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THE UNIVERSITY Get ready for a season of growth OF WATERLOO MAGAZINE Seeds that germinated through the winter months are bursting into full bloom at the University of Waterloo. spring 2012 publisher New leaders, new buildings, new programs, a new vision – Waterloo is flourishing in Tim Jackson the glow of international attention and a stream of positive change. editor STACEY ASH commentary | PRESIDENT’S message | commentary | PRESIDENT’S message | commentary | PRESIDENT’S message | By the time you read this, Provost and Vice-President Academic Sallie Ann Keller should assistant editor SIDENT’S message | commentary | PRESIDENT’S message |commentary | PRESIDENT’S message | COMMENTAR be settled into her new office at Needles Hall. Driven and dynamic, she comes to Waterloo TENILLE BONOGuoRE commentary | PRESIDENT’S message |commentary | PRESIDENT’S message | commentary | PRESIDENT’S message | from a Washington, D.C. science and technology research institute, with a specialty in contributing editors SIDENT’S message | commentary | PRESIDENT’S message | commentary | PRESIDENT’S message | COMMENTAR CHRISTINE BEZRUKI blending statistics and engineering to study nuclear security and national defence. Emma Phillips Pearl Sullivan takes the reins as Dean of Engineering in June. Sullivan, chair of the advisory board Sunshine Chen (BES ’95, BArch ’97) Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, was a unanimous choice Martin DeGroot (BA ’79, MA ’81, PhD ’95) for dean. And law professor Logan Atkinson arrives from Carleton University in CAROLYN ECKERT (BA ’94) Chris Harold (BES ’00) Ottawa to take on the role of Secretary of the University. AiméE Morrison Patrick Myles (BA ’87)

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Most importantly, after hearing from thousands of university stakeholders, including students, faculty, alumni and staff, Waterloo’s Mid-cycle Review is moving forward. Together, we are setting goals of where we want to be as an institution and identifying objectives that will help us meet our full potential as one of the world’s most recognized and respected universities.

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Connections drive waterloo’s global impact

this winter and spring, as i have travelled To honour and expand on this tradition, we must foster to China, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, collaborations that increase the impact of our research. I have become increasingly conscious of a We have this across academic units: Members of the university’s proper place in the world. It is a Waterloo Research Institute in Insurance, Securities, place where the leaders of tomorrow get their and Quantitative Finance (WatRISQ) are developing start. It is at the centre of a critical mass of industry-standard solutions to the complex problems innovation and economic activity. It is a place facing industry, government, and society. We have it of collaboration and connection that forges links between faculties: The Water Institute is home to more with community, industry, other universities, than 100 researchers from all six Waterloo faculties, government at all levels, and other countries. working together on innovative research, education It is a place that successfully integrates a and training in water science, technology, management, student-focused approach, scholarship, and and public policy. And we have it with external research excellence. partners: The Balsillie School of International Aff airs, a partnership with Wilfrid Laurier University and the I am very glad that the University of Waterloo Centre for International Governance Innovation, is is such a place. Since our founding in 1957, becoming a beacon for top students and researchers we have sought to combine the best in science, interested in devising new and ambitious approaches technology and the humanities in a way that to global governance. stays relevant to the lives of Canadians in a changing world. We realize that change is These ventures are just the tip of the iceberg, and the dynamic, that it happens all the time, but today, impact of this research on our students is incalculable. in 2012, the pace is much faster than we have Our commitment to research excellence has primed ever seen. How can we adapt? our campuses for the education of young minds, both undergraduate and graduate. Our students benefi t Combining the best ideas from diverse disciplines from their exposure to the research-rich Waterloo has been the hallmark of our success. As we strive environment. As our students gain fi rst-hand to keep achieving our goals, we must broaden our experience in solving problems – by discovering new connections and deepen our understanding of approaches to curing disease or solving complex water the problems we are equipping our students to governance issues, while creating prosperity for our solve. The excellence and impact of our research economy – the University of Waterloo will live up to its is a foundational pillar of this institution, and it promise and purpose as a powerhouse of intellectual is based in academic excellence. enquiry, and a key component in the social, economic and technological development of our society.

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« letters | write to us I would deﬁ nitely many recommend the comments? Please email [email protected] or write certiﬁ cate programs to editor – Waterloo magazine, communications and Public aff airs, university of Waterloo, Waterloo, On, canada, n2l 3G1. MINDS to others. There is today’s technology playground a lot of good theory grey areas in the greener way and the courses are It was interesting to receive the latest issue of Waterloo Magazine touting its “greener way” on the front cover, particularly when this also very practical ... issue was delivered wrapped in a cellophane bag that contributes to landfi ll. I can’t say enough Perhaps mailing its magazine without such cellophane wrappers about the networking in the future would be more compatible with University of Waterloo’s new, “greener way.” opportunities that simon dagenais resulted as well.

Regarding Kira Vermond’s article, “The Greener Way,” and the side- KEVIN MENDOZA bar on page 24: I have doubts about using smart meters as a spoke BASc Applied Science ’99 in making cities greener. It has not yet been shown that smart metering is a safe technology.

