Knowledge Integration gains departmental status
On September 1, the Centre for Knowledge Integration becomes the Department of Knowledge Integration.
On September 1, the Centre for Knowledge Integration becomes the Department of Knowledge Integration.
KI student Jillian Anderson was recently profiled in her local newspaper, The Parkland Review, from Tisdale, Saskatchewan, about her summer experiences.
She's working on a research farm, and is applying her knowledge integration (KI) skills in communication, design, technology, and problem solving.
Ed Jernigan, Professor and Director of the Centre for Knowledge Integration, will be offering a new course this fall that he has developed.
INTEG 275: Special Topics
Mathematical models in Knowledge Integration: Recognizing patterns across disciplines.
The BKI class of 2014 convocated today, and another group of solution integrators are now out to change the world!
Here's a photo taken by Bess, BKI grad, with some of her classmates just before they entered the ceremony:
Here's what BKI grads are doing after graduation.
Knowledge Integration professor Katie Plaisance, and Eric Kennedy, BKI'12, are hosting the Communities of Integration conference, June 9-12 in Kitchener, Ontario.
This conference brings together researchers from Canada, the US, and the UK, from the following organizations:
Alex Pearce, third-year KI student, is involved in the Beyond Borders program, an academically centered international service-learning experience at St. Jerome’s University. The program consists of two terms of on-campus course work and a 90-day placement abroad.
Jasmine Mansz, like many other KI students, will take the opportunity to continue travelling after the museum field trip.
During her travels, she will join her relatives and connect to family history.
Read more in the Waterloo Chronicle article: Seventy Years Later.
The KI students are now in Amsterdam studying design in museums.
Check out their trip photos!
Eric Kennedy, BKI 2012, and Bryson McLachlan, current KI student, have been awarded the Equinox Fellowship, a program that funds projects initiated by young people between the ages of 18 and 30 inspired by the priorities outlined in the Equinox Blueprint: Learning 2030.
Eric is developing The International Interdisciplinary Network, and Bryson is creating a design thinking module.
Here are examples of the wide range of ways KI students spend their summer and apply their KI learning.