Talent

When Alessia Danelon graduates from mechanical engineering this week, she says she’ll be sitting amongst her people - curious students who like to take risks and push boundaries.

Danelon, who will start a full-time job at Apple Inc. in Northern California in August, says the dynamic culture at Waterloo is a two-way street:  Waterloo encourages innovation and entrepreneurialism, but its renowned co-operative education program actually draws young people hungry for change.

Graduate students who specialize in water-related studies at the University of Waterloo will have the opportunity to be part of a new Integrated Water Management program that will give them a broad foundation in water science, engineering, technology and management.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, June 3, 2013) – The board of the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) today announced the appointment of Professor John Ravenhill as director of the school.

The maker revolution has resulted from the wide availability of low-cost digital media tools, with more and more people producing content for broad exposure. Glenn Stillar, associate professor and director of Waterloo’s digital arts communication program, examines the theory and practice of how we create new meaning with tools that produce highly visual and immediate communication. He suggests ‘visualacy’ is becoming equally important in society as literacy.

Speech communication professor Jennifer Simpson asks an important question: So what? How can educators make issues of public good and social justice relevant to students? Higher education provides an environment for faculty and students to learn to deal with difference. Educators have an opportunity to make social issues real to students. In doing so, those students can leave university with an understanding of their role in society and ability to contribute to public justice.

When Christine McWebb helped design the new Master of Digital Experience Innovation (MDEI) program she created partnerships with industry so graduates would be better positioned to work in careers they love.

You should be studying organic chemistry but there are so many other things to do and then, of course, there is sleep.

Steven Forsey, who has been teaching organic chemistry for almost ten years, says it does.

On a cold day in a downtown alley, a group of young people gather around a man named Duff to listen as he describes what it was like when he lived on the streets.

This summer, Larry Swatuk will pack his bags, just as he has for the last 12 years, and return to the University of Western Cape in South Africa where he’ll teach a three-week course in water security pro bono.