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Exams are done and the tulips are blooming; it feels like it's time for a Field Trip!

My final Field Trip with the University of Waterloo's Knowledge Integration program was in April/May 2022, and we were headed to Copenhagen.

Our flight had two legs, Toronto to Frankfurt, and Frankfurt to Copenhagen, with a reasonable layover between the two flights.

Today in irresponsible #science marketing bullshit: #UWaterloo puts out a real turd of a press release, linked below.

The press release: "[our stuff] senses glucose levels for diabetics more accurately than ever before"

The actual research: basically a better antenna that can distinguish between distilled water and a ~25000 mg/dL glucose solution absent any other factors. For context: At around 500 mg/dL you're dead.

Link to the press release:
uwaterloo.ca/news/media/no-mor

Waterloo News · No more needles! Tracking blood sugar on your wrist | Waterloo NewsImagine shrinking satellite technology that predicts the weather into a device that transmits vital information about the health of the person wearing it. University of Waterloo engineers have achieved this technological feat to help people faced with chronic health problems such as diabetes monitor their glucose levels. The Waterloo team’s breakthrough addresses the major

Sally and Dalia. Twin sisters from Gaza, they were admitted to the University of Waterloo's PhD program in Systems Design Engineering through the Palestinian Students & Scholars At Risk (PSSAR) initiative. Sally and Dalia were killed in an lsraeli airstrike on civilians during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Their lives ended before they could even begin their journey.

Zwei Forscher untersuchten die Klimabedingungen für 93 mögliche Austragungsorte Olympischer Winterspiele: „Beim Erreichen der Pariser Klimaziele sind in den 2050er-Jahren noch 50 der 93 Orte für die olympischen Winterspiele ausreichend schneesicher, und 42 in den 2080er-Jahren. Im hohen Emissionsszenario sind es 41 bzw. 27“, sagt Robert Steiger von der Uni Innsbruck.

👉 uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2024/mo

2018 fanden die Olympischen Winterspiele in der südkoreanischen Region Pyeongchang statt.
www.uibk.ac.atMögliche Olympiastandorte werden weniger
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The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada is contacting alumni & asking for volunteers to review and score incoming Math & Engineering students’ applications to “help us identify exceptional students”. They're asking the volunteers to commit to at least five hours a week next February & March.

I’m just a little taken aback by this. Universities aren’t charities. This is work that would normally be done by paid employees & now they want former students to do it for free?

WTF #uwaterloo ?

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In collaboration with (cont.)

UW Bleed Bright
University of Waterloo Model United Nations
Pakistani Students' Association
FemPhys
Feminist Think Tank
PSAC
Muslim Student Association WLU
Pakistani Student Association WLU
Laurier Pride Society
WLU NDP
WLU Rainbow Centre
WLU Middle Eastern Student Association
WLU Islamic Relief
WLU Islamic Information Association

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In collaboration with:

UW Voices for Palestine
WLU Palestinian Justice Club
QTP0C KW
UW Climate Justice Ecosystem
UW Somali Student Association
Waterloo Arab Student Association
North African Student Association
Waterloo African Student Association
UW Indian CulturaJ Association
UWaterloo Chai and Verse
lndigenous Student Association at University of Waterloo
Egyptian Student Association (ESA)
UWaterloo NDP CIub
UW Black Association for Student Expression

From OccupyUW on twitter:

ALL OUT FOR GAZA!
Saturday, May 25th at 12:00 PM

Join us in solidarity with the students of UW and WLU to oppose our institutions' complicity in genocide! After 230 days of Israel's vicious massacres of Palestinians, the genocide is reaching a new peak with the bombing of Rafah.

Gradhouse Green (Gaza House), UWaterloo campus.

Over 350 faculty and staff from UWaterloo and Laurier sign a letter in support of the student anti-genocide encampment at Gaza House.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Google DocsUW & WLU Faculty, Librarians and Staff Letter in Support of Student EncampmentAs faculty, librarians, and staff at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, we unequivocally support our students’ right to peaceful assembly and protest in solidarity with Palestine. We call on all faculty, librarians, and staff to support our students, and to condemn any form of repression and incrimination that may be directed at them during their peaceful encampment. At this point, Israel has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and it is forcibly starving and collectively punishing Palestinians. The current violence against Palestinians is preceded by a long history of Israeli settler colonial violence, occupation, and dispossession. Everyone working in a university has a duty and obligation to speak out against the campaign of “scholasticide” in Gaza. Israel has destroyed every single university in Gaza. Hundreds of our Palestinian colleagues, including UW Visiting Scholar Sofyan Taya, have been killed or maimed. Over 100,000 university students have no access to education. This is equivalent to every single post-secondary student in the KW area (Waterloo, Laurier, Conestoga) not being able to attend classes. Over 80% of the entire educational infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed. This, according to the UN, is an "intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.” Our students have come together to peacefully protest and advocate for the human rights of the people of Gaza. Our students are participating in an international conversation that values multifaith communities of care and respect. Our students should be celebrated for their moral courage in standing for peace, human dignity, and life, as they challenge our university administrators who have chosen to remain silent about the dehumanizing levels of violence and insecurity of life imposed upon the people of Gaza. Our demands mirror the demands already put forward by our students: We call on our universities to protect and respect the right of students to peacefully protest without harm, intimidation, or the threat of police violence. We support their right to protest and the right of students to criticize and oppose our university’s relationship with Israeli institutions. We urge our university administrations to meet with the student leaders to discuss their demands, as they are requesting, and productively enact change in response to their demands. We call on our university administrations to publicly commit to forming committees to work with our Scholars at Risk programs and establish a stream to facilitate the nomination of Palestinian students and scholars via the Palestinian Students and Scholars at Risk Program. We call upon our faculty, librarian, and staff associations (such as FAUW, RAAS, SJUASA & WLUFA) to, where applicable, also disclose and divest all funds and investments from all companies complicit in Israeli apartheid, occupation, and genocide. Following the recent decisions made by the general bodies of faculty associations (Renison Association of Academic Staff on April 25 & Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association on April 18), and in support of our students' demands, we call on our university administrations to: Disclose and divest all university funds and investments (including pensions) from all companies complicit