Mirrorless Monday is an annual, campus wide campaign to encourage body positivity through various messages on mirrors and a campaign that seeks to remind everyone that their self-worth is not tied to a reflection in a mirror.
The Institute for Quantum Computing offers graduate students unique opportunities to learn and engage in world-leading research in quantum information.
Join this session to learn about the Master of Applied Science (MASc) and Doctoral (PhD) Collaborative programs in Quantum Information in the Faculty of Engineering.
Are you a current high school student thinking about pursuing engineering but not sure which program is right for you? Join us on Thursday, January 18 from 8:30pm - 9:30pm ET to learn how environmental & geological engineering are vital to solving our most pressing environmental issues. Hear how students in our undergraduate programs nurture their passion for sustainability, mathematics, and science, and ask our faculty and current students your questions about academics, co-op, career possibilities, and more!
MBET students make new things happen. They focus on the commercialization of their ideas to build a new venture or have a novel approach within existing organizations. In this info session, learn about the program, hear about the student experience and what happens to our graduates. Discover why Waterloo is the place for entrepreneurs to grow.
Are you a current high school student thinking about pursuing engineering but not sure which program is right for you? Join us on Tuesday, January 16 from 8:30pm - 9:30pm ET to learn how nanotechnology engineering is creating the technologies of the future. Hear how students in our undergraduate program use principles from biology, chemistry, electronics, and quantum physics to create materials and machines far too small to see with the naked eye, and ask our faculty and current students your questions about academics, co-op, career possibilities, and more!
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. David McDonald, Professor, Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, will present: What’s public about public water?
This event is in person in DC 1302 with a lunch reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl).
Debates about water privatization have tended to construct a simplistic binary of public versus private. In reality, ‘public’ water is varied and complex in its institutional and ideological make-up, illustrated in part by the rise of very different types of ‘remunicipalized’ water services over the past ten years as well as the growth of ‘corporatized’ public utilities. Drawing on two decades of empirical and theoretical work on this topic, Dr McDonald will highlight key tensions and synergies in the emerging debates about the nature of public water services.
David McDonald is Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University and Director of the Municipal Services Project. He has conducted research on public services in more than 50 countries and has written extensively in academic and popular formats. His most recent book is “Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services”
This workshop hosted by Dallas Squire of Onkwehonwe Games offers participants the opportunity to learn about the history and culture of the people of the Six Nations (also called Haudenosaunee) through Traditional Games.
Interactive and hands-on, their approach to teaching is indigenous in its foundation. While learning about traditional games of the Six Nations of the Grand River, participants will simultaneously be learning about and experiencing local First Nations culture. In Kanyen'keha Onkwehonwe translates to ‘the original or first people’. The traditional way of many Onkwehonwe is to live in harmony with Mother Earth. Living in this good way requires a balance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Games were and are still used as a way to stay healthy and connected to a person’s community. Six Nations traditional games are used to enhance individual and team skills, as well as create sportsmanship, connection and laughter.
This event is part of the “ADE for Game Communities: Enculturing Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ADE) in Games Research and Creation” series from the ADE Committee of the Games Institute, University of Waterloo, and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
We are excited to announce the 9th Annual Conference on Vision and Intelligent Systems (CVIS 2023), to be held on December 5-6th, where the goal is to bring together both academia and industry to share their joint expertise to promote the advancement and application of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and imaging technologies in various areas of academic and industrial interests. CVIS 2023 is free for all to attend and hosted at UW.
This panel highlights emerging scholars in Asian/American games studies.
Panelists will present recent and/or ongoing work, sharing a glimpse of the emerging research questions animating the field. Topics include He’s analysis of NPC discourse, particularly the phenomena of NPC streaming, as an Asiatic form, Ganzon’s examination of Filipino political activism in digital games that extend public and community spaces, and Howard’s inquiry on 'region locking' in online games as racial practices.
This event is part of the “ADE for Game Communities: Enculturing Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ADE) in Games Research and Creation” series from the ADE Committee of the Games Institute, University of Waterloo, and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Speakers:
Dr. Sarah Christina Ganzon is an Assistant Professor of Gaming, Media and Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research revolves mostly around the areas of game studies and digital fandoms. Recently, she finished her thesis on otome games in English, and otome game players. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies at Concordia University and an MA in English Literature from Cardiff University. Prior to starting her doctorate, she taught courses in literature and the humanities at the University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas and Far Eastern University.
Dr. Huan He is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Recently, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Digital Studies Institute. His research engages Asian/American literature and culture, digital studies, and critical game studies. Currently titled The Racial Interface, his book project examines the racial associations linking Asian Americans and information technologies. His research appears/is forthcoming in Configurations, College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, Media-N and an anthology on Asian American game studies. He also writes poetry, which can be found in Poetry, Sewanee Review, A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.
Dr. Matthew Jungsuk Howard, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University, Chicago's School of Communication. He writes "gyopo media histories" that explore the intertwinement of the "Korean Wave" of globalized circulation of South Korean popular culture and peninsular diasporas, particularly in North America. He is particularly interested in the media-cultural histories of race, ethnicity, and nationality. When he is not spoiling all of our favourite entertainment forms, Matt can be found chasing his step-pug Morty around the house, sneaking treats to his baby conure, Jennie, and withering under Goober the Cat's disdainful gaze.
The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) and the Center for Nanointegration Duisberg-Essen (CENIDE) are pleased to present Antonio di Bartolomeo, Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Salerno, for a joint 2D-MATURE seminar titled "Electrical Conduction and Photoconduction in 2D Materials Based Transistors."
Join us in QNC 1501. Refreshments will be provided! Registration required.