The Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch is finally here! Register for the event and watch the finalists pitch their research on important problems affecting the world and compete for R&D funding.
You are invited to attend the Friesen lecture, "When Science meets Society: The competition between knowledge and values," featuring Sir Mark Walport, recipient of the 2020 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.
How do we prevent, detect, or stop a data breach?
Join us on Dec 1st to find out!
Our guest speaker Daphne Yao discusses data breaches, government regulations, and cybersecurity risks in our newest CPI Talk!
CPI Talks are open to everyone regardless of age! High school students and even non-Waterloo students/staff are welcome to join.
As part of the Water Institute's WaterLeadership training series, the Water Institute, presents, " Improving Bibliometrics for Early Career Researchers” with special guest, Laura Bredahl, a Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian from the UW Library.
Join us for a special WaterTalk co-hosted by the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute and The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), where Juliette Legler, Chair of Toxicology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, presents, “Microplastics and Human
Health: Moving the Field Forward.”
The first event in the 2021-22 History Speaker Series, this talk examines the establishment of the birth control project in Uganda by American physician and eugenicist Clarence Gamble as a biomedical endeavor driven by global concerns about the reproductive capacities of Ugandan women and global overpopulation. It shows how these concerns clashed with local anxieties about demographic changes, social and political reproduction, and medical ethics. The talk examines the birth control project in Uganda as a form of reproductive exploitation of women.
The Faculty of Environment invites you to attend a special Speakers Series on Decolonizing Methodologies for Respectful Sustainability Research. Sessions will take place during the last week of each month.
The third session, featuring Professor Saran Stewart from Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, is on December 2nd from 12:00 - 1:30 pm.
The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) has launched a new seminar series, Quantum Nano Collision (QNC) Seminar Series, to deepen the engagement of the Waterloo researchers who work at the interface of quantum and nanotechnologies. This seminar series will also provide opportunities for senior graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and research associates to present their innovative work along with the faculty members to bring together the excitement around these cutting-edge technologies that would shape our future.
The Indigenous Speakers Series is pleased and honoured to present Jean Teillet, lawyer, author, teacher and artist, as the first of our 2021-22 speakers.
On November 11, the University of Waterloo is honoured to take part in the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK.
From October 31 – November 12, 2021, more than 190 world leaders are expected to arrive in Scotland together with tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens for twelve days of talks aimed at accelerating action on climate change.