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Andrew Clubine, second-year Knowledge Integration student, is a candidate for Waterloo Region District School Board Trustee for Waterloo-Wilmot.

He builds on his experience in high school as a student trustee, current involvement in university student politics, and many other community initiatives.

We're proud of Andrew for stepping up to the challenge!

Students in our 4th year “Real World Problem Solving” elective course (INTEG 452 A & B) in 2013/14 created an online exhibit for Project Bookmark Canada.

Learn more on the Project Bookmark Canada blog.

Visit the online exhibit to accompany an existing installation: Terry Griggs’ Rogues’ Wedding, Bookmarked in Owen Sound.

Knowledge Integration professor Rob Gorbet is collaborating with other University of Waterloo professors Steve Quilley (Environmental and Social Innovation) and Marcel O’Gorman (Critical Media Lab) to study the impact of accessibility of ‘making’ technologies for ‘ordinary people’ on their sense of self(-worth) and their consumer practices. This research is funded by a grant from the Metcalf Foundation.

Read more about "Making for the Masses" on the makebright blog.

On September 1, the Centre for Knowledge Integration becomes the Department of Knowledge Integration.

Read the full announcement.

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:

• Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering (SRPoiSE)
• Studies of Expertise & Experience (SEE)
• SocioTechnical Integration Research (STIR)

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.