The University of Waterloo today named Joanne Shoveller as vice-president, advancement, effective January 1, 2017. Shoveller is currently associate dean, advancement and alumni relations at INSEAD, The Business School for the World.
Applied Health Sciences Professor Laura Middleton
With clinical drug trials failing to live up to expectations, researchers are looking at another way to fight dementia: exercise.
Studies show that people who are physically active have 40 per cent lower risk of dementia, possibly due to the growth of new neurons and blood vessels in the brain.
Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, was at the United Nations with nine other university presidents to unveil the first-ever HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 University Parity Report (PDF).
Anya Forestell has long admired British actress Emma Watson and this week the Waterloo physics and astronomy student will be speaking at a HeForShe event in New York City attended by the UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador.
Young women with a passion for computer science, physics and engineering have received $12,000 scholarships under the University of Waterloo’s HeForShe IMPACT scholarship program.
A former residential school for First Nations children in Brantford, Ont. — a site where children were physically, sexually and emotionally abused for more than 140 years — has become a space where artists will help visitors connect to the stories of pain, trauma, survival and empowerment.
More than 1,000 students from around the world will gather at the University of Waterloo this week for Hack the North, Canada’s biggest hackathon.
About 5,100 students from almost 60 countries apply to attend the event. Competitors come from more than 170 schools around the world including top universities in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.
HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 engages 30 male heads of state, university leaders and CEOs of global corporations to accelerate the achievement of ‘Planet 50-50 by 2030’ — UN Women’s vision for a gender-equal world.
Ten global universities representing five continents are on a high-speed path to achieve gender equality on their campuses by 2020.
University of Waterloo astrophysicists are leading a team of researchers who have devised a new way to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity within Sagittarius A* - the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Tim Johannsen and Avery Broderick, along with international colleagues, will use the new method in gravitational conditions that are so extreme, the results will usher in a new era in gravitational research, validating – or disproving – general relativity in its most exotic manifestations.
Leading experts on innovation, growth and managing disruption will come together next week at the Waterloo Innovation Summit to explore what governments, universities and business can do to ignite higher growth in a low-growth world.