UW pharmacy student Hamin Park has spent her career as a student working hard — and that hard work is showing. Park was recently named recipient of a $2,500 scholarship awarded by the Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation (KCSF).
With guaranteed housing for first-year students and eight UW residences housing between 320 and 1,380 students per semester, it is accurate to say that on-campus living is an integral part of the school community and experience. It is […]
On Tuesday morning, an event focused on construction safety was held on campus by Gillam Group, the company behind the construction of UW’s Math 4 building. Held in DC near the construction site itself, the event was presented […]
In a significant step toward improving housing accessibility for graduate students, UW launched a new pilot program that guarantees on-campus housing for a select group of newly admitted PhD students (who are not currently or previously enrolled in any type […]
About 31 red dresses on the BMH Green on Monday, May 5 serve as a reminder of the missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people in Canada.
This was done as part of Red Dress Day, a […]
With summer weather finally on the horizon, there’s no doubt many of us are eager to begin or continue our recreational and fitness activities. At UW and all around the region, there are countless resources and ways to […]
If you’ve walked past the Grad House recently and caught sight of a full-sized Holstein cow lounging near the entrance, don’t worry—you’re not hallucinating from too much coffee. That’s Siegler, our newest and most eye-catching […]
Héline Chow, the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the Waterloo riding, is a UW alumnus with a PhD in environmental engineering. Chow shared she pursued this field as she “[cares] deeply about climate change and solving the environmental issues […]
The UW Senate met this April to discuss and vote on a number of important changes that will directly affect the student experience. The Senate is the university’s highest governing body for academic matters, made up of faculty, […]
In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, a great library burned. It was said by some to have held upwards of half a million papyrus scrolls—containing the knowledge of the ancient world from Persia to Greece. It is […]
