Events

Alumnus Fiona Brinkman, PhD FRSC, (BSc Biochemistry '90) will be awarded Distinguished Alumni Award  at 3:00 pm, Friday, March 6, 2020, at the University Club. Dr. Brinkman is Distinguished Professor in Bioinformatics and Genomics at Simon Fraser University, most known for R&D of widely-used computer software that aids more integrative analyses of microbe and human genomics data.

During her visit to campus, prior to the award ceremony, she welcomes you to join her for a Meet & Greet and HeForShe event.

Presented by alumnus Joseph Bondy-Denomy, PhD (BSc Biology '08), who will be awarded the Young Alumni Award at 3:00 pm on Friday, March 6, 2020 at the University Club. 

Dr. Bondy-Denomy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, and is best known for his ongoing investigations in CRISPR-Cas immunity, with implications in therapeutics for human genetic and infectious disease, as well as our basic understanding the microbial world. Dr. Bondy-Denomy is Scientific Advisory Board Member of SNIPR Biome and Excision BioTherapies and has expanded his research activities to the private sector as co-founder of and Scientific Advisor to Acrigen Biosciences

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology is pleased to present a Seminar Series talk by Professor Mike Fleischauer, an Associate Research at the NRC-Nanotechnology Research Centre (NRC-NANO, Edmonton), an adjunct professor of Physics at the University of Alberta, and on the City of Edmonton’s Energy Transition Advisory Committee.

Back by popular demand! 

Our professors had such a great time in Toronto last year,  they insisted on a second round!

Join the conversation at the President's Virtual Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 1:30 p.m.
 
The University of Waterloo continues to look forward through the uncertainty COVID-19 has created for our institution and the world beyond. To help answer questions and bring our community together once again, we will be hosting a President’s Virtual Town Hall via interactive livestream.

The Town Hall is an opportunity for Science leadership to listen to concerns from our Science community on racism and discrimination of all forms, from overt acts to those more unconscious in nature. The goal is for us to gain a better understanding of the problems facing Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. We hope to provide our Science Anti-Racism Taskforce with sufficient directions to formulate mitigation strategies so we may work together to become an inclusive academic society without racism.

The role of dams and the nearshore zone on phosphorus flows along the river-lake interface

With continued concern for eutrophication in the lower Great Lakes, scientists, government and stakeholders continue to work together towards effective management solutions. In these freshwater systems, phosphorus is a main driver of algal blooms. Our ability to manage phosphorus in these systems to improve water quality is limited by our understanding of phosphorus flows and cycling along rivers and into large lakes.

We are pleased to announce a virtual meeting for the presentation of the first GOGREEN Data release and science results, hosted by the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics.  The public portion of the meeting will run from 10am-2pm EDT on Monday Aug 24, and 10am-12pm EDT on Tuesday Aug 25.  To be included on future emails, and to receive the password-protected Zoom link on August 21, please register here.  There is no registration fee.

President Feridun Hamdullahpur will be hosting a special virtual Graduate Student Town Hall to address concerns returning to campus, including questions about classes, campus access, research and more.

We are kicking off the biweekly biology semester series for fall term with the inimitable Dr. Clara Chan from the University of Delaware, with a talk this Friday titled "How microbes rust the Earth: Insights from field studies, culturing and ‘omics"