Yasin Bismilla (BASc '02, Mechanical Engineering) comments on Canadian patent law in Canadian Lawyer.
Hornby Bay Mineral Exploration Ltd. announced the appointment of Rebecca Hudson (BA '00, Chartered Accountancy Studies/HCO; MACC '00, Accounting) as the new Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
Tarunraj Singh (PhD '91, Mechanical Engineering), professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Dianne Carmichael (BA '06, Liberal Studies) is president of Best Doctors Canada, a medical advocacy service that sells advice, not treatment. Through employee benefit packages, Best Doctors Canada helps patients get the best out of the public system by soliciting second opinions from specialists around the world if necessary.
American International Group, Inc. announced that Sid Sankaran (BMath '99, Actuarial Science) will join AIG as Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer.
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.