Current students

Friday, January 21, 2022 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Women in Nanotechnology Seminar

All students are invited to meet prominent women in nanotechnology to hear about their history, exciting research, and how they chose their successful career paths. This seminar will provide valuable information to all students, particularly female students, who may be interested in graduate work and careers in S&T but do not know what avenues are open to them.

Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Posters For Student Activism - a Visual/Sonic Online Workshop Event

Feed your creative being while connecting to the themes of UWaterloo's Critical Tech Talk Series discussing the ethics of Technology.

About this event

Held virtually, this will be a relaxed workshop style event that sees a brief review of the history of student organizing and the accompanying posters that supported those movements. We'll then livestream some music and people can then take time to just chill and draw.

Thursday, February 10, 2022 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Critical Tech Talk 2: Discriminating Data - In Conversation with Wendy Chun

In her most recent book, Discriminating Data (2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data's predictive potential, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Amy Pruden, W. Thomas Rice Professor, University Distinguished Professor, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA will present: Harnessing 'Omics to Inform Strategies to Mitigate the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance as a One Water Challenge.

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) has four main thematic research areas; Smart and Function Materials, Connected Devices, Next Generation Energy Systems and Therapeutics and Theranostics. To showcase the work going on within these areas, we will be holding monthly WIN Thematic Seminars featuring our members and their research group members.

Thursday, December 2, 2021 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Coming Out in Engineering: A Panel Discussion

What is it like to identify as LGBTQ+ in Engineering at Waterloo and beyond? Stop by this panel discussion hosted by EngiQueers, with panelists from the faculty, industry, and alumni of Waterloo Engineering, to learn more. There will be opportunities for members of the audience to ask questions. 

Educate & Action: You can register to attend in-person or join the panel through Zoom.

Click here to register to attend in-person.

Presented by: Baoshi Sun, MASc student, Systems Design Engineering 

Abstract: As one of the most essential factors of learning environment, lighting in classroom has been found to have significant impact on student performance. Moreover, brightness level and correlated color temperature (CCT) are the two key luminous properties that have been examined in many relevant studies. And researchers were increasingly focusing on the diversity of luminous requirements under different learning context.