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Register for the May 13 Horizon Europe Town Hall
A message from the Office of Research.
University of Waterloo faculty members are invited to learn about the Horizon Europe Pillar II funding program and its many opportunities to support international partnerships at the Horizon Europe Town Hall on Monday, May 13.
The 54 billion Euro available in this round of funding is for collaborative projects that tackle major global challenges and address Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim of improving lives and protecting the planet for future generations.
A panel of Waterloo faculty members with experience as either an investigator or reviewer for Horizons funding will speak about the benefits of the program and lessons they have learned. The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session.
More information and registration to attend in person or virtually through Microsoft Town Hall is available on the Horizon Europe Pillar II funding program Town Hall web page.
Adapting with intent
This is an excerpt of an article published in the 2024 issue of Waterloo Magazine: Happiness.
Simon Chan (BA ’98) spent years as a financial executive helping people plan and save enough to retire comfortably. But his exploration of the non-financial aspects of retirement revealed a gap in industry conversations and services, especially when addressing how people are living much longer lives.
To fill this gap, Chan founded Adapt With Intent, a consulting firm that works with leaders, educators and organizations to reframe their thinking and redesign new ways of working across life stages.
Doctoral students receive 2024 Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Research Excellence Award
By Joe Petrik.
The Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Research Excellence Award is conferred annually to two graduate students who have authored or coauthored an outstanding research paper. The prestigious recognition comes with a prize of $5,000 each.
This year's winners are PhD candidates Liyuan Lin from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Janani Sundaresan from the Cheriton School of Computer Science.
Liyuan Lin.
Liyuan Lin received the award in recognition of her recent paper, “Diversification quotients: Quantifying diversification via risk measures," which she coauthored with Xia Han and her co-advisor Professor Ruodu Wang. Her paper has been submitted and is under revision at the journal Management Science.
Janani Sundaresan and Professor Sepehr Assadi.
Janani Sundaresan received the award for her recent paper, “Hidden Permutations to the Rescue: Multi-Pass Semi-Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximate Matchings,” which she coauthored with her doctoral advisor Professor Sepehr Assadi and presented at FOCS 2023, the 64th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, one of the two top international conferences in theoretical computer science.
Alumni podcast shows how entrepreneurship is within reach
By Jennifer Ferguson.
It can be daunting to decide what schools you want to apply to and what you want to study when you’re only a teenager in high school. But it’s important to remember that what you choose to study doesn’t always dictate what type of career you’ll have.
And it didn’t for Ahmed Mezil (BASc ’14). He’s one of many alumni who have taken an unexpected career journey. How do you start in engineering at the University of Waterloo and end up becoming the CEO of the cleaning company Hellamaid? That’s what we’re going to find out.
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Indigenous space under construction on campus
This is an excerpt of an article originally published on Waterloo News.
This fall, students, faculty and staff at the main campus of the University of Waterloo will have a new outdoor space for teaching, celebrating and bringing awareness about Indigenous peoples and cultural practices.
The University recently broke ground on the gathering space, which will be used for First Nations, Métis and Inuit-led events, celebrations and gatherings. The space will also be available as an outdoor classroom to anyone educating on First Nations, Métis and Inuit content.
“This space is meant to make a statement,” said Jean Becker, associate vice-president, Indigenous Relations at Waterloo. “It’s meant to be a physical presence to say to our campus colleagues that there is Indigenous presence on campus, including histories tied to the area as well as contemporary Indigenous diversity and uses of the land. We’re proud of that.”
The structure will stand about six metres tall and 15 metres in diameter. It will be circular and contain 33 posts, representing a forest. The roof will have four wing-like sections that overlap. This design will serve as a teaching tool on Indigenous cultures, pedagogies and ideologies.
The Office of Indigenous Relations is working with the Indigenous Design Studio at Brook McIlroy. The work at Brook McIlroy is led by Ryan Gorrie, principal, who is Anishinaabeg and a member of Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek (Sand Point First Nation on Lake Nipigon). Gorrie and team led a large number of Indigenous campus community members through a lengthy and involved consultative process that led to final design of the structure.