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It's a long and often winding road to take doctoral studies to the finish line. From seminars, to exams, to TAs, RAs or course teaching, to research, research, research, and to the final thesis defense -- many of which were remotely conducted in this time of COVID. It's a huge accomplishment and the Faculty of Arts is so proud of our newest cohort of Doctors of Philosophy.

The Faculty of Arts proudly celebrates all graduates (more than 1,400 of them!) who would have been walking across the stage to receive their diploma's this week. As part of our virtual spring 2020 convocation celebrations, we warmly congratulate the distinguished undergraduates receiving top performance awards. 

In our work and interactions, we need to be conscious of and proactively challenge white privilege and colonial structures. We need to continuously strive to create an equal, fair and welcoming learning environment for everyone.

Spring term is one of our favourite times of year! While we can't be together on campus this year, we found some background photos in our archives to bring a little UWaterloo Arts home with us. (After all, who isn't spending more time online thanks to online classes, meetings and social gatherings?)

Congratulations to Arts and Business student Taylor Legere for being selected Co-op Student of the Year (Arts). For her eight-month Winter/Spring 2019 work term, Taylor served as an Operations Coordinator at the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation in UWaterloo’s Faculty of Environment.

The Faculty of Arts committee for honours and awards recently selected 11 recipients for the 2020 Arts Awards for excellence in service, teaching, and research. While the annual Celebration of Arts event to present the awards is postponed due to you-know-what*, we invite the whole Arts community to raise a virtual toast to our accomplished colleagues - and student!

Since the COVID-19 lockdown, the University of Waterloo has released a steady stream of media advisories with Waterloo experts on all aspects of the pandemic -- and many of these feature experts in the Faculty of Arts. Last week included a Q and A with Joel Blit on re-starting the economy, and this week includes a Q and A with Mikal Skuterud on labour data, CERB, and jobs.

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.