The fourth-year biomedical sciences student recently completed her last term as a Library ambassador. It was a role that not only helped her to develop skills she’ll use in medical school but allowed her to make a positive impact on her peers as well.
The Toronto-Waterloo innovation corridor employs more than 200,000 tech workers. As home to tens of thousands of tech companies and startups, the region is sometimes called Canada’s Silicon Valley. The corridor contributes some 17 per cent to Canada’s GDP.
Yet, for all the advancement on the tech and business side, the industry’s social development lacks in one key area: the gender gap.
While most COVID-19 infections are spread through close contact with an infected person, in some cases, they can occur through extended airborne exposure, making proper ventilation essential. For the past year, Waterloo’s mechanical design teams and trade staff have been inspecting the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) units on campus, making retrofits to support higher levels of filtration and reprogramming our Building Automation Systems (BAS) to accommodate building occupancy and new guidelines for health and safety.
Current and future professionals are not only required to have the skills and knowledge to work within an ever-changing, technology-driven future, but to also adapt effectively to a potentially ongoing virtual environment as the world continues to grapple with our current global pandemic.
The University of Waterloo is launching WatSPEED, a new unit that aims to transform lifelong learning and professional education to support the workforce of the future.
Join Vivek Goel's Presidential Installation ceremony virtually on Monday, November 8, 2021, at 4 p.m.
Jean Becker is the University of Waterloo’s senior director, Indigenous initiatives. Becker, who is Inuk and a member of the Nunatsiavut Territory of Labrador, has a long track record of building reciprocal relationships between post-secondary institutions and First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities.
As my time as president draws to a close at the end of the month, I want to thank this great community at the University of Waterloo: our students, faculty, staff, retirees and alumni, as well as all of our valued partners in the community and around the globe.
A new study looking at national opioid mortality, hospitalization and emergency department visits in Canada has found a nearly six-fold increase in opioid-related deaths between 2000 and 2017.
The University of Waterloo is showcasing the operation of a driverless, autonomous shuttle research program that will transport students and staff around campus.
The demonstration of the shuttle, dubbed “WATonoBus” by the research team, is the first of its kind at a Canadian academic institution and marks a significant milestone in a multi-year initiative to demonstrate and integrate autonomous transportation onto the campus.