On Saturday, June 20 Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs hosted a Spring 2020 virtual PhD graduate celebration.
A recording of the event is below:
As part of the celebration we asked doctoral graduates and supervisors to share some images that showcased their time spent at Waterloo, or pay tribute to those who supported them along their academic journey.
Multimedia Lab
In the lab
In the lab
In the lab
Domination!!
Thesis defended successfully :D
:D
Current and future Noble laureates :)
Away from research :)
UW BioTec 2018 poster presentation
Successfully defended my PhD thesis at home!
My heartfelt appreciation goes to my supervisor Dr. Kieran Bonner and the members of the examining committee!
My cat Tai Chi, who was my most loyal companion during the many years of studying sociology
My husband Lu Xin and I both graduted from the MMath program and he also obtained his PhD in Statistics from UWaterloo!
Our Social Theory Reading Group
Paul Niessen Teck Award Lunch
Paul Niessen Teck Award Lunch
Paul Niessen Teck Award Lunch
Experiment day in the Materials' lab
Experiment day in the Concrete lab
Laboratory testing for water distribution network leak detection system
Building lab setup
Finalizing hardware for leak detection system
Running lab tests
Fields tests
With my co-supervisor, Prof. Kankar Bhattacharya, in a conference in Atlanta, US
A picture with my lab friends, celebrating Prof. Bhattacharya's award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision
After my online PhD defense!
IO Psychology Halloween 2017
Poster presentation at 2019 conference in Washington, D.C.
Faculty of Arts Student Executive Committee for the HeForShe gender equity campaign
Celebratory drinks at Grad House for colleagues' new job!
PhD defence
With my son
With my friends
"It's all about the people you meet along the way"
"It's all about the people you meet along the way"
Throwback to the crazy late nights of dissertation writing
It all started here!
"It's all about the people you meet along the way"
Happy and grateful
Canada day celebration, Columbia Lake
Memory of my defence day! Many thanks to my supervisor and my committee members. Milestone achieved!
DC is the first place I vistited on UW campus.
When I started my PhD, I loved DC a lot! It made me feel I'm at home.
The colorful waterloo park-my first fall season without seeing any snow!
Defense date
doctoral consortium - sigir JAPAN
group photo
A photo was taken on the day that I defended my Ph.D. thesis
A lunch meeting with my supervisor and peers
Representing HeForShe gender equity campaign during volunteer fair at SLC
Trying ot keep up with my Supervisor, Prof. Claudio Canizares, in a hike in Banff, Alberta
At the study site With my advisor Dr Merrin Macrae
PhD defense - After party
Field work
Field work
Waterloo winter (taken by myself)
PhD Student Jessey Rice Collecting sediment samples after a helicopter drop off in northeastern Quebec.
PhD student Jessey Rice standing in a sediment sampling hole, northeastern Quebec
PhD Comprehensive Exam
PhD Defence Presentation
PhD Defence Committee
Black Lives Matter!
Family
Family
Friends
Friends
Meeting on Systems and Control Theory, 2018
Successfully defended my thesis !
Thanks to my supervisor, my respected committee members, my beloved wife and my little Omar!
It is great to share that crucial moment with my dear friends Andrew, Ahmed, Mehdi, Alex and Samaneh
My first time as a lecturer (Spring 2019) with my wonderful SYDE class
Wael Alrashed PhD remote defence - Civil & Environmental engineering
Bereket infront of EV-3
After dissertation defense
With colleagues at SERS
After Comps defense
At the University of Waterloo
Oral PhD Defense Day- Mission Accomplished!!!
A waterloo couple and the head of UW (my wife and I both graduated from UW in 2019)
Me and Prof. Donna Strickland :) #UW Pride
My lovely research mates from MME...PhD days would be boring without you guys!
Does this meat have antibiotics?
presenting a poster at RAFA 2019 in Prague
Defending online
Our lab has a view
Guess who is the boss on campus?
With Mustafa in the lab
With my cute ragdoll kitten
After the defense
With my dearest girlfriend
Celebrating the new year festival
Gang of DC!!!
Sweet after-defense moments!
Portrait
First day at UW
2018 3MT University Finalist
Last slide of my defense presentation - In memory of my dad, Prof. Mustafa Amer
Sanford Fleming Award Picture with Dean of Engineering, Pearl Sullivan
Picture taken after PhD Comprehensive Exam with my Professors
Group picture after a colleague’s defence
Presentation at GeoVancouver after winning the national graduate presentation award from Canadian Geotechnical Society in 2016.
