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As part of our ongoing support of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Partners of Canada Inc. is proud to bring you a special feature informal interview with three students at the new School of Pharmacy at Waterloo University.

In the fall of 2007, construction began on a brand new Pharmacy school at the University of Waterloo, a school that would represent the future of Pharmacy education in North America. At the time, wearing hardhats and enduring a biting December wind, we stood on the construction site and spoke to Dr. Jake Thiessen about his vision for the school, which was due to be completed in 2009.

Flash forward to early June, 2010. Sitting in a comfortable conference room on an upper floor of the newly finished school, we are speaking to three of the 3rd Year students who will be the first graduates of this ground-breaking new facility, in August 2011. All three are passionate about science. In fact, each has already earned a science degree — Heather Foley holds a Biomedical Biology degree from Laurentian University; Emily Lamantia has a degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Waterloo; and Jeannine Oliver is a graduate from the University of Guelph Nutritional and Nutraceutical Sciences program. Jeannine, Emily and Heather have come here, to the School of Pharmacy in Waterloo, to spend a further 44 months becoming professional Pharmacists.

We asked them what had drawn them to Pharmacy as a vocation, and why they had chosen to pursue their dream at Waterloo's brand new School of Pharmacy.

Continue to part two...