Provincial recognition for exceptional contributions

Returning to in-person experiences in February: for more information. A grad student and a staff member receive Ontario awards of excellence  An engineering master's student and a staff member have been honoured with provincial awards of excellence for exceptional contributions on campus, across the community and beyond. Waterloo mechanical engineering master's student Lucas Wen Tang (BASc '21, mechanical engineering) was recognized in the Minister's Awards of Excellence Rising Star category. Tang co-founded Lumos , a company that looks to improve human well-being through sleep technology and neuroscience. He was part of a team that successfully competed in the University's Concept $5K pitch competition, where funding was secured for Lumos. The company's first product, a pair of smart light therapy glasses, was created to supplement the health benefits of a blue sky for people who work indoors. Tang and three of his undergraduate classmates further developed the light therapy glasses as their 2021 Capstone Design project, supervised by Zhao Pan , a Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor.