News

For some of us this is welcome back and for others it is welcome for the first time. Wherever you are from, whatever your background, you belong in SERS and you are wanted here.

For all of us it’s a new Fall Term and one unlike anything we have ever experienced before. If you’re feeling a little anxious and uncertain about how things are going to go with this self-distanced and largely online term, you’re not alone. We’re all feeling that but we’ll all cut each other a little slack and we’ll muddle through it together.

Perhaps the faculty’s worst-kept secret of 2020, Environment is proud to finally announce our two outstanding Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS) winners, Lauren Smith, from the School of Environment Resources and Sustainability, and Justin Murfitt, from Geography and Environmental management.

Check out Fall 2020 new course offering: ERS 375 Section 2: Stopping the 6th Extinction!

Congratulations to SERS 2020 Graduating Students.

A special message to our SERS Grads! (PDF)

Wishing you all the best in your future journeys! Stay in touch!

Check out Fall 2020 new course offering: ERS 375 - Federal Environmental Decision Making!

Check out Fall 2020 new course offering: ERS 275: The Future of our Oceans!

Waterloo food security expert Jennifer Clapp has been awarded a Killam fellowship for her work on the rise of agrifood mega-companies and the implications for the global food system.

We are proud to announce SERS student Anita Lazurko was chosen as one of 16 Trudeau Scholars for 2020.

Lazurko is completing a PhD in Social and Ecological Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability (SERS) at the University of Waterloo.

A little more than a year ago, the Haida Nation released the Land-Sea-People plan to manage Gwaii Haanas, off the coast of northern British Columbia, “from mountaintop to seafloor as a single, interconnected ecosystem.”

Interested in a course work and major research paper MES? Want to fast-track a Masters degree and develop valuable job-preparation skills?

Apply to our new MRP⁺ and combine your SERS course work/major research paper with Graduate EDGE, a new pilot project to help you develop your professional skills, explore your career options and improve your ability to market yourself to prospective employers.