Both finalist teams that included students from the Faculty of Math – AFAIK and RelayMD – won top prizes at the Velocity 5K finals yesterday afternoon.
On November 16, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $15 million in funding for the University of Waterloo’s Faculties of Mathematics and Environment to work with Indonesian partners on climate-change adaptation and mitigation strategies in the country.
For 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.
Penelope Schankula (BCS in progress) is a builder.
She may not have been aware of that when she took a co-op job at the cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf in Waterloo, but she is part of a new generation helping build the region’s cybersecurity cluster today.
On November 9, Dr. Edward Doolittle, associate professor of mathematics at First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina, visited the Faculty of Mathematics.
Nine students from the Faculty of Mathematics will be competing in the Velocity semi-finals in South Campus Hall on November 9 and 10.
The Faculty of Mathematics is introducing a “Meatless Math Mondays” initiative this November to increase departmental sustainability and improve environmental wellness among students, faculty and staff.
PhD students from Waterloo’s six faculties are coming together to pilot a new course on climate change. The course, “The Wicked Problem of Climate Change,” is currently open for registration by senior undergraduate students.
Six hundred and three students graduated from the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics on Friday, including 378 of undergraduates and 225 of graduate students.
Charmaine Dean, Vice President for Research and Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, has been named a Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner.