Supporting you from your first term to convocation
GSPA offers information, resources and supports through this website for all graduate students at Waterloo.
Events
2025 GRADflix Information Session
Come join us at our 2025 GRADflix Information Session to learn more about GRADflix and how to participate. At this session, you will also have the chance to hear from past winners such as Paul Sherk, the 2024 1st place winner.
Fall 2024 PhD graduates dinner reception
Doctoral graduate students (including up to one guest of their choosing) and their graduate supervisor(s) are invited to attend a complimentary dinner reception to commemorate their achievements.
2025 GRADflix Training Session
This virtual training session will cover all the tools you need to create a 60 second video, including: GRADflix guidelines, copyright considerations, video best practices, scripting, technology tools, software options, other resources, and communicating for a non-specialist audience.
News
Supports for Bangladeshi students
The University of Waterloo is aware of the distressing events in Bangladesh, where peaceful student-led protests against the recently reinstated government job quotas have escalated into violence resulting in casualties, government-sanctioned curfews and disruptions to internet and cellular services.
Update to Tri-agency graduate scholarship increases, effective September 1, 2024
Following up on the recent federal budget announcement, the Tri-agencies have advised that the increases in the Tri-agency scholarship amounts will take effect September 1, 2024 for current and new master’s and doctoral recipients.
Three doctoral students head to Lake Shift
Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, with additional support from the Faculty of Engineering, is pleased to be sending three doctoral students to Lake Opinicon for the 2024 Lake Shift writing retreat.