Cyndy (Wood) Howman (BA '83, Psychology) has been appointed Assistant Dean for Admissions & Student Affairs at Texas A&M University at Qatar.
Theresa Schumilas (MSc '85, Health Behaviour) owns and runs Garden Party, a certified organic produce and flower farm, which features a Community Shared Agriculture program offering consumers year-round weekly food boxes, as well as workshops and a farm kitchen with all kinds of frozen and canned goods.
Mike Lazaridis (Honourary DENG '00), Jim Balsillie (Honourary LLD '07), and Tom Chau (PhD '98, Systems Design) featured in The Globe and Mail's "25 making a difference."
Kunal Gupta (BSE '08, Software Engineering) talks about Polar Mobile, what makes Toronto a great place to do business, and the future of mobile.
Johnathan Ezer (BMath '00, Computer Science) recently published his first book, Office Politics and IT Failure, which outlines why so many IT projects fail and offers new ways of thinking about system implementations.
Dave Burnett (BSc '10, Biomedical Sciences), a fixture on the Warriors men's basketball team for five seasons, is taking his experience to the streets of Nairobi, where he'll volunteer at a basketball program in one of the city's most troubled neighbourhoods.
Tom Rand (BASc '91, Electrical Engineering) and Anthony Aarts (BA '94, Economics) have built Planet Traveler in Toronto, "the greenest hotel in North America."
Roger Skubowius's (BMath '91, Computer Science; MMath '94, Computer Science) business PicoWireless launched their flagship application PicoMail as a free, ad-supported, full-featured e-mail client aimed squarely at mobile users who don't own a BlackBerry or an iPhone.
Alison Burkett (BMath '72), board chair of The Clay & Glass (formerly known as the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery), discusses the public art gallery's new name and logo and the plan to steer it back on course.
Eric Migicovsky (BASc '09, Systems Design Engineering), founder of Allerta Inc., explains how he came up with his InPulse smart watch idea while riding along a Dutch canal.