The Dean of Environment Nominating Committee, based on the information considered to date, unanimously recommended professor Jean Andrey for consideration by the constituency as the next dean of the Faculty of Environment for a five-year term beginning 1 July 2015.
Graduate student Sondra Eger recently attended the once-per-decade World Parks Congress (WPC) as a World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA) - “Young Professional.”
Esri Canada is pleased to announce the 2015 International Esri Young Scholars Award program. The award is available to any candidate studying GIS at a Canadian university or college subject to the terms and conditions listed below.
· Applicants need to have used Esri technology to complete a project or conduct interesting research.
· Applicants must be enrolled full-time in undergraduate or graduate program (or graduated in 2014) from a college or university.
The Faculty of Environment is pleased to announce that Jonathan Van Dusen is this year’s recipient of the Casey Family Scholarship.
Beginning in 2015, undergraduate students in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management will have an opportunity to obtain a specialization in climate change.
Susan Elliott, a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, cross appointed with the School of Public Health and Health Systems has released a new edition of her seminal book Geographies of Health: An Introduction, co-edited with Anthony C. Gatrell of Lancaster University's Lancaster Medical School.
REEP House for Sustainable Living began as a two-year project created in 1999 in the basement of the Environmental Studies (now Environment) building at the University of Waterloo. Their initial goal was to match academic research with practical action in the community.
Professor Geoff Wall recently received a Friendship Award from the Government of the People's Republic of China. The Friendship Award is China's highest honour for "foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social progress". The award was presented in the Great Hall of the People as part of the National Day celebrations.
Esri Canada has selected University of Waterloo as a Centre of Excellence (ECCE) in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment has long been a global leader in GIS with the help of Esri’s software suite centred on the ArcGIS desktop, server and web platforms.
Researchers from the Allergy, Genes and Environment (AllerGen) Network have published the first nationwide study to estimate the prevalence of food allergy among vulnerable Canadians, including those with low income, those with low education, new Canadians and individuals of Aboriginal identity.