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Wednesday, June 5, 2024 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Engineering Graduate Studies Fair

Are you interested in pursuing a Master’s or PhD and want to learn more about the Engineering Graduate programs offered at Waterloo? Register to join us on Wednesday, June 5 from 2:00-5:00 p.m. for our in-person Graduate Studies Fair to have all of your questions answered by faculty members, current grad students and admission experts from each department!

Through the power of his own story and the inspiration he’s found in others, Rick Hansen shares his vision and inspires audiences to join his journey to create an accessible, healthy and inclusive world, where people of all abilities can fully participate and contribute. By reflecting on our own actions and beliefs, we can challenge existing standards and dream up new ones – ones that foster hope, inspiration and acceptance. Hansen encourages us all to fight for accessibility as a human right.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Studying the Sacred: Water is Life

As part of the Water Institute's Webinar Series: The Value of Water in Canada, join Elaine Ho-Tassone, Director of Operations, NORDIK Institute & Adjunct Professor, Algoma University as they present: Studying the Sacred: Water is Life.

Thursday, May 16, 2024 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

"In the Mix" Thesis Exhibition

Join the University of Waterloo Art Gallery for an exhibition featuring artist Charlie Star. 

"In The Mix" is an interdisciplinary exhibition that explores music of the Black diaspora. Through a site-specific, interactive installation that combines sound, music, collage, personal family photographs and archives, disc-jockeying, and experimental turntablism, representations of Black identity are explored and reimagined.

Thursday, May 16, 2024 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

"Becoming the Poem" Thesis Exhibition

Join the University of Waterloo Art Gallery for an exhibition featuring artist Ashley Beerdat.

"Becoming the Poem" is an installation of landscape paintings that consider my relationship to nature and how to foster hope living in an ecological crisis.

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - Friday, May 31, 2024 (all day)

Sexual Violence Awareness Month

Join us this May as we stand together for Sexual Violence Awareness Month at the University of Waterloo. Throughout the month, we're bringing together a lineup of powerful voices with 4 dynamic speakers featuring four separate engaging virtual talks every Thursday starting May 9 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and informative promotional booths every Wednesday beginning May 8.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Velocity Presents: Innovation Open House

Start your spring term with some fun at our Innovation Open House Mixer. The mixer is an opportunity to meet fellow students and aspiring or emerging entrepreneurs and creators, make friends, gain valuable contacts, and build connections to all things Velocity including our people, spaces, and resources. Plus, find out about Zero, Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, GreenHouse (Social Impact Incubator), Grebel Peace Incubator, and the Library.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Mário Franca, Professor, Institute for Water and Environment - Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, will present: We fail on the estimation of flood hazards; reflections on the July 2021 floods in Central Europe. This event is in person in DC 1302 with a reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl).