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You're invited to attend the Friesen Prize Lecture, a public event and panel discussion featuring Dr. Gordon Guyatt, recipient of the 2024 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research, awarded by Friends of CIHR.

For a Keeping Well at Work special event, join us, in partnership with the Cultivating Talent: A Mentorship Collective, for an interactive morning with guest speaker Natalie Stuart from Connect2You to learn about building your personal brand, ways to invest in cultivating meaningful connections with others, and strategies to ensure you are gaining access to a diversity of perspectives throughout your personal and professional life.

Physical vapour deposition (PVD) is an important category of film growth techniques for quantum, nanotechnology, and semiconductor devices. The Quantum Nano Fabrication and Characterization Facility (QNFCF) houses a wide variety of PVD tools to serve the needs of a diverse community of researchers. With so many options for PVD tools, techniques, and process setpoints, how does one choose the right path of investigation and process development for their specific device?

The Office of Indigenous Relations (OIR), University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge and Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Centre (SOAHAC) will be collaborating for a community gathering and social to be hosted on the evening of February 13, 2025. The evening will include a connection to culture, song, dance, crafts, activities for kids and more!

Join SVPRO - the Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office - in continuing the menopause conversation on campus. They will be hosting a screening of the Menopause Documentary The (M) Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause on Wednesday Feb 5th. Everyone is welcome! All genders, all ages as everyone can benefit from learning more about menopause!

SVPRO – the Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office is preparing for Winter Consent Week - Monday January 27th – Friday January 31st. This is an opportunity for the UWaterloo Community to continue discussions about consent and set intentions to normalize, consider and understand consent in new ways.

Please note that the Lectures in Catholic Experience with Dr. Gary J. Adler Jr. scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on February 27th has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused, and we hope to reschedule his lecture in the future.

For information on the Lectures in Catholic Experience and the schedule of speakers, please go to our Lectures in Catholic Experience website.

The Faculty of Science is excited to launch the Healthy Communities Discussion Series, a new and exciting initiative spotlighting groundbreaking research at the University of Waterloo and its impact on health and well-being.

Under the Pines, Over the Clouds is rooted in Xiaojing Yan’s Chinese heritage and her experience as an immigrant. Her explorations as an artist can be viewed through a similarly bifurcated lens: the forms and landscapes are equally as indebted to the artist’s cultural identity as they are to her empathy for the natural world.

The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present katherena vermette, a Michif (Red River Métis) award-winning writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba.