With support of alumni, faculty, staff, retirees and friends, we are growing the scholarships and awards available to all students. In this issue, we extend special thanks to those donors who established awards between September 2020 and February 2021, and celebrate other generous gifts to the Faculty of Arts.
Carl and Carol Haavaldsrud Memorial Award in Global Business and Digital Art
Heather Haavaldsrud (BA ‘93, English) and Chris DeBrusk (BASc ’94 Systems Design Engineering and BA ’94, Liberal Arts) established this endowed award in honour of Heather’s parents, Carl and Carol, who were both elementary school teachers. This award, valued at $1,200 annually, will be presented to a student in the Global Business and Digital Arts program at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business who is in excellent academic standing and has a demonstrated interest in the area of User Experience Design.
Janice Del Matto Memorial Award in Creative Writing
This award was established by Jeff Nesbitt (BA ’97, Economics) and Tania Del Matto (MES ’07, Environmental Studies) in memory of Tania’s sister, Janice Julie Del Matto, who passed away in 2019. To honour Janice’s passion and talent for creative writing, Jeff and Tania established an endowed award for Honours English students with a Creative Writing Specialization who have an excellent academic standing and a demonstrated interest in creative writing. The recipient will receive up to $1,200 annually.
Alan Uffelmann Award in Economics
Alan Uffelmann (BA ’86, Economics) is a proud Waterloo alumnus who values the importance of an Arts education and giving back. He established this award for Economics students in good academic standing and demonstrated financial need to ensure that a greater number of students have access to a world-class education. This award, valued at $2,000, will be presented annually from 2021 to 2025.
Graduate Scholarship in Clinical Psychology
An anonymous champion of mental health has established a new scholarship for PhD students in the Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts. The scholarship, valued at $4,000, will be granted annually from 2021 to 2025 to a student who does not hold an external scholarship at the time of selection and is amongst the top-ranked in the current year’s Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) departmental rankings as determined by the Department of Psychology’s OGS ranking committee.
Giving Tuesday success
In honour of the Faculty of Arts 60th anniversary, former dean Douglas M. Peers challenged the Arts community this past Giving Tuesday (December 1) to support the Faculty’s Student Success Pivot Fund. Our donors stepped up, with more than 80 donations, raising a total of $19,254 for the Fund. As a result, former dean Peers contributed additional $3,000 match!
Overall, 158 Arts alumni donated $41,937 in support of programs across the university.
Thank you to all our wonderful donors for making this Giving Tuesday our most successful ever!
Lupina Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Faculty of Arts is very proud to launch a new postdoctoral program made possible by the generous support of the Lupina Foundation. This fall the first Lupina Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellows will investigate the social determinants of health, particularly at the intersections of health, society, and technology. These exceptional early-career scholars will make direct contributions to improve health and health outcomes in local to global contexts.