in Israeli apartheid, occupation, and genocide; and Terminate all academic and research partnerships with Israeli universities that operate in the illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, or sustain or support Israel’s apartheid policies and its ongoing genocide in Gaza, such as UW’s partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with our brave students: Kim Hong Nguyen, Associate Professor, UW Greg Bird, Associate Professor, WLU Vinh Nguyen, Associate Professor, UW Sara Matthews, Faculty, WLU Jasmin Zine, Professor, WLU Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir, Associate Professor, UW Jessica Joy Cameron, Faculty (Contract), WLU Steve Wilcox, Assistant Professor, WLU Neil Balan, Contract Teaching Faculty, WLU Heather Smyth, Associate Professor, UW Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor, WLU Adan Jerreat-Poole, Assistant Professor, UW Hillary Pimlott, Associate Professor, WLU Alexandra Boutros, Associate Professor, WLU Clarice Kuhling, Contract Faculty, WLU Nathan Rambukkana, Associate Professor, WLU Milo Sweedler, Professor, WLU Penelope Ironstone, Associate Professor, WLU Gerald Voorhees, Associate Professor + Department Chair, UW Alex Levant, Contract Faculty, WLU Craig Fortier, Associate Professor, UW Sue Ferguson, Faculty (emerita), WLU Jordana Cox, Assistant Professor, UW Nazli Akhtari, Assistant Professor, UW Frankie Condon, Associate Professor, UW Jay Dolmage, Professor, UW Peter Eglin, Professor Emeritus, WLU Nomair Naeem, Faculty, UW Ardavan Eizadirad, Assistant Professor, WLU Mariam Pirbhai, Professor, WLU Kim Rygiel, Professor, WLU Ehaab D. Abdou, Assistant Professor, WLU Todd Gordon, Associate Professor, WLU Kevin Carey, Continuing Lecturer, UW Stacey Hannem, Professor, WLU Helen Ramirez, Contract Faculty, WLU Amilah Baksh, Sessional Instructor, WLU Abderrahman Beggar, Professor, WLU Samer Al-Kiswany, Associate Professor, UW Honor Brabazon, Associate Professor, St. Jerome's, UW Zabedia Nazim, Contract Faculty, WLU Ali Zaidi, Associate Professor, WLU Emma Alderman, Technical Coordinator TofA, UW Maissaa Almustafa, Lecturer, UW Ann Marie Beals, Assistant Professor, WLU Natalie Kivell, Assistant professor, WLU Paula Butler, Sessional Instructor, WLU Audra Mitchell, Professor, WLU Keri Cheechoo, Assistant Professor, WLU Tamer Ozsu, University Professor, UW James Cairns, Associate Professor, WLU Semih Salihoğlu, Associate Professor, UW Edmund Pries, Associate Professor, WLU Katie Honek, Coordinator, UW Marcia Oliver, Associate Professor, WLU Adam Lewis, Contract Faculty, WLU Patricia Molloy, Contract Faculty, WLU Percy Lezard, Associate Professor, WLU Ciann L. Wilson, Associate Professor, WLU Stephen Svenson, Contract Faculty, WLU Sarah Klein, Assistant Professor, UW Anna Cunningham, Academic Services Coordinator, UW Bojana Videkanic, Associate Professor, UW Susan Brophy, Associate Professor, UW Sara Perkins, Communications and Memberships Services Officer, UW Aparajita Bhandari, Assistant Professor, UW Paule Charland, Adjunct Faculty, UW Rachel Anderson, Academic Advisor, UW Alison Murray, Library Staff, UW Laura Ashfield, Career Advisor, UW Judith Nicholson, Associate Professor, WLU Linda Zhang, Assistant Professor, UW Anna Drake, Associate Professor, UW Johonna McCants-Turner, Associate Professor, UW Nick Bendo, Technician, UW Shannel Noseworthy, Academic Services Coordinator, UW Sarah Turnbull, Assistant Professor, UW Martha Lauzon, Library staff, UW Tanya Pompilio, Staff, UW Anh Ngo, Associate Professor, WLU Luke Balch, Academic Advisor, UW Catalina Garcia, Undergraduate Coordinator & Advisor, UW Amr El Alfy, Assistant Professor, UW Laura Enns, Museum Host, UW Carol Acton, Professor, UW Miljana Kovacevic, Administrative Manager, UW Andy Houston, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre and Performance, UW Maya D'Alessio, Data Analyst, UW Taha Gilani, Staff - Data Analyst, UW Becky Verdun, Accommodation Consultant, WLU Omar M. Ramahi, Professor, UW Jessica Huang, Undergraduate Advisor, UW Nick Garside, Contract Faculty, WLU Katy Fulfer, Associate Professor, UW Michael Gordon, Postdoc, WLU Olivia Vanderwal, Digital Communications Specialist, UW Nadine Quehl, Senior Manager, Knowledge Mobilization and Partnerships, UW Emma Dunn, Writing and Communication Advisor, UW Anum Urooj-Sage, Field Advisor and Placement Coordinator, WLU Nadeem Lawji, Resource Sharing Coordinator, UW Doaa Elfayoumi, Information System Specialist, UW Vivienne Hang, Staff, UW Maya El-Baltaji, Undergraduate Advisor & Operations Coordinator, UW Calyssa Burke, Research Equity Advisor, UW Devin Herman, PhD Administrative Coordinator, UW Monica Darroch, Career Advisor, UW Eric Praetzel, Network Specialist, UW Michele Martin, Staff, UW Victoria Cotton, Academic Services Coordinator, UW Khaled Ammar, Instructor, UW Suzan Ilcan, Professor, UW Taylor Pacholko, Outreach Coordinator & Classroom Demonstrator, UW Becca Tanouye, Outreach and Enrichment Specialist, UW Kierra Young, Career Advisor, UW Georgia Graves, Staff, UW Steffanie Scott, Professor, UW Kristin Snell, Staff, UW Khyati Nagar, Educational Developer, UW Farah Mohd Fadzil, Career Education Liaison, UW Crystal Cooper, Academic Services Coordinator, UW Debra Chapman, Faculty, WLU Julie Kate Seirlis, Faculty, UW Clare Bermingham, Director, UW Aula Al Muslim, Postdoc, UW Nadine Fladd, Manager, Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Programs, UW Joy Harris, Staff, Admin. Coordinator, UW Zainab Mahmood, Staff, UW Maureen Drysdale, Professor, UW Farhia Hussein, Computing Consultant, UW Laine Young, Contract Teaching Faculty, WLU Rania Ibrahim Ambrad, Counsellor, UW Lisbeth Berbary, Associate Professor, UW Laura Girard, Library Staff, UW Meghan Ashdown, Operations and Marketing Coordinator, UW Bushra Shaikh, Faculty, WLU Kishori Opatha, Staff, UW Rashmee Singh, Associate Professor, UW Nestor Mahkno, Staff, UW Johanna Whitson, Librarian, UW Garry Potter, Professor, WLU Emma Vossen, Research Communications Officer, UW Rowland Keshena Robinson, Assistant Professor, UW Alana Cattapan, Assistant Professor, UW Mark Allinson, Staff, UW Aishah Awan, Staff, WLU Alexandra Rideout, Staff, UW Elise Vist, Staff, UW Karen Davidson, Resource Sharing Staff, UW Bree Akesson, Associate Professor, WLU Mike Bratton, Contract Faculty, WLU Quan Thai, Teaching Fellow, UW Zoe Tipper, Manager, Communications, UW Jennifer Root, Associate Professor, WLU Adam Molnar, Assistant Professor, UW James Nugent, Continuing Lecturer, UW Lirondel Cheyne-Hazineh, Contract Teaching Faculty, WLU Shana MacDonald, Associate Professor, UW Maryam Khan, Faculty, WLU Lily Viggiano, Project Manager, UW Stephanie Kears, Co-op Student Experience Manager, UW Bibi Baksh, Faculty/contract, WLU Tammy Kavanaugh, Library Supervisor, UW Adria Joel, Counsellor, UW Brianna Wiens, Assistant Professor, UW Daniel Harley, Assistant Professor, UW Stephanie Bailey, Career Advisor, UW Joanna Sinn, Adjunct Assistant Professor, UW Nicholas Ray, Lecturer, UW Jan Boomhouwer, Alumni Relations Officer, WLU Chizuru Nobe-Ghelani, Assistant Professor, UW Susan Cadell, Faculty, UW Samantha Clarke, Lecturer, UW Emily Paquette-Leahy, Student Advisor, UW Margaret