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Go Red Tomorrow for the United Way
A message from the University of Waterloo’s United Way campaign.
Tomorrow the University of Waterloo goes red to support the launch of the university’s 2017 United Way campaign. Help us paint the campus red by decorating your office space in red or wearing your favourite red outfit. Share your photos of the campus going red by posting to Twitter or Instagram with #UWUnitedWay.
Have you received your personalized United Way postcard in the mail? Check it out for events, resources, and ways to support the campaign. Use it to update your October calendar and track your participation in the campaign.
Watch your @uwaterloo.ca email inbox tomorrow for a link to e-Pledge our secure, online giving system and learn how you can donate to the 2017 campaign.
Retired SAF professor given honorary award
Pictured are Morley Lemon (past SAF Director), Professor Emeritus Stan Laiken, Alan Man, the incoming Chair of CPA Ontario, and Dave Vert (CPA Leadership Fellow)
The School of Accounting and Finance has announced that Professor Emeritus Stanley Laiken was granted Honorary Membership at the recent annual meeting of CPA Ontario. For more than four decades, Laiken, affectionately known as Uncle Stan by students and colleagues, provided distinguished service to the accounting profession as an educator specifically in the area of taxation. Honorary membership is sparingly bestowed with Laiken being only the 2nd recipient. Laiken’s membership comes at a fitting time as September 2017 also marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of federal income tax legislation in Canada.
Laiken’s contribution to the accounting profession in Ontario and the impact of that contribution resonates beyond the university students and aspiring CPAs he’s taught. Laiken’s co-authorship of the go-to tax textbook, Introduction to Federal Income Taxation in Canada, is used in 37 universities across Canada and has assisted in demystifying one of our nation’s most challenging pieces of legislation.
“Stan has made a profound impact on our profession over many decades and has scrupulously and diligently upheld the objects of CPA Ontario and its legacy bodies. I can think of no one more deserving of an Honorary Membership in CPA Ontario,” says CPA Ontario Leadership Fellow Dave Vert, who recommended Laiken for the award.
An Honorary CPA is an elected membership for individuals who have given valuable and distinguished service or have made outstanding and prominent contribution to the accounting profession in Ontario. A recognized expert in the field of taxation, Laiken has been published in numerous professional journals and magazines, was the first tax professor to receive the L.S. Rosen Outstanding Educator Award and is a holder of a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship.
Jim Barnett, interim Director for the SAF notes “Stan lives and breathes tax. He has an amazing ability to take a complex topic, break it into smaller pieces, and make it understandable.”
Read the full story on the School of Accounting and Finance website.
Research Talks event takes aging into orbit Friday
What is accelerated aging in space teaching researchers about chronic disease, insulin resistance, and cardiovascular aging on earth? Find out at the first Research Talks of the Fall 2017 series with Waterloo Kinesiology Professor Richard Hughson.
Please register for the event scheduled for Friday, October 6 from noon to 1:00 p.m. as seating is limited. Light refreshments will be provided but feel free to bring your lunch.
Professor Hughson is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Schlegel Research Chair in Vascular Aging and Brain Health. Although astronauts have become unlikely models for studying accelerated “aging-like” changes in the body, the stiffening in the arteries implies that a link exists between weightlessness and cardiovascular aging.
Research Talks is a regular series hosted by the Office of Research and supported by the Research Support Fund to celebrate research and provide an opportunity for Waterloo faculty, staff, and students to learn about the world-class and life-changing research underway at Waterloo.
Graduate studies mini town hall; other notes
The latest in a series of Strategic Plan Mini Town Halls takes place today at 1:30 p.m. in the Board and Senate room in Needles Hall 3407.
Speaking will be President and Vice-Chancellor Feridun Hamdullahpur, Associate Vice-President, Graduate Studies and Post-Doctoral Affairs Jeff Casello, and Associate Provost, Students Chris Read who will deliver an update on graduate studies at Waterloo.
You can register your attendance on the Mini Town Hall website and submit your questions in advance using the registration form.
The Mini Town Hall will be preceded by an online conversation on Twitter from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Submit questions in advance to townhall@uwaterloo.ca, and join the conversation using the #UWTH hashtag and following @UWaterlooLIVE. The event will be livestreamed.
It's the end of an era for the Student Life Centre as Airways Transit has suspended its daily Scheduled Toronto Airporter Service from the Student Life Centre effective immediately. Airways will continue to offer service with an advance reservation by contacting them at 519-886-2121.
Declining ridership and the myriad competing options, such as GO Transit, Greyhound and ride sharing apps such as Uber are some of the reasons cited for the change in service.
Speaking of which, other transportation options continue to be available including:
- GO Transit – hourly service from Campus with a connection at Square One to Terminal 1;
- Greyhound Canada – has scheduled service from Charles Street and uWaterloo
- Waterloo Taxi - has a flat rate service to Pearson
- Various ride-sharing apps
Friends and colleagues of Bonnie Oberle have organized a retirement celebration in honour of her 32 years of service in the Office of Advancement. The event takes place on Thursday, October 5 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the University Club. RSVP to Trevor Alkema at developmentassistantcoop@uwaterloo.ca.