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Animal Care and Research Ethics staff win prestigious Perotech Team Spirit Award
A message from the Office of Research.
Staff working in the University of Waterloo’s Central Animal Facility (CAF) and Research Ethics team have been awarded the 2025 Perotech Team Spirit Award, recognizing their exceptional collaboration, innovation, and commitment to excellence in animal care and research ethics support.
This accolade celebrates a team whose spirit, inclusivity, and shared purpose have made a significant impact in the workplace and beyond. For the team, this recognition is a testament to their dedicated service, not only to the animals in their care but also to the researchers and students who rely on them.
Their goal is to provide exceptional care and support for the animals and the research community, and to foster a culture of learning and collaboration.
Team members Jean Flanagan, Saeideh Davari, Lauren Welker, Kelan Hirtle, Martin Ryan, and Jennifer Frayne contribute their unique skills and a shared passion for excellence. Their collective efforts ensure top-quality animal care and a supportive environment for researchers and students alike.
This group exemplifies mutual respect and seamless teamwork, creating a dynamic, supportive, and innovative environment. Researchers have praised the team as “amazing,” “supportive,” and “professional,” highlighting their commitment to leading by example to support the ethical conduct of research and animal care. The Perotech Team Spirit Award celebrates not only their daily achievements but also their inspiring team spirit.
Congratulations to the team on this well-deserved recognition!
Volunteers needed for fall move-in
A message from Campus Housing.
While we have recently confirmed our class of incoming first-year students for September 2025, Campus Housing is already preparing for fall move-in and is looking for eager staff, faculty, students, and alumni who want to welcome students to their new home on campus.
We are looking to fill over 600 volunteer shifts to support move-in. Your support would make a big difference for our new students!
Move-in volunteer details
- Campus Housing move-in will take place between Thursday, August 28 and Sunday, August 31, 2025.
- Volunteer for a few hours or as many shifts as you’d like!
- View roles and shifts on the volunteer sign-up form.
- Tip: You'll first need to click "register" if you don’t have an existing Vome account
- Questions can be directed to movein@uwaterloo.ca.
Highlights for volunteers
- If you sign up as a general volunteer, when you arrive for your shift you can let the team lead know how you are most comfortable supporting the event. Ways to support move-in range from helping students navigate campus, to welcoming students and families in parking lots, to supporting students with their belongings.
- Don’t want to volunteer alone? Sign up with a friend or even a group as a team-building activity.
- Similar to 2024, every parking lot will have a Campus Housing staff member in a team lead role to ensure every volunteer is supported throughout their shifts.
Statistical insights that can save lives
This is the latest article from the 2025 issue of Waterloo Magazine.
With one in eight women worldwide diagnosed with breast cancer, Dr. Shu (Joy) Jiang (PhD ’18) is developing critical new tools to help women screen for the disease before it’s life-threatening.
This work has earned her recognition as one of Forbes’s 30 under 30 in health care in 2023 — and it all connects to the biostatistics research she did as a Waterloo student.
“The real lightbulb moment was when statistics stopped being theory, and I realized that I could actually apply these models in the real world to help people,” she said.
Learn more about how Jiang’s research is changing the game for women worldwide.
Engineering 3 to be shut down for x-rays, other notes
Plant Operations is reporting that the Engineering 3 building will be shut down on the evening of Wednesday, June 25 at 10:30 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. on Friday, June 27 as x-raying is carried out on the 3rd floor's floor. No occupants will be allowed in the building as it is being bombarded by x-rays. Plant Operations also reports that power to the building will not be affected by the x-ray activity.
For more information, contact Danica Beggs at dbeggs@uwaterloo.ca.
The Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research (WCMR) will be hosting a Research Symposium on Thursday, June 26, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in QNC 1501. "The purpose of this symposium is to bring faculty members from across campus together to share their research activities, highlight their expertise, network with others, make connections, build collaborations, and much more," says a note from the WCMR.
Planning for the 2026 University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference is already underway. "Help shape the 2026 UWTL Conference (UWTLC): please share your theme and speakers ideas in our theme suggestions short survey by Friday, July 4, at 4:00 p.m.!" says the announcement from the Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE). "The UWTLC needs volunteers at all stages of its planning and delivery. Interested in working with us? Fill out this UWTL 2026 expression of interest to volunteer form. We’ll be in touch!"
I'll see you later, iCIMS: Today marks the first weekly job posting via Workday Recruit instead of the long-running iCIMS talent management system. iCIMS launched in August 2016, which is a pretty good run for a piece of enterprise software. Welcome, Workday Recruit!
Link of the day
75 years ago: The Korean War begins
When and where
The Campus Wellness Student Medical Clinic offers healthcare visits with Physicians and Nurse Practitioners to current undergraduate and graduate students. Services include: vaccinations, immunity testing, naturopathic services and more. Counselling Services offers appointments with counsellors in person as well as via phone and video. Students can book appointments for these services by calling Campus Wellness at 519-888-4096.
The privately-run Student Health Pharmacy (located in the lower level of the Student Life Centre) is now offering new COVID booster shots and flu shots. Covid booster shorts are available by appointment only – please call ext. 33784 or 519-746-4500. The Student Health Pharmacy’s summer hours are Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Naloxone kits are still available – pick them up in the pharmacy at no charge.
Solar Futures Hands-On Workshop, Wednesday, June 25, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., ECH 1205.
Campus Plan drop-in open house, Wednesday, June 25, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., SLC multipurpose room.
In-person Grad Writing Cafés, Wednesday, June 25, 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., SLC 3216.
WICI workshop: The Futures We Can Build: Coordinating Complexity Across Canada with Dr. Rik Logtenberg, Thursday, June 26, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., United College, Room 164 (GreenHouse)
Visualizing the EV3 Solar Panels, Thursday, June 26, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., EV3 3412.
Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research Symposium, Thursday, June 26, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., QNC 1501.
Spring 2025 Joint University of Waterloo–St. Jerome’s University Legal Studies Seminar: The Lost Unity of Social Life: Law and Literature in the World-System, Thursday, June 26, 1:00 p.m. on Zoom.
The future of care starts before you're sick: How a WRHN team is changing the game in heart health, Friday, June 27, 12 noon to 1:00 p.m., online.
WICI workshop: Meta-Relational AI in a Time of Saturation, Destabilization, and Reckoning with Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, Friday, June 27, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., United College of University of Waterloo, Room 164 (GreenHouse)
Shaping future housing policies: Behavioural trends and sustainability insights for a “sufficient” built environment with Dr. Mahsa Bagheri, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Friday, June 27, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., EV1-353.
Glow at the Toronto Pride Parade, Sunday, June 29.
University holiday, Monday, June 30, most operations and businesses closed.
Canada Day, Tuesday, July 1, most operations and businesses closed.
In-person Grad Writing Cafés, Wednesday, July 2, 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., SLC 3216.
BioBlitz 2025 Community Fair, Monday, July 7, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., SLC Multipurpose Room.
BioBlitz 2025 Guided Walks, Monday, July 7 to Friday, July 11.
BioBlitz 2025 Independent identification, Monday, July 7 to Friday, July 11.
IBPOC Student Writing Cafés, Tuesday, July 8, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., SCH 228F.
NEW - Velocity Startup 101, Wednesday, July 9, 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., MC 2065.
Positions available
This week's list from the human resources department is viewable through the Careers website or through Workday's new recruitment module. To access Workday Recruiting, login to Workday, and navigate to Jobs Hub from the left side menu.
- Job ID # 2025-00002 -Treasury Analyst, Finance - USG 10
- Job ID #2025-00003- Financial Coordinator, Statistics and Actuarial Science - USG 7
- Job ID # 2025-00005 - Financial Systems Analyst, Finance - USG 8
Secondments and internal temporary opportunities
- Job ID # 2025-00006 - Outreach and Enrichment Specialist, Office of the Registrar - USG 8
- Job ID # 2025-00008 - Catering and Event Coordinator, Food Services – USG 5
- Job ID # 2025-00009 - Research Support Assistant, School of Optometry and Vision Science – USG 4
Affiliated and Federated Institutions of Waterloo opportunities
Visit the Affiliated and Federated Institutions current opportunities page
Upcoming service interruptions
Stay up to date on service interruptions, campus construction, and other operational changes on the Plant Operations website. Upcoming service interruptions include:
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Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology (PAS) building southeast corner exterior stair closure, Friday, June 20 to Friday, July 18, exterior stair to the 2nd floor podium/seating area will be closed for the duration of the shutdown, pedestrian access will be directed around the construction activity.
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Modern Languages washroom closure, Saturday, June 21 to Friday, August 1, washrooms ML-112 and ML-118 will be temporarily closed for upgrades, please use the nearest available washrooms located at ML-251 and ML-252.
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MC second floor closure (NE Corner: Loading Dock 2039, Corridor 2078, 2097), Monday, June 23 to July 28 (approximately)
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Bright Starts daycare, Toby Jenkins Building, Optometry, Columbia Ice Field fire alarm testing, Wednesday, June 25, between 6:30 a.m. and 8:15 a.m.
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UWP - Waterloo South, Woolwich South, Beck Hall fire alarm testing, Wednesday, June 25, between 1:00 and 2:30 p.m.
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Hagey Hall (original building) steam shutdown, Thursday, June 26 and Monday, June 30 from 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., there will be a steam shutdown to accommodate meter installation, steam and hot water will not be available for the duration of the shutdown.
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Engineering 3 building shutdown, Wednesday, June 25, 10:30 p.m. until Friday, June 27, 1:30 a.m., x-raying is to be carried out on the 3rd floor, during this time there will be no occupants allowed in the building, building power will not be affected.
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East Campus Hall, Engineering 5, 6, 7 fire alarm testing, Friday, June 27, 6:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
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Tunnels below B1 pest control treatment, Friday, June 27, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., no access to this area for the day.
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Wilmot South, Wellesley South, Eby Hall, Claudette Millar Hall fire alarm testing, Friday, June 27, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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Hagey Hall addition steam shutdown, Wednesday, July 2, 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., during this time there will be a steam shutdown to accommodate meter installation, steam and hot water will not be available for the duration of the shutdown.
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E2 (building 002, classroom wing) steam shutdown, Monday, July 7, 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., during this time there will be a steam shutdown to accommodate meter installation, steam and hot water will not be available for the duration of the shutdown.
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E2 (building 002, library wing) steam shutdown, Tuesday, July 8, 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., during this time there will be a steam shutdown to accommodate meter installation, steam and hot water will not be available for the duration of the shutdown.
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E2 (building 002, office wing only) steam shutdown, Wednesday, July 9, 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., steam will be shut down to accommodate a meter installation, steam and hot water will not be available for the duration of the shutdown.