Talent

Applications for 2023 postdoctoral funding programs are now open, including two new opportunities supported by the provost for interdisciplinary scholars and Black and Indigenous scholars.

Postdocs at the University of Waterloo play a vital role in advancing impactful research. These top-tier funding opportunities create the possibility to attract exceptional scholars across all disciplines.

According to a panel of academic and industry experts, Canada faces a crisis in training and retaining enough cybersecurity and privacy professionals to face increasing threats to the country’s digital infrastructure and data.

But with renewed government support and closer ties with industry partners, academic institutions like the University of Waterloo are on track to address the cybersecurity talent gap.

That’s the consensus at the 2022 Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Annual Conference, hosted this week at Waterloo.

They may be graduating from different academic units, but these Faculty of Health grads show how getting a great university experience comes from following your interests, building your network and gathering skills both in and outside the classroom. Congrats to the Class of 2022!

Preet Momi, who is graduating with a Master’s in Recreation and Leisure Studies this fall, had the unique opportunity to study community reintegration for women leaving prison with Professor Heather Mair from the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies.

Honorary doctorates recognize those thought leaders and influencers advancing society across a spectrum of disciplines. Our graduates can look to these people for inspiration as they prepare themselves for the future.

At Fall 2022 Convocation, the University confers honorary degrees on Dr. Claudia Klüppelberg and Gerry Remers. Find out more about these academic and industry leaders.

Dr. Claudia Klüppelberg

“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.

For Jalisa Karim, interdisciplinary work comes naturally.

This fall, Karim will graduate with a BMath in biostatistics and a BA in sexuality, marriage and family studies.

While some might question her choice to pursue degrees from two very different sides of campus, for her the pairing makes sense.

“I think interdisciplinary research is so important,” she says. “Fields don’t exist in a vacuum. Understanding the context around the research questions you’re trying to answer is essential.”

If there is one key commonality among PhD researchers at the University of Waterloo, it is a commitment to applied research.

Waterloo’s PhD programs are scholarly and rigorous in terms of theoretical sophistication and depth and breadth of knowledge. But the University’s spirit of innovation calls on PhD students to find a practical application for their work.

Oluwakemi (Kemi) Amodu is dedicated to advancing the reproductive and sexual health of the Hausa women in displaced persons camps in northern Nigeria.