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Nancy Waite, Professor and Associate Director at the School of Pharmacy, wins the 2015 Journal Award from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. This award is given to an individual who has displayed excellence in an item in the Article, Forum, or Reports of Practice categories in the Canadian Journals of University Continuing Education (CAUCE) publication.

Scott Campbell received the highest overall score out of hundreds of Pharmacy graduates in Canada on the Pharmacist Qualification Examination. 

A research team led by Dr. Nancy Waite from the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy and Dr. Lisa Dolovich, of the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University received $5.7 million in funding today to study how to make the use of drugs more effective for patients and health-care professionals.

Waterloo Pharmacy students Bhupender Sayain, Danielle Paes, Jaskiran Otal and Kacie Lunn once again proved that not only are they talented students, they also have a creative side. The team premiered their newest video, at the Commitment to Care & Services Awards gala held in Toronto on November 25, 2013. Last year, the same group of students created a video that won a national student competition and has been viewed close to 22,000 times.

Congratulations to Rx2014 students Bhupender Sayain, Danielle Paes, Jaskiran Otal and Kacie Lunn who submitted the winning student video at the national Commitment to Care and Service Awards held in Toronto last night

The School of Pharmacy held its first Business Awards Ceremony on April 5. Presented at the ceremony were the Scotiabank Pharmacy Entrepreneurship Award and the Pharmasave Industrial Case Study Competition Award.

Congratulations to Rx2013 students Annick Nguyen and Gabriela Krnac who were the winners of the 2011 Student Video competition at the Commitment to Care and Service Awards in Toronto last night. Their entertaining video on the Future of Pharmacy was well-received by the audience at the awards ceremony where pharmacists from across Canada gathered to celebrate notable achievements. 

The first class in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo officially graduated on Saturday, October 22.  The School hosted a pre-convocation reception on Friday, October 21 that was attended by more than 200 graduates, family members, faculty, staff and supporters of the program. 

Fourth-year student and former Waterloo Society of Pharmacy Students president Jennifer Mackenzie received the 2016 Ontario Pharmacist Association’s (OPA) Student of Distinction Award for her leadership ability and commitment to advancing the profession.