After years of collecting, Professor Elliot Avedon’s mass archive of gaming pieces will be transferred from the University of Waterloo to the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The collection first started as a teaching aide and grew over time into a mass collection of over 5,000 objects and related documentation.
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Perth County like many other areas are trying to expand and capitalize on culinary tourism, which has exploded in recent times. Stephen Smith of Waterloo’s department of recreation and leisure studies explains simple steps that can be used to help attract consumers.
See article in the Beacon Herald
The Partnerships in Dementia Care (PiDC) Alliance, co-led by Sherry Dupuis, Director, Kenneth G. Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program – MAREP brings together researchers from five universities and 50 partners at the regional, provincial, and national levels representing all key stakeholder groups in dementia care.
After three decades of figuring how out the spine works, Stuart McGill has come to loathe sit-ups. It doesn’t matter whether they are the full sit-ups beloved by military trainers or the crunch versions so ubiquitous in gyms. “What happens when you perform a sit-up?” he asks. “The spine is flexed into the position at which it damages sooner.”
See article in Macleans.
It is with sadness that the University of Waterloo announces the passing of Norman J. Ashton, a pioneer of what is now the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, and in most eyes the founder of kinesiology as a field of study. Ashton died Tuesday, January 19, 2010, aged 83.
“Norm’s example has influenced several generations of leadership in kinesiology,” says Jim Rush, who now chairs the kin department that Ashton headed from its beginning in 1967.
The Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging (RIA) has won an innovator's award from the International Council on Active Aging for adapting a ground-breaking program in order to encourage senior citizens to become more active.