Choice Hotels International, Inc. has promoted Ronald Parisotto (BMath '88, Mathematics) to Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
Janice Deakin (PhD '87, Kinesiology) will be The University of Western Ontario's next Provost and Vice-President (Academic).
Grade 8 science teacher, Ed Piva (BES '00, Environment & Resource Studies/Geography), uses rap music to help students with science.
John Vellinga (BASc '91), owner of Slava Ultra Premium Vodka, has won the Dragon's Den Armchair Dragon contest.
Kevin K. Rooney (BASc '94, Mechanical Engineering) has joined the Silicon Valley office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Corporate practice group.
Tim Jackson (BA '92, Chartered Accountancy Studies) was reappointed to the Waterloo North Hydro Board.
Redline Communications Group Inc. appoints Robert Williams (BASc '80, Electrical Engineering) as Senior Vice President of Operations and Engineering.
The Trent-Severn Waterway has a new field unit superintendent: P. Dawn Bronson (BA '83, Recreation & Leisure Studies).
Olga Pawluczyk (BASc '98, Systems Design Engineering), president of P&P Optica Inc., talks about her company's plans to use a $1.3-million loan from the federal government to hire more staff and pursue global markets for its advanced spectrometer.
Heather Hickey (BA '98, English Rhetoric & Professional Writing) recalls the significance of a high school award from the Kitchener-Waterloo chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women.