Among the 975 Faculty of Arts courses that had to pivot to online delivery in mid-March was ARTS 490 – the Global Engagement Seminar (GES) – an interdisciplinary undergraduate course for students from across campus.
As Italy plans to slowly ease the country’s seven-week lockdown, Arts alum Esmeralda da Conceicaoshares her experiences of living in the northern city of Bologna before and during the pandemic. "I would like Canadians reading this story to feel solidarity by uniting as a community."
Digital Arts Communication students Alexis Condotta, Jean Do, Carly McLeod, and Evelyn Vo received the top Christie Design Award for their projection mapping composition “BRB (Be Right Back)”. The team will share a $2500 prize for their winning work.
During this extraordinary time of physical distancing in our community, new measures have been established to shift academia to online delivery. One of the most important milestones for PhD students is their in-person dissertation defence, which represents the culmination of years of hard work and dedication to their research.
Graduate students from English, Fine Arts, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Theological Studies and Sociology convened Friday, March 6th for the annual Arts Three Minute Thesis (3MT) heat. Audience members learned about the engaging and illuminating graduate research happening in the Faculty of Arts firsthand from many of our impressive graduate students.
The Master of Public Service (MPS) program hosted the second annual Policy Datafest last week with more than 70 graduate students digging into public datasets to extract meaningful narratives and recommend policies for positive change.
A free tool that will enable game developers to accurately evaluate the experience of video game players has been launched by researchers at the University of Waterloo.
The Player Experience Inventory (PXI) allows game designers to understand how choices like game rules or sound effects contribute to a player’s immersion in a game or curiosity in the story of a game.
Japan’s policies to reduce tobacco use are not working well and must be strengthened for improved public health, according to two new studies led by researchers in the Department of Psychology.
Combining innovative tech with on-the-ground expertise, The Sentinel Project works to prevent mass atrocities across the globe.
Deforestation is changing the way monkeys communicate in their natural habitat, according to a new study led by Laura Bolt, an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology. The research offers the first evidence in animal communication scholarship of differences in vocal behaviours in response to different types of forest edge areas, particularly areas changed by human activity.