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Schulich Leader Scholarship winners named
The University of Waterloo will welcome a new cohort of Schulich Leader Scholarship recipients to campus this fall.
The winners represent the best and the brightest in Canada, who will enrol in a science, technology, engineering or math program at 20 partner universities across Canada.
The 2024 Schulich Leader Scholarships winners are:
- Johnnie Chen – Computer Science
- Salma El Gohary – Systems Design Engineering
- Elisa Gabriele – Architectural Engineering
- Aditya Makkar – Computer Science
- Ronak Patel – Software Engineering
- Evan Ralph – Environmental Engineering
- Emma Shi – Computer Science
- Noah Sonser – Physical Sciences (Mathematical Physics)
- Pari Vansjalia – Software Engineering
- Daniel Zhang – Computer Science
Schulich Leader Scholarships are one of Canada’s most prestigious undergraduate STEM scholarships, worth $100,000 to $120,000 per student. One hundred awards are granted each year to students who demonstrate not only strong grades, but also a dedication to community service.
WatSPEED wins two 2024 CAUCE Design and Marketing Awards
A message from WatSPEED.
WatSPEED is celebrating achievements in marketing and digital advertising as part of the 2024 Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) awards.
Every year, CAUCE hosts the Design and Marketing Awards to recognize excellence in the field of design and marketing in continuing education throughout Canada. This year, WatSPEED received awards in the both the Marketing Campaign (up to $5,000 budget) and Website categories.
WatSPEED was recognized for its popular and timely webinar, ChatGPT: What Executives Really Need to Know, which included a multi-platform promotional strategy that led to a record-high number of registrations. They are also recognized for their new website, which launched in August 2023.
“At WatSPEED, we are dedicated to equipping the workforce of tomorrow and creating impactful programs for businesses and individuals,” said Sanjeev Gill, associate vice-president, Innovation and executive director of WatSPEED. “These awards highlight the ingenuity, creativity, and commitment of our team.”
Task force signup deadline approaches and other notes
There's still time to submit an expression of interest to join the two new task forces established to determine principles of social responsibility in investments and guidelines on how the University forges international partnerships. The Task Force on Social Responsibility in Investing and the Task Force on Principles for Institutional Partnerships have opened calls for expressions of interest to become a member, seeking representatives from the University's faculty, staff, and students with the appropriate expertise:
- Submit a nomination for the Task Force on Social Responsibility in Investing.
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Submit a nomination for the Task Force on Principles for Institutional Partnerships.
More information on the mandate for each task force can be found on the Task Force on Social Responsibility in Investing and Task Force on Principles for InstitutionalPartnerships websites. The deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9.
While we're on the subject of reminders, remember this: Waterloo's Virtual Private Network (VPN) will be unavailable on Thursday, July 11 as it is being migrated to new equipment as part of IST's core equipment refresh project.
The temporary outage will take place between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 11, and the VPN service will be unavailable during the maintenance window. IST reports that "client configurations will be updated automatically once they connect to the VPN service following the maintenance window."
Information Systems & Technology (IST) has published the latest in the Atlassian Blog Series today, entitled Atlassian updates: Add translations to a form.
Continuing Lecturer James Nugent is hosting a screening of the film My Tree on Tuesday, July 9. In My Tree, A Canadian searches for the tree that was planted in his name in Israel many years earlier. When he discovers that it stands on the remains of an Arab village, he is forced to question his own culpability.
The event begins at 2:30 p.m. with a talk by Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability (Zoom link to join Dr. Qumsiyeh's talk). The movie begins at 3:30 p.m., and there will be free food available from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., after which there will be a Q&A with director Jason Sherman.
More information and registration is available on the event website.