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."
This fall, KI Senior Design Instructor Paul McKone designed and taught INTEG 375 Special Topics: Hands-on Sustainability, a real-world project course to rescue objects from the waste stream, determine why they were discarded, suggest how to refurbish them, and propose how to put them into the hands of those who can use them.
The Bachelor of Knowledge Integration is featured in the Fall 2018 issue of the University of Waterloo Magazine.
read the "Integrated Learning" article
KI student Chloé St. Amand will be a Student Moderator at the 2018 Latornell Conservation Symposium, a large, three-day conference/symposium with several hundred attendees from academia, the government, and private sectors.
This year is the 25th anniversary of Latornell, and the theme is "Land to Great Lakes - Relationship Status: It's Complicated". Her experience at the symposium will complement her studies in Knowledge Integration and Earth Sciences, specializing in Hydrogeology.