Congratulations to the following SDS Students, who received prestigious awards during the Spring 2019 Convocation Ceremony.
Zoe Dunbar - Board of Governors Medal for Academic Achievement
As part of a nation-wide $285 million announcement, the following SDS faculty were awarded grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) towards exciting research initiatives:
On April 24, 2019, the annual Arts Awards for Service, Teaching and Research were presented to faculty, staff and students who have made exceptional contributions the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo. This year, Renison’s own Dr. Doug Cowan was recognized with an Arts Award for Excellence in Research.
The podcast The Science of Happiness recently featured Denise Marigold, a professor of Social Development Studies at Renison, to speak about the power of compliments. An area of study for Prof. Marigold, she discussed some of her research as it relates to happiness within relationships.
There are so many people working to make Waterloo a more inclusive place that the Faculty Association’s Equity Committee presented four Equity and Inclusivity Awards this year instead of one.
“We found that we had to break the tradition of selecting only one winner,” said Faculty Association president Bryan Tolson on behalf of Equity Committee chair Weizhen Dong at a reception on April 18. There were simply too many nominees whose “actions have made our community a better place.”