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.
Companies should avoid scheduling important work tasks immediately following an election, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.
Professor Bessma Momani (Political Science) recently published insights related to her research project, Arab Canadian Youth: Pursuing Responsible Citizenship to Counter Disempowerment & Disengagement, supported by her fellowship from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
Unless unions are involved, foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in Canada are less likely than their domestic counterparts to comply with employment law. Researchers found that MNCs from nearly every country complied better with Canadian labour laws if their operations in Canada were unionized.
Government surveillance of Canadians’ financial transactions are often based on activities that do not warrant suspicion, according to a study at the University of Waterloo. Bank employees heavily police customers to not only guard against fraud but also to generate information the government wants to see about possible suspicious financial activities.
Congratulations to Professor James Skidmore, faculty member in Germanic and Slavic Studies and director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, for winning a national award for innovative teaching. He received the Innovate German Award at the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
A new study from the University of Waterloo has found that in some ways, the older you get the worse your decision making becomes.
Tess Martens is the first student in the history of Waterloo's MFA program to create a thesis show presented entirely in performance art.
New research found that being in a bad mood can help some people’s executive functioning, such as their ability to focus attention, manage time and prioritize tasks. The same study found that a good mood has a negative effect on it in some cases.
A team of multidisciplinary researchers at the University of Waterloo has identified three basic video game player traits that will help to make game design more personalized and more effectively motivate gamers in both entertainment and work applications.