News archive - 2015

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

CBC Radio: Science under Siege

The CBC radio series Ideas launched a three-part series on Science Under Seige on June 3, 2015. Heather Douglas (Waterloo Chair in Science and Society) helped the producer with the series and wrote a commentary for it.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Science and the Public: Rebuilding the Relationship

Heather Douglas (Waterloo Chair in Science and Society) gave a talk at University of Washington, Seattle colloquium on May 15, 2015 on "Science and the Public: Rebuilding the Relationship" in addition to Wesleyan University on April 23, 2015. Slides of her talk.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Reshaping science: The trouble with the corporate model in Canadian government

Heather Douglas's (Waterloo Chair in Science and Society) abstract in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Women in Science: Climate and Career Success

Carla Fehr (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy) gave a talk on the topic of Women in Science: Climate and Career Success at UWaterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing back in November 2014. Her presentation is now available on online.