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• New Book Provides a Comprehensive Overview of the Fundamental Aspects of Microjoining Processes and Techniques.

  - 2008-02-22

  M2 PRESSWIRE-22 February 2008-Research and Markets: New Book Provides a Comprehensive Overview of the Fundamental Aspects of Microjoining Processes and TechniquesC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25022008 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83718) has announced the addition of Microjoining and...

  Tags: Canada, fusion, HEALTHCARE, metallurgy, PRODUCTIVITY, Sandia National Laboratories, technique, University of Waterloo

• Petro-Canada Expands Leaders Award Program to the University of Waterloo.

  - 2007-03-28

  M2 PRESSWIRE-28 March 2007-Early Watch: Petro-Canada Expands Leaders Award Program to the University of WaterlooC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28032007 Market Gainer is quickly emerging as the one stop shop for international small-cap investors looking to stay a step ahead of the...

  Tags: Canada, CAREER, Company, FINANCE, investor, leader, Petro-Canada, scholarship, security, University of Waterloo

• Petro-Canada Expands Dynamic Leadership Program to the University of Waterloo; Emerging Leaders scholarships will support some of the University's top academic students while helping to address Canada's shortage of skilled workers.

  - 2007-03-26

  WATERLOO, ONTARIO, Mar 26, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Petro-Canada announced today a $1 million donation to establish the Petro-Canada Emerging Leaders Awards Program at the University of Waterloo to help address Canada's shortage of skilled workers. "We're investing in students because we rely...

  Tags: Canada, CAREER, Company, leader, Leadership, Petro-Canada, scholarship, Strategy, University of Waterloo, worker

• Keith Peiris.(Distinction)(Canada's Top 20 Under 20)(Brief article)(Thumbnail biography)

  - 2006-10-01

  Keith Peiris, a nanotechnology engineering student at the University of Waterloo UW, is one of Canada's Top 20 Under 20[TM]. Peiris was just 11 years old when he started his company, Cyberteks Design, which provides Web development, e-commerce, and multimedia solutions. Since its start in 1999,...

  Tags: Canada, HARDWARE, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, University of Waterloo

• Top 40 Under 40 Return to UW for Largest Student Expo on Entrepreneurship.

  - 2006-09-26

  WATERLOO, ONTARIO, Sep 26, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- More than 20 successful Canadian entrepreneurs, seven of them alumni of the University of Waterloo who have appeared on the Globe and Mail's Top 40 Under 40 list, will participate in Canada's largest student-run entrepreneurship event. ...

  Tags: Canada, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, University of Waterloo

• W.B. Pearson.(In Memoriam)

  - 2005-10-01

  W.B. Pearson, long-time member of the TMS Committee on Alloy Phases, authored several books and many scientific papers on low-temperatures physics, physical metallography, Fermi surface, the chemistry of semiconductors, and crystallography while working at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada (1952-69) and the University ...

  Tags: Alloy, Canada, chemistry, HARDWARE, Ottawa, Semiconductors, University of Waterloo

• Industry Canada: Minister Emerson Announces Expert Panel on Commercialization.

  - 2005-05-18

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 18, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX The Honourable David L. Emerson, Minister of Industry, today announced the creation of a panel of experts to advise the Government of Canada on how to ensure more new technologies and products make their way to...

  Tags: Canada, commercialization, Dr., Government, Government of Canada, Research In Motion Ltd., Strategy, University of Waterloo, wireless

• RIM co-founder seeks simplicity.(Facetime)(Research In Motion)

  - 2004-08-15

  Like many of us, Mike Lazaridis reads while on vacation. But Lazaridis doesn't pull out the latest mystery; he'd rather flip the pages of physics books. Lazaridis is one half of the chief executive team--Jim Balsillie is the other--that leads Research...

  Tags: Canada, E-mail, FaceTime Communications, physicist, Research In Motion Ltd., University of Waterloo

• The Union Carbide Award / Le Prix Union Carbide.(The Chemical Institute of Canada 2004 Award Winners Laureats et laureates des prix)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-05-01

  The Union Carbide Award recognizes a person who has made outstanding contributions to education in Canada at any level in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering. Le Prix Union Carbide est decerne a une personne qui s'est distinguee par un apport exceptionnel dans...

  Tags: Canada, chemistry, DES, education, NETWORKING, SECURITY, University of Waterloo

• Announcing the 2004 CIC Fellowships.(CIC Bulletin ICC)(The Chemical Institute of Canada)

  - 2004-04-01

  The nine members of The Chemical Institute of Canada profiled below were elected to the Fellowship in 2004 by the CIC Board of Directors. They will receive their Fellowship certificates either at the CIC Annual General Meeting AGM in London, ON, on May 31, 2004, or at...

  Tags: Biotechnology, Canada, engineering, professor, University of British Columbia, University of Waterloo