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WATERLOO — Like most academics, the dean of applied health sciences at the University of Waterloo spends hours engrossed in her research.

But Susan Elliott is taking her work to a whole other level. As a medical geographer, Elliott has turned her work on health and the environment into a personal project.

Elliott has kick-started the building of a water and sanitation facility in the rural village of Usoma in Kenya.

It seems astronauts hovering in weightless environments and earthlings reclining in front of the TV share a surprising trait: both avoid the effects of gravity — and both age rapidly as a result. Now a unique joint venture between Canada’s health-research and space agencies is investigating the parallels between space flight and terrestrial aging, hoping to find ways to prevent the ill effects of each.

2012 Alumni Achievement Awards

Applied Health Sciences and the University of Waterloo is proud to recognize alumni who have made outstanding contributions to the health and wellbeing of society through their professional accomplishments, public service, and/or academic excellence. We are honoured to recognize their accomplishments. 

University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin, November 15, 2012

Launching today, the Living with Dementia website was designed to provide persons newly diagnosed with dementia and those who care for them with the information and resources needed to live well with an illness causing dementia.

The Villages at the University of Waterloo, a unique new 192-bed long-term care facility by Schlegel Villages, has been approved by city councillors.

The new complex will be located on the northwest campus of the University of Waterloo (UW), and the long-term care facility is just the beginning...

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TORONTO, Ont. (Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012) – The recession hit Canadians harder than economic numbers such as GDP have indicated and the decline in our wellbeing continues despite subsequent economic recovery, says the Honourable Roy Romanow, advisory board co-chair for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW), housed in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo.