A University of Waterloo Recreation and Leisure Studies student is one of ten exceptional youth presented with the Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers - the highest honour a young person can achieve for volunteer contributions to the province.
Five St. Paul’s GreenHouse ventures received grants to develop their socially minded products and services at the most recent GreenHouse Social Impact Showcase.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, February 4, 2016) — The more of a certain kind of passion varsity athletes have for their sport, the more favourable their attitudes towards the use of performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs, according to a recent study.
Published in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, the paper is the first to show that passion levels can help predict a collegiate athlete’s attitude towards performance enhancing drugs.
The former director of athletics who navigated the University of Waterloo’s football team through the worst doping scandal in Canadian university history, has developed an anonymous online survey for teams that he hopes will protect athletes from dangerous behaviours.
Program participants will have the opportunity to work in front-of-the-house operations at Disney’s theme parks and resorts and obtain real-world experience working for a world-renowned entertainment company.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Canadians are less uncertain about their retirement years if they have openly discussed their LGBT identity with family and friends, according to a breakthrough study by the RBC Retirement Research Centre at Waterloo.
Milton's new velodrome could be a boon to track cycling long after the Pan Am Games are over, says Waterloo researcher.
Three University of Waterloo Recreation and Leisure Studies students were honoured this week for their contributions to the field of therapeutic recreation (TR) at the annual Therapeutic Recreation Ontario (TRO) conference.
Steven Mock, Karla Boluk, and Troy Glover – from the department of Recreation and Leisure Studies – were among the awardees recognized at the 2014-2015 Recipients of Distinguished Awards and Honours reception held on Tuesday, April 28.
That’s why Barkin is on a mission to bring FitDesks– kinetic desks that allow students to keep active while they study – to the University of Waterloo.