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AIMÉE MORRISON PATRICK MYLES (BA ’87) It’s also a year for new programs and partnerships. The School of Public ex officio Health and Health Systems was officially launched with a celebration JASON COOLMAN ELLEN RÉTHORÉ in April. The school will take an innovative approach to societal health advertising and business manager issues – including health and aging, health system management, and ALISON BOYD chronic disease. creative director CHRISTINE GOUCHER Our global reach is also growing, as President Feridun Hamdullahpur ASKI design expands our partnerships around the world. Waterloo recently extended IEL UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO a joint nanotechnology venture in Suzhou, China, and in March, CREATIVE SERVICES Hamdullahpur signed a memorandum of agreement with Germany’s B ATHAN ON The University of Waterloo Ruhr University Bochum. 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University of Waterloo Magazine “Everyone really has a role to play in terms of global ecosystems,” says Ellsworth LeDrew, Communications and Public Affairs University of Waterloo in Kira Vermond’s “Cool Heads Prevail” (pg. 20). Meanwhile, it’s an inner journey that drives Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 research at Waterloo’s department of clinical psychology, where professors pursue a better 519-888-4567, ext. 35719 email [email protected] understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and whether alcohol actually impairs our better judgment, in “A Beautiful Mind” (pg. 26). For advertising inquiries call 519-888-4567, ext. 35136 Of course, it’s hard to miss the growth on Waterloo’s campuses. Staff, students and researchers Send address changes to: begin moving into the new Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre next Office of Development and Alumni Affairs to the Student Life Centre later this summer in advance of a planned grand opening in University of Waterloo September. 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STACEY ASH 2 The editor’s desk president’s mesSAGE « GLADDING BRYN PHOTO: COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge | COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge | COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge | sident’s mesSAge | COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge |COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge | COMMENTAR COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge |COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge | COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge | sident’s mesSAge | COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge | COMMENTARy | president’s mesSAge | COMMENTAR Connections drive Waterloo’s global impact This winter and spring, as I have travelled To honour and expand on this tradition, we must foster to China, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, collaborations that increase the impact of our research. I have become