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It was a year in the making, but on Friday May 31st, Faculty Council approved the first-ever Applied Health Sciences (AHS) strategic plan.

Built around a new vision and mission statement, the plan outlines the Faculty’s priorities, goals and objectives through to 2018.

School of Public Health and Health System's Kelly Anthony will be one of four University of Waterloo faculty members to receive the Distinguished Teacher Award for 2013 at convocation, provost Geoff McBoyle announced at the March meeting of the university senate.

WATERLOO — Like most academics, the dean of applied health sciences at the University of Waterloo spends hours engrossed in her research.

But Susan Elliott is taking her work to a whole other level. As a medical geographer, Elliott has turned her work on health and the environment into a personal project.

Elliott has kick-started the building of a water and sanitation facility in the rural village of Usoma in Kenya.

It seems astronauts hovering in weightless environments and earthlings reclining in front of the TV share a surprising trait: both avoid the effects of gravity — and both age rapidly as a result. Now a unique joint venture between Canada’s health-research and space agencies is investigating the parallels between space flight and terrestrial aging, hoping to find ways to prevent the ill effects of each.