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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 3^rd 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.

Chris Eliasmith, Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Systems Design Engineering and Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience has won the NSERC John C. Polanyi Award that honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding advance in the natural sciences or engineering.

The Faculty of Arts congratulates Professor Jay Dolmage whose first book Disability Rhetoric was recognized with a Prose Award yesterday at a ceremony in Washington DC.