“I had the revelation that I’m not great at memorizing things, which is essential in becoming a doctor,” she says. “My strengths lie in understanding and applying concepts so I thought I could do well in the field of engineering.”
The University of Waterloo will award five honorary doctorates when more than 2,200 students receive degrees at convocation ceremonies taking place this week.
Highlights of Waterloo's fall convocation will include:
Friday, October 21, 10 a.m.
Applied Health Sciences and Science
The University of Waterloo’s Writing Centre celebrates 40 years of helping students and staff develop their academic and professional writing and communication skills.
The Writing Centre at Waterloo, is launching a speaker series in celebration of this milestone. The series will explore the rapidly changing world of communications and writing. Nora Young, well-known author and host of the CBC Radio show Spark with Nora Young, is the first speaker of the three-part series on October 20 at 4:30 p.m.
Professor Corey Johnson wasn’t always a champion for gender equality. It’s a torch, he says, that was picked up rather accidentally about 15 years ago.
The University of Waterloo will host 150 girls with their parents on Saturday to explore what a future in engineering can hold for them.
There were many days Jeffrey Azzolin felt like giving up and moving on to something else.
Two years into his effort to build a better blade for hockey skates, the University of Waterloo graduate was right back to square one, wracking his brain for an entirely new design that would both work and be financially viable.
The University of Waterloo and the Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre at St. Paul’s University College will host a summit that brings together elders, researchers, artists, activists, residential school survivors, students, and others to respond to recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
QUANTUM: The Exhibition features interactive activities, games and videos to engage visitors in quantum concepts including superposition, entanglement and wave/particle duality. It opens to the public on Friday, October 14 at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener and runs until January 2017.
Using close to 100 years of data, Applied Health Sciences Professor Suzanne Tyas is researching whether factors like educational attainment and linguistic skills allow the brain to resist cognitive decline in old age.