University of Waterloo events

Join our experts to receive recommended tips and suggestions for putting together a strong scholarship application package. Registration is required. Please note that this webinar will focus on tips and information related to writing your application and the content you should include. 

The following Employers are hosting Employer Information Sessions on Monday, Sep 9th:

• EY | Meet EY: Consulting Networking Session - IN-PERSON Information Session
• OTPP | Information & Networking Session - Fall 2024 Student and Early Talent Opportunities - IN-PERSON Information Session
• Manulife | Tech Fall Information Session (Software Engineering & CS)- IN-PERSON Information Session

Make sure to register through WaterlooWorks and check the Employer Information Sessions calendar for any updates!

WISE is pleased to announce a hybrid WISE Public Lecture with Patricia Romero-Lankao. Please join us in person or on Zoom to discuss energy transition and climate change. The presentation will explain how a group of social scientists engaged with communities in Los Angeles to operationalize three equity principles in the transition to 100% clean energy by 2035. The speaker will draw lessons on options and barriers to centring equity in technological innovations in energy and describe how these lessons inform the Justice Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions, a new research program at the University of Toronto.

Get up to $15,000 in funding to help you commercialize your research or project. If you wish to explore the commercialization of your project/research, then this program is for you.

We know turning technology into a product is hard. That is why the teams at Velocity and the Waterloo Commercialization Office (WatCo) are combining our expertise in startups and technology transfer to accelerate your ambitions.

As part of the Water Institute's Webinar Series: The Value of Water in Canada, Wayne Jenkinson, Executive Director, National Hydrological Service, Meteorological Service of Canada, ECCC, presents: Monitoring water resources in Canada: The value of water data and national hydrometric program.

The following Employer is hosting Employer Information Sessions on Wed Sep 11th:

• Bloomberg | Bloomberg 101 - IN-PERSON Information Session

Make sure to register through WaterlooWorks and check the Employer Information Sessions calendar for any updates!

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. 

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.

The Innovation Open House Mixer is an opportunity to meet fellow students and aspiring or emerging entrepreneurs from across campus. Join us to make friends, gain valuable contacts and build connections with Velocity and its resources. You’ll also have the chance to connect with representatives from Math Innovation, Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, GreenHouse (Social Impact and Indigenous Incubators), Grebel Peace Incubator, Future Cities Institute, the Library and Socratica.

The Faculty of Science Foundation presents: Tim Caulfield, Professor of Health Law and Science Policy and Bestselling Author

The spread of misinformation seems to intensify with each passing week. Indeed, it is a defining characteristic of our time! And research tells us that misinformation is doing tangible harm — to public health, mental health, public discourse, personal relationships, and public trust. How did we get here, why do people believe, and what can we do about it?