Canada's first ever Golden Energy Globe World Award was won recently by Doug McClenahan (BASc '77, Systems Design), for initiating the Drake Landing Solar Community project.
William Pawlowsky (BA '86, Slavic Studies) writes political commentary for Ukraine Business Online. One of his pieces recently caught the eye of a blogger with The New York Times.
Steve Matusch (BASc '91, Systems Design Engineering), co-founder of Ionic Engineering, was honoured with the 2011 Ontario Professional Engineers' Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship.
Paul Whittaker (BASc '84, Mechanical Engineering), co-owner of Engineered Lifting Systems & Equipment Inc., talks about his company's new new "brains over brawn" approach.
Bob Huggins (BA '81, History) spoke recently about his number one legacy: Paper of Record.com, the world's largest searchable archive of historical newspapers.
Carl Orthlieb (BASc '86, Systems Design) joins Appcelerator as the new Vice President of Engineering, where he will be responsible for leading the development of Appcelerator's integrated mobile platform products.
Full Metal Zinc Ltd. appoints David Petroff (BMath '78, Mathematics) to the Board of Directors.
Ron Schlegel (Honourary LLD '05) received the fourth community Barnraiser Award. The award, sponsored by the Waterloo Region Record, recognizes and celebrates community leaders.
A team of international scientists, including Anne Broadbent (BMath '02, Combinatorics & Optimization/Computer Science), had a recent breakthrough in quantum mechanics which was published in the journal Science. The breakthrough is a crucial step toward perfectly secure cloud computing.
Mohamed Gharib (MASc '85, Mechanical Engineering) talks about how his company, Upland Technologies, maintains its edge in the automotive industry.