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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.

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.