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• CAPACITY project challenges students to innovate campus accessibility

• Graduate supervision��and��Generative AI survey seeks participants

• You at ��ݮ��Ƶ in review
• Keep an eye out for coyotes and other notes

CAPACITY project challenges students to innovate campus accessibility

A message from the Faculty of Engineering.

It is National AccessAbility Week (NAAW), and each day this week we are featuring a different University initiative that demonstrates a commitment to advancing accessibility and disability inclusion. Today, we are featuring the CAPACITY capstone initiative.

The Capstone Initiative: Accessibility at U��ݮ��Ƶ (CAPACITY) aims to inspire and challenge interdisciplinary undergraduate student teams to reimagine accessibility on campus.

Capstone Design projects are the culmination of the undergraduate student experience in the Faculty of Engineering across all programs and create a blueprint for innovation in engineering design. Every year, student teams apply their knowledge and skills to design new approaches, technologies, and solutions to modern problems. Led by Dr Michael Fowler (Chemical Engineering) and Dr James Tung (Systems Design Engineering), CAPACITY is a new initiative that provides project funding and awards, dedicated faculty supervision, and access to campus stakeholders to student capstone teams looking specifically at campus accessibility. These projects seek to address barriers to campus participation for students and employees with lived experience of disability, and may include addressing barriers related to mobility, sensory, communication, and/or mental health.

This initiative is motivated by Ontario’s pledge to make public space, services, and information fully accessible, as codified by the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and further emphasized in the .

Call for Campus Stakeholders: A critical component of CAPACITY is engagement with stakeholders with campus expertise or lived experience. If you have an idea for a CAPACITY project or can provide guidance to student teams on real world connections and barriers, connect with Dr James Tung at james.tung@uwaterloo.ca or 519-888-4567 x43445. Stakeholder engagement may include a series of 3-4 meetings throughout the capstone project.

Student teams from all 8-month capstone courses interested in participating in CAPACITY, please email Dr James Tung at james.tung@uwaterloo.ca or 519-888-4567 x43445.

National AccessAbility Week is just one opportunity to learn about accessibility and disability inclusion initiatives at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. Join the channel or connect with aoda@uwaterloo.ca for more information.

Graduate supervision��and��Generative AI survey seeks participants

A message from the Writing and Communication Centre (WCC).

Researchers from University of ��ݮ��Ƶ’s Libraries and the Writing and Communication Centre invite faculty members who supervise graduate students to participate in individual interviews as part of a research study.��

The objective of this study is to establish a baseline understanding of how graduate supervisors at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ approach the decision-making process around, and supervision of, graduate students’ use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools for research and writing tasks. Establishing this baseline understanding about current practices when approaching this new aspect of graduate supervision is the first step in establishing an evidence-based basis for 1) the development of resources for graduate supervisors in navigating this issue with students as well as 2) clear guidelines about GenAI use for University of ��ݮ��Ƶ graduate students.��

Researchers Kari Weaver and Nadine Fladd.

Participation in this study is voluntary. You can find a detailed invitation to participate at the WCC website. If you have questions about participating in this study, please contact Kari D. Weaver, Learning, Teaching and Instructional Design Librarian or Nadine Fladd, Manager, Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Programs at kdweaver@uwaterloo.ca or nadine.fladd@uwaterloo.ca.��

You at ��ݮ��Ƶ in review

A message from Marketing & Undergraduate Recruitment.

Last Saturday, May 24 was You @ ��ݮ��Ƶ Day, our annual event for prospective students who have received offers of admission to ��ݮ��Ƶ.��

The event had more than 2,000 registrations totalling over 6,000 guests, which had our ��ݮ��Ƶ, Cambridge, and Stratford campuses buzzing with excitement. Future students who attend this event share that they feel more confident accepting their offers and leave feeling excited about their ��ݮ��Ƶ journeys. Areas from across our campuses come together to showcase the ��ݮ��Ƶ experience, including faculties, University Colleges, Campus Housing, service areas, and more!��

Thank you to all of our staff and volunteers who made You @ ��ݮ��Ƶ Day a success!

Keep an eye out for coyotes and other notes

Photo from pexels.com by David Torres.

Coyote sightings on U��ݮ��Ƶ campus: U��ݮ��Ƶ Special Constable Service has received a few notifications from members of the campus community who have observed coyotes on campus property. Coyote sightings are commonplace.��Keep your distance, and a coyote will likely avoid you. .

Elsewhere on campus today is a Chemistry Seminar: Decoding protein degradation with structural biology and machine learning featuring Adam Middleton, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, that runs from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in C2-361 (Reading Room) and on MS Teams. "The post-translational modification of proteins with ubiquitin has a central role in all eukaryotic cells," says the talk's abstract. "As a result, disruption of ubiquitin transfer is associated with many illnesses including cancer, diabetes, and neurological disease. Ubiquitin modification regulates the fate of substrate proteins, particularly directing substrates for destruction by the proteasome. I use a combination of structural and computational methods to understand how ubiquitin signals are generated, and develop new tools to control ubiquitin signaling."

This afternoon is Research Impact Canada’s latest "Dr. RIC" session entitled “EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) and knowledge mobilization,” from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. online via Zoom. Please contact��Nadine��Quehl��for the Zoom link if you are interested in attending.

Also today is a ��ݮ��Ƶ Institute for Sustainable Energy public lecture, “Electrified Propulsion in the Framework of Low Emission Aviation” featuring Dr. Osvaldo Arenas, Senior Research Officer and Facility Team Leader, Propulsion and Power Laboratory (PROPEL), Aerospace Research Centre, National Research Council of Canada (NRC). The lecture runs from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in person and on Zoom.

Finally, here's a reminder that the closes tomorrow, Friday, May 30. All students are invited and should check their @uwaterloo emails for the survey links. Students who submit their responses will be entered into a draw to win 1 of 16 prize baskets.