Wendy Philpott

Lynne Taylor, professor of history. “What war does to the men and women who go to the front to fight is very important to recognize and remember,” says Lynne Taylor, professor of history. “But war is also about the impact on civilians. I think it is important we remember that too.” This month, with Remembrance Day and Holocaust Education Week, we have an opportunity to learn

Serendipity and scholarly expertise came together this fall to solve a puzzle about two giants of the English literary canon. “It’s

The International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project at the University of Waterloo has been awarded one of six Governor General’s Innovation Awards for 2021. Celebrating excellence in innovation that makes a positive impact on quality of life in Canada, the honour is awarded jointly to the interdisciplinary ITC team including Faculty of Arts’ Geoffrey Fong (Psychology), Faculty of

Nobody wants to think about the next pandemic. But we need to be prepared, and a critical step in prevention is early detection and intervention. That’s why GoodLabs Studio, a company with strong ties to the University of Waterloo, is advancing the power of machine learning and artificial intelligen…

While her high school education in Hong Kong nurtured her strengths in sciences, Gigi Chan (MPS ’22) explored her interest in social and political issues as an undergraduate student in Canada. Working on a housing policy capstone project at the University of Toronto, she discovered that public polic…

Whether you’re old or young, memory can be a challenge for all kinds of reasons, and most of us would welcome strategies to help improve our memory. Waterloo’s researchers in psychology have been helping with this area of cognition for years — and the impact of their research on what we know about m…

Iuliia Nesterova PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts Our very human tendency to want to “keep up with the Joneses” is as apparent today as ever. In fact, research shows that over the past decade, conspicuous consumption has intensified in developed economies. While the impacts of economic inequality are complex, a negative social impact identified by a Waterloo graduate student is

Under the hotly debated impacts of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) lies the deeper problem of biased data that trains AI systems. With growing numbers of people and organizations turning to tools such as ChatGPT to write their essays, legal briefs, or make critical decisions, the challenge of algorithmic bias and injustice built into AI is urgent.

What is happiness, and why do we strive for it? Can we become happier? Should we? Is happiness a good thing? Dr. Megan McCarthy (PhD ’16) These are the questions Dr. Megan McCarthy (PhD ’16) asks her first-year students as they explore the meaning and concept of happiness. ARTS 140, The Science of Happiness, is among many topics offered in the Arts First courses, designed to

Dr. Talena Atfield Professor, History > Canada Research Chair, Tentewatenikonhra'khánion Dr. Talena Atfield’s work to restore and regenerate Hodinohso:ni cultural knowledges starts with the title of her Canada Research Chair: Tentewatenikonhra’khánion, which translates to “We Will Put Our Minds Together.” Based in Ohswé:ken (Six Nations of the Grand River,) Atfield’s project