Events - April 2019

Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs is thrilled to introduce the first GRADventure Professional Skills Conference! This event is an expanded version of the very popular Non-Academic Career Conference.

Registration will open on Tuesday, April 16^th at 9:00am.

This session will be of interest to graduate students who are getting ready to teach their first course as instructors during the Winter 2019 or Spring 2019 terms. It will include a series of panel presentations by graduate students, who successfully taught their first course at Waterloo, as well as group discussions of common scenarios from the classroom. By the end of the session, participants will have discussed common challenges faced by first-time instructors, identified strategies for addressing them and developed ideas for getting their courses off to a great start.

Write together. Connect to our grad writing community to stay focused and motivated!

Tuesdays & Fridays  9 a.m. –  12 p.m., SCH 228F

Writing regularly helps with productivity and motivation. The Writing and Communication Centre hosts weekly group writing sessions for grad students. These loosely-structured sessions are designed to help grad students connect to a larger writing community, stay focused, and to keep making writing progress.

Are you a graduate student who has poured hours into your research and feel like there is an opportunity to create a business from it?  Come out and see how previous grad students were able to monetize their research and enter into the startup world! This panel discussion with local founders and University of Waterloo professors will show you how the skills and research gained through your graduate studies can enable you to be a great entrepreneur.

“Every business meal represents an opportunity for relationship building.”