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University of Waterloo events

At Waterloo, we're proud to host a wide variety of events for the campus community and our larger community. Find out what's happening on campus, from free public lectures to workshops and information sessions.

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For support with your event, view our resources for event planners and contact community.relations@uwaterloo.ca.

Events

Monday, February 24, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Velocity Presents: YC Prep Session

Hosted by Velocity Staff


This session is for University of Waterloo students, researchers or faculty that are applying to the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch this May.

Don’t miss the opportunity to talk to someone in your field who has had success at YC and can provide helpful tips to help you apply. Attend this event and be prepared to upload your application when registration opens.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 9:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Keeping Well at Work: The CEO of You

For a Keeping Well at Work special event, join us, in partnership with the Cultivating Talent: A Mentorship Collective, for an interactive morning with guest speaker Natalie Stuart from Connect2You to learn about building your personal brand, ways to invest in cultivating meaningful connections with others, and strategies to ensure you are gaining access to a diversity of perspectives throughout your personal and professional life.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Systematic and Scoping Review Series: Systematic Screening using Covidence and Zotero

This workshop will focus on using technical tools, Covidence, to streamline the review process, as well as a reference manager, Zotero, to work with the search results from your structured review to generate in-cite citations and an automated bibliography.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

A Better Here-Writing to Nurture a Better Future

A Solarpunk Online Lecture/Workshop with Jerri Jerreat author and Executive Director of the Youth Imagine the Future Festival

Organized by the Waterloo Institute for Solarpunk and Hope, with sponsorships from the Philosophy Department and LIFE Co-op.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

POSTPONED: Recipes made Radical: Kitchentales of Survival and Resistance

The kitchen has long been a site of both nourishment and defiance—a space where survival, culture, and activism converge. This talk explores how food serves as a powerful tool of resistance, from the resourceful cooking of enslaved and oppressed peoples to the current and impending food injustice movements that call to questions folks understandings of a tariff and bird flu.