Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke's Spaces and Landscapes exhibition in 2010 featured the paintings of Melissa Doherty (BA '93, Fine Arts). Melissa's work has also been included in exhibitions at Queen's Park, the University of Toronto, Art Chicago, Scope Miami, and Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology announced the appointment of Glenn Feltham (PhD '95, Accounting) as the institution's sixth president and CEO, effective March 1.
The Zonta Club of Brampton-Caledon honoured Karen Hutchinson (BES '83, Urban & Regional Planning) with a "Women of Achievement" award for her work to see the farming industry repowered.
Rene Caskanette (BASc '80, Civil Engineering), founding partner of Caskanette Udall Consulting Engineers, has worked on several high-profile cases, including the 2008 propane blast in Toronto and the park washroom wall collapse that killed a 14-year-old girl in Guelph in 2009.
Kunal Gupta (BSE '08, Software Engineering), chief executive of Toronto's Polar Mobile, discusses the recent mobile licensing deal Polar Mobile has made with the National Hockey League Players Association.
Toronto Police Board chairman Alok Mukherjee (MA '74, English), says India would benefit if it opted for the Canadian model of policing.
As the executive director of Hamilton's Innovation Factory, Ron Neumann (BASc '83, Systems Design Engineering) is charged with building an innovation centre to create jobs and wealth.
This year's recipient of the Governor General's Gold Medal and the Chartered Accountants of Canada cash prize of $5,000 is Vicky Au (BAFM '10, Accounting & Financial Mgt; MACC '10, Accounting, Professional).
Dale Henderson (BASc '70, Electrical Engineering) is the new Ward 9 councillor for London, Ontario.
Five Waterloo alumnae are recipients of the prestigious 2010 Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100™ Awards, Canada's most recognizable award for the country's highest achieving female leaders in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors: Barbara Orser (BA '79, Recreation and Business) - Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Champions Award; Lesley Conway (BES '83, Urban & Regional Planning) - Scotiabank Corporate Executives Award; Michelle DiEmanuele (BA '87, Political Science) - Xstrata Nickel