A celebration of Pino's life will be held September 15th.
Although, he had been at Waterloo from 1974-1980 as postdoctoral fellow/research associate and research assistant professor, Pino returned from the USA to join the Department as a permanent faculty member in 1983. From 1983 until his retirement in 2006, he was an active participant in many aspects of university life but was particularly known for the energy and dedication he put into undergraduate teaching. Although retired for the past ten years, he was nevertheless very active in research, working closely with graduate students in the Mathematical Medicine Research Group, right up until his illness. He had been happily married to his wife Pina for 46 years, and retirement afforded him the opportunity to enjoy more rounds of golf with her, and also to indulge in another of his passions, cooking.
For the many of us that knew him, it was plain to see that Pino put his heart and soul into trying to impart his love of learning and his clear, logical thinking to others - his impact on countless generations of students is, no doubt, profound and far reaching. His former students went on to graduate school at leading institutions including Princeton, MIT, Cornell, and several of them are now professors at Waterloo, and at other universities in Canada and around the world.
To honour his legacy of inspirational teaching and his motivation of many to pursue a research career in applied mathematics, the department and the family of Dr. Tenti will be setting up a scholarship in his memory.
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