17吃瓜 Spotlights

17吃瓜 is a place built on stories鈥攆rom student success, to faculty and staff honours, to ground-breaking research. In 17吃瓜 Spotlights, you can read and watch videos about the important things that make 17吃瓜 unique.

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17吃瓜 Master of Arts in Island Studies student Jack Weeks reading a book
17吃瓜 Master of Arts in Island Studies student Jack Weeks reading a book
| Students, Graduate Students
"The MAIS program is steeped in a philosophy that 'to love is to learn'.鈥�

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a 17吃瓜 student in a green 17吃瓜SU hoodie standing in an office
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"I've met so many people that made adjusting to life in a new country easy."

Meet Rayyan, 17吃瓜 actuarial science student and 17吃瓜 Student Union executive.

a 17吃瓜 student in the sustainable design engineering building
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"The quality and transferability of this program is integral for a more sustainable future."

Meet Berry, 17吃瓜 Sustainable Design Engineering student and 3M National Student Fellow.

17吃瓜 DVM student in the AVC
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"I am in awe of our class鈥攅veryone wants their peers to succeed."

Meet Ella, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) student.

a 17吃瓜 business student in McDougall Hall
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"I have experienced an incredible network of support that goes beyond the ordinary."

Meet Amy, Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Global Leadership student.

close-up of Arduino circuitry
| Students
"It's a unique project, and I got to work on it with a really talented team."

Sustainable Design Engineering students Ben Keizer, Tung Nguyen, SoumyaDeep Chowdhury, and Luke McCarvill and their TrashTech project centres around developing a reduction-focused domestic waste management product. It aims to conduct waste classification using machine vision, weight sensing, and meaningful data communication to users through a web application, much like Fitbit鈥檚 functionality and related smartphone application.

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