Matthew Gerrits will be the Vice-President, Education, for the University of Waterloo Federation of Students for the 2018-2019 year.
He'll have a great example to follow: Andrew Clubine, BKI'17 is currently in the position!
The new Science, Technology & Society (STS) specialization is designed to cover a broad range of issues, including the nature and organization of knowledge and expertise, science policy, and public understanding of science.
The Knowledge Integration students will host the January 26-28, 2018 Combining Two Cultures Conference, a student-led conference celebrating undergraduate interdisciplinary education.
The theme for C2C 2018 is Knowledge Sharing.
They previously hosted the conference in 2012, 2013, and 2016. The first host campus was McMaster, other host campuses have been Guelph and McGill.
The BKI class of 2017 convocated today, and another group of solution integrators are now out to change the world!
Here they are at our convocation reception:
Dr. John McLevey (co-investigator) has been awarded a new Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant for the project "Making sense of climate action: Understanding social mobilization to curb anthropogenic climate change through advances in social network analysis" in the amount of $282,672.
First year KI student Ethan Milne of Rugelach, Roswell and Rufus won $5,000 in seed funding from Velocity, the entrepreneurship program at the University of Waterloo.
The design is a novel EMS spine board to more accurately weigh children in paediatric emergencies.
Congratulations, Ethan!
KI professor John McLevey supervised the Waterloo iGEM students in their project to map the collaboration network of teams that participated in the 2015 iGEM competition.
Deanna Di Vito, third-year KI student, along with 50 other youth leaders (25 from the South, 25 from the North) participated in the Arctic Youth Ambassador Caucus in Iqaluit, Nunavut March 8-12 to learn more about Nunavut and to engage in round-tables with Northern youth on issues they face every day (e.g., food security, health care, climate change, access to education).
Check out the new KI Social Justice Entrance Scholarship. (applications closed April 2017)
Allyson Stokes, Assistant Professor in Knowledge Integration, was quoted in an article in Glamour magazine about her research on workers in the arts and culture sector, examining how social inequalities connect to the development of creative economies. Her current project examines the experiences of filmmakers, fashion designers, and musicians in Austin, Texas.