Here at Waterloo, students don’t just want to learn about social issues, they want to take action; enter the 2019 launch of a new interdisciplinary program for our time.
People have been taught to believe that being “blind” to skin colour is a positive way to approach anti-racism, but according to Professor Vershawn Young this major misconception leaves marginalized races and cultures unseen.
A person’s ability to reason wisely about a challenging situation may improve when they also experience diverse yet balanced emotions, say researchers in the Department of Psychology. In fact, Yoda from Star Wars offers a a perfect example of emodiversity and wisdom.
At a recent Faculty of Arts public panel at Kitchener Public Library, professors in economics, philosophy, and human-computer interaction discussed implications of artificial intelligence and how we can ensure its development and application responds to diverse human experience.
Among the civilians directly impacted by war are the stories of 40,000 displaced children in Europe immediately following WWII — a topic History professor Lynne Taylor has researched for more than a decade.
Responding to the federal government's commitment to reduce tobacco use to less than five per cent of the population by 2035, the Department of Psychology's International Tobacco Control Project assessed levels support among Canadian smokers for endgame policies. The researchers found that most smokers in Canada support new and radical tobacco endgame strategies.
Happy 10th anniversary to the Balsillie School, the site of our unique three-institution partnership advancing global governance and providing unparalleled opportunities for collaboration among faculty, students, and policy practitioners.
Tess Martens is the first student in the history of Waterloo's MFA program to create a thesis show presented entirely in performance art.
This week, Professor Colin MacLeod receives the Canadian Psychological Association's prestigious Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Canadian Psychology.
Over 700 students from across the globe participated this year’s Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Student Design Awards, responding to complex design challenges in the name of social good.