This Faculty is practically on fire when it comes to federal and provincial research grants. Warm congratulations go to Ian Milligan (History), Evan Risko (Psychology), and David-Antoine Williams (St. Jerome’s/English), who have each won a 2015 Early Researcher Award (ERA).
Faculty of Arts is helping students in Waterloo region get a head start in financing their university studies with a new scholarship that targets incoming undergraduates from local high schools.
Fourth-year English student Rupi Kaur experienced a very public finale to her undergraduate studies when a project for her Visual Rhetoric course unleashed a media storm. The assignment for ENGL 392B challenged students to engage a critical discussion using non-verbal media.
She created a series of six photos entitled Period. showing common but usually hidden scenes of a woman during her period.
"There is such a wide breadth of technique, technology, and concept," explains Professor Beth Coleman of the MA in Experimental Digital Media (XDM) program based in the Department of English Language and Literature. “The students are using media technology in ways that are both surprising and delightful.”
The Faculty of Arts and Stratford Campus stand proud as second-year Global Business and Digital Arts (GBDA) student Ariana Cuvin wins the Government of Canada’s 150 anniversary logo competition.
“My Arts education is one of the best advantages I could have in the startup community,” says Jona Cho, a 3rd year English student and founder of FotoFox.
It was a wildly unpredictable day of snow, rain, and sunshine, but that didn’t stop the Faculty of Arts from holding a successful groundbreaking ceremony for the new student space to be built over the courtyard of Hagey Hall.
Jenifer Sibdhannie, a fourth year Arts & Business student, has been awarded the prestigious TD Fellowship in Advancement by the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education.
Children actually help entrepreneurial dads stay the course, but the gender difference starts to disappear when women get access to startup funds, says Waterloo economist.
Mompreneurship is a buzzword these days for mothers looking to re-enter the workforce—or those looking for a better way to balance work and family. But in Canada, children increase the likelihood that a woman will exit the entrepreneurial market by nearly 20 percent, while children help self-employed men stay the course.