reported that retired professor Jim
Stone died on March 15.

James Stuart Stone was employed by Waterloo College as a Lecturer in English
from September 1958 to September 1960, when he joined the University of
Waterloo as the Faculty of Arts was being established.


Before his academic career, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during
the Second World War.


Stone became an assistant professor in 1961 and an associate professor in
1967. He served on a number of University committees and was president of
the faculty association in 1975 and 1976. He also served on the executive
council of the Canadian Association of University Teachers and was a member
of the Humanities Association of Canada. In 1983 he joined the second cohort
of the University of Waterloo's 25-Year club. An expert in Victorian
literature and fantasy literature, Stone retired from the University in
September 1986. In his later years he published a book entitled "My Dad, the
Rum Runner" that chronicled the exploits of his seafaring father during
Prohibition off the coasts of British Columbia and the western United
States. He was predeceased by his wife Joan. Stone was 95.


XDM event poster. The [17]Masters Program in Experimental Digital Media in
the Department of English Language and Literature is hosting its inaugural
XDM exhibition and symposium today, entitled "Feedback Fedback Feedforward",
which showcases student work that explores relations between information
communications technologies (ICT) and art.
The [18]symposium takes place from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the XDM Lab at
44 Gaukel Street in Kitchener and is free and open to the public. The
keynote speaker is Professor Jentery Sayers, director of the Maker Lab in
the Humanities at the University of Victoria. The keynote address will take
place at 2:00 p.m., followed by artist talks at 3:00 p.m., and the
exhibition will open at 6:00 p.m.
The inaugural XDM exhibition and symposium has been made possible by support
from English Language and Literature, The Critical Media Lab, and the
Faculty of Arts.




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Link of the day

[20](Not) Rex Manning Day

When and where

Examination period begins, Friday, April 10. [21]Details.


Staff Relations Committee meeting, Friday, April 10, 12:30 p.m., NH 3001.
[22]Details.


XDM symposium: Feedback Fedback Feedforward, Friday, April 10, 2:00 p.m. to
8:00 p.m., 44 Gaukel Street, Kitchener. [23]Details.


Online examination days, Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11.


5th Annual Meeting of the Canada Excellence Research Chairs, Monday, April
13, and Tuesday, April 14, Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre.
[24]Details.


Senate Graduate and Research Council meeting, Monday, April 13, 10:30 a.m.,
NH 3001.


TD University of Waterloo Discover Day in Health Sciences, Tuesday, April
14, 8:00 a.m., Modern Languages. [25]Details.


2015 UW Retirees Association Spring Luncheon,
Tuesday, April 14, 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Luther Village. [26]Details.


Senate Undergraduate Council meeting, Tuesday, April 14, 12:00 p.m., NH
3001.

UWRC Book Club featuring "My Year of Meats," Wednesday, April 15, 12:00
p.m., LIB 407.


LEARN Instructor User Group (CTE686), Thursday, April 16, 12:30 p.m., EV1
241. [27]Details.


'If it Bleeds, it Leads' - Media and Academia Research Forum, Friday, April
17, 11:30 a.m. To 1:00 p.m., Renison University College (REN 1303).
[28]Details.


WISE Public Lecture Series featuring Professor George Gross, professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, "A Practical Framework for the Implementation of the
Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Concept," Friday, April 17, 2:00 p.m., CPH 4333.
[29]Details.


Senate meeting, Monday, April 20, 3:30 p.m., NH 3001.


WatRISQ seminar, Amir Memartoluie, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School
of Computer Science, "On the Rearrangement and Related Algorithms for
Computing Worst Value-at-Risk: Computational Improvements and the Adaptive
Rearrangement Algorithm," Tuesday, April 21, 4:00 p.m., DC 1304.


A Church in Dialogue: Pope Francis and the summons to ecumenical,
inter-faith and cultural conversations, Friday, April 24, 7:30 p.m.,
Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's University. [30]Details.


Examination period ends, Saturday, April 25.


Deadline to become Fees Arranged, Monday, April 27. [31]Details.


Annual Teaching and Learning Conference: Opportunities and New Directions,
Thursday, April 30.


Water Institute Research Symposium 2015, Thursday April 30, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30
p.m., DC 1350. [32]Details.

Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr. Sunita Narain,
Director General, Centre for Environment and Science, New Delhi, India,
"Challenges for Water Security in the Poor's World". Thursday, April 30,
4:00 p.m. M3 1006. [33]Details.


Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture featuring Sajeev John, Thursday,
April 30, 4:00 p.m., QNC 0101. [34]Details.


Waterloo Unlimited Grade 10 Program, Theme of "Change," Sunday, May 10 to
Thursday, May 14. [35]Details.


Department of English Language and Literature presents "Mediated Bodies,"
Wednesday, May 13, 4:00 p.m., HH 373. [36]Details.


The Similarities between Maori and Chinese Cultures and Deeper Meaning of
Maori Tattoo & Marae, Wednesday, May 13, 6:00 p.m., Renison University
College (REN 1303). [37]Details.


Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing
(USEQIP), Monday, May 25 to Friday, June 5. [38]Details.


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