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Nine students were selected for a Master of Environment and Business (MEB) academic achievement award. MEB awards are given to the top three students in each cohort (based on cumulative grades in MEB courses) annually. Each winner receives $2000 towards their tuition.

2011 cohort:

• 1^st = Tahra Jutt
• Tie for 2^nd = Brenda Stasuik
• Tie for 2^nd = Marina Whelan

2012 cohort:

Ms. Penny Goldsmith is the CEO of Povnet, an online anti-poverty community forum.

SEED Career Profile: Elroy Wilson

Elroy Wilson is an Msc Marketing and Agribusiness student from the University of West Indies (UWI). In January, Elroy arrived as visiting researcher to the University of Waterloo.

International Development Speaker Series Winter 2014

Please join us to hear insights from leading scholars, industry professionals and agents of change as it relates to International Development. Our speaker line up is listed below. 

School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED)

Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo

Venue: Alumni Hall, St. Paul University College

Time: 2.30 pm – 3.50 pm

Thursday, February 6, 2014

The SEED career profile series was created as a way to showcase talented individuals that are affiliated with the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development. The program will feature students, professors, and guest lecturers that exemplify SEED’s mission; these individuals have developed the knowledge, tools and expertise to integrate environmental and social objectives into business or development activities.

If you live or work in a mid-sized city in Canada, chances are that it has a university.

This morning on CBC radio 89.1 in Kitchener Waterloo Professor Blair Feltmate discussed climate adaptation and the current government's opportunity to take four practical steps to address adaptation challenges.

Listen to the clip on CBC's Morning Edition

Living with climate change: Mapping community experience and adaptation

Rasna Sherchan, a Master of Environment and Business student, was recently invited to present her independent research work at the Symposium on Sustainability & Human Rights hosted by Fulbright Canada and Concordia University in Montreal. 

Master of Development Practice students presented at an international forum held in Ottawa earlier this month, organized by the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and Montreal-based Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI).