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The Knowledge Integration students will host the January 26-28, 2018 Combining Two Cultures Conference, a student-led conference celebrating undergraduate interdisciplinary education.

The theme for C2C 2018 is Knowledge Sharing.

They previously hosted the conference in 2012, 2013, and 2016. The first host campus was McMaster, other host campuses have been Guelph and  McGill.

Dr. John McLevey (co-investigator) has been awarded a new Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant for the project "Making sense of climate action: Understanding social mobilization to curb anthropogenic climate change through advances in social network analysis" in the amount of $282,672.

First year KI student Ethan Milne of Rugelach, Roswell and Rufus won $5,000 in seed funding from Velocity, the entrepreneurship program at the University of Waterloo.

The design is a novel EMS spine board to more accurately weigh children in paediatric emergencies.

Congratulations, Ethan!

KI professor John McLevey supervised the Waterloo iGEM students in their project to map the collaboration network of teams that participated in the 2015 iGEM competition.

Deanna Di Vito, third-year KI student, along with 50 other youth leaders (25 from the South, 25 from the North) participated in the Arctic Youth Ambassador Caucus in Iqaluit, Nunavut March 8-12 to learn more about Nunavut and to engage in round-tables with Northern youth on issues they face every day (e.g., food security, health care, climate change, access to education).

Check out the new KI Social Justice Entrance Scholarship. (applications closed April 2017)

Allyson Stokes, Assistant Professor in Knowledge Integration, was quoted in an article in Glamour magazine about her research on workers in the arts and culture sector, examining how social inequalities connect to the development of creative economies. Her current project examines the experiences of filmmakers, fashion designers, and musicians in Austin, Texas.

Three KI students worked hard to helped make the TEDxUW 2016 event a success!

Danielle Cruz was the outreach manager, Anne Fillion was the participant experience manager, and Samir Reynolds was the livestream manager.

The theme this year, "The Interconnectedness of Things", was especially relevant to KI students because of their interdisciplinary and interconnected approach to problem-solving and learning.

Alexandra Olarnyk, BKI '15, Adam Thorsteinson, BKI '14, and Rebecca Mendes from Waterloo's GBDA program, recently worked on a very cool project.

They entered a package design competition and their design was chosen into the top 40 of the best works, after a jury analyzed over 700 entries from 46 countries. It was displayed in Prague at the CZECHDESIGN Gallery.

The challenge was to design a cardboard package that can be used again after its initial use.