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Ed Jernigan, founding director of Knowledge Integration and former Chair of Systems Design Engineering, retires in 2016 after 40 years of dedication and inspiration to the University of Waterloo.

We honoured and thanked him at a reception on Wednesday, April 6. It was a wonderful opportunity for friends, colleagues, and current and former students to recognize the significance of Ed's impact.

photos from the Thank You Ed Jernigan event

KI students in the Real World Problem Solving Course (INTEG 452) created Generation Eh to empower older immigrants to tell their stories online through youth and their words and photography.

Read more about this great project in the news article 'Generation Eh' tells story of Canadians old and new

The Department of Knowledge Integration is very pleased that KI Associate Professor, Katie Plaisance, has been recognized for her excellence and dedication with the honour of the University of Waterloo Distinguished Teacher Award.

read Katie's award notice on the Centre for Teaching Excellence web site

KI student Robbie Abrams will represent Canada at the 2016 FIVB U21 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland May 11-16.

He'll head there right after his KI class completes their field trip to Copenhagen!

KI alumna Alexandra Olarnyk recently had her Knowledge Integration senior research project work published in the Universal Journal of Public Health.

This project and paper, entitled "You're Totally on Your Own": Experiences of Food Allergy on a Canadian University Campus, was supervised and supported by Prof. Susan J. Elliott, Geography and Environmental Management & School of Public Health and Health Systems, at the University of Waterloo.

Eric Kennedy, BKI class of 2012, has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowhip for his work at the Arizona State University Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes on "Facilitating collaboration at the boundaries:  alternative arrangements for improving inter-organization collaborative practices".

We're proud of Eric's hard work, and pleased to see that he has built on the interdisciplinarity and collaboration that he explored and developed during his Bachelor of Knowledge Integration!

Thomas Huijbregts, BKI class of 2015, continued working on his KI senior research project after he graduated, and the paper he wrote about it was accepted for publication at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces.

His paper is entitled "TalkingTiles: Supporting Personalization and
Customization in an AAC App for Individuals with Aphasia".

And he will be travelling to Madeira, Portugal this week to attend the conference!

KI professor Ed Jernigan, Senior Design Demonstrator Paul McKone, along with recent KI grads Bryson McLachlan and Evaleen Hellinga, will be facilitating workshops at the Launch + Link event for the Roots & Shoots program of the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada the weekend of October 23-25.