The University of Waterloo is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo,Ontario,Canada. The main campus is on 404 hectares of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates three satellite campuses and four affiliated university colleges. The university offers academic programs administered by six faculties and thirteen faculty-based schools. Waterloo operates the largest post-secondary co-operative education program in the world,with over 20,000 undergraduate students enrolled in the university's co-op program. Waterloo is a member of the U15,a group of research-intensive universities in Canada.
Kingston is a city in Ontario,Canada,on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario. It is at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River,the south end of the Rideau Canal. Kingston is near the Thousand Islands,a tourist region to the east,and the Prince Edward County tourist region to the west. Kingston is nicknamed the "Limestone City" because it has many heritage buildings constructed using local limestone.
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university in London,Ontario,Canada. The main campus is located on 455 hectares of land,surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thames River bisecting the campus's eastern portion. The university operates twelve academic faculties and schools.
Upper Canada College (UCC) is an independent day and boarding school for boys in Toronto,Ontario,operating under the International Baccalaureate program. The college is widely described as Canada's most prestigious preparatory school,and has produced many notable graduates. With around 1,200 students,UCC is highly selective. The school has a financial aid program which currently awards more than $5 million annually to Canadian citizens.
The Queen's Gaels is the athletics program representing Queen's University in Kingston,Ontario,Canada. The main athletics facilities include Richardson Memorial Stadium,the Queen's Athletics and Recreation Centre,Nixon Field and Tindall Field. The team colours are gold,blue,and red.
Sir Anthony James Leggett is a British–American theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Leggett is widely recognised as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics,and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognised by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics.
Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School,commonly called Kitchener Collegiate Institute or KCI,is a public secondary school in Kitchener,Ontario,Canada. It is a member of the Waterloo Region District School Board. The school dates from 1855,making it one of the oldest high schools in Kitchener and Waterloo. Its sports teams are known as the Raiders.
The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) is an alliance of students' unions in Ontario,Canada. Their common objective is to protect the interests of over 160,000 professional and undergraduate,full-time and part-time university students,and to provide research and recommendations to the government on how to improve accessibility,affordability,accountability,and quality of post-secondary education in Ontario.
Karen R. Hitchcock was an American biologist and university administrator who had leadership positions at an American and a Canadian university. She served as the President of SUNY's University at Albany in Albany,New York,from 1996 until her resignation in 2003. She was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University,in Kingston,Ontario from 2004 until an abrupt resignation in 2008,when she announced her departure in a sudden email to students. After her sudden departure from Queen's University,she returned,with husband Murray Blair,to the Albany,New York,area to live in Vischer Ferry.
Adel S. Sedra is an Egyptian Canadian electrical engineer and professor.
Jack R. Edmonds is an American-born and educated computer scientist and mathematician who lived and worked in Canada for much of his life. He has made fundamental contributions to the fields of combinatorial optimization,polyhedral combinatorics,discrete mathematics and the theory of computing. He was the recipient of the 1985 John von Neumann Theory Prize.
Ontario University Athletics is a regional membership association for Canadian universities which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information,schedules,results,and releases about those programs and events to the public and the media. This is similar to what would be called a college athletic conference in the United States. OUA,which covers Ontario,is one of four such bodies that are members of the country's governing body for university athletics,U Sports. The other three regional associations coordinating university-level sports in Canada are Atlantic University Sport (AUS),the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CW),and Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ).
McGill University is an English-language public research university located in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,the university bears the name of James McGill,a Scottish merchant,whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College. In 1885,the name was officially changed to McGill University.
Queen's University at Kingston,commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's,is a public research university in Kingston,Ontario,Canada. Queen's holds more than 1,400 hectares of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex,England. Queen's is organized into eight faculties and schools.
Thomas Robert Williams is a Canadian university professor and academic administrator,who served as the 19th principal of Queen's University,in Kingston,Ontario. He became principal and vice-chancellor of Queen's on May 1,2008,following the in-term resignation of Karen Hitchcock. He concluded his term as principal on August 31,2009.
The Canadian Association of University Teachers is a federation of independent associations and trade unions representing approximately 70,000 teachers,librarians,researchers,and other academic professionals and general staff at 120 universities and colleges across Canada.
Shad Canada is an annual Canadian summer enrichment program for high-achieving high school students in July. The program is open to both Canadian and international students. The program is offered at 21 participating universities across Canada.
Daniel Robert Woolf is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston,Ontario,Canada,a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. In late 2017,Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019. He was succeeded by Patrick Deane,and became Principal Emeritus.
