Curling unites rural women and offers them health benefits beyond the physical, according to Waterloo research.
Third-year therapeutic recreation student Laura Barkin was one of four St. Paul's GreenHouse students to receive funding from a new $5,000 Social Innovation Fund for startups.
Barkin's Moving Libraries initiative aims to make studying an active experience by bringing FitDesks to the University.
Students from the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo will offer a day of free family programming in Waterloo on Saturday.
The more time you spend getting to and from work, the less likely you are to be satisfied with life, says a new study by Applied Health Sciences faculty, Margo Hilbrecht, Steven Mock, and Bryan Smale.
This Saturday, students in Zara Rafferty’s program management and evaluation course will put their event planning — and ice cream making — skills to the test as they host a day of free family activities at the Stork Family YMCA and Harper Library.
You probably know that commuting increases time pressures, as people have time siphoned from their already busy lives for travelling between home and work. But it may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that commuting is related to lower satisfaction with life.
Bryan Grimwood has been working with Aboriginal communities connected to the Thelon to cultivate enhanced understanding of, and responsible relationships to, this sacred and changing place.
In November, the University, in partnership with the Waterloo Public Library John M. Harper Branch and the Stork Family YMCA, hosted a day of free family programming developed by Recreation and Leisure Studies students from REC 220 Program Management course.
This fall, Morrison, along with a group of Recreation and Leisure Studies students will attempt to give children in developing and war-torn countries a vital piece of childhood back when they launch an official chapter of Right To Play at Waterloo.
Congratulations to Professor Sherry Dupuis on being recognized as one of Patient Commando's 2014 Canadian Women Changing Healthcare.