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Lucas DeMello in front of engineering related icons
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Diversifying my skill set: exploring different engineering industries

By: Alison Chase | 5 min read

Lucas DeMello (he/him) is a Biomedical Engineering student in his 3B term. He has participated in a variety of unique opportunities through co-op, from designing scoreboards to helping alleviate world hunger with machine learning. Lucas also shares how he copes with living away from home.

Jaspreet Kaur Gill in front of health icons
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Prostate cancer research – Presenting at ASCO GU 2024, San Francisco

By: Aadya Dixit | 3 min read

Jaspreet Kaur Gill (she/her) is a third-year BSc. Honours Health Sciences (minor in Medical Physiology, Health Research specialization) student. She highlights her experience presenting and travelling to the American Society of Clinical Oncology – Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, CA, one of the key prostate cancer events globally.

sharmi in a mask in front of a black board with white and cyan health themed chalk drawings on it.
Thursday, October 24, 2024

A Public Health student’s experience completing research at Odette Cancer Centre

By: Lauren Ballard | 4.5 min read

Sharmi Sritharan (she/her) is a fourth-year Public Health student who’s minoring in addictions, mental health and policy. She speaks about how she learned to consider research positions, even though she doesn’t have a traditional science background.

Thenuja smiling with her arms up in front of a black board with white and blue science themed chalk drawings on it.
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Bridging continents: Overcoming homesickness and culture shock in South Africa

By: Lauren Ballard | 5 min read

Thenuja Vittanachchi (she/her) is a third-year Environmental Science student specializing in Ecology. She details her experience having a co-op term in South Africa and how she dealt with the challenges of living on the other side of the world.

Alison Baird smiling and holding a shovel.
Thursday, July 18, 2024

A Gender and Social Justice student's insight into on-campus opportunities

By: Lauren Ballard | 3 min read

Alison Baird (any), a third-year Gender and Social Justice student discusses how they made the most of their experience working in the University of Waterloo’s Sustainability Office and how she approaches applying to a co-op position.

Narayanan (Nana) Ramakrishnan standing in front of a yellow wall, with a Shell Canada logo smiling.
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Charged with purpose: reflections of an Electrical Engineering co-op student

By: Narayanan (Nana) Ramakrishnan | 4 min read

Narayanan (Nana) Ramakrishnan is a Master of a Engineering Co-op (MEng Co-op) student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He started the program in fall 2022 and is specializing in Sustainable Energy. As part of his degree, he completed a four-month co-op as an electrical engineering intern at Shell Canada in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.

Headshot of University of Waterloo student, Sophia Gabriel.
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Driving sustainable change in STEM

By: Jacqueline Cardoso | 7 min read

Sophia Gabriel (she/her) is a fourth-year Honours Science and Business student specializing in biotechnology. Sophia discusses how her interdisciplinary degree prepared her for the world of work, shares the importance of having a presence on LinkedIn and encourages women in STEM to step out of their comfort zones.