Going the distance: how Stephanie Whitney brings a decade of student experience to her innovation work

Friday, May 12, 2023

Whitney is depicted at four ages, in cartoon form

Stephanie Whitney's (BASc ’04, MEB ’13, PhD ’19) À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ experience has been a marathon, not a sprint.

When Whitney enrolled at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ in 1998 to study environmental and chemical engineering and management science, she pictured herself acing her classes, building professional connections in co-op, and then moving forward to a career in industry. She did not realize that her career would bring her back to campus repeatedly — first for a master’s degree, then a PhD, and finally last summer to take on the role of director for research and innovation partnerships in the Faculty of Mathematics.

Read the full story from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Magazine.Â