As part of their senior year, our fourth-year Recreation and Sport Business capstone course went to Toronto for a one-day field trip to visit the MLSE LaunchPad.
Congratulations to Diana Parry, Associate Vice-President Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion, and professor of Recreation and Leisure Studies, on being named the recipient of the 2020 Angela Hildyard Recognition Award in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Profs. Feng Chang and Heather Mair with student researchers.
Fitness Instructor, Rosalie Brown (BA '85) adds another award to her trophy case as she has been named as one of IMPACT Magazine's Canada's Top Fitness Instructors of 2019
Job enrichment may be an important tool for retaining seasonal frontline staff, according to a new University of Waterloo study.
Fourth-year Recreation and Sport Business student and varsity field hockey player Larissa McLeod received the U SPORTS Gail Wilson Award last Thursday, October 31 at the U SPORTS Field Hockey award gala in Victoria, B.C. This award is given to a player who has contributed greatly to her sport, academics and greater community. She was also named a U SPORTS All-Canadian.
Congratulations to PhD student Haley Baxter and MA student Jordana Milne who received Mitacs Globalink Research Awards. The $6,000 award provides opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdorctoral fellows at Canadian universities to build international research networks and undertake research for 12-24 weeks at a university abroad.
Three faculty members who recently participated in the Waterloo ExL Institute - an intensive two-day retreat focused on the integration of experiential learning into courses and programs - received grants of up to $5,500 to assist with the implementation of experiential learning into their upcoming courses.
Cities that want to get the best use of sport facilities built to host novel events might want to give out vouchers for free trials to spectators.
Congratulations to John (Can) Ergen, a Masters of Recreation and Leisure Studies student, who placed first at the Applied Health Sciences (AHS) heat of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! He did an excellent job presenting his thesis titled “Choir Participation, Social Identity & Psychological Wellbeing”.