Workshop

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a multi-disciplinary tool that is widely used across the architecture industry. Attend this 30-minute speed run session to learn about different types of GIS data, and where to find open data for use in assignments and research.

Ready to strengthen your STEM writing and learn the “why” and “how” behind effective STEM academic communication?

Graduate writing can feel isolating—but it doesn’t have to. Peer review is an evidence-based approach to strengthen your writing and deepen your understanding of STEM genre conventions.

The literature review can be a challenging and time-consuming component of a research project. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can’t write your literature review for you, but this workshop will explore and introduce GenAI tools you may use as supports in the literature review process.

Curious about your potential customers or target audience? In this second workshop of the From Idea to Impact series, you'll learn how to use Library tools and openly available sources to research markets and understand customer needs.

Are you looking to solve big problems, but you’re not sure where to start? In this online workshop, Rachel Figueiredo, Waterloo’s entrepreneurship librarian, will show you how to understand the landscape of a problem and possibly identify how you might contribute to a solution.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a multi-disciplinary tool that is widely used across the architecture industry. Attend this 30-minute speed run session to learn how you can get started using GIS.

This presentation, with a question & answer session, will discuss what GIS is, give examples of its use within the architecture industry, and provide instructions on how to access GIS software.

Through structured writing prompts and activities, you’ll have the opportunity to explore a genre that speaks to you—whether that be poetry, fiction, storytelling, or something in between.

All genres and experience levels welcome!

Through structured activities, peer dialogue, and reflective writing, participants will build strategies to negotiate academic expectations while sustaining their own voices and identities as writers.

This 5-week workshop series integrates practical revision tools with antiracist and decolonial perspectives on writing. Drawing on Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Antiracist Writing Workshop, the program treats academic writing as a cultural practice shaped by power, rhetorical traditions, and linguistic diversity.

The third in the three-part “Rock Your Thesis” series, this workshop will equip you with the skills you need to revise your thesis or dissertation draft and plan to submit and defend it. Register on Portal today!

Join us for a moment of creativity, reflection and connection inspired by Suleika Jaouad's The Book of Alchemy. Together, we'll explore how art can transform emotion into meaning and strengthen solidarity among womxn and nonbinary members of our UW community. Art materials, snacks and warm drinks will be available--and you might win a free book!