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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every sector of society, including education: remote teaching has become, at least for now, the new norm. At the University of Waterloo, instructors have met the challenge of remote teaching by developing alternative ways of presenting course content, by recasting learning activities, and by adjusting how students are assessed. Creativity and flexibility have informed all these modifications. 

Being a grad student is tough – there’s course work, comprehensive exams and research to balance on top of managing personal commitments and teaching duties. When you add working at a pharmacy during a global pandemic into the mix, the days only get busier.

But that’s precisely what Sadaf Faisal (pictured above), Waterloo PhD student and pharmacy owner, has been doing.

Collage of selfies with supporters along the run.
Like many people in April, Vision Science Alumnus Hendrik Walther had to cancel travel plans. But this wasn’t going to be an ordinary trip. The clinical scientist in Waterloo’s Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) and co-founder/CEO of OcuBlink Inc. was to join more than 30,000 others in fulfilling a runner’s dream of participating in the Boston Marathon.

Headshots of all six 2019 Co-op Student of the Year recipients

Every year, one student from each faculty is presented with a Co-op Student of the Year Award for exceptional contributions to one or more of their work term employers. The 2019 Faculty of Science Co-Op Student of the Year is Lydia Vermeer (Biochemistry). These awards take place toward the end of the winter term and celebrate student achievements from the winter, spring and fall terms of the previous calendar year.