Events

Please join us for the opening of our winter exhibitions featuring new installations by Michelle Bellemare and Dave Dyment.

UWaterloo CanBuild is more than just a typical food drive — it strives to raise awareness about hunger on campus and in the community.  

CanBuild engages the campus community to develop teams, collaborate with colleagues and put their creativity skills to work by building structures from the food donations they collect.

Location: EV1 241 Notes: Open to faculty (registration is required)

Location: EV1 241 Notes: Open to faculty (registration is required)

Location: EV1 241 Notes: Open to faculty (registration is required)

This workshop provides you with an overview of the Statistics Canada website, including effective techniques for uncovering the vast amount of statistical information available.

Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of the University of
Waterloo, invites you to attend the guest lecture of Dr. Edmund S. Phelps.
Among his many accolades, Dr. Edmund S. Phelps is a Nobel Prize-winning economist. His latest publication, Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change, has received wide-spread global recognition.

The Water Institute is pleased to host a lecture by Dr. John P. Smol, Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL) and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, Department of Biology, Queen's University.

Dr. Smol's lecture is titled: Exploring the past to protect our future: Using lake sediments to study water quality issues.

Abstract

Location: EV1 241 Notes: Open to faculty (registration is required)

Clinical ethicist, Dr. Hazel Harkwell, and local palliative care specialist, Dr. Donna Ward, discuss the complexity of end-of-life care.

For Co-op Students - ENG - Mechanical, ENG - Environmental, ENG - Civil, ENG – Chemical

Please register if you will be attending this session or cancel the session if you have registered for this and no longer want to attend it.

Cultural Translation

How do culturally diverse contemporary artists operate within the context of the West? What are the translational activities that occur in such art practices?

"Makayla's Choice: Ethics and the Aboriginal Right to Pursue Traditional Medicine" presented by Christopher Lowry, Assistant Professor and Andria Bianchi, PhD candidate from the Philosophy department.

Join us and distinguished guest speaker Jo Atlee, Professor, School of Computer Science, as we recognize and celebrate International Women's Day 2015.

This interactive workshop will provide key information and practical guidance to cleantech entrepreneurs who want to apply for SDTC funding.

For Co-op and Graduating Students - ENG - Computer, ENG - Software, MATH - Computer Science

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Duke University Professor Hubert Bray will present two public lectures. These events are free of charge, and everyone is welcome.

Bray public lectures poster

From Pythagoras to Einstein: The Geometry of Space and Time

This workshop will give you the tools to effectively lead and participate in team initiatives in order to quickly turn ideas into measurable results—a key skill sought by employers. By working on team-simulated exercises, you will benefit from real-time expert guidance and can then apply these skills directly to your career. 

For Graduating Students - ENG – Chemical

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This session provides you with an overview of ODESI, the platform for searching and downloading Statistics Canada datasets made available through the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI). Basic knowledge of data analysis is presumed.

A lecture by Dr. Jackson Katz

For Co-op and Graduating Students - SCI - Physics, SCI - Chemistry, SCI - Biology, ENG - Nanotechnology, ENG - Mechanical, ENG – Chemical, ENG - Biomedical

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Public Lecture by Michele Mosca, Institute for Quantum Computing

Are you the next entrepreneur from the Faculty of Science? Test your idea at our next Velocity Science event. All ideas welcome! 

For Summer Students - AHS - Recreation & Leisure Studies, AHS - Recreation & Business Management, AHS – Kinesiology

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