Students who worked as a team in a Global Business and Digital Arts course last year can now see their research and design efforts live and used everyday by the public.
The lessons of history present a critical opportunity to save us from ourselves, says Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University.
How can technology help stressed parents quickly find their lost child in a crowded park? And how do you design an app for that in just a few hours? Filip Jadczak, a fourth-year Global Business and Digital Arts student tackled that challenge and won the top $5,000 prize in Communitech’s Design to Win competition.
Psychology doctoral candidate Robin Mazumder examines how urban areas affect our physical and mental health.
The Balsillie School's Turbulent Present, Uncertain Future maps global trends and recommendations for adaptive foreign policy.
Just as Donald Trump, a climate change denier, was elected the next US president, Waterloo student Masroora Haque was in Marrakech for COP22 - the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – joining negotiations on action plans for the Paris Agreement.
“The most important thing was the solidarity among the people there,” says Masroora, an MA candidate in Global Governance who travelled to Morocco along with four other students and two professors representing the University of Waterloo at COP22.
How should citizens engage with technological innovation? Professor Heather Douglas is dedicated to helping the public, scientists and policy makers work together for innovation that serves society.
A Department of Economics team, mentored by Professor Jean-Paul Lam, is among five finalists for the Bank of Canada’s Governor’s Challenge.
Professor Patricia Marino demonstrates every week how philosophy is or can be applied in everyday life. Her weekly blog, The Kramer Is Now ("Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life") offers engaging, candid, funny and powerfully insightful commentary on topics from paper coffee cups to the all-female Ghostbusters.
As world leaders gather in Marrakech, Morocco next week for the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) they will be joined by University of Waterloo students from the Faculties of Arts, Engineering, Environment and Science.