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The School of Planning is pleased to congratulate Divankshi Gandhi for winning the School of Planning Website Scavenger Hunt. On August 25th, the School hosted an Undergraduate Welcome Event, in which a Website Scavenger Hunt was launched. Students were given until the end of the month to explore the University of Waterloo online resources and submit webpage links corresponding with each prompt. Divankshi was successful in providing all correct answers, and has proved her ability to navigate our online resources. Thank you, Divankshi, for your participation. 

Kaitlyn Webber, Emma McDougall, Sam Petrie took their research about the social and economic impact of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in Waterloo Region to the global stage this June, where they particpated in a problem-based pitch competition hosted by Oxford University. 

Webber, MA in Planning, and McDougall, PhD in Planning were encouraged to explore this research opportunity and were soon referred to Petrie, a PhD candidate in Health Sciences at Carleton University, and an alumnus of the Department of Knowledge Integration.

The School of Planning is pleased to congradulate Siya Agarwal for recieving the Planning Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement. Presented anually at Spring convocation, this recognition of academic excellence is given to the top graduating student from each academic plan. 

Read more about Siya and the other Spring 2020 Award Recipients. 

The School of Planning is pleased to introduce the Planning Research in Action series. Coming to your screens every Friday, a new research video will be launched on the University of Waterloo's Environment YouTube channel.

With the start of the Fall term, clubs, services, and student societies at the University of Waterloo want you to get involved! Several environment-related groups are active this term and are eager to engage and build community. The Faculty of Environment has prepared a Student Engagement Showcase video that is intended to promote some of the engagement opportunities available for students this term. 

In this video, you will learn more about:

In addition to our regular faculty complement, the School commonly draws on sessional instructors, many of them registered professional planners, to teach courses relating to specific areas of professional expertise and to substitute in case of faculty leaves. For Fall 2020, we are pleased to welcome the following sessional instructors:

The School of Planning is pleased to announce that the Planner-in-Residence for the 2020-2021 academic year is Rob Horne. Rob will deliver PLAN 403 in the winter term to our 4th year undergraduate students;

Planning Master's students Kaitlin Webber, Melissa Le Geyt, Theresa O’Neill and Vignesh Murugesan have partnered with the Community, Recreation and Culture Services department at the City of St. Catharines, Ontario to create Guiding Urban Forestry Policy into the Next Decade: A Private Tree Protection & Management Practice Guide. 

We are delighted to announce that Markus Moos is taking on the role of Director for the School of Planning in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. He is replacing Clarence Woudsma who has been in the role for 12 years. The School of Planning community, Faculty of Environment, and university community thank Woudsma for his service and dedication over these years.

The School of Planning would like to congratulate Joanne Fitzgibbons for receiving the Govenor General's Gold Medal - Masters for the University of Waterloo! This recognition is a real testament to the hard work Joanne put into her degree and the extremely high quality research carried out under the supervision of Dr. Carrie Mitchell.

More about the 2020 Govenor General's Gold Medal.