Social and Economic Prosperity

Vinh Nguyen
Professor, Faculty of Arts

When the heartbreaking photo of Alan Kurdi, the drowned three-year-old Syrian boy, made global headlines in 2015, it galvanized many Canadians into action.

Helen Shilomboleni (PhD '17)
PhD Alumnus, Faculty of Environment
> School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

If today’s farmers grow enough food to end world hunger, why are more than 800 million people in the world still undernourished?

Kayla Hardie
Student, Faculties of Mathematics and Science
> Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy

A few years into her undergraduate degree, Kayla Hardie found her calling: “I realized I wanted to help the world mitigate and adapt to climate change.”