Elroy Wilson is an Msc Marketing and Agribusiness student from the University of West Indies (UWI). In January, Elroy arrived as visiting researcher to the University of Waterloo.
International Development Speaker Series Winter 2014
Please join us to hear insights from leading scholars, industry professionals and agents of change as it relates to International Development. Our speaker line up is listed below.
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED)
Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo
Venue: Alumni Hall, St. Paul University College
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.50 pm
Thursday, February 6, 2014
The SEED career profile series was created as a way to showcase talented individuals that are affiliated with the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development. The program will feature students, professors, and guest lecturers that exemplify SEED’s mission; these individuals have developed the knowledge, tools and expertise to integrate environmental and social objectives into business or development activities.
If you live or work in a mid-sized city in Canada, chances are that it has a university.
This morning on CBC radio 89.1 in Kitchener Waterloo Professor Blair Feltmate discussed climate adaptation and the current government's opportunity to take four practical steps to address adaptation challenges.
Listen to the clip on CBC's Morning Edition
Living with climate change: Mapping community experience and adaptation
Rasna Sherchan, a Master of Environment and Business student, was recently invited to present her independent research work at the Symposium on Sustainability & Human Rights hosted by Fulbright Canada and Concordia University in Montreal.
Master of Development Practice students presented at an international forum held in Ottawa earlier this month, organized by the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and Montreal-based Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI).
About 50 people from the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development rubbed elbows at a Meet-and-Greet held on campus recently. It was a rare chance for students, faculty and staff from across the department to leave their roles behind and get to know each other on a more personal level.
SEED Student Profile: Kevin Rotsaert
Students at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development are both enterprising and empathetic, qualities we like to encourage here. Whether the class is about social entrepreneurship or ecological economics, the lesson at the end is that success can't be measured in dollars.