Jack Callaghan is the recipient of the Canadian Society for Biomechanics Career Award. The award is the Society's highest recognition, honouring an individual who has been a leader in promoting the field of biomechanics in Canada and beyond through excellence in research, education and mentorship.
The pomp and circumstance began at 10:00 a.m. with the Applied Health Sciences ceremony of the University's 108th convocation. Three-hundred and sixty nine students received their undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Associate Professor Martin Cooke has received the Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award from the Canadian Sociological Association.
The Canadian Cancer Society presented a professor from the University of Waterloo with its Award for Excellence in Cancer Research for his pioneering work in cancer prevention.
Professor Chris Hadfield and Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), headline the list of recipients of honorary doctorates at the University of Waterloo's spring convocation ceremonies next month.
Professor Hadfield, a new Waterloo professor and the first Canadian to command the International Space Station, will receive an honorary doctor of science from the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and address convocation on Tuesday, June 10 at 10 a.m.
Starting this spring, frontline officers with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will use a screening tool developed at Waterloo to assess mental health issues, allowing for improved transitions from police custody to hospital care.
It started with just 30 seconds and a chalkboard. Now an award-winning campaign that saw students across campus show their support for mental health will expand its scope with new peer discussion groups.
With its first Ontario-focused study released today, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) at the University of Waterloo analyzes how well people in the province are really doing in the areas of their lives that matter the most.
Two researchers in University of Waterloo's Faculty of Applied Health Sciences are among recipients of the province of Ontario's Early Researcher Awards.
The Early Researcher Awards program helps promising and recently appointed researchers make new discoveries while creating jobs for graduate and undergraduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research assistants. Each award consists of $150,000 over five years to support the development of a research team.
Applied Health Sciences recipients are:
A financially secure retirement is becoming the exception not the norm, says Lee Anne Davies, CEO of Agenomics, a consulting firm specializing in money management and aging.