Andria Bianchi's research focuses on questions of sexual consent among those with dementia
What does it feel like to be a woman in 2017? The extraordinarily successful poetry collection by Rupi Kaur BA'15, milk and honey, goes beyond words and speaks volumes to the complex experiences of young women today.
The team behind a Waterloo-based startup that helps refugees once they’ve settled in Canada has won the Hult Prize regional competition in London, England.
With topics as far-ranging as video games, urban design, refugees and the Franklin Expedition, graduate students from across the Faculty of Arts enthralled the audience at the Three Minute Thesis competition, held on Feb. 8 and 9. The departments of English Language and Literature, Psychology, Religious Studies, Germanic and Slavic Studies, History, Philosophy, Anthropology and the Balsillie School of International Affairs were all represented.
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.
Mental health difficulties touch the lives of many, yet finding the right sources of help is not always easy. The University of Waterloo’s Centre for Mental Health Research (CMHR) is planning three public outreach talks that will provide clear, useful, and practical information to anyone interested in learning more about mental health.
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.