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In this issue:

  • Celebrating National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day
  • Planting the seeds of reconciliation
  • Meet Savanah Seaton, MA Psychology
  • Meet Naomi Paul, MASc in Systems Design Engineering
  • Meet Elder Bill, Elder in Residence, Faculty of Engineering
  • Q and A with the experts: Reclaiming Indigenous histories
  • May CatalystFlashback, Meet Anne Galang, associate director, Executive Communications
  • Ericsson Innovation Awards (EIA) competition

In this issue:

  • President Goel reflects on Asian Heritage Month 
  • President Goel receives the PART report
  • Manh-Kien Tran builds a smart cloud-based battery management system
  • Meet Anne Galang, associate director, Executive Communications
  • Preparing for the next pandemic
  • Susan Shu Chang (BA '17) wins the Arts 2021 Young Alumni Award
  • Bulletin Board

In this issue:

  • President Goel reflects on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • ARTS Prof to facilitate Anti-racism book club in May
  • Celebrating the remarkable experiences of our Black alumni
  • Tackling Black girl environmentalism and equity
  • Meet Savannah Sloat, project manager of Indigenous Initiatives in the Office of Research
  • Meet Eugenia Dadzie, winner of the 2022 GRADflix Competition
  • Introducing LiftOff: a Black-led business accelerator and incubator for Black Entrepreneurs

In this issue:

  • Message from Dr. Charmaine Dean, executive-designate (PART)
  • PART invites you to the March Anti-racism Book Club
  • Black history at Waterloo in photos
  • Reflections on two years of impact with the Office of Indigenous Relations
  • Meet Akua Asare-Amin, International Student Recruitment specialist
  • Addressing racial disparities in osteoarthritis research
  • LiftOff Black Entrepreneurship Program
  • An Experiential Job Shadow Program
  • Lantern Festival closes out Lunar New Year celebrations

In this issue:

  • Message from Charmaine Dean, PART Executive Designate
  • An update from the new Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism office
  • Registration opens for the January Anti-racism book club
  • Hec of a Warrior: Tre Ford named Canada's most outstanding player
  • Meet Dr. Anita Taylor
  • Working group update
  • The Career Starter Program

In this issue:

  • Message from Colleen Phillips-Davis, Co-chair of the Educational Environment and the Development of Learners working group (EEDL)
  • Black Studies and Anti-racism diplomas launch in 2022
  • Canadian universities work together to increase diversity in engineering and technology
  • Meet Veronica Sila Nhio-son, WUSA representative on the Health and Mental Health working group
  • Student Success Office and AccessAbility Services Anti-racism Initiatives (SAARI)
  • Black Faculty Collective (BFC)
  • A brief history of Black experience at Waterloo, 1960s-1990s
  • New AI brings the power of natural language processing to African languages
  • Working group update
  • Avenue: The Black Undergraduate Law Internship Program

The panel discussion will highlight the importance of policy changes and governance transformations in addressing structural racism. The discussion will focus on gaps in policies, governance structures, and cultures that contribute to systemic racism; recommendations to include Indigenous, Black, and other racialized voices into governance, senior leadership, and other decision-making bodies; and ways to embed equity, diversity, inclusiveness, anti-racism, anti-oppression, and decolonization into University policies and procedures. 


In this issue:

  • Message from Kalpita Gaitonde, co-chair of the Health and Mental Health working group
  • University responds to Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion review
  • PART and Thrive invite you to talk about mental health at the intersections
  • November Anti-racism book club
  • Meet Olivia Fuju Taylor, PART research analyst
  • Recreation and Leisure Studies
  • Margaret Mutumba, PhD candidate, Public Health Sciences
  • Working group update
  • Avenue: The Black Undergraduate Law Internship Program

Let’s Talk About Mental Health at the IntersectionsIn collaboration with the President’s Anti-Racism Taskforce (PART), we will be hosting a panel discussion on intersectionality (the convergence of two or more identities within a person) and its effects on health and wellbeing.