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Join EDGE and CCD for the Winter 2025 Volunteer Fair!

This event offers students an opportunity to meet local organizations that are recruiting volunteers.

Representatives from 30 local organizations will be present to speak with current students about their organization's mission and volunteering needs.

FREE POPCORN to all participating students.

$20,000 in cash prizes up for grabs!!

Ready to make a real impact in the future of cities and communities? Join the Future Cities Institute and Velocity for the first-ever Future Cities Innovation Challenge.

You've heard of mindfulness for mental health, but what about menstrual health?

All students, faculty and staff are invited to join us for a 90-minute mindfulness meditation session and embark on an intimate journey through your body; discover a new way to connect with and care for yourself during this time.
 

This is a lecture by the University of Waterloo Adjunct Professor and VP of the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, Dr. Steven Rebellato will deliver.

This online Zoom session will explore how Generative AI chatbots, like the one developed for the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit in collaboration with the University of Waterloo, are revolutionizing public health by improving accessibility, efficiency, and service delivery.

Saboteurs are the thinking habits that generate negative emotions within us as we handle life’s everyday challenges. We all have them. They sabotage our performance, well-being and relationships every day. This session digs into the fascinating neuroscience, psychology and presentation of saboteurs. We will explore why we have them, their impact on our lives and ways to tame them through mental fitness. Join us online via zoom!

The International Conference on Games and Narrative (ICGaN’25) provides an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to explore the impact of video games and interactive storytelling. This year’s conference theme “Adapt, Adopt, Adjust: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptation, Storytelling, and Simulation” asks us to consider the power of adapted and adaptive narratives, experiences, genres, and mechanics.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Ryan Emmanuel, Associate Professor of Hydrology, Duke University, North Carolina, US, will present: On the swamp: Indigenous environmental justice across North Carolina’s coastal plain.

The University of Waterloo’s WWD event will be held in person at Federation Hall (FED) on Monday, February 3rd, 2025 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm EST. The event will consist of a poster session and reception followed by a distinguished lecture by Dr. Hilary Dugan, entitled: "Should we care about freshwater salinization?"

In this public talk, Dr. Dolphin will explore what it means to be a researcher aiming to do ‘good science’, while also doing ‘science for good’.

As a bioarchaeologist who works with human remains from archaeological sites in order to reconstruct the lives of past peoples, Dr. Dolphin’s research revolves around collaboration. Working with the dead requires strong relationships with, and sensitivities to, not only your colleagues and national governments, but to the local communities without whom you could not do your work at all.

Join us for the next installment of Anti-Racism Reads, which will feature a conversation with the author Matthew R. Morris about his book Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging.