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Cornerstone is Velocity's two week sprint for students and researchers from any faculty who want to explore an idea they have or even just an area of interest with a supportive community. It is focused on introducing you to potential customers and stakeholders who live and work outside the university. It will help you build the confidence you'll need to have productive empathetic conversations that will create the foundation of your idea and give it real impact.

No pitch deck. No pressure. No technical skills required Join the hundreds of students and researchers all exploring their own ideas through coaching, networking, and the chance to win great cash prizes.

The Story of Tiles and Ropes In-Between / داستان سفال‌ها و طناب‌ها moves through the fragile space of migration, where memory, material, and motion intertwine. It is about swinging: swinging between two roofs, swinging between two landscapes. It is about the fragility of a roof, the fragility of a memory. Suspended between Northern Iran and Canada, the work reflects gestures to find belonging—the stitching, the carrying, the quiet resistance of the body as it navigates cultural displacement.

I Saw You in the Archive is a multidisciplinary exhibition that reveals the history of eugenic practices in Kitchener-Waterloo in the mid 20th century, and questions how the framing of history impacts our personal understandings of each other’s identities. Mixing visuals associated with institutional archives and rubber factories, the artworks examine the former Kaufman Rubber Company and its owner A. R. Kaufman’s attempts to contain certain types of people, particularly those deemed ‘feeble-minded’

Please join us for the book launch of the Faculty of Engineering and School of Architecture's Elder-in-Resident's book launch. The book deals with the author's reflection on his journey of healing and recovery of one's identity in the modern world through space-mapping and space-making that intersects indigenous architecture, culture and identity.

Join us to celebrate how the University of Waterloo, in collaboration with Microsoft, is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the experience of co-op and work-integrated learning (WIL) students. As Canada’s most innovative university, and a global leader in co-op, Waterloo is at the forefront of new WIL advancements using AI. This partnership with Microsoft exemplifies our dedication to breaking new ground with technologies designed to enhance the student experience.

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Come celebrate community and the season with food, laughter, and great company. All UW womxn and nonbinary staff, postdocs, grad students, and faculty are welcome.

Join the Waterloo Climate Institute and GreenHouse for an event that will take participants to the Kitchener Market for a tour of the market and an opportunity to buy local seasonal veggies and food.

The work in Prairie Invasions: A Homecoming interlaces abandoned farmhouses with the history of their inhabitants and creates a moment of pause and empathy for the lives that took place in these specific sites, but also for the land that the houses are built upon. Humans are changing our landscape at an increasingly rapid rate.

Borrowing from the title of Leo Tolstoy’s historical chronicle of the Napoleonic Wars and the 1812 invasion of Russia, Sadko Hadžihasanović’s War and Piece is a similarly fragmented view of his homeland in the wake of war. 

We pride ourselves on giving all of our first-year students an entrance scholarship. This commitment demonstrates to our students that they are becoming part of a community where all are welcome and supported to ensure their success. By removing a portion of the financial barrier first-year students often face, St. Jerome's University actively commits to their academic success as they start their journey at the University of Waterloo.