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It's hard to keep up. Again, an impressive number of Arts professors have won impressive research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Again, we celebrate a member of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists - congratulations to John Turri of the Department of Philosophy.

The Globe and Mail recently featured a story on the fascinating and contentious history of Berlin, Ontario's renaming in 1916. The story includes comments by the Department of History's Professor Geoffrey Hayes and Professor Emeritus Ken McLaughlin.

Welcome to the revolution. That’s how Ginny Dybenko greeted the Class of 2020 Tuesday at the University of Waterloo Stratford campus.

Congratulations to Colin MacLeod, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, one of three University of Waterloo scholars named as new fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), announced today.

Women living in a refugee camp in Uganda are at an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape, early marriage and domestic abuse, says a University of Waterloo researcher.

12 media interviews in one day and counting. Professor Janice Aurini is busy juggling media requests this week (and last) as back-to-school approaches. Parents, educators and journalists want to know what her research tells us about the school break phenomenon summer setback.

When Jesse Thistle was battling addiction, he slept in shelters for homeless people, on friends’ couches and even the streets. At the time, he was angry at his parents for giving him up for adoption and confused about his aboriginal heritage.

Sociology doctorate Emily Milne (PhD '15) has received nationwide media coverage when research from her dissertation on family-school relationships among Indigenous peoples was recently published in two journals, including the Canadian Review of Sociology.

UWaterloo proudly cheers for Liberal Arts student Mandy Bujold as she competes in Women’s Boxing for Team Canada at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

With all of the construction on campus, the Arts-Environment garden remains a lush, green sanctuary amongst the concrete and glass. It is one of the best-kept secrets in Arts but work-study student Aneetta Raviraj is doing her best to change that.