University of Waterloo events

From September 21 to 25, the Sustainability Office is hosting its fourth annual campus-wide BioBlitz, a community-led effort to explore, identify, and record the species living across campus. No experience is necessary

If you love yarn crafts (knitting, crochet, etc.), and would like to take a yarn break, have fun, connect with other yarners, enjoy a cup of tea, and indulge in your craft with like minded members of our community, then our Yarn Drop-in Stress Buster Sessions are for you!

From September 21 to 25, the Sustainability Office is hosting its fourth annual campus-wide BioBlitz, a community-led effort to explore, identify, and record the species living across campus. No experience is necessary

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a multi-disciplinary tool that is widely used across many industries. Attend this 30-minute speed run session to learn how you can get started using GIS.

The Black, Indigenous and Racialized Students' Writing Café is a social writing group. Unlike traditional peer feedback-based writing groups, we don’t read each other’s finished writing: instead, we write together to create a community of writers who can cheer each other on during what is often an isolating, difficult journey!

Research Talks: Water Crisis in Waterloo Region brings together researchers, practitioners and community leaders to examine how we balance growth, governance and sustainability in shaping our water future.

From September 21 to 25, the Sustainability Office is hosting its fourth annual campus-wide BioBlitz, a community-led effort to explore, identify, and record the species living across campus. No experience is necessary

Partnerships for Employment (P4E) is a partnership between the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Guelph and Conestoga College. P4E hosts a Job Fair each fall and winter. This fair will have over 100 employers in attendance. To attend the fair, please register on Portal, ride the shuttle bus to RIM Park, and bring your WATcard and copies of your résumé.
 

A sense of belonging is fundamental to wellbeing, yet simply bringing people together does not guarantee meaningful connections will form. In this virtual webinar, Professor Troy Glover will draw on his research on social connection, social capital and the conditions that foster sociability to explore what it takes to create a genuine sense of belonging on campus. The discussion will consider why belonging matters, how everyday interactions and shared experiences can help transform simply being around others into meaningful connections, and what universities can do to create environments where students feel welcomed, valued and part of a community.

Abraham Oghobase investigates the ways that photographic images shape memory and history. The artist’s mixed-media installation Onoriode (Who Knows Tomorrow?) references both his middle name and its translation from the Urhobo language. Exhibited in context with the large-scale print installation Notes to Self, these recent bodies of work are made in response to the tensions inherent to both the personal and historical archive.