University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy
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The School of Pharmacy is a professional school of the
University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...
in
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, Canada, within the
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. It was previously housed in Faculty of Science buildings on the main university campus in Waterloo, but was re-located to a new $34 million building on the university's Health Sciences Campus in downtown Kitchener in 2008. It is the only
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in Canada that offers
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. It was designed by
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of
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and Robbie/Young + Wright Architects of
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in 2008. The building facade features wood, brick, stone, COR-TEN steel while the glass windows feature images, painted by artist Sky Glabush, of common plants used in the historical development of pharmaceuticals.


Faculty

In 2020 School of Pharmacy associate professor Kelly Grindrod was named Canadian Pharmacist of the Year by the
Canadian Pharmacists Association The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA), previously known as the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association, is an organization that serves as the professional association of Canadian pharmacists and pharmacy students. It was founded in 1907 in Toront ...
in recognition of her work as an advocate, mentor and health care provider.


References


External links


Official Website
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