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Multi-year awards from Rogers support more than 20 new Waterloo undergraduate students.

Asia Maheu's donor-funded co-op term allowed her to share her love of dinosaurs and more with visitors to Waterloo’s Earth Sciences Museum.

A scholarship established by Waterloo professor Ming Li helped Maria Esipova find her career path in mathematics.

The 2023-2024 UWaterloo Report on Giving is live! Learn why these donors believe in our University and hear from students who, with their help, are working to transform the future.

Eric Peters (BSc ’22) is living out his dream to represent Canada at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. After over a decade of training, practicing and competing in archery, he’s feeling ready to make his Olympic debut at the Summer Games.

New funding will create scholarships to enable talented Black students to attend Waterloo with significantly reduced financial barriers.

This fall, the University of Waterloo TEDx Team brought back their in-person conference after 5 years. The theme for this year’s conference was From the Ground Up, and it was all about inspiring the audience to forge their own unique paths, both personally and professionally. More than 180 attendees joined the event and seven speakers brought the theme to life with their fascinating stories, including four alumni.

On Thursday October 26, the Faculty of Health celebrated Organ Donation Awareness day with a pop-up event that shared inspirational information for campus community members. The event was led by Alumni Council member and donor ambassador for the Trillium Gift of Life Network, Eric Celentano (BSc '79), in partnership with the Faculty of Health.

After graduating with a three-year degree in Math and Physics, I could not find a job anywhere. I was 21 years old, female, and looked 14. Well, I could have been a key punch operator for Bell, but I turned that down.

Months went by and I had to get a student loan to tie me over. I was still eating at the cafeteria and Wesley (then Professor Graham to me) would stop to talk every day: "Have you found a job yet?" And then, finally: "If you haven't found a job in another month, come to me and I'll make one for you."

Every day, we see headlines about natural disasters, political unrest, conflict and other difficult circumstances that disrupt lives around the world. For many, those disruptions impede their education.