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Pragma Council was pleased to recognize the contributions of Ashley Rudkevitch, graduate planning student, and Erin Smith, undergraduate planning student, for being outstanding student citizens and contributing to the well-being of their fellow students and to the School of Planning! 

In addition to the many hours both students devoted to the never ending mound of assignments and group projects, they dedicated the remainder of their time to various student committees and events.

The School of Planning congratulates the graduating Class of 2016! Prior to the official ceremony held at the PAC, School of Planning graduands participated in the annual graduation luncheon and presentation of rings. The ring is a symbol oftheir membership in an exclusive group: Alumni of The School of Planning at Waterloo. The ceremony was a huge success and featured speeches from Kevin Yeung, a graduate student in the School of Planning, Justine Giancola, an alumnus of the school and Laura Hagerman, a graduate of the Class of 2016.

Planning professor Markus Moos popularizes the term youthification to describe our changing cities and neigbourhoods.

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The School of Planning welcomes Olivier Roy-Baillargeon to the School of Planning and extends congratulations for receiving the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Olivier will be working closely with Dr. Pierre Filion to develop his research on transportation and land use Planning.

A team of creative fourth-year Planning Students scored an impressive win with their entry in the international 2015 ULI Urban Ideas Competition. Not only did Team Waterloo win first prize in the “Student Category” ($1500) -- it also won the “People’s Choice” award!  This was an especially high honour, given that teams of professional consultants were also competing for this prize.   

Getting involved outside the classroom really makes a difference! Martin Wu, one of our third year Planning students, recently presented to Peterborough City Council a synopsis of urban design ideas generated at a World Town Planning Day event this past January.  Martin volunteered his services for the WTPD event under the direction of Kevin Duguay, a University of Waterloo Planning Alumni and professional planner based in Peterborough.

World Town Planning Day celebrates the role of the planning profession in creating livable communities. It is celebrated annually in more than 30 countries on four continents and has been celebrated for over 55 years.

Maxwell Hartt, a PhD Candidate in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellow, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Canada student grant to conduct research at Tufts University during the 2015-2016 academic year. His project is entitled “Transferring Planning Strategies in Shrinking Cities.”

The AGP Brown Bag lunches have long been an excellent venue for facilitating student-faculty interaction, and contribute positively to the intellectual environment in the School. In conjunction with the AGP, the School is pleased to present the lunch speaker series for the fall term!

A list of winter speakers will be available in the near future.

This series is jointly funded by the School, AGP and UWPAT.

Congratulations

to School of Planning professor, Luna Khirfan and undergraduate student Mandy Zhang for their award winning submission of “Community Based Climate Change Adaptation in Tobago”!

This winning entry was in the second category of the ARCH+ International Design Competition “Planetary Urbanism – Critique in the Medium of Information Design”

For more information about the competition please visit ARCH+