Over 200 graduating students, faculty members, and staff came together at Federation Hall to celebrate the incredible Class of ’23! Attendees indulged in delicious food, heard from past Environment valedictorians, and took group photos to mark the occasion.
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Discover what senior honours students from the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability have been working on for their thesis research projects. Join them in the EV1 courtyard to talk about their findings and check out their eye-catching posters!
Derek Coleman is a PhD graduate (1974) from the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning. A pioneer in environmental policy in Ontario Planning, Derek started one of the first environmental consulting firms in the province in 1972- Ecologistics Ltd. Since then, he has completed more than 1,000 projects in Ontario and six other provinces over five decades.
Two Waterloo students are among the top recipients of The Starfish Canada's environmentalist award. Congratulations to Michelle Angkasa and Sriranjini Raman for being awarded the Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalists.
KIX (n): Knowledge Integration eXhibition; a convergence of disciplines, teaching methods and creative minds in an object-centric exhibition on topics related to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
The students in the Knowledge Integration program invite you to experience the culmination of our third-year design project: The Museum Course. Working in teams to produce these exhibits has been a rewarding and unique experience.
This year's TD Walter Bean visiting professor, Dr. Shari Fox, will be returning to campus to meet with graduate students and professors across Waterloo's six faculties. This is going to be a unique opportunity to connect in a small group with Dr. Fox about her research in the Arctic working alongside Inuit collaborators. Register now!
ENVigorate is back for its nineth year! From March 28 to 30, join students, faculty and staff in discovering sustainability workshops, exciting speakers, and fun events around how the Faculty of Environment is working towards realizing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Taking us on her experience trekking through Western Nepal, Caitlin Laidlaw, a master’s student in Geography & Environmental Management, answers the question: how do locals who live with snow leopards feel about conservation? Her short documentary is this year’s second place GRADflix competition winner alongside five other graduate students from the Faculty of Environment who placed in the top 25 finalists. Congratulations to Caitlin, Navya, Anika, Larissa, Amerald and Patrick!
Today's students learn best through experiential learning. Fieldtrips give them the opportunity to touch, feel, and hear what they're learning about in the classroom as well as experience new cultures and practices outside of their own world. Upper-year undergraduate students taking GEOG 460 visited four local community projects to learn about food sustainability in Waterloo Region.