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Student volunteer opportunities abound
by Lucas Dunlop. This is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared on Waterloo Stories.
With fewer students on campus for the spring term, Federation of Students (Feds) campus groups are looking for more volunteers. Volunteering on campus is an easy way to meet new people, make connections and gain additional experience — all while helping your peers.
“I think that you get to learn a lot of things that you wouldn’t learn in a classroom” said Ellie Wang, a volunteer co-ordinator for the Feds Student Food Bank, “It isn’t what I study in school; it’s the activities that I’m involved in, what I do, and how I make a difference. I think those are the memories that I’ll take from university.”
On May 9, Feds hosted its Campus Life Fair, an event held every term, in the Student Life Centre to promote campus initiatives. Groups that participated in this fair were a mix of Feds’ own initiatives, programs run by the University, and groups headquartered at the affiliated and federated institutions of Waterloo.
Attendees included:
- UW MATES – A peer-to-peer counseling program for students
- The Writing and Communication Centre – A centre run by the Student Success Office aimed at improving communication skills
- The Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity – A centre run by Feds that promotes healthy attitudes towards all sexual orientations and gender identities
- Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre – A centre housed at St. Paul’s University College that provides both resources and support to indigenous and non-Indigenous members of the university community
- The Women’s Centre – A centre run by Feds that aims to create a supportive space on campus for women and transgendered individuals
The Feds Student Food Bank isn’t just feeling the pinch from the time of year, they’re also facing an increase in student usage of the food bank. According to an article by the CBC, food banks at Canadian universities are seeing as much as a 30 percent increase from last year in the number of students coming through their doors.
Read the rest of the article on Waterloo Stories.
Dig into spring with the healthy gardens workshop
Getting your garden going? Join the Sustainability Office and Reep Green Solutions for a Lunch & Learn on healthy yards with landscape architect Becca Robinson. Becca will discuss a variety of rain smart features, such rain gardens, pollinator gardens, and rainwater harvesting, along with when, where, and how to incorporate these features into your own landscape. She’ll also present some before and after pictures of rain gardens and other projects in the community to provide inspiration to design a project of your own!
The session will be held on Wednesday, May 30 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in EV3-3412. Coffee, tea, and light snacks will be provided. For more information and to register, visit the event page.
Info session helps you get WISE to energy jobs
A new program run by the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy is bringing Waterloo talent to bear on one of the world’s most pressing challenges – providing clean energy to places where electrical grids have yet to reach.
As part of WISE’s Affordable Energy for Humanity Initiative, the program arranges co-op job opportunities at social enterprises all over the world that are on the front lines of the fight against energy poverty. A cohort of five Waterloo students are currently in the field at organizations in Nigeria, Ghana and the UK, and a new batch of opportunities in Uganda, Malaysia, Nepal, South Africa and Nigeria are currently being advertised through WaterlooWorks.
An information session about these and other opportunities for co-op students to become engaged is scheduled for this Friday, May 18 at 11:30 a.m. in TC 2218. To register, visit portal.uwaterloo.ca. Space is limited.
Interested members of the University community are also encouraged to contact WISE Manager Nigel Moore for more information.
CBB Seed Funding winners announced
The Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology has announced the 8 winners of their SEED Funding Grant. The Centre’s mandate is to healthy, active partnerships between centre researchers and corporate members through collaborative projects, mutual interest building, and networking events.
Seed Funding Objectives
The mission of CBB's seed funding program is to Help develop sustainable research programs by facilitating applications to external agencies and support multi-disciplinary research across Waterloo's faculties. These grants of $5,000 or $10,000 will be used to mentor the next generation of researchers under CBB and to communicate CBB research impact on a local and global scale.
More information about the CBB’s Seed Funding can be found on the CBB website.
Learn more about the CBB Seed Funding winners and their research.
Voting open for staff seat on BoG; other notes
Polls have opened for full-time staff to vote on a representative to the Board of Governors.
The representative will occupy the seat until April 30, 2021.
Candidate statements are posted online on the Secretariat website.
Full-time staff are eligible to vote. Regular staff vote online by electronic ballot and were emailed a link to the Secretariat Votes website yesterday, and union staff will receive paper ballots.
The electronic election will close on Wednesday, May 23 at 4:30 p.m. The paper ballot election will close on Wednesday, May 30 May at 4:30 p.m.
For more information, see the Board of Governors - Staff Election Guidelines, or contact Emily Schroeder at ext. 32749.
The Registrar's Office has sent a notification to students that there will be a make-up day due to Monday's Victoria Day holiday.
On Tuesday, May 22, Waterloo will follow a Monday class schedule, while Wilfrid Laurier University will follow a (Laurier) Tuesday class schedule.
"If there are scheduling conflicts, it is the student's responsibility to determine which classes they will attend and to advise their instructor of their absence," says the note from the Registrar's Office.
Human Resources has reported that retiree Patricia Holmes died on May 14. Holmes started working at the University in September 1984, and she retired in October 1996 as Food Services Assistant in Village II.