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Waterloo School of Architecture graduate Paul Dowsett, principle of Sustainable.TO, and a number of other company architects were featured in the Globe and Mail for winning the New York category of the Designing Recovery competition hosted by the American Institute of Architects and Brad Pitt's Make It Right foundation, among others. 

Dowsett recently toured a site struck by Hurricane Sandy in Far Rockaway neighbourhood of Queens, New York where Resilient House, Sustainable.TO's winning entry, will be built.

Chris EliasmithA researcher at the University of Waterloo examines some of the latest groundbreaking technologies as an investigative scientist for the second season of Stephen Hawking's Brave New World, premiering on Discovery World this Friday.

Rick HaldenbyReflecting on his career, Rick Haldenby says his proudest accomplishments as a Waterloo School of Architecture faculty member were the launching of the school’s Rome program and the establishing of its Cambridge campus, both which happened on exactly the same date – 25 years apart.

Recent civil engineering graduate Aleks Kivi received the best paper award for 2013 at the Transportation Association of Canada Conference.  Kivi wrote the paper when he was an MASc student.  His master's supervisor was Susan Tighe, a civil and environmental engineering professor.