Faculty from Waterloo Architecture were awarded a 2011/12 Faculty Design Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture for their project Next North: Architecture in Shifting Terrain. Assistant professors Lola Sheppard and Maya Przybylski, and former student and adjunct professor Neeraj Bhatia, teamed up with and Mason White of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto to develop the installation which challenges the necessity of static architectural.
Chemical engineering at Waterloo described as hot stuff
A Waterloo Region Record article, entitled UW chemical engineering students hope to change the future, takes a look at the wide range of innovative research taking place in the department’s new home in Engineering 6. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as current faculty and retired faculty members were interviewed for the feature that describes Waterloo’s chemical engineering as “hot stuff.” The department, once housed in the first facility built on Waterloo’s campus, now has 800 undergraduate students, 155 grad students, 35 faculty, 15 staff and more than 4,000 alumni.