On the 26th January 2018, a signing ceremony was held in Bordeaux to celebrate the official launch of a joint Bachelor exchange program in biobased chemistry. This  joint academic exchange program in biobased chemistry , will enable students from Bordeaux and Waterloo to follow courses via  online training modules , and then partake in an  exchange semester at the partner university , thus...

I began my journey in the IDS-FunMat program in late 2012, after learning about this amazing opportunity when I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo’s Nanotechnology Engineering Program. Fascinated by the prospect of expanding my horizons and trying to learn a new culture and language, I decided on the spirit of "why not". I have been extremely fortunate in being able...

In a collaboration between the University of Waterloo and the University of Bordeaux, we used virtual reality (VR) to measure and compare memory capabilities in children, young healthy adults, and senior citizens. Our aim was to determine strategies that could help people better encode, and later recall, spatial routes. Way-finding is known to be negatively affected by the typical aging process....

The collaboration between Prof. Irene Goldthorpe from the University of Waterloo (UW) and Profs. Mona Tréguer-Delapierre and Laurent Servant from the University of Bordeaux (UBx) is successful in many ways. The differing but complementary expertise of the team in metal nanostructure synthesis (Tréguer-Delapierre), electronic materials and devices (Goldthorpe), and spectroscopy characterization...