Rashmee Singh
When it comes to prosecuting domestic violence cases in court, it turns out that photographs of injuries after the assault and videotaped testimony can potentially victimize women further, says a University of Waterloo expert in domestic violence.
Sometimes, we don’t know what we’re missing until we look.
A missing umbrella is no big deal until it rains. An executive panel full of male faces may be accepted without a second thought, until someone has the audacity to question the absence of diverse voices.
Unintentional bias is like that. It’s a part of our culture that feels so comfortable that we tend not to notice. It becomes engrained in our social norms, so that non-normative items or individuals are overlooked, dismissed or somehow seen as lacking.
Three Waterloo women entrepreneurs (left to right) Rachel Friesen, Alexa Roeper, and Laura Smith
In celebration of the United Nations’ Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, we talked to three women who are part of the University of Waterloo’s Velocity’s startup incubator program.
Ian Andrews, Kent Fisher, Jean-Philippe MacLean, Michael Mazurek, Aimee Gunther, Angela Olano, and Sarah Kaiser at the opening of the exhibition. Photo credit: Brent Wettlaufer/THEMUSEUM
Students from the University of Waterloo will offer a day of free family programming in the community on Saturday.
The students from the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences will present Waterloo West Neighbourhood Fest at the John M. Harper Branch of the Waterloo Public Library and the Stork Family YMCA.
After more than a decade of hiding her severe depression, Hannah Gautreau finally reached out for help this past summer when she realized her life was at risk. She called Here 24/7, a crisis hotline, and was advised to seek immediate help.
After being admitted to Grand River Hospital, Gautreau was diagnosed with clinical depression and received treatment for the illness. Now, the Waterloo Engineering student is urging other students to break the silence about their own mental health struggles.
Efforts over the past seven years to reduce tobacco use in China have been strikingly ineffective and leave tobacco use a top threat to the health and economic well-being of the world’s largest country, according to research findings by the University of Waterloo’s International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project).
Researchers are becoming increasingly worried that parts of the world are entering a post-antibiotic era where antibiotics are ineffective in treating common infections.
In preparation for the World Health Organizations first ever World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy is hosting a free public lecture to discuss antibiotic resistance, its effects and consequences.
The University of Waterloo broke ground on an innovative engineering building that will feature facilities designed to expand student-driven innovation and advanced research labs to develop emerging technologies that will help to boost Canada’s global competitiveness.
The TEDxUW conference is bringing another round of dynamic speakers to Waterloo this weekend with a full day of talks about the power of collaboration.
Three of the speakers in the TEDxUW lineup are University of Waterloo alumni: