Future 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.

This month's talk features Joel Reardon on Anonymity, Consent, And Other Noble Lies.

When: Monday, June 15, 2026

Where: Enterprise Theatre, East Campus 5 (Room EC5-1101/1111), 305 Phillip St., University of Waterloo

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

You’re invited to attend Research Talks: Water crisis in Waterloo Region, a public event and panel discussion on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Kitchener Public Library, Kitchener. This free event will feature University of Waterloo researchers, practitioners and community leaders who will examine how we balance growth, governance and sustainability in shaping our water future.

This symposium brings together leading scholars of rhetorical stylistics, construction grammar, and computational linguistics to contribute to an approach at the intersection of figurative patterns and grammatical constructions in the context of neurocognitive exemplar models and Machine Learning.

Come mark World Environment Day by watching the powerful new documentary “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” about the climate and environmental impacts of the U.S. war machine.

Building a startup, venture, or applied project often means making decisions with incomplete information. This practical working session will help participants identify real market signals before spending months on the wrong customer, pricing, message, or channel.

The Victory Box examines how powerful systems enter everyday life by appearing useful, convenient, entertaining, and reassuring. Presented as a modern domestic device for safety and public information, it carries the appeal of something new: a media object families could watch, gather around, and feel proud to own.

A Fallow Year tells the story of Popa’s own fallow season, encapsulated through an intuitive skating practice and the building of an ice rink on a farm just outside Stratford, Ontario. 

Join us Saturday, May 9th for an indoor triathlon hosted by the UW Triathlon Club! Whether you're trying your first tri or gunning for a sprint, we’ve got a race for you.

Join the Office of Indigenous Relations (OIR) and the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, for Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People (MMIWG2S).