F. Gibson, Associate Professor, UW Jim Perretta, Contract Faculty, UW Laura Mae Lindo, Assistant Professor, UW Jeff Wilson, Professor, UW Katie Cook, Instructor, Renison University College, UW Douglas E. Cowan, Professor, UW Rob Hicks, Operations Manager, UW Kate Steiner, Assistant Professor, UW David Lubell, Adjunct Professor, UW Mary Jackes, Adjunct Professor, UW Sara Gallagher, Sessional Lecturer, UW Jennifer Liu, Associate Professor, UW Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor, UW Samir Elhedhli, Professor, UW Ann Curry-Stevens, Professor, WLU Fatma Gzara, Professor, UW Andrew McMurry, Professor, UW Umair Shah, Faculty, UW Chris Hiller, Assistant Professor, UW Angela Rooke, Staff, UW Elisabetta Paiano, Social Media & Digital Communications Officer, UW Reid McRob, Staff, UW Eihab Abdel-Rahman, Professor, UW Katherine Bruce-Lockhart, Assistant Professor, UW Erin Hogan, Staff, UW ​​Heena Mistry, Faculty, WLU Suleiman Salih, Staff, WLU Richard T. G. Walsh, Professor Emeritus, WLU Sarah Lang, Electrical Engineer, UW Ashley Lebner, Associate Professor, WLU Nancy Worth, Associate Professor, UW Anastasia Rose, Research Assistant, UW Trish Van Katwyk, Associate Professor, UW Giselle Dias, Faculty, WLU Dhriti Guliani, Staff, UW Karim S Karim, Professor, UW Anika Williams-Hewitt, Career Advisor, UW Sinem Ozkardas, Staff, UW Debora VanNijnatten, Professor, WLU Tonya Elliott, Associate Director, UW Mario Boido, Associate Professor, UW Shohini Ghose, Professor, WLU Humera Javed, Contract Faculty, WLU Sonia Meerai, Faculty, WLU Sandra Dalpe, Administration Coordinator, WLU Dana Sawchuk, Professor, WLU Jessica Hutchison, Assistant Professor, WLU Shaunasea Brown, Assistant Professor, WLU Pia Grizzle, Academic Advisor and Awards Coordinator, UW Becky Anderson, Career Advisor, UW Phil Miletic, Career Advisor, UW Laura Gordon, Staff, UW Jermal A Jones, Associate Director, EDIA , UW Patricia Marino, Professor, UW Deanna Yerichuk, Assistant Professor, WLU Laura Pin, Assistant Professor, WLU Ian Roderick, Associate Professor, WLU Maria Sandoval, Staff, UW Maritt Kirst, Associate Professor, WLU Erich Fox Tree, Faculty, WLU Slim Boumaiza, Professor, UW Hanan Abdullatif, Sessional Instructor, WLU Izabela Steflja, Assistant Professor, WLU Nada Alshehabi, Staff, UW Ellen Russell, Associate Professor, WLU Katrin Roots, Assistant Professor, WLU Hari KC, Contract Faculty, WLU Gissele Taraba, Contract Faculty, WLU Elizabeth McGill, Staff, UW Andrea Daley, Professor, UW Colleen Kim Daniher, Assistant Professor, WLU Sam Sprizzi, Staff, UW Lucy Luccisano, Associate Professor, WLU Regina Vera-Quinn, Lecturer, UW Kim Penner, Adjunct Instructor, UW Lamees Al Ethari, Faculty, UW George Nichols, Research Associate, UW Stavros Stavroulias, Staff, UW Natasha Poley, Communications and Outreach Officer, UW Jesse Blackwell, Librarian, UW Rebecca Godderis, Associate Professor, WLU Jordan B. Kinder, Assistant Professor, WLU Kevin Burrell, Associate Professor, WLU RJ Lepage, Computing Consultant, UW Madelaine Hron, Associate Professor, WLU Malak, Student Engagement Coordinator, UW Fatih Safa Erenay, Associate Professor, UW Carter Neal, Continuing Lecturer, UW Jesse Blackwell, Librarian, UW Kassandra Lenters, Staff, UW Greig de Peuter, Associate Professor, WLU Karen Stote, Assistant Professor, WLU Nuha Dwaikat-Shaer, Assistant Professor, WLU Ola Idris, Community Engagement Manager, UW Selcuk Onay, Associate Profess, UW Zoe Cleeves, Instructor, UW Tarah Brookfield, Associate Professor, WLU Kari Brozowski, Associate Professor, WLU Lara El Mekaui, Contract Faculty, UW Kimberly Ellis-Hale, Contract