Two University of Waterloo professors have been named to the Order of Canada, including Rick Haldenby, a professor in Waterloo’s School of Architecture. He is a Waterloo graduate and served as director of the School of Architecture from 1988 to 2013.
Founder of the school’s highly successful Rome program, Haldenby has conducted archaeological work in Italy, Malta and Tunisia. He is an expert in Mediterranean archaeology and the design and management of historic landscapes and sites.
Geoffrey Fong, a professor in the Department of Psychology who is cross-appointed to the School of Public Health Sciences at Waterloo, was also appointed to be an officer of the Order of Canada.
Fong is the founder and chief principal investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC project), leading a team of more than 150 researchers across 31 countries covering more than half of the world’s population.
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