Celebrations post the defence of one of my colleagues
Celebrations post the defence of one of my colleagues
With My Comprehensive Examination Committee
Attend PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019
Working with robot in lab
Thank you Dr. Foldvari for training me to be a fine scientist in the field, no better person to learn from!
Friends for life who kept me sane during my PhD studies
Having my mom by my side to support me was the best thing happened during my PhD!
This photo is taken by IQC to feature my achievement
Taken by IQC
IQC and UIUC team working together at Illinois
With Quantum Photonics research group at IQC
A friend, mentor, counsellor and a best peer someone can have!
This is at the moment when my defence is done.
This is at the power system lab where I spent so much time during the PhD journey.
What a great adventure!
Me writing my dissertation in Austria in the summertime.
Read, read, read and repeat.
Me and my supervisor Dr. James M. Skidmore.
Getting my keys and my student ID at UW.
All geared up in the field to collect data.
Fall was always the most beautiful time for field work.
First day in UW at David center
With my supervisor Prof. Omar Ramahi and my friend Dr. Thamer Almoneef in Cancer conference in Sudia
With my friend Saeed after finished my Phd defense
With my friend Dr. Tao after finished my Phd defense
After a successful defense with my supervisor, prof. Alexander Wong
To my supervisor, Prof.Susan Elliott, who has guided and supported me, thank you!
Grateful for the opportunities afforded to me through the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Programme
Memories of attending conferences with fellow QEScholars & colleagues from the GoHELP Lab with our mentor, Prof.Susan Elliott
Connecting with members from Public Health Canada in Ottawa, with Dean of Env. Prof. Jean Andrey and Dr. Peter Berry
A thank you to my support system
Becoming an honorary Newfoundland Screecher with Margaret Ellis-Young & supervisor Markus Moos, conference in St. John's, 2017.
Dissertation defense in the time of COVID-19.
Group picture at the Canary Islands for the International Fish and Shellfish Conference 2019
Sampling at Yellow Island Aquaculture (BC) with members of the research grant
Field season at Yellow Island Aquaculture Ltd. (YIAL) in British Columbia
Transporting Chinook salmon in British Columbia
Banquet at the International Developmental and Comparative Immunology conference in Murcia, Spain
Teaching team HLTH 410
My family at Snow Ball 2015
Global health conference in Ottawa 2018
With my wife, winter 2015
Why does Waterloo need to be so cold?
Enjoying SDS PAGE loading
My biggest supporters
My family
My family
My friends who always kept me positive
Defense date - committee members
Next to my dearest on the defense date
10 Oct. 2019, the first day with my love on UW campus
My special thanks to my family for their unconditional support during this journey; Columbia Lake, Waterloo
Annual meeting with the project's industrial and governmental partners; E5-UW
Thank you for the support and encouragement from my supervisors and family throughout my PhD life.
Dr. Holger Kleinke's group photo 2018
Going to school in Winter be like :)
A moment of fame in DC!
Spring on campus
With my wonderful advisor and favorite faculty member attending my dream conference!
Defending our PhDs during a global pandemic makes us a very special type of doctor!
Historic Moment after Successful PhD Defense
Kids Visiting Busy PhD Candidate Dad
Passed my virtual PhD defence! The first fully virtual defence for the Faculty of Environment
PhD graduate Jessey Rice with his supporting field crew during their 2016 field season based out of Schefferville, QC
Photo taken with my good friends Roxanne & Carlos
Photo taken with some of my committee members after my PhD Defence
Selfie taken with my sister Judith
Photo taken with my good friends Faiza, Ana, Esta & Nadia
My first week at the University of Waterloo
To my love
Hike in Pyrenees with my thesis co-supervisor Steve Young during his visit to our partner university in Bordeaux, France
Graduation ceremony at my partner university in Bordeaux with my co-supervisor Guido Sonnemann
Celebratory (on house) beer in Gradhouse after successfully defending my PhD thesis.
Two PhD graduates in front of UW sign
My desk at E5
Foosball with fellow PhDs, in EIT grad lounge
PhD defense, with no audience!
E5 bridge at night
This is where the magic happened!
New Year celebrations at the school of Pharmacy!
The smile of a happy grad student!
A few celebrations along the way
Caught in action!
with my wife after at the UW Engineering Award Dinner
My PhD defence
My farewell- with our research group
With my office mates
Proposal defence
Thank you Trefford!
Thank you Des!
Thank you Lyndon and CORE!
Thank you Bita!
In 2016, when Umair completed his MASc and started the PhD.
Congratulations, Hung!
