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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

GEM students to represent UW at COP19

Five students from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management will be part of a team of students representing The University of Waterloo at the COP19 conference in Warsaw, Poland from November 11-22, 2013.

Amber Silver, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo received a Ph.D Presentation award at the Joint Annual Meeting of ELDAAG and CAGONT, the Ontario and Eastern Lakes divisions of the Canadian and American geographical associations.

An exciting and fully-funded opportunity is currently available. Our collaborative research team is seeking a graduate student with deep interests in estimating retail market potential and land-use change. The successful applicant would be funded through a combination of teaching assistant positions in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo and internship positions funded by Mitacs.

The Department of Geography and Environmental Management is very pleased to welcome retired astronaut Chris Hadfield to the University of Waterloo as a Professor of Aviation. The University's Aviation program is run jointly by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management and the Faculty of Science.

Dr. Geoff Wall, a retired Geography and Environmental Management (GEM) professor in the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment, is the subject of a publication titled, The “Great Wall” in tourism research – a portrait of Geoff Wall by P. F. Xie in the journal "Anatolia – An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research.”

Many academic institutions automatically elevate faculty to professor emeritus status upon their retirement. At the Université de Montréal (UdeM) the process is more selective. Through an internal nomination process, a handful of former UdeM faculty are identified, vetted and eventually chosen as permanent faculty members of the 135-year-old institution.