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We are pleased to announce that KI Professor Vanessa Schweizer will lead the Canadian component of a global citizen consultation initiative called "World Wide Views on Climate and Energy".

The University of Waterloo, in collaboration with the Balsillie School of International Affairs, will host the forum on Saturday, June 6th at Knox Church in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Professor Jean Andrey has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Environment, home of the Department of Knowledge Integration, for an initial five-year term that begins on July 1, 2015 and will end on June 30, 2020.

As a professor in Geography and Environmental Management, Andrey is one of the longest-serving faculty members in Environment. She is the past president of the Canadian Association of Geographers and is highly regarded as a teacher and mentor to undergraduate and graduate students alike.

Waterloo Unlimited, the transdisciplinary high school enrichment program hosted by the Department of Knowledge Integration, is celebrating its tenth anniversary of programing.

KI student Geoff Evamy Hill and Alexandra Kraushaar, recent KI alumna and current graduate student in Philosophy, are hosting the inaugural Rethink Economics Waterloo conference on February 7.

The conference will make interdisciplinary economics connections including ecological economics, feminism and economics, and economics curriculum reform.

For more information about, please see Rethinking Economics: students ask important questions on the Faculty of Arts news web site.

The Knowledge Integration students will host the 2016 Combining Two Cultures Conference, an interdisciplinary student-led conference to improve interdisciplinary education through collaboration.

They previously hosted the conference in 2012 and 2013. The first host campus was McMaster, followed by Waterloo and Guelph, with McGill hosting the most recent conference in January 2015.
 

John McLevey, Knowledge Integration Assistant Professor has been awarded a prestigious grant for his project, entitled: "Collaborative Design in Online Networks: The Case of Linux Developers." This grant is funded by an Insight Development Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

A workshop on high impact teaching practices on campus featured KI  Professor Katie Plaisance today. She shared examples of high impact practices that are making a difference for students in the Bachelor of Knowledge Integration.

Blog post about the launch of the Waterloo High Impact Practices Group (WHIP Group).

Geoff Evamy Hill, 4th year Knowledge Integration student and St. Paul's GreenHouse collaborator, received funding from a new $5,000 Social Innovation Fund for his startup idea.

Learn more about Geoff's Pan-Canadian University Program project.

Professor Katie Plaisance, and KI students Georgia Lamarre, Akanksha Madan, and Shane Morganstein have been awarded a Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) grant for "Breaking Down Barriers: A Student-Led Conference in Interdisciplinary Collaboration".

The LITE Grants are intended to provide support for experimenting with and investigating innovative approaches to enhancing teaching that aim to foster deep student learning at the university.