Last summer, two of the KI students who had valuable opportunities where they applied their KI learning were supported in part by the KI donor-funded Knowledge Integration Experience Award.
Ed Jernigan, founder of the Bachelor of Knowledge Integration, was designated at the June 2019 Convocation as Honorary Member of the University in recgnition and thanks for his four decades at the University as a mentor, friend, and inspiration to students and colle
The BKI class of 2019 convocated today, and another group of solution integrators are now out to change the world!
Here they are at our convocation reception:
Trystan Goetz, BKI'12, has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.
He’ll be working at Dalhousie University investigating the role of intellectual accountability in a world of fake news and extremism.
Read more at Government of Canada selects Dal PhDs and PostDocs for its most esteemed awards.
Check out photos from the Berlin trip.
KI student Karissa Manning, Computer Science student Greg Maxin, and Justin Doyle, a social work graduate and advocate for accessibility created a software solution called RocketCare to optimize scheduling and appointment booking practices for therapeutic and support services for children and youth with a wide range of complex needs.
The 2019 KI student-designed exhibition was a very meaningful learning experience.
Read a great summary in the news article "KIX 2019"
KI student Hannah Gardiner sent us news about her conference participation:
"Last week, I had the privilege of presenting at the Scholarship of Undergraduate Literary Studies (SOULS) Conference at Bishop’s University. Surrounded by other undergraduate students passionate about their own research – who likewise took keen interest into everyone else’s – it was not hard to be motivated.
Hannah Gardiner, 4th year KI student, has been invited to present her paper “Academic Writing and Standard English” at the Scholarship of Undergraduate Literary Studies (SOULS) in March 2019 at Bishop’s University in Quebec. She notes that "As a KI student – and neither an English minor nor major – being asked to present an English essay is not only an honour, it also supports the notion of an interdisciplinary education: that one need not focus their studies exclusively in one discipline to be able to meaningfully contribute as a young scholar."