Future graduate students

Join the virtual audience for the Winter 2021 Concept $5K Finals!

Watch 10 promising student teams take the virtual stage and compete for their share of $20K in grant funding to help take startup ideas to the next level. Besides seeing some great pitches, you can also hear from Concept Interim Director, John Dick, and University of Waterloo Entrepreneurship Society about how to get involved with entrepreneurship and find co-founders.

September 28, 2024 marks the 21st anniversary of the Gidinawendamin/Ska’nikú•lát annual Pow Wow.

This one-day non-competitive celebration of Indigenous heritage features vendors, dancers, and singers from the Waterloo region and beyond. Join us as we celebrate Indigenous culture and tradition through song, dance, arts, and cuisine. Gidinawendamin/Ska’nikú•lát Pow Wow is intended to be a safe, welcoming, and vibrant opportunity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous folks from the UWaterloo community and beyond to gather in celebration of indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation.

Dr. Enayat Moallemi, Principal Research Scientist at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), applies a holistic view of system interactions with modelling tools and knowledge co-production methods to design and evaluate decisions for sustainability transitions in an uncertain future.

In this workshop, participants will take part in the online version of the Warm Data Lab approach. We start with a story, and through context-spanning conversation we explore together what emerges, keeping in mind Nora's question "Who can I be when I am with you?" as we explore how people need people.

Interested in Complex Systems? Join us for a short introduction to systems thinking followed by a group networking and round table discussion. Share your ideas, learn from others, and connect with other systems thinkers on campus!

Eight student-led teams will pitch to a panel of judges in hopes of winning their share of $20,000 for their ambitious idea!

The finalists will take the stage on July 25th in the Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building at 12 – 2:30 pm. Doors open at 11:30 am.

Be there to cheer them on! Everyone welcome. Refreshments provided.

To mark the one-year anniversary of the terrible Hagey Hall attack, we invite you to join us to stand together against gender-based violence and all forms of hatred and bigotry in the Hagey Hall Hub.

The event will include remarks from members of the University community as we stand in solidarity for our academic mission and in support of everyone who experienced trauma that day or who experienced trauma related to their expression of gender.

No registration required.

Ambitious student startups pitch their innovative business ideas.

Be in the audience as UWaterloo student teams pitch their startup ideas to a panel of judges.

The top 8 teams from across night one and night two will move on to the Velocity Pitch Competition Finals on July 25th to compete for a chance at one of four $5,000 prizes in grant funding to help turn their concept into a reality.

Exciting teams of innovative students will showcase their ideas at the semi-finals of Velocity Pitch Competition.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series and co-hosted with the Department of Applied Matematics, Dr. Julie Pietrzak is a Professor of Physical Oceanography within the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, will present: The significance of canyons on Atlantic Water pathways towards the glaciers of Northwest Greenland.

Please join WISE for their Public Lecture featuring Steve Dyck, the president of Guelph Solar. He will be giving his talk on Solar Powering Ontario's Clean Grid Economy.