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Fall 2022 message from the president This is the latest post on President Vivek Goel's blog. For me, September brings a sense of optimism. Despite the challenges our world faces from an on-going pandemic, economic strife, and geopolitical unrest, I feel optimistic when I look at the important work that our students, faculty, and staff undertake every day. Their hard work is
We caught up with Iris Redinger (BAS ’21), a recent Waterloo grad from the Waterloo School of Architecture. This summer, she was competitively selected as one of five winners of the Mitacs Entrepreneur Award for her startup Material Futures that uses biotechnology to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry. Redinger founded the company as a Waterloo undergrad
Jesse Adler, CMS graduate, multidisciplinary designer and biomolecular scientist, is using fungi to create make-up pigments and more
An insemination dildo and an udder massager feature in the Happy Cow collection of bovine sex toys by Central Saint Martins graduate Ece Tan.
Design graduate Arina Shokouhi has invented an avocado alternative called Ecovado, which is meant to wean people off the resource-intensive imported fruit.