Technion- U Waterloo Granted $1.6M For Research

April 28, 2015 | The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation has donated a $1.6 million gift to the University of Waterloo and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. The funds will go towards enabling research in a number of disciplines, namely research into lung disease and quantum computing. “This gift shows what a partnership between two of the world’s top innovation universities supported by the vision of Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman can accomplish,” said Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo said in a statement.