Going the distance: how Stephanie Whitney brings a decade of student experience to her innovation work

Stephanie Whitney's (BASc ’04, MEB ’13, PhD ’19) Waterloo experience has been a marathon, not a sprint.

When Whitney enrolled at the University of Waterloo in 1998 to study environmental and chemical engineering and management science, she pictured herself acing her classes, building professional connections in co-op, and then moving forward to a career in industry. She did not realize that her career would bring her back to campus repeatedly — first for a master’s degree, then a PhD, and finally last summer to take on the role of director for research and innovation partnerships in the Faculty of Mathematics.

Read the full story from the University of Waterloo Magazine.