University of Waterloo events

Join us for Friendship Bracelet Making at The Grad House, where we’ll be crafting, hanging out, and streaming episodes of the classic 1995 sitcom Brotherly Love. All about the bond between three brothers played by real-life siblings Joey, Matthew, and Andrew Lawrence.

Data are often stored in tables or databases, which provide information about size and variable types but reveal little about underlying patterns. This workshop introduces graphical and numerical techniques to uncover data structure and summarize distributions effectively.

For Indigenous Peoples, data is not just information, it is a living extension of identity, land, language and community. This session explores Indigenous data sovereignty as a vital response to ongoing data extraction and management.

Ready to strengthen your STEM writing and learn the “why” and “how” behind effective STEM academic communication?

Graduate writing can feel isolating—but it doesn’t have to. Peer review is an evidence-based approach to strengthen your writing and deepen your understanding of STEM genre conventions.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a multi-disciplinary tool that is widely used across the architecture industry. Attend this 30-minute speed run session to learn why every map you’ve ever seen is wrong!

The Black, Indigenous and Racialized Students' Writing Café is a social writing group. Unlike traditional peer feedback-based writing groups, we don’t read each other’s finished writing: instead, we write together to create a community of writers who can cheer each other on during what is often an isolating, difficult journey!

In this rapid version of a hackathon, participants will be teamed up at the event and work together to ideate, research and brainstorm solutions to problems in the domains of housing development, using AI for smarter urban transportation, building sustainable infrastructure and advancing sustainable mobility all in 3-hours.

Social event for international students to hang out, build community and make connections while enjoying free pizza and playing board games in a casual and welcoming space.

Join Monique Chambers, Senior Training Specialist from EDIRO and Stacey Jacobs, Education Coordinator, Sexual & Gender-based Violence Prevention from SVPRO in building a culture of consent, care, belonging and respect on our campus.
 

Zotero is citation management software that takes (most of) the pain of writing papers with citations.In this hands-on session, we will provide an overview of the software and help participants develop a level of familiarity with it so that they can begin working on their academic projects more efficiently.