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The promotional educatorJen Parks, director, Geological Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and instructor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo

Jen Parks, director, Geological Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and instructor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo

By Carolyn Gruske

July 21, 2021

Ian M. Stewart Photo

Jen Parks is aware of how much power symbolism has and how much people can be swayed by it.

In March, she was named as director of the University of Waterloo’s four-decade-old geological engineering program – a position that no woman has ever held.

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