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When The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario was overcapacity with children battling illnesses in November, two University Waterloo Pharmacy students, who were already in Ottawa for their co-op positions, stepped up to help. Parsa Ali and Duaa Osman brought an “injection of energy” to the hospital during a tough time.

University of Waterloo President Vivek Goel addresses the impact of COVID-19 on student university experience, mental health and financial situation. As the provincial government considers their next steps, Goel insists that university students and their on-campus experiences are priority.

Waterloo students have more opportunities to participate in international work-integrated learning with new funding through the Powering Change program.

University of Waterloo Engineers work with federal government and Magna International to ensure safety of autonomous vehicles. Magna has hired over 575 co-op students from the University of Waterloo in the last 15 years.

Conrad School of Enterprise and Business introduces spring 2021 co-op pitch winners. There are E-Launch Awards for non-engineering students and the Norman Esch Enterprise Co-op Awards for Engineering students.

To upskill workers in a remote setting, employers need to provide the proper training and resources needed in a digital environment. Anne-Marie Fannon, former director of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) explains how the University of Waterloo used training to transition into remote work.

Globe and Mail article explains Canada's potential for ethical AI. To do this, Canada needs to partner with the University of Waterloo. Waterloo region is in the top five tech centres in North America.

Artificial intelligence studio, AltaML, announces collaboration with Microsoft Canada and the University of Waterloo. Betakit.com explains that AltaML and Microsoft Canada are leading the artificial intelligence stream of Waterloo Experience (WE) Accelerate.

Positive and negative work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences help to develop entrepreneurs. Judene Pretti, former director of the Work-Learn Institute at the University of Waterloo, says that WIL enables students to become problem solvers.