Katie Dods is first woman named Alumni MVP at OPA Cup
Dressed in Waterloo black and gold, Katie Dods played a spectacular game at the 2015 Ontario Pharmacists Association Student Cup held in Toronto’s Varsity Arena on March 14.
Dressed in Waterloo black and gold, Katie Dods played a spectacular game at the 2015 Ontario Pharmacists Association Student Cup held in Toronto’s Varsity Arena on March 14.
The School of Pharmacy’s first CanBuild team collected a whopping 566 food items for CanBuild 2015, the University of Waterloo’s annual food drive.Volunteers created a life-size dispensary and called their initiative “Beyond the Counter”. Their aim was to raise awareness about hunger and how pharmacists can improve nutrition in our communities.
Some of Canada’s finest research on molecular drug design, Alzheimer’s, and cancer happens right here, in the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy. To celebrate the achievements of our MSc and PhD student researchers, the School offers annual Graduate Program Awards each December. This year, we also introduced a new faculty award for excellence in mentorship.
Blueprint for Pharmacy recently awarded fourth-year Pharmacy student Gloria Lau first place for her essay on the evolving role of pharmacists to a clinical and patient-centred profession.
FocusONCare, a mobile healthcare start-up created by six pharmacy students from UWaterloo’s School of Pharmacy won the fourth place prize, including a Samsung Chromebook at Thursday’s pitch competition for the Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp in the Communitech Hub.
Ding Wen (Roger) Chen, a Pharmacy PhD student working with Dr. Marianna Foldvari, was recently awarded a "2014 Young Scholar Award" sponsored by Dove Medical Press.
The 5th annual Pharmasave Industrial Case Competition took place on Wednesday, July 30. Students in PHARM 350 Fundamentals of Business Administration and Management had a week to showcase their mastery of business concepts and demonstrate creativity and entrepreneurship in developing a business plan and pitch to promote new pharmacy innovations.
Jake Thiessen is the Founding Director of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo. He receives the 2014 Pillar of Pharmacy Award from the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy, for his lifelong commitment to the pharmaceutical profession.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, August 20, 2014) — Drs Colleen Maxwell and Kelly Grindrod, from the School of Pharmacy in the Faculty of Science, were two of five UWaterloo researchers awarded CIHR funding.
Small print and poor printing on prescription labels handed out by pharmacists may be misread and may lead to errors in taking medication, according to new research by the University of Waterloo and CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind).