The Faculty of Science is excited to launch the Global Perspectives of Science (GPS) program starting in 2024. Our inaugural trips in 2024 will be to the Dominican Republic (February), Costa Rica (May), and Italy (June).
When talking with Justin Shmordok, currently pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD) degree, he shared that he might not have discovered his love for research without the help of Waterloo’s co-operative education program during his undergraduate degree.
When it came time to apply to a doctoral program, Dr. Tyler Hampton was recruited to Waterloo because of his desire to take his knowledge of biogeochemistry and apply it to study wildfires and forest harvesting.
Abiola Olaitan wins Gairdner Early Career Investigator Award
University of Waterloo and the Faculty of Science celebrates three new Banting Fellows: Joshua Fee (Physics and Astronomy), Ian Roberts (Physics and Astronomy) and Saraswati Saraswati (Earth and Environmental Sciences).
Earth and environmental sciences professor Nandita Basu joins an elite group of scientists worldwide as the recipient of a prestigious award recognizing her significant contributions to international water research.
An Earth and Environmental Sciences professor Nandita Basu joins an elite group of scientists worldwide as the recipient of a prestigious award recognizing her significant contributions to international water research.
Ten new recipients of Canada’s most prestigious scholarship join the Waterloo community.
The SDSS/BOSS/eBOSS collaborations have been awarded the 2023 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize of the European Physical Society, recognizing an outstanding contribution to particle astrophysics and cosmology in the last 15 years.
Waterloo professor Will Percival and colleagues Kyle Dawson (University of Utah) and Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard University) accepted the award on behalf of the collaborations.
It’s been said that love can move mountains, and for the Lee family of Waterloo, a love of family, community and education has accomplished exactly that. They established Tutoring Beyond Borders in 2010 and have provided tutoring for over 2400 local high school students for free, ensuring that families in need would receive the benefits of quality tutoring for their children without being out of pocket for the service.