The Department of Knowledge Integration is very pleased that KI Associate Professor, Katie Plaisance, has been recognized for her excellence and dedication with the honour of the University of Waterloo Distinguished Teacher Award.
read Katie's award notice on the Centre for Teaching Excellence web site
KI student Robbie Abrams will represent Canada at the 2016 FIVB U21 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland May 11-16.
He'll head there right after his KI class completes their field trip to Copenhagen!
KI alumna Alexandra Olarnyk recently had her Knowledge Integration senior research project work published in the Universal Journal of Public Health.
This project and paper, entitled "You're Totally on Your Own": Experiences of Food Allergy on a Canadian University Campus, was supervised and supported by Prof. Susan J. Elliott, Geography and Environmental Management & School of Public Health and Health Systems, at the University of Waterloo.
Eric Kennedy, BKI class of 2012, has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowhip for his work at the Arizona State University Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes on "Facilitating collaboration at the boundaries: alternative arrangements for improving inter-organization collaborative practices".
We're proud of Eric's hard work, and pleased to see that he has built on the interdisciplinarity and collaboration that he explored and developed during his Bachelor of Knowledge Integration!
Thomas Huijbregts, BKI class of 2015, continued working on his KI senior research project after he graduated, and the paper he wrote about it was accepted for publication at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces.
His paper is entitled "TalkingTiles: Supporting Personalization and
Customization in an AAC App for Individuals with Aphasia".
And he will be travelling to Madeira, Portugal this week to attend the conference!
KI professor Ed Jernigan, Senior Design Demonstrator Paul McKone, along with recent KI grads Bryson McLachlan and Evaleen Hellinga, will be facilitating workshops at the Launch + Link event for the Roots & Shoots program of the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada the weekend of October 23-25.
There's a new exhibit opening today at THEMUSEUM with KI connections.
LIGHT Illuminated was a partnership between THEMUSEUM and Institute for Quantum Computing grad students, to develop something for International Year of Light (2015). The grad students sought KI students to help with the early stages of the exhibit design.
KI Professor Vanessa Schweizer lead the Canadian component of World Wide Views on Climate and Energy, a global citizen consultation initiative.
Find out more about this at:
The results are in! Canadians and global citizens share views on climate change and energy
Congratulations to Hannah James, first year KI student, on being awarded the Dean of Environment’s Scholarship for Excellence.
For Hannah's profile and more information about this award, please see: Meet our 2015 Dean of Environment’s Scholarship for Excellence winners
We're glad that she chose to join the KI community!