University of Waterloo Random Act of Kindness Day
The University of Waterloo, the Federation of Students and the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation have partnered to offer the first-ever, campus-wide Random Act of Kindness Day! This event will inspire our campus to practice kindness and pass it on to others.
Waterloo this is our opportunity to demonstrate that our campus cares and contributes to our community and helps to strengthen the community-at-large.
During this two-session workshop, learn how to apply successful networking strategies in your daily life in order to enhance your career opportunities. NOTE: There is a prerequisite for this workshop. Please see chart for details.
The Wednesday Night Discussion Group (WNDG) has provided a safe and
confidential space for discussing sexual orientation and gender identity on
the University of Waterloo campus for four decades!
Need support? Have questions? Looking to socialize and meet new people? Come join members of the local rainbow community for an evening of engaging discussion.
Visit our webpage for details on the evening's topic of conversation.
The current job market requires an assertive approach to finding work. Increase your chances of success by practising key communication strategies. NOTE: There is a prerequisite for this workshop. Please see chart for details.
The academic job market is tight. Prepare early for your academic career by starting to think like a hiring committee. This workshop will explore the academic labour market and factors tied to success, and provide an overview of how best to promote yourself.
Have you invented something? Do you need to know what technology a company has invented? Find out what patents are about, what a search can do for you, and how to do your own search. Not for the faint of heart; some searching experience will help.
Beth Esenbergs, Small Business Advisor with the Waterloo Region Small Business Centre, will explain best strategies and steps on how to successfully start your own business. Bring your great ideas!
Dr. Ron Dembo, Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint, Founder and former
CEO of Algorithmics, will be speaking about hidden opportunity for
sustainability at WISE Lecture
Make smart use of your time: better searching can lead to better marks. Learn to construct searches that provide the information you need, rather than a million useless hits. In this hands-on session learn advanced techniques to locate books, journal articles, and web resources.
Through discussion and hands-on activities, this session will increase your understanding of the career decision-making process and put you in a better position to make appropriate career choices.
Special presentation by Richard Hughson, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences on Aging & Astronauts
Tickets:
- $28 each for UWRA members, spouses and guests
- $30 for non-members
For information, please call 519-888-0334
Join us for an informative session on the Ontario-Baden-Württemberg Student Exchange. David Darby, Academic Director of the OBW through Ontario Universities International, will be joining us to inform, educate and advise students on the options available to them through this consortia of German Universities.
Interested in teaching English as a second language (ESL)? Certifications are varied and information is scattered but this workshop will provide clear information about the different levels of certification and which ones you will need to teach ESL abroad, in Canada and in Ontario.
Prepare for the optometry school admission interview (standard and MMI). Learn about the interview process, strategies to improve your performance and tips on how to handle common admission questions. A practice standard interview and MMI will be held within the workshop. This workshop is sponsored by the uWaterloo Pre-Optometry Club.
The uWaterloo Science Open House will be held on October 26. This free event is the result of a collaborative effort that brings together activities from all uWaterloo Science departments to introduce the wonders of science to kids!
The 2013 Jakob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Lecture will be given by Harvard film scholar Eric Rentschler. Professor Rentschler, who will also be receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo for his leading scholarship in film studies, will be speaking on the film The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007.
Please join us for what will surely be an insightful lecture. And be sure to stay for the reception afterwards!
Gem and Mineral Show and Sale
Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26:
Friday, October 25 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm and Saturday, October 26 10:00am - 5:00 pm in the Centre for Environmental and Information Technology (EIT).
Mineral and gem dealers will be present along with activities for kids, a regional water display, demonstrations and much more!
Planning your career and identifying your skills don’t have to be overwhelming processes. Get some simple and practical steps that you can implement now to begin preparing for your academic or non-academic career.
Looking to publish for the first time? This workshop provides an overview of things to consider when selecting journals to target for publication.
During this two-session workshop, learn how to apply successful networking strategies in your daily life in order to enhance your career opportunities. NOTE: There is a prerequisite for this workshop. Please see chart for details.
M. NourbeSe Philip is an un-embedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and former lawyer who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto. She is a Guggenheim Fellow (USA) and the recipient of many awards including the Casa de las Americas prize (Cuba).
Her most recent work, Zong!, is a genre-breaking poem, which engages with the law, history and memory as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade.
This year's Reading Series at St Jerome's is on the theme of Literartistry,
showcasing literature's dance with other artistic media.
Prof. Pascal van Hentenryck, NICTA, Australia, presents a guest lecture entitled, "Approximations and Relaxations of Power Flow Equations"
