What if I told you that university students were creating the transportation technology of the future? Would you believe this technology will travel faster than a Boeing 747 aircraft, all the while getting power from an electric motor and solar panels?
Earlier this month, an old friend visited the University of Waterloo. The Right Honourable David Johnston, former President of UWaterloo and former Governor General of Canada, joined faculty, students and members of the local community to speak about trust in our nation, the topic of his 2018 book, Trust.
It was 1974 and the Waterloo Warriors men’s hockey team had just clinched the CIAU championship. Assistant Captain Cam Crosby (BSc ’74), a veteran of the Toronto Marlboros and Kitchener Rangers, helped lead the team to the win.
Victory was sweet. But Cam says that it’s the relationships he built with his teammates that he treasures most from those days. “Some of my best friends today are from that group of players and their families.”
Six decades after travelling halfway around the world to take a chance on a new university in Canada, a proud alumnus is helping it grow in a way he would never have imagined possible.
Nityanand Varma was the proverbial immigrant with eight dollars in his pocket when he left his native India in the early 1960s to do a master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Now, as patriarch of a family that has maintained strong ties to Waterloo Engineering ever since, he is instrumental in a $1-million contribution to fund a new professorship in robotics.
On July 1, Professor Bruce Frayne will begin his tenure as the new dean of the Faculty of Environment for a five-year term.
Prior to his appointment, Frayne was a tenured, full professor at the University of Waterloo serving a second term as the Director of the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development in the Faculty of Environment.
This weekend many of us will have watched and read the news from Buffalo of another devastating mass murder motivated by racial hatred and an ideology of white supremacy.
To anyone in our community that is affected by this senseless tragedy, please know we are here to support you, and we have resources you can draw on to help you cope.
Events like these force us all to confront the horrible reality of gun violence in the United States, but most importantly the reality that racialized people, particularly Black people, face every day.
In 2001, I proudly graduated from Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics. Like many of my peers, I chose Waterloo because of its co-op program and the opportunity to gain real-world work experience.
Asian Heritage Month is an opportunity to recognize the many accomplishments and contributions that Canadians of Asian heritage, including our colleagues and students here at the University, continue to make in our country and communities.
Farzaan Nathoo-Khedri
Valedictorian, Faculty of Mathematics
Having an undergraduate program upended by the pandemic and the move to remote classes was not just a challenge academically, but also with respect to the community aspect of the university experience.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Kaitlyn Roth, a 3A Conrad Grebel University College undergraduate student in the Faculty of Arts. Kaitlyn passed away on April 28, 2022.