Olympic swimmer Mike West (BSc, Health Studies '87) will be inducted into the ROW swim club's hall of fame.
Diver Alex Taylor (BSc, Kinesiology '09) hopes to run away with the famous Cirque du Soleil.
Dushyant Chadha (BMath, Actuarial Science '97) will lead Deutsche Bank Equity Derivatives in North America.
Lawyer Wayne Rabley (BA, History '79) has been appointed a judge by the Ontario government.
Architect Paul Raff (BArch '92; BES '90) – now at work on new offices for Research in Motion – will receive two awards of excellence by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Tim Vincent (BASc, Physics '84) has been named an IBM Fellow, one of only 218 individuals to receive this award, the company's highest technical designation.
Niagara-on-the-Lake has hired Don Smith (BES, Planning '74) as its new chief administrative officer.
Tony Franceschini (BASc, Civil engineering '75) one of Western Canada's leading engineering and construction executives, has been appointed to Aecon's Board of Directors.
John D. Bottomley (MA, Planning '80) has been named Senior Vice President, Rockefeller Group Investment Management Corporation (RGIM).
Book publicist Evan Munday (BA, English Rhetoric and Professional Writing '03) is the focus of a National Post article on Canada's publishing industry.