Fish and Frogs Field Day
Zoological field research techniques showcase, for high school students.
Zoological field research techniques showcase, for high school students.
Public event in Victoria Park- inviting applications for speakers.
The Externship and Career Experiential Learning (ExCEL) initiative was launched this term with a series of externships, bringing students on tours of science-focused companies in the community.
Professor Barbara Moffatt has been named Distinguished Professor Emerita, the first in Biology at Waterloo. Her recipe for success? Choose to do things that challenge you and look for ways to make them fun.
Mark Servos, a Biology professor and one of the lead scientists in Ontario for monitoring wastewater COVID levels, has been granted a $900,000 NSERC Alliance Advantage grant to monitor high-risk substances (drugs of abuse) in our wastewater.
The Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo is dedicated to amplifying Indigenous histories and cultures, driving the initiative to transform science education by weaving Indigenous and Western scientific teachings into the classroom.
Leading this initiative are Savannah Sloat, Manager of Science Indigenous Initiatives, and Kirsten Müller, Chair of the Biology department, who have redesigned an old biology course to include Indigenous knowledge frameworks for an inclusive educational experience.
Science alum Yasmeen Alshehabi BSc '23 (Biomedical Sciences) reflects on her impact on healthcare through research, as she continues her work on neurodegenerative diseases during her graduate degree with Dr. Dale Martin.
Kevin Shen (BCS ’24) and Rikard Saqe’s idea to apply computational modelling to understand how fish cells grow and transform, has earned them more than $700,000 in grants from the Good Food Institute (GFI), Mitacs and New Harvest to scale their research efforts.
Waterloo plant ecologist Dr. Julie Messier, alongside her collaborators from Sherbrooke, is uncovering vital insights into the changes affecting our forests — knowledge that could be crucial in safeguarding Canada’s temperate forests.
Dr. Rebecca Rooney, a biology professor, discovered a new invasive plant that threatens Ontario's wetlands.