Andrea Vaccari, Director, Product Stewardship of Freeport-Macmoran (BES '99, ERS). She has spent 23 years in the mining and metal industry in sustabibale and opreational roles and shares her career in the different roles she has overlooked and managed.
The International Sustainable Aviation and Energy Research Society (SARES) has given the 2022 Science Award to Paul Parker, professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) and Geography and Environmental Management (GEM) for his outstanding research and invaluable contributions to sustainable aviation globally.
Humans throughout history have dreamed of reaching out and touching the stars. Thanks to a unique collaboration with the University of Waterloo, Students at Riverview Highschool in New Brunswick can do just that — with a little help from a ladder.
On July 1st, 2022, the Faculty of Environment will say farewell to Jean Andrey, fondly called Dean Jean, our esteemed dean of eight years. The whole community wishes her the best in her retirement as we reflect on all her accomplishments and contributions to the Faculty.
In the Winter 2022 term, the Faculty of Environment offered an e-Learning Graduate-level Course on Decolonizing Methodologies for Sustainability Research. The course was designed and delivered by School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability (SERS) PhD students Lowine Hill and Madu Galappaththi, and former School of Planning PhD student Sarah Ghorpade.
Three researchers from the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment have been awarded funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to work with the community to investigate the lack of family-sized apartment housing despite the recent building boom in the Region of Waterloo.
Lynda Trudeau, Master of Environment and Business graduate at Faculty of Environment narrates her exhilarating convocation experience as the only Anishinaabe graduate from her program and the joy of wearing her traditional regalia for the occasion.
When Todd Pokrywa wrote his bachelor's thesis in 1995, New Towns as an Alternative to Urban Sprawl Development – A Case Study of Viera, Florida, he had no idea one day he would be the one leading land use planning and development for the 20,000+ acre master-planned community of Viera on Florida's Space Coast.
Jeremy Pittman, a professor of Planning in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, was recently appointed as a member of new federal Nature Advisory Committee (NAC), created by Environment and Climate Change Canada to foster ways for Canadians to engage positively with our natural environment.
The Faculty of Environment is hosting a TD Walter Bean high school lecture titled, Water Future: A New Generation of Sustainability Leaders on Thursday June 9, 2022.