University of Western Ontario announces the appointment of Charmaine Dean (MMath '84, Statistics; PhD '88, Statistics) as Faculty of Science dean.
Terry Allen (BA '91, Religious Studies) retiring from a 35-year career as a Cambridge, Ontario firefighter - the last 19 as chief.
Ethical Ocean, a company whose founders include Waterloo alumni Jonathan Fishbein (BSE '06, Software Engineering; MASc '08, SYDE) and Michael Spendlove (BASc '08, SYDE) earned a deal with Arlene Dickinson and some flak from Kevin O'Leary on the March 30 season finale of Dragon's Den.
Paul Thompson (BA '91, Chartered Accountancy St, HCO) to become Interim-CFO of the Sonova Group.
Polar Mobile, whose clients include Time Inc. and CBS Sports, has signed a deal with RIM to design "at least" 100 apps this year. Kunal Gupta (BSE '08, Software Engineering) is Polar's CEO.
How exactly bacterial pathogens cause diseases in plants is a mystery that continues to frustrate scientists, but Wenbo Ma's (PhD '03, Biology) research is making major inroads into understanding plant-pathogen interactions.
Jamie Tremaine (BASc '06, Mechanical Engineering) and Greg Brigley (BASc '03, Computer Engineering) helped design a system that uses a Microsoft Xbox Kinect to allow surgeons to scroll through medical images during operations with gestures - effectively eliminating the need to move to a non-sterile environment to use a computer mouse or keyboard to do so.
Armtec Infrastructure announces appointment of Mark Anderson (BMath '92, Math/Management Accounting - Info Systems) as Chief Operating Officer.
CANARIE Inc., Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network, announces the appointment of Mark Roman (BMath '82, Computer Science) as President and CEO, effective April 25, 2011.
Hadi Mahabadi (MASc '75, Chemical Engineering; PhD '76, Chemical Engineering), vice president of the Mississauga-based Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC), was recently honoured with the Printing Industries of America's Robert F. Reed Technology Medal.