Faculty, UW Ramanpreet A. Bahra, Contract Faculty, UW Maher Ahmed, Associate Professor, WLU Paul Fagan, Library Associate, WLU Christopher Lowry, Associate Professor, UW Bintou Barrow, Staff, UW Valerie Uher, Sessional Instructor, UW Jazz Fitzerald, Student Equity & Community Manager, UW Quinn Andres, Library Staff, UW Luis Jaimes-Domiguez, Faculty, UW Sarah Menzies, Anti-racism Specialist, UW Eden Mekonen, Senior Training Specialist, UW Kyla Campbell, Academic Scheduling Coordinator, UW David Neufeld, Assistant Professo, UW Alex Latta, Associate Professor, WLU Sam Germann, Student Leadership Development Specialist, UW Rania Al-Hammoud, Faculty, UW Mustafa Yavuz, Professor, UW Anders Bergstrom, Lecture (Associate Chair), UW Jorge Castañeda, Instructor, UW Jessica Parris, Admissions Process, Analyst, UW Brendon Larson, Professor, UW Benny Skinner, Indigenous Research Advisor, UW Melody Morton Ninomiya, Assistant Professor, WLU Typer Hampton, Postdoc, UW Jenna Hennebry, Professor, WLU Eric Lepp, Assistant Professor, UW Erin Dej, Associate Professor, WLU Jonathan Finn, Professor, WLU Manuel Riemer, Professor, WLU Alicia Sliwinski, Associate Professor, WLU Shanna Howse, Administrative Coordinator, WLU Jade Hill, Indigenous Research Advisor, UW Adrianna Tassone, Staff, UW Sacha Geer, Manager, UW Cameron McKenzie, Assistant Professor, WLU Lauren Smith, Sessional Faculty, UW Jeremy Hunsinger, Associate Professor, WLU Besty Brey, Sessional Instructor, UW Emma Arppe-Robertson, Staff, UW Adrian Blackwell, Associate Profess, UW Brent Hagerman, Contract Faculty, WLU Felicia Waterodt, Admin & Research Coordinator, UW Lisa Wood, Associate Professor, WLU Sohaila Isaqzai, Contract Faculty, WLU Michael Woodford, Professor, WLU Qian Wei, Assistant Professor, WLU Christina Mancini, Scheduling Specialist, UW Andrea Collins, Associate Professor, UW Simona Pruteanu, Associate Professor, WLU Melissa Johnson, Sessional Instructor, UW Elizabeth Clarke, Staff, WLU Jay Havens, Assistant Professor, UW Washington Silk, 2SLGBTQ+ Student Support Counsellor, UW Mahdi Beedel, Postdoctoral Researcher, UW Seyed Behzad Behravesh, Postdoctoral Researcher, UW Rebekah Rempel, Coordinator, WLU Kunal Karkanis, Staff, UW Briana Oenputera, Records Coordinator, UW Sana Ahmad, Instructor, UW Rachel Jung, Multimedia Design Specialist, UW Eloise Fan, Theatre Staff, UW Graeme Beaton, Staff, UW Andrea Bale, Communications & Engagement Manager, UW Martine August, Associate Professor, UW Ambreen Husain, Staff, UW Molly Fernhill, Career Advisor, UW Pamela Maria Schmitt, Interdisciplinary Project and Coms Manager, UW Sabinra Yorke, Development Officer, WLU Swaroopa Reddy, Lecturer, UW Maha Eid, Staff, UW Sarah Badran, Career Advisor, UW Mina Momeni, Assistant Professor, UW Rebecca Rooney, Associate Professor, UW Amy Smoke, Sessional Instructor, UW Hoda Fahmy, Research Scientist, UW Morgan Holmes, Professor, WLU Andrea Chittle, Adjunct Assistant Professor, UW Colin Hastings, Assistant Professor, UW Any Houston, Associate Professor, UW Tara Kleinsteuber, Staff, UW Paulina Cisneros, Career Advisor, UW Marta Berbes, Assistant Professor, UW Anne Brackenbury, Senior Editor WLU Press, WLU Julia Roberts, Associate Professor, UW Last updated May 20

I stopped by the Gaza House encampment at UWaterloo today. Friendly, welcoming folks. I asked if they need anything and they said, they just ask for people to talk about Gaza and about the encampment.

You can find ways to connect with them at linktr.ee/occupyuw.

They are hosting a Shabbat for Liberation tomorrow, May 17, at 5:00, with a break for Asr prayer.