2022 Jack Rosen Virtual Pitch Competition
The 21st Century is the century of the city, with the United Nations estimating 75% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. The wicked problems that we associate with cities and urban life are epitomized in the critical need to address the climate crisis while tackling societal crises related to equity and justice across our communities.
March 25 2022 | 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT | STP 201 & Virtually | Happiness and Mindfulness for Transitioning from Vulnerability to Viability
March 28 2022 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT | PAS 2083 | Mindfulness, Happiness and an Ethos of Caring
The Faculty of Environment invites environment faculty, staff, retirees, alumni, and University of Waterloo Senior Leadership to celebrate Professor and Dean, Jean Andrey’s 33 years of service to the institution.
Drawing on experience from over two decades of close collaboration with Inuit communities in the Arctic, Dr. Fox will illustrate the powerful ways our understanding of the changing Arctic climate can be advanced when we link Inuit knowledge and visiting science.
What does ice mean to different people? How can linking different ways of knowing about ice add to our understanding about the Arctic, and how it is changing? What does this mean for the rest of the world and our sustainable future? Dr. Shari Fox will address these and other questions in a lecture that explores sea ice and the changing Arctic environment through community-led research, harvesting, photography, science, art, and more.
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).
Let's gather and connect! Students, staff and faculty are invited to the EV3 Atrium on Thursday, July 13 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. for snacks and drinks. Hosted by Dean Frayne, this is an opportunity to re(build) care and connection with others in the Faculty of Environment and is the first in a series of community building events. No registration is required.
The Faculty of Environment invites the University of Waterloo community to a special screening and discussion of the documentary CAUGHTat the Modern Languages Theatre.
Join the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-racism for Beyond the "pipeline": Evaluations, values and allyship in academia. Offered as part of the Gender Equity Lecture Series, it will explore ways that we can work toward greater gender equity once more demographically and value-diverse folks have made it onto our campus. All Faculty of Environment staff, faculty and post-grads are invited to attend.