In a technology-enabled future, Arts faculties have an opportunity to demonstrate their relevance by making collaboration across disciplines easier and more visible
A psychology study that once took five or six weeks to build can now be created in less than an hour. Jacob Oliveira, a PhD student in the School of Psychology developed the new tool by aiming to solve his own research challenge. Now his solution has grown into a venture shaped in part by Waterloo’s culture of experimentation and entrepreneurship.
Internationally recognized scholar joins Waterloo to strengthen global leadership in German culture and literary studies
A new study covering 46 countries found significant gaps in awareness about smoking and second-hand smoke
International study suggests ways to train large language models in wise reasoning and measure the wisdom of AI
In her role as associate director of Science Indigenous Initiatives at Waterloo, Savannah Sloat has plenty of opportunities to interact with students, faculty and members of Indigenous communities in the region. As a Tuscarora educator and a registered member of Six Nations of the Grand River, Sloat focuses her work on community identity, politics and personhood.
Now playing across Canada, France, Switzerland, Argentina and Brazil, Grateful is Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae’s fourth full-length album. Produced just outside of Montreal, a city to which Keleta-Mae has deep creative ties, the ten-track album is an extension of her research-creation project Black And Free which explores themes of Blackness and freedom in the 21st century through Black expressive culture.
Kem-Laurin Lubin is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Waterloo where she focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) biases and their ongoing influences on the lived experience of people, particularly the marginalized. She completed a BA Hons at the University of Ottawa and an MA in Rhetoric and Professional Writing at Waterloo.
Developing and delivering quality healthcare requires an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on fields ranging from history to sociology to communication and design. And Waterloo’s strong emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship is one reason, Dr Peter Warrian and his wife, Dr. Margret Hovenec, established the Lupina Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowships with Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts.
A recent study by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University has shed light on how to reward employees more fairly and improve team dynamics.
The study found that when less skilled employees report their performance voluntarily, they often exaggerate their achievements and ask for higher bonuses. These employees also tend to put in less effort and are less concerned about fairness when sharing their contributions voluntarily.