Here in British Columbia, there is a huge push not to allow BC Hydro and its contractor, Corix, to install smart meters on house- hold properties. More research into this technology needs to be

done. At the moment, it is being forced on unwilling BC Hydro 2012 © M. Neufeld, customers by workers who have not been properly trained and cannot answer questions.

There is even one case of a fi re caused by an improperly installed smart meter. If it can be shown conclusively that such meters are safe, with no radiation, etc., then I, and hundreds of thousands of CREATE YOUR BC Hydro customers, would like to know about it. manuel erickson OWN CAREER hitchens excerpt needed Brummett balance OPPORTUNITIES. My compliments on the recent issue of Waterloo Magazine, | e featuring the new President of uWaterloo. Professional Development courses, certiﬁ cates and programs o ered by the Centre for Extended

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there are great jobs and great careers, have given you a great career. But, guess what? and then there are the high workload, high stress, This is almost 2012 and saying to the world that bloodsucking, soul-destroying kinds of jobs, and I am totally, completely competent is damning practically nothing in between. … I’m going yourself with the faintest of praise. to be talking to those looking for great jobs, And then, of course, another excuse: “Well, I would great careers, and why you’re going to fail. do this, but aft er all, I’m not weird.” Everybody The fi rst reason is that no matter how many times knows that people who pursue their passions are people tell you, “If you want a great career, you somewhat obsessive, a little strange. You know? have to pursue your passion, you have to pursue A fi ne line between madness and genius. … your dream, you have to pursue the greatest fasci- “I’m a nice normal person, and nice normal people nation of your life” – you hear it again and again – don’t have passion.” But I still want a great career, you decide not to do it. … I’m not quite sure why … so I know what I’m going to do. … Mommy you decide not to do it, you’re too lazy to do it, and Daddy told me that if I worked hard I would it’s hard, you’re afraid if you look for your passion have a good career. So if you work hard and have and don’t fi nd it you’ll look like an idiot. a good career, if you work really, really, really So then you make excuses about why you’re hard, you’ll have a great career. Doesn’t that math- not going to look for your passion. … One of ematically make sense? Hmm, not. But you have your great excuses is “Well, great careers for managed to talk yourself into that. most people are really, truly in most cases just Here’s a little secret. … You want to work? You a matter of luck.” want to work really, really, really hard? Well, the So I’m going to stand around, I’m going to try to world will give you the opportunity to work really, get lucky and if I’m lucky, I’ll have a great career. really hard. But are you so sure that that’s going If not, I’ll have a good career, but a good career is to give you a great career when all the evidence an impossibility so that’s not going to work. is to the contrary?… Then your other excuse is “Yes, there are actually Passion is your greatest love, passion is the thing people who pursue their passions but they are that will help you create the highest expression geniuses, they are Steven J. I am not a genius!” … of your talent. Passion, interest, it’s not the same I know I am completely competent, and if this thing. … What you want is passion. … You need 20 was 1950, being completely competent would interests and then one of them might grab you, and one of them might engage you more than anything else. And then you will have found your greatest love in comparison to all of the other things that interest you, and that’s what passion is.

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In November, Waterloo achieved a strategic objective: with Chinese citizenship studying at Waterloo, with the opening of a permanent office in Hong Kong. The new the majority enrolled in engineering and math programs, office will focus on university-wide recruitment, co-op job followed closely by programs in the sciences and arts. development, and alumni engagement both in Hong Kong Hong Kong also boasts one of the largest concentrations of and China. For over three decades, Chinese students have Waterloo alumni outside Canada. Currently over 1,500 alumni comprised the largest demographic of international students live or work in Hong Kong, making the city home to one of at the university. In 2011 there were almost 3,200 students Waterloo’s most active alumni chapters.

Congress 2012 to showcase key thinkers

In late May, more than 7,500 delegates will arrive in Waterloo for Congress 2012, the largest multidisciplinary academic gathering in Canada. Congress, organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, brings together scholars, students and industry leaders to share ideas and tackle some of society’s complex issues. This year, Congress runs from May 26 to June 2, and will be hosted by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. Lectures are open to the public and speakers lined up for the Big Thinking series include Margaret Atwood, Jane Urquhart, Chris Hedges, Janine Brodie, Mary Eberts, Sidonie Smith and Thomas Homer-Dixon.

WEB see Congress 2012 at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

SJU Grad appointed Cardinal

Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto and a St. Jerome’s University alumnus (BA ’68), has been appointed to one of the highest positions in the Catholic Church. On February 18, Collins officially became a member of the Pope’s circle of advisors in the College of Cardinals. As a cardinal, Collins will provide counsel to Pope Benedict XVI, and participate in the papal conclave upon the death or resignation of the pontiff.

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The Archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Collins, with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. Courtesy Archdiocese of Toronto

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Mirabai Alexander, a student in a second-year course in knowledge integration and creative thinking, clears a path through a field of bouncing balls by simply waving a piece of paper in front of an interactive display in the FELT lab. She and her classmates in INTEG 275 recently participated in a ‘thinkering’ event offered by the recently renamed Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity, or REAP. Talk of the campus what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus what’s going on? