December with SWIGS featuring Scavenger hunt, Trivia night, Eco Summit 2021, send holiday wishes
Thinking of pursuing a career in academia? Curious about finding a path that works for you and your skills? Join in for our second Blue Drinks on Wednesday, December 1st from 5 - 6:30pm EST for an open discussion with Dr. Nandita Basu and Dr Joseph Kangmennaang on their path into academia. This will be a virtual event, and registration is required here. To find out more about our speakers visit the event webpage: https://uwaterloo.ca/students-water-institute-graduate-section/blue-drinks-2
How many Barbie movies are mermaid-themed? What water-related songs have won a Grammy? You’ll find the answer to these pressing questions in our Water Trivia on December 8th, from 7 to 9 pm. Participants will be randomly assigned to groups of 4 and compete to win the title of Biggest Water Nerds, as well as $15 W Store cards for each member of the winning team. Let that SINK in and grab a spot now! This event will be online.
*Please note the date for the Water Trivia has been moved to December 8th, 2021 from previously announced date.
SWIGS is excited to hold a virtual Fall Photo Scavenger Hunt. Take part in the scavenger hunt for a chance to win some cool prizes. Fill out the checklist (pdf), send us all the pictures you have for each task together in one email to uw.swigs@gmail.com by December 4th, 2021.
Send your wishes for a colleague or the general SWIGS community to uw.swigs@gmail.com by December 3rd. All greetings will be published in the final edition of the SWIGS Newsletter for the Fall21 term, on December 7th. Please limit wishes to a maximum of 15 words.
University of Waterloo's Eco Summit 2021: Youth Leading the Way for Climate Action - November 24th & 25th, 2021
The Sustainability Office invites you to attend the 2021 Eco Summit: Youth Leading the Way for Climate Action on November 24th and November 25th. Join youth changemakers in Climate Action like SWIGS Co-Vice-chair Outreach and Green Resident Ambassador, Navya Nair, to showcase UW initiatives, highlight students and alumni climate changemakers and motivate other UW Warriors. The Sustainability Office welcomes everyone to further explore and sign up for each event attached to the Eco Summit 2021:
Learn how to enhance your research impact with bibliometric tools in this month's WaterLeadership
Would you like to learn more about understanding and optimizing your ability to create research impact metrics through bibliometrics?
The November 30 WaterLeadership session is for you. The Water Institute presents, "Improving Bibliometrics for Early Career Researchers” with special guest, Laura Bredahl, a Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian from the UW Library.
Visit https://bit.ly/WLeadershipNov30 for registration and details.
North America Water Advocacy Workshop
On November 16th, two of our SWIGS Vice-Chairs (Rodrigo Curty and Navya Nair) participated in the North American Water Advocacy Workshop, organized by the North American Youth Parliament for Water and the Butterfly Effect coalition. The workshop aimed to enable civil society organizations (CSOs) to share their perspective and influence decision makers for positive, ambitious change in the water sector. Solutions to limited access to water, sanitation and hygiene, contamination, water infrastructure and affordability were discussed. The results will inform policy briefs to be submitted to the World Water Forum (WWF) (Dakar, March 2022) and the 2023 UN Water Decade Conference (New York, March 2023).
Sign Up Today for Arts 490 Winter 2022 - Water in the World: Environment, Knowledge, Ethics, and Practice.
The office of the Global Engagement Program Coordinator office would like to invite undergraduates in their second, third or fourth year and graduates students who wish to experience how research and insights can be put into action to join the global engagement seminar (course code arts 490) in the winter 2022 offering: Water in the World: Environment, Knowledge, Ethics, and Practice.
Visit https://bit.ly/info_Arts490 for more information.
Water Institute Events
WaterTalks series: Microplastics and Human Health: Moving the Field Forward - Juliette Legler
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2021 10:00 - 11:00 AM EST Register here
WaterTalks series: Global water security under changing socio-economic and climate conditions - Taher Kahil
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2021 10:00 - 11:00 AM EST Register here
You are invited to participate in a mentorship program with UWaterloo's Douglas Wright engineer-in-residence, Erin Mahoney. You may book a session by filling out thisgoogle sheets document before noon the day before your requested session. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Blessing at baihie@uwaterloo.ca.
We are continuing to host a weekly virtual writing café on Thursdays 3:00 – 5:00pm EST on Microsoft Teams.
If you haven't joined yet please register using the followinglink and select ‘SWIGS’ as your #WaterlooWrites group
Feel free to reach out to Lauren ( l2banks@uwaterloo.ca) or Narasimman (nlakshmi@uwaterloo.ca) if you have any questions!
Interested in volunteering with SWIGS? Check out our opportunities page or email us directly to see where you can help out, there is always something to do! We are also happy to advertise any major accomplishments of SWIGS, whether it be graduating, new paper, awards, etc. Let us know!
