Inside Winter 2023
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Announcing the 2022 Alumni Achievement Medal winners
For this special anniversary year, the Faculty of Mathematics is recognizing 10 remarkable Mathies
The awards committee chose 5 winners for each award this year: one for each year from 2019 to 2021 and two for 2022 in recognition of it being the 20th anniversary of the Alumni Achievement Medal and the 10th anniversary of the Young Alumni Achievement Medal. The medallists will be presented their medals at an event during Alumni Weekend on June 3, 2023.
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Representing your authentic self in digital space
Waterloo alum who co-founded Bitmoji hopes personalizing your avatar will bring you closer to the people you communicate with online
Among the great liberating qualities of the digital world is that it allows many people to express themselves, free from the constraints of the physical world. David Kennedy's BitmojiFor David Kennedy (BMath ’02), vice-president and co-founder of the digital avatar company Bitmoji, the ways people represent themselves and identify online should be about empowerment and breaking free of constraints.
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Student-produced mathNEWS turns 50
The first issue, published January 25, 1973, was introduced as an informal alternative to existing student publications, containing “not much math and even less news.”
mathNEWS (the title styling has remained both consistent and deeply insistent) featured a mixture of hand-drawn comic strips, fiction, nonfiction pieces on everything from mathematical proofs to cafeteria food, and classified ads. Students advertised intramural sports teams and looked for missed connections, conducted interviews with experts and wrote long musings on failed romantic endeavors.
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Black History Month
The University of Waterloo and the Faculty of Mathematics celebrate the contributions and achievements of Black community members during Black History Month and throughout the year.
Read stories about Black alumni and community members.
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