Derek P. Satnik (BASc '02, Electrical Engineering) is the founder of Mindscape Innovations Group and managing director of Ontariogreenspec.ca, which recently recognized builders and designers of four residential green building projects.
Kitchener company Miovision Technologies, founded in 2005 by Anthony Brijpaul (BASc '04, Systems Design), Kevin Madill (BASc '05, Systems Design), and Kurtis McBride (BASc '04, Systems Design, MASc '08, Systems Design), receives $292,000 federal loan to help it add 26 people over the next two years, almost doubling its current staff.
Leslie Fujita Straus (BA '65, English) has returned to Waterloo, where her family settled after leaving a Japanese internment camp in the heart of the Canadian Rockies in BC., for her 50th high school reunion.
Tony Makuch (BSc '82, Applied Earth Sciences/Geotechnology), CEO of Lake Shore Gold Corp., discusses the company's revitalization of gold mining in Timmins.
Clinical neuropsychologist Lorie Saxby's (MA, '79, Psychology; PhD '83, Psychology) new book, Secrets from the Brain: Sharpen Your Thinking, Power Your Performance, is geared to helping business executives.
Mary Theberge (BIS '83) and husband John hope to open people's eyes to the beauty and complexity of nature with their new book The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself.
Gordon Sterling (BASc '63, Civil Engineering) was elected a Distinguished Diplomate in Ocean Engineering (Dist.D.OE) by the Academy of Coast, Ocean, Port and Navigation Engineers.
Having recently completed his 22nd book, Canadian military heritage author Mark Zuehlke (BA '80, History) lectured in Ottawa on April 22, and in Calgary on April 29, as part of his On To Victory Tour.
Carlo Bonanni (BES '88) appointed Director of Planning for Build Toronto.
Kitchener's "The Museum" announces five new board members, including Murray Gamble (BASc '85, Civil Engineering), Avonwy (Avvey) Peters (BA '95, English Rhetoric & Professional Writing), and Meg Beckel, Vice President, External Relations, University of Waterloo.