Becoming a Golden Hawk means more than just cheering on our (really good) varsity teams – it means being a student who cares about your community, who works hard in the classroom, and who takes advantage of all the learning opportunities that can happen outside the classroom, too.
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Join current students on a virtual tour of our Waterloo campus. Follow along as we visit academic buildings, study spaces, the athletic complex, and our favourite spots on campus.
KW is part of Waterloo Region, which is home to Canada's fastest-growing technology sector and is part of the Toronto-Waterloo Region Corridor, the second-largest technology cluster in North America (second only to California). Our community has a reputation for innovation, where a new generation of entrepreneurs are ready to invent the future. Communitech, an internationally recognized, industry-led innovation centre calls Waterloo home, as does OpenText, Shopify, Google, Oracle, Vidyard and Igloo.
Selected by undergraduate students for teaching excellence, Deanna Yerichuk, an associate professor in Community Music, was the 2019 recipient of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award.
Stephen MacNeil, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was honoured with a D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning for his “flipped classroom” method of teaching.
Professor Lindie Liang was awarded the 2020 Canadian Psychological Association President’s New Researcher Award for her research in the areas of leadership, workplace aggression, motivation, and emotions.
Our Waterloo campus is located in the thriving, culturally diverse community of Kitchener-Waterloo (KW), located one hour west of Toronto with a population of about 365,000.
With two universities and a college, this university town is a vibrant and student-friendly city with plenty of off-campus housing, entertainment, dining and recreational opportunities. And a new light rail transit system makes it easier than ever to get around. In KW, you can study, live and play without compromise.
