Beyond Profit
A Talk and Discussion with Dr. Victoria Hurth
Reimagining Leadership for a Wellbeing Economy
NEW TIME 3:00-4:30 pm
WICI and the Canadian Network for Complex Systems (CNCS) national network are cosponsoring an event with the Senate, in Ottawa on Wednesday, on planetary health and governance in complex systems.
Dr. Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed Appointed Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR)
The Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) is pleased to announce that Dr. Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed has been appointed as its new Director.
Judges reviewed a total of 24 complex-systems presentations and chose seven winners at April's Student Project Symposium. Choosing the top three in each category was not an easy task! Thank you to all who participated to make this event a success, and a special thanks to Kirsten Wright for her hard work in organizing and promoting the event. Congratulations to our winners!
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1st Prize - Kathryn Fair 'Climate change & the future of forest-grassland mosaics' |
1st Prize - Erica J. McDonald 'Examining the association between marginalization and emergency room wait times in Ontario' |
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2nd Prize - Hazem Ahmed 'Addressing barriers to adoption of source-control stormwater management practices on private residential yards in Kitchener/Waterloo' |
2nd Prize - Amanda Pereira 'Quality of care for persons with concurrent substance use and mental health' |
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3rd Prize (tied) - Ajar Sharma 'Cauvery River: Path dependencies and feedbacks in water sharing conflicts' 3rd Prize (tied) - Julia Goyal 'Navigating health and safety in Airbnb’s self-regulating system' |
3rd Prize - Mona Qutub 'Potential unintended consequences of co-operative education: Food insecurity among undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo' |
Graduate Session prize winners, from left to right: Hazem Ahmed, Kathryn Fair, Julia Goyal (missing from photo: Ajar Sharma)
Undergraduate session prize winners (left to right): Erica McDonald, Amanda Pereira and Mona Qutub
The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) is currently seeking a part-time Administrative Coordinator.
WICI is a cross-faculty institute at the University of Waterloo that supports complex systems scholarship. The institute is up for renewal in spring 2020. For more information, please see the Director’s Welcome.