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Thursday, March 30, 2017 9:00 am - 4:45 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WISE Energy Day 2017

Meet and mingle with our researchers. Connect the dots and get energized by our talented young entrepreneurs and emerging leaders at the most innovative University in Canada. This is a ‘meet-up’ of academic, industry & government experts who have come together to share insights & new ideas for our energy future.

Panel presentations, posters & discussions focus on:

• Energy Transitions For a Decarbonized Economy: How Fast and at What Cost?

• Low Energy Green Buildings: What Can Innovation Do?

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Joan B. Rose, the winner of the 2016 Stockholm Water Prize and Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at Michigan State University, presents "Monitoring Pathogen Concentrations in Sewage to Inform Treatment Goals and Public Health Risks."

Paid parking is available in several lots. Lot C is recommended, as it should have availability. 

Monday, April 3, 2017 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Stress reduction drop-in sessions

These drop-in sessions held on Mondays (12-1 p.m.) are designed to help you reduce stress and learn ways to find balance and well-being. Learn to balance your stress naturally through a brief combination of evidence based techniques such as, mindful meditation, progressive relaxation, visualization and restorative yoga postures.

Monday, April 3, 2017 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Zero to Hero: Steps to Funding - Spectrum 28 Mentor & Venture Program

Find out how your team can go from idea to funding in this "how to" session. Lyon Wong, Spectrum 28, outlines the steps to getting funded. Select teams are interviewed and funding readiness issues examined. It's two hours of "hands-on, how-to" knowledge involving real startups who are looking for funding.  Guest entrepreneur José Daire shares his insight on the importance of relationships in getting funded.

Who should attend: Undergraduates, Graduate students, faculty or staff who are interested in the steps to obtain seed funding. 

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WIN Nano Graduate Student Seminar Series

The WIN Nano Graduate Student Seminar Series provides an opportunity for nanotechnology graduate students of WIN members to present and discuss their research, to help foster knowledge exchange and dialogue between researchers and across disciplines.

11:30-12:00
Binding Kinetics of Mucoadhesive Nanoparticles
Speaker: Aaminah Ahmad
Supervisor: Professor Frank Gu

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Webinar Info Session

Learn more about Waterloo's Master of Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (MBET) program by attending our live online information session. MBET is a one year graduate business degree designed to meet a market need for innovative thinkers. In MBET, students learn inside and outside the classroom. Core business courses are integrated with practical experience, networking, and hands-on learning in the most entrepreneurial community in Canada.

PROFESSOR SHUIT-TONG LEE
Chair Professor and Founding Director
Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM)
College of Nano Science and Technology (CNST)
Collaborative Innovation Centre of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology (NANO-CIC)
Institute of Organic Optoelectronics, Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute
Soochow University, China

Reception to follow lecture

Monday, April 10, 2017 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Stress reduction drop-in sessions

These drop-in sessions held on Mondays (12-1 p.m.) are designed to help you reduce stress and learn ways to find balance and well-being. Learn to balance your stress naturally through a brief combination of evidence based techniques such as, mindful meditation, progressive relaxation, visualization and restorative yoga postures.

Monday, April 10, 2017 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CBB Seminar - Dr. Emily Patterson

Supporting Nurses with Health Information Technology: Cognitive Functions of the Kardex and 'Brains' Artifacts

Biosketch:

Dr. Emily Patterson is an associate professor in the Division of Health Information Management and Systems in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine at the Ohio State University. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the college of nursing. She received her PhD in Industrial Systems Engineering in 1999 and does research on human factors engineering, patient safety, and informatics.

Zhanfeng Cui
PhD, DSc, FIChemE, FREng
Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, CRMI Technology Centre, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford

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