Alice Kuzniar has been named a University Research Chair. This distinction is granted to at most five faculty members a year. The notice from the office of the Vice-President, Academic and Provost reads as follows:
Professor Alice Kuzniar's new book, The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, has just been published by the University of Toronto Press.
Prof. Alice Kuzniar's graduate seminar Dark Romanticisms was recently featured on the Faculty of Arts website. As the article says, "the lucky students in Alice Kuzniar’s Dark Romanticisms class have spent their term studying the irrational and fantastic – including ghosts, Doppelgänger, talking animals, and vampires."
Application deadline: January 9, 2017
In co-operation with the German Pedagogical Exchange Office (PAD), the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German is accepting applications for positions as English-language assistants in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The University of Waterloo was honoured to welcome Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović to campus on November 21, 2016. As part of her working visit to Canada, President Grabar-Kitarović spent a day in Kitchener-Waterloo learning more about the University's role in enhancing technology research and entrepreneurship and met with students of Croatian language and culture.