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The latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world ranking of universities and departments places Waterloo Psychology in the top 100 worldwide.  We’re in good company with other Waterloo departments – Architecture, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science, Geography, Sociology, Statistics, and three of the Engineering departments.  You can read more about this in the President’s message to the university:

Taking inspiration from Marc Andreessen’s “The 55 Unknown Rock Stars in Tech”, CyberNorth Ventures presents “The 55 Rock Stars of Waterloo”, a list of innovators in idea creation and community support.

#48  from the list of Rock Stars is Michaela Angemeer, a 4th year Honours student in Psychology. 

Carrie Aulenbacher remembers the conversation clearly: Her husband told her he wanted to buy an arcade machine he found on eBay. He said he’d been saving up for it as a birthday present to himself. The spouses sat at the kitchen table and discussed where it would go in the den.

 Two weeks later, Ms. Aulenbacher came home from work and found two arcade machines in the garage—and her husband beaming with pride.  

   

 “What are these?” she demanded.

“I told you I was picking them up today,” he replied.

For the complete story see Daily Bulletin, March 31, 2015

The Faculty of Arts hosted its third annual 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) heat on March 12 with 15 graduate students competing in a tight race. A strong advocate for 3MT, Dean Douglas Peers likened the calibre of research presented by Arts students to the 3MT National Competition last year where he was a judge.

Prof. Geoffrey Fong received an award from the American Cancer Society for his outstanding research contribution.

The EWO Co-op Student of the Year Award recognizes Ontario Co-op students who have showcased exceptional job achievement, extra-curricular involvement, academic achievement and a strong contribution to Co-operative Education.