Jenna Braun

At the beginning of last summer, master’s student Lena Kozyr fled her home in Ukraine, leaving behind parents, grandparents, relatives and friends to seek refuge in Vancouver, Canada. Like so many other Ukrainians, Kozyr says the move was bittersweet. Though she was grateful for a sense of safety and was looking forward to new opportunities, a mix of loneliness and anxiety

Laura Lester combines her passions for aeronautics and health sciences through her Master’s of Science in Kinesiology and Health Sciences

Foodborne viruses are a worldwide health concern, with types, severity and impacts of illness changing over time and across communities and countries. Dr. Shannon Majowicz, associate professor in the School of Public Health Sciences, joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Rome, Italy last month for a

Dr. Troy Glover, chair of the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, with the help of Christa Costas-Bradstreet, director of partnership and policy at the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA), have created Activate Your Neighbourhood, a tactical guide aligned with Canada’s physical activity strategy, Let’s Get Moving.

The School of Public Health Sciences (SPHS) has partnered with United College’s GreenHouse and the Centre for Career Development (CDD) to offer Health Sciences students an experiential learning opportunity in HLTH 480, a new required course that will address complex health problems like climate anxiety, kidney disease prevention and management, addiction recovery and more.

When the registration period opens for Kinesiology Lab Days, dates sell nearly as quickly as Taylor Swift concert tickets. Within just a couple of minutes this year, all the available spots were full for Ontario high schools to sign up students to attend the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences’ (KHS) live labs for an interactive experience in university-level

Amy Nahwegahbow is a 2024 Vanier Scholarship winner, researching the impacts of industrial pollution on First Nations Peoples in northern Canada.

Paralympic athlete and Canadian icon Rick Hansen offers an inspiring lecture, sharing the highs and lows of his incredible journey in accessibility.

Waterloo researchers are at the forefront of addressing complex societal and health problems facing our world, and Dr. Devon Frayne, a human performance integration specialist in Waterloo’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, is one of them. While working for the Canadian Sport Institute of Ontario (CSIO) as a sport scientist and biomechanist from 2014 to 2016,

Brendan Pinto (BSc ’15, Kinesiology) first took up swimming to improve his fitness, but enjoyment and skill in the sport led him to take it up competitively. But in 2011, the summer before starting his undergraduate studies at Waterloo, he suffered a leg injury while cross training that resulted in nearly a year of recovery. “Not being able to swim for the first time had a