Lecture

Join us for a public lecture as Waterloo researchers from the Faculties of Science, Engineering, and Applied Health Sciences discuss the science behind the Zika virus.

Declared a public health emergency on February 1, 2016 by the World Health Organization, this timely talk will help our community understand the biology and spreading of viruses like Zika, and what we can do to control outbreaks.

The fourth lecture in the Water Institute's WaterTalks Lecture Series features Dr. Susan Hubbard, Associate Lab Director for Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Senior Scientist, Berkeley Laboratory.

Dr. Hubbard's lecture addresses New approaches for characterizing watershed structure and function.

Join us for a lecture by Klaus Dohring, President of Green Sun Rising Inc. as he discusses electric vehicle (EV) charging and the growing clean-tech industry. In this EV charging presentation you will learn about:

Guilt by Appropriation

Prosthetic Fantasies in the First Machine Age

The final of the 2015-16 Water Institute WaterTalks lecturers is Dr. Prabhakar Clement, Harold Vince Groome Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University.

Omer Arbel explores the intrinsic mechanical, physical, and chemical qualities of materials as fundamental departure points for making work. His interdisciplinary practice spans multiple scales and cultural-economic contexts to include architecture, industrial design, materials research, sculpture, invention, and high craft manufacturing. Arbel’s work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Mallett, and the Monte Clark Gallery, among others.

Please join us this coming Thursday for the inaugural lecture of the winter series of Arriscraft Lectures.

Pat Hanson, gh3

Pat Hanson is a founding partner of gh3, a practice based on a new paradigm that explores the overlap of architecture, landscape and sustainability. Pat has deliberately staked out a broad practice in the belief that design encompasses the entire spectrum of the built environment. During 30 years of practice, she has contributed design leadership to the firms at which she was a partner.

As digital gaming has increased in popularity and become a global practice, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) researchers and second and foreign language (L2) educators have begun reconsidering games as potential L2 teaching and learning (L2TL) resources. To provide an overview of this new field, this talk surveys the history and theory of games in CALL and presents the origins of the field, rationale for the use of games in L2TL, games purposed for L2TL, and major research findings.