Honours for uOttawa grad who invented famous skin cream

Every tube of skin cream with AHA, the wildly popular anti-wrinkle ingredient, exists because of a half-starved boy in wartime Taiwan who travelled to university in Ottawa and went on to fortune.
Now Ruey Yu, one of two researchers who together invented AHA skin cream, is telling the story of his journey from a childhood where he hunted rodents to eat, through 1960s Sandy Hill, on to modern-day American success.
The University of Ottawa granted Yu an honorary doctorate Tuesday in Horsham, Pennsy