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“The public is not presently well-served by either the popular media or the science media when it comes to issues around gender,” says Shannon Dea, Director of Women’s Studies and Associate Professor of Philosophy. “Because the effects of gender are so pervasive, we need to be able to examine them from a range of perspectives.”

This Faculty is practically on fire when it comes to federal and provincial research grants. Warm congratulations go to Ian Milligan (History), Evan Risko (Psychology), and David-Antoine Williams (St. Jerome’s/English), who have each won a 2015 Early Researcher Award (ERA).

Faculty of Arts is helping students in Waterloo region get a head start in financing their university studies with a new scholarship that targets incoming undergraduates from local high schools.

“My Arts education is one of the best advantages I could have in the startup community,” says Jona Cho, a 3^rd year English student and founder of FotoFox.

It was a wildly unpredictable day of snow, rain, and sunshine, but that didn’t stop the Faculty of Arts from holding a successful groundbreaking ceremony for the new student space to be built over the courtyard of Hagey Hall.

Jenifer Sibdhannie, a fourth year Arts & Business student, has been awarded the prestigious TD Fellowship in Advancement by the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education.

Children actually help entrepreneurial dads stay the course, but the gender difference starts to disappear when women get access to startup funds, says Waterloo economist.

Mompreneurship is a buzzword these days for mothers looking to re-enter the workforce—or those looking for a better way to balance work and family. But in Canada, children increase the likelihood that a woman will exit the entrepreneurial market by nearly 20 percent, while children help self-employed men stay the course.

Chris Eliasmith, Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Systems Design Engineering and Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience has won the NSERC John C. Polanyi Award that honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding advance in the natural sciences or engineering.

The Faculty of Arts congratulates Professor Jay Dolmage whose first book Disability Rhetoric was recognized with a Prose Award yesterday at a ceremony in Washington DC.