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Every year, exceptional co-op students from each Faculty are recognized by the University of Waterloo for their contribution to their employer, their community and the further development of experiential education.

More than 90 long-term care homes in Ontario are suffering an outbreak of COVID-19.

Professor John Hirdes, an expert in geriatric care, explains why long-term care is a hotbed of COVID-19 and what governments can do to stop it from having an even more devastating effect on the country’s elderly population.

The world has moved online, seemingly overnight. Are we using social media more, and what does that mean? Jim Wallace, an expert in how computing systems like our smartphones can address problems in public health, talks about social media during the pandemic.

How do we aspire to healthy aging? In an episode titled “Aging well, Suzuki-Style,” David Suzuki, host of the long-running CBC-TV show, The Nature of Things, sets out to ask questions from a scientific perspective, and joins researchers at the University of Waterloo and elsewhere for some analysis and explanation.