Defense Success
Dr. Jody Daniel in an aquatic environment
Aneta Bieniada and Maria Strack celebrating at the Grad House after Aneta's defence
Aneta Bieniada measuring methane flux in a peatland
Aneta Bieniada training an research assistant in a restored peatland
Post-thesis defense with committee
Dinner with entire lab celebrating successful defense
poster presentation at SPIE Optics and Photonics meeting, San Diego, August 2019
Catherine Klausen wins gold medal for best graduate student essay in philosophy ... again!
Christmas party with CPATT family
Congratulations to Dr. Rehman and all our PhDs!
PhD defense memory with my supervisors and committee members
CPATT group at 2017 TRB meeting
CPATT ladies at 2016 Christmas party at Professor Susan Tighe's house
Enjoy the great trail at Fredericton with Victoria and Winnie
Networking at 2018 CSCE meeting
Samantha Biglieri with lab mates in the Geographies of Health, Place and Planning lab
Samantha Biglieri (right) as keynote speaker at GSPA's Grad Talks series
Urban planning graduates Samantha Biglieri and Nick Revington studying urban design in Italy
Kokulan presenting his research at one of many conferences
Celebrating success with lab mates!
A socially distanced congratulations on a great accomplishment!
Congratulations Krysteena!
Kaship is my first full-time Ph.D student. It was a fulfilling journey for both of us. Thank you!
PhD Celebration Dinner
PhD Celebration Dinner
PhD Celebration Dinner
PhD Celebration Dinner
Congratulations!
Roya with her experimental test bed.
Roya collecting data from her tests.
Bereket Isaac (at left) with WPGG colleagues and friends
Friederike Schlein (2nd from left) celebrates her PhD with committee members Nikola von Merveldt, James Skidmore, & Paul Malonen
Field work in Uganda with supervisor
Christmas fun in Uganda
Home, and friends, away from home!
It has been a pleasure to see you mature as a scientist! All the best to you!
Beth Timmers with her PhD examination committee
Beth Timmers celebrating at the Grad House after the defence
Congrats from Beth Timmer's supervisor Jennifer Clapp
Congratulations Andres!
Not all has been pain!
Go Warriors!
Excellent Team work for the Data fest. You deserved first place!
Great friends for life - John, Andres, Iuliia, Renfang, Yixuan and Aidi
Congratulations Annie - You have made us proud!
Field visit to Wilket Creek with students and two visiting professors (Elli Papangelakis is all the way to the right)
Elli Papangelakis, Kimisha Ghunowa, and Bruce MacVicar in San Francisco where Elli presented some key results
Elli Papangelakis and Bruce MacVicar at the Grad House after her successful defence!
Congratulations Endrina!
Congratulations to Amir, Bahareh, and Ali
Congratulations to Amir, Bahareh, and Ali
Congratulations, Mohamad! It was a pleasure working with you over the last four year! I wish you a successful career.
From Pakistan to do field work in Canada!
Lokesh Narsineni: Nanomedicine PhD (Foldvari Lab Pharmacy)
Congratulations Kaab Omer and very best wishes!
NACIW 2016 in PEI
Shawna presenting at ISFSI, Canary Islands
Team Meeting in Heriot Bay BC
Congratulations Mehmet Yilmaz on your outstanding and well-deserved achievement! It is a very proud moment. Wishing you all the best
Congratulations Monsef Tahir on your outstanding and well-deserved achievement! It is a very proud moment. Wishing you all the best
Celebrating a future researcher in Pharmacy!
So happy to share in the excitement of your graduation day. And so very proud of you, too! Congratulations Axel!
SIMSLab -Summer of 2019
SIMSLab - Christmas 2016
Engaging the audience!
With his supervisor.
Congratulations, Dr. Celia. It has been a wonderful shared intellectual journey. Best Wishes, Kieran
Celia, a mashup celebration of your PhD accomplishment, including one from the memorable conferences in Syros, Greece. Kieran
Working as a short course co-facilitator in Trinidad!
Natasha in action!
Natasha as bus conductor!
In the second row, but still in charge!
Natasha on the far left of the photo and politics!
Photos were taken 6-8 June 2018 at 10th Intl Conference on Structures in Fire, Ulster University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Congratulations Terence! Your external examiner and I were extremely impressed by the quality of your thesis and contributions.
Congratulations Melissa! Fabulous scientific contributions!
Best of luck Melissa, with your NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
So proud of you, Dr. Ian MacDonald. What a brilliant dissertation!
Much congratulations, Maryam!!!
Hossam, congratulations on receiving your PhD degree from the University of Waterloo.
Alanna
Congratulations Dr. McEneny-King!
