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.
This week, Professor Colin MacLeod receives the Canadian Psychological Association's prestigious Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Canadian Psychology.
The Stratford Campus will become the Faculty of Arts' newest school on July 1, 2018, with the new name: Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business.
People with social anxiety disorder benefit greatly from group therapy that targets the negative mental images they have of themselves and others, according to a study at the University of Waterloo.
Called “imagery-enhanced” cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), the new group treatment helps relieve symptoms including social performance and interaction anxiety, depression and stress.
Shareholder value and market share improve when companies merge, confirms a new study from the University of Waterloo.
The study also found that the new company’s market share ended up being greater than the market share of the two merged companies combined.
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.