In today’s housing crisis, many low income tenants are unjustly evicted and displaced from their homes. To date, we have very little knowledge of how this happens and what this means to tenants, particularly outside big cities. This project will disseminate research into displacement conducted in four communities across Ontario: Oxford County, York Region, Kingston […]

As extreme weather events become more frequent, home insurance claims are rising. These losses undermine Canadians’ financial security and emotional well-being. Collaborating with Innovation North, Co-operators will reimagine the role of home insurance to catalyze a circular economy. This research will not only contribute to the very practical outcomes of catalyzing change within the insurance […]

Currently, researchers at Nano and Micro System Lab (NMSL) of the University of Waterloo have been manufacturing photo-electro-chemical sensor slides using a bio-compatible material, titanium oxide to monitor water quality and contamination. But there are certain challenges in the slide performance and production scale and type of the current manufacturing technique. To overcome these industrial […]

Computer-assisted surgical planning systems, despite their enormous support in the decision-making process, have faced challenges in clinical practice mainly due to the difficulty of obtaining 3D patient-specific models. This requires the segmentation of anatomical structures, a process traditionally considered tedious, complex, and imprecise. However, recent advances in artificial intelligence, particularly in convolutional neural networks, have […]

The goal of this research is to facilitate utilization of solar energy in Caribbean islands. Currently, the Caribbean islands mainly depend on the scarce oil-based energy resources. This research will assess and define cost effective suitable solar-PV technology with storage and associated energy management and control system for utilization of the solar energy resources available […]

The study or ancient rocks gives us a window into our planet’s beginnings. Unfortunately, most rocks dating back to the Earth’s formation have now been erased from the Earth surface. They have been eroded or recycled by geological processes. This Globalink research award will be used to study rocks from the Saglek-Hebron Gneiss complex (northern […]

Polymeric materials are used for personal care products, drugs, tissues, organs, sensors, batteries, coatings among numerous applications. Currently, these products are made in organic solvents (e.g., methanol, butanol), which are toxic and incompatible for human use. Therefore, there is a need to make these products in water, which is biocompatible and environmentally friendly for use. […]

Maintaining all of the equipment in the payload designed for space/near-space operation is a challenge. Because there is insufficient air in the high-altitude environment, the only way to remove heat from sensitive equipment is through conduction and radiation cooling. Other stringent constraints for such payloads, including power consumption, size limitation, and weight limitation, require thermal […]

Even at end of life, automotive rubber is a very resilient product as shown by the difficulty in recycling/reusing rubber tires. Based on a technology to dissolve rubber tires developed in our lab, this project will seek to use “less chemistry” to create siliconized rubber crumb from used tires. The original quality of the automotive […]