As Canada prepares to unveil its National Adaptation Strategy at COP27 and to host the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, nature is still assigned a value of zero in our financial and accounting systems.
“Inspiration, technology, competency, structure and risk.” These are the pillars that Commander Chris Hadfield said are the requirements for advancing the future of aeronautics at the inaugural Sustainable Aeronautics Summit on October 5, 2022.
Dr. Rhea Ashley Hoskin
AMTD Global Talent Post-Doctoral Fellow
> Ontario Women’s Health Scholar
> Governor General Gold Medal Award (Queen’s University)
Oluwakemi (Kemi) Amodu is dedicated to advancing the reproductive and sexual health of the Hausa women in displaced persons camps in northern Nigeria.
People who shelved their long-term goals during the pandemic were better able to avoid anxiety and depression, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo aimed to investigate the relationship between what they call COVID-frozen goals – goals for which progress has been disrupted due to COVID-19 – and psychological well-being.
Dr. Edris Madadian was an environmentalist before he became an engineer, a passion he now wears on his sleeve as a postdoctoral researcher.
His research focuses on contamination from pharmaceutical and personal care products that go down our drains or are flushed down toilets and become sewage sludge, a by-product of wastewater treatment. The disposal of COVID-19 personal protective equipment adds to the issue on a global scale.
A new study concludes that the 2020 European ban on menthol cigarettes made it more likely that menthol smokers would quit smoking, supporting previous Canadian research on the positive public health impact of banning menthol cigarettes.
Christina Kyriakos, from Imperial College London, led the study in collaboration with researchers from Maastricht University and the Trimbos Institute in the Netherlands, and the International Tobacco Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project) at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Understanding the ways in which workers in precarious employment react to work injury and claims processes they see as unfair can help employers, legal representatives, physicians and others respond appropriately, according to a new study.
A new University of Waterloo initiative aims to shape the future of sustainability for the benefit of the environment, economy and society.
Whether you’re old or young, memory can be a challenge for all kinds of reasons, and most of us would welcome strategies to help improve our memory. Waterloo’s researchers in psychology have been helping with this area of cognition for years — and the impact of their research on what we know about memory continues with graduate students.