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There are many benefits of sending your child to summer camp.

Dr. Troy Glover and his research team at the University of Waterloo released a study, The Canadian Summer Camp Research Project, in 2011 that explored the outcomes of summer camp participation.

The five-year study concluded that, "Participation in provincially accredited camps promotes positive change in five key areas of development: social integration and citizenship, environmental awareness, attitudes towards physical activity, emotional intelligence and self-confidence and personal development."

In spring 2014, professor Steven Mock (Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, School of Public Health and Health Systems) received the province of Ontario's Early Researcher Award. 

The Campus Athletics Research Network (CARN) serves as a “research shop” where undergraduate and masters students select a challenge faced by the Athletics department and address it using theoretically grounded research approaches and techniques.

Jessie Dietz (BA’ 07), the Activity and Marketing Director at Waterloo Heights Retirement Apartments is responsible for marketing the retirement apartments to the appropriate demographic market as well as for designing, implementing, and evaluating recreational programs for the apartment residents.  

Kinesiology student Matt Vonk and Bronwen Valtchanov of Recreation and Leisure Studies were selected as this year's winners in the 2014 Applied Health Sciences (AHS) 3MT competition. 

During the unique competition for research-based masters thesis and doctoral students, competitors have 1 static slide and 3 minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research to a non-specialist audience.

Involvement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) sport groups makes gay and lesbian athletes feel better about their sexual identity and helps them come out in their everyday lives, according to research from the University of Waterloo.

A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia leaves both the person with the illness and their family members with many unanswered questions. 

Founding faculty member of Waterloo’s Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, and beloved Warriors Golf Coach, Jack Pearse passed away on Wednesday, August 21 at the age of 87.  

Summer camp is about more than s’mores and sing-alongs. Just ask Troy Glover; one of the recreation and leisure studies professors behind the multi-phase Canadian Summer Camp Research Project.