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WAFAR Director
WAFAR, the Western Academy for Advanced Research, is entering its fifth year as an interdisciplinary research accelerator! Grace Parraga PhD FCAHS, WAFAR Director, is thrilled to lead WAFAR into its next term. She will advance its mission to drive world-class programs and she is committed to deliver on the WAFAR Promise to:
- accelerate novel, intensive collaborative research,
- intentionally engage world-leading scholars and innovators,
- prioritize challenges identified by our local, national and international communities,
- relentlessly promote WAFAR research solutions, and
- listen to and engage our students, innovators and researchers with humility.
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