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Natalya O’Neill is the winner of the Faculty of Science’s Co-op Student of the Year Award. She spent two work terms with the hematology unit at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, where she created a medical alert card and educational booklet for patients with asplenia, or abnormal spleen function, and at high risk of infection. In addition to winning her Faculty’s Co-op Student of the Year Award, she also received an honourable mention for the Education at Work Ontario (EWO) Co-op Student of the Year Award.

  
        

          
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By 2030, 75 million people will be diagnosed with dementia worldwide. Many of them will be sexually active. But how can they consent to sex?

Teams have a chance to win a share of $125,000 in seed money and space at the Velocity Garage. Velocity is a comprehensive entrepreneurship program at Waterloo, and the Velocity Garage is the largest free startup incubator in the world.

Scientists have been warning us about climate change for decades but it’s time for artists and humanists to inspire us to change our behaviour by imagining a future without fossil fuels, says a Waterloo researcher.

Known as the Mealtime Audit Tool (MAT), it will help dietitians, doctors and nurses identify why a third of patients in acute care settings don’t eat the food on their trays.

This tragedy leaves our campus in mourning, and we offer our deepest sympathies to the student’s family and friends.

We know this is a very difficult time and we take to heart the concerns we’ve heard from our campus community. We thank those who have shared their views with us, including through a petition on the subject of mental health supports on campus.

Renowned neuroscientist Carol Barnes will present the University of Waterloo’s 2017 Hagey Lecture this week and discuss how memory and the brain change during normal aging, as well as some of the current thinking about ways to optimize mental functions throughout life.

There will be a Q & A to follow.

Gendered Violence on Campus: Institutional Policy and Practice coincides with the recent implementation of the University of Waterloo’s Policy 42, Prevention and Response to Sexual Violence. University and community members are invited to engage in a dialogue about this important issue and its impact on campus and beyond.

With moderation by Jennifer S. Simpson, chair, Department of Drama and Speech Communication, the panelists include:

Panelists at the event, part of the ongoing HeForShe Impact 10x10x10 initiative at Waterloo, will include:

Ever wonder why some people are inherently clumsy? Or why some people are prone to motion sickness? This March break, children visiting the Ontario Science Centre can participate in two new Waterloo studies to help researchers solve these and other mysteries relating to the human body.