Current students

Thursday, April 6, 2017 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Spring Social Crossover Event

As a crossover effort between old and new executives, we will be going on another Brewery Tour, this time in Guelph! Come out to celebrate a great year with SWIGS, and welcome in the new executive team. We will be starting off the evening at Royal City Brewery in Guelph, and later retiring at the Heuther Hotel for food and pool.

Thursday, December 1, 2016 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Holiday Party Brewery Tour

Get your ugly Christmas sweaters out of the closet, we are having our Holiday Party on December 1st this year! This year we will be going to both Wellington Brewery for a tour and tasting, then off to Heuther Hotel in Uptown Waterloo! What a fantastic way to launch the month of December off. 

Monday, October 31, 2016 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Monday, November 28, 2016 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Monday, January 30, 2017 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Monday, February 27, 2017 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Monday, March 27, 2017 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Monday, April 24, 2017 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Blue Drinks

Come out to our monthly event, Blue Drinks at the Grad House! We will provide some free food and perhaps a prize raffle and an interesting speaker. What a great chance to chat with your fellow water students!

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Matlab Workshop

Are you interested in hands-on learning of Matlab, a technical computing language with many applications? Our session at the end of September will feature a hands-on workshop led by Frederick Cheng, in which you will be paired with an experienced Matlab as your mentor as you go through our prepared material. 

Thursday, August 18, 2016 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Mass Spectrometer Workshop

Work with liquid, ion, or gas chromatography, and/ or mass spectrometry (MS)? Need extra support to push your research program forward? Come out to the inaugural meeting for the mass spectrometer user group.

There will be a presentation by the University of Waterloo's Mass Spectrometry Facility's Dr. Richard Smith, followed by an open forum for questions. This will also be a great opportunity to connect with fellow mass spectrometer users for later questions and troubleshooting.

Food will be provided!

Friday, February 10, 2023

SWIGS long-form name changed

We are pleased to announce that SWIGS members have overwhelmingly voted in favour (96%) of updating our official name to the ‘Society of the Water Institute Graduate Students (SWIGS)’. To celebrate our rebranding we are also working on a new logo to be used for SWIGS SWAG (shirts, pins, etc.) coming this spring. If you have design ideas for a new logo, let us know by this Friday, Feb. 10th! They can be full designs, sketches, or just ideas. Contact us via our email at uw.swigs@gmail.com