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.
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.
Industrial pollution may seem like a modern phenomenon. In fact, University of Waterloo anthropology Professor Russell Adams and his colleagues may have discovered what could be the first polluted river, contaminated approximately 7,000 years ago.
