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In partnership with Canadian Jesuits International, St. Jerome’s University is thrilled to welcome Sister Laura Vicuna Pereira Manso to speak about her incredible experience working with Indigenous communities of Brazil championing human rights and environmental protection of the Brazilian Amazon. Sister Laura will join us on November 20, 2025 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. in the SJU Notre Dame Chapel. 

Join UW staff Katie Damphouse and Laura McDonald to learn the ins and outs of consensus-building: a collaborative process that welcomes healthy disagreement. You’ll walk away with a new cv/resume line, and techniques for facilitating complex decisions among colleagues, friends, or collaborators. Lunch will be catered from Arabesque.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to shape our workplaces, innovation sometimes happens in unexpected places. Join us as we put the spotlight on co-op students using AI to find smarter, more creative ways of working.

Please join for an in-gallery Artist Talk and Q&A with artist Andrew McPhail on Thursday November 6, starting at 7:00 pm. His current exhibition TEXTiles, This is not an AIDS Quilt is a survey of works made between 2019-2025, featuring 59 of the artist's hand-sequinned bedsheets, pillowcases, and quilts.

As part of the national Take Our Kids to Work Day, Waterloo is hosting activities on Wednesday, November 5th to allow Grade 9 students of Waterloo employees to explore careers and to shadow their UWaterloo employee host. 

Monique Chambers, Senior Training Specialist from the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism (EDIRO) and Stacey Jacobs, Education Coordinator, Sexual & Gender-based Violence Prevention from the Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO) are collaborating to bring Active Bystander Intervention Training to staff and faculty. Participants will be provided with the skills and resources to intervene when they see harmful, or potentially harmful, behaviour which includes racism, sexual violence, and other forms of harm. Join us in building a culture of consent, care, belonging and respect on our campus. Everyone welcome.

The Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO) is once again bringing the What Were You Wearing? Survivor Art Exhibit to UWaterloo. The exhibit is based on student-survivor descriptions of the clothing they were wearing when they experienced sexual violence.

Obesity is more than a number on a scale — it's a complex health issue. Join us for a panel discussion that will aim to inform, inspire and shift the narrative around obesity.

As part of the University of Waterloo’s Collaborative and Connected Research Panel Series, the October panel event highlights the development of sustainable research collaborations and interconnections occurring within and beyond departments. The panelists consist of current and former department chairs. They will discuss the various ways in which collaborative perspectives and synergies rely on a diverse array of participants to enhance innovation, knowledge, and networks, shape current research and teaching endeavours, and help to solve complex world problems.

This panel is hosted by the Office of the Vice-President, Research and International and the Faculty of Science.

The next CareNext Collective virtual event features the Electrophysiology (EP) Program at the Waterloo Regional Health Network. Explore how the EP team transformed their approach to cardiac ablation — streamlining workflows, strengthening partnerships and scaling from just a few procedures a day to seven — all while maintaining safety, quality, and patient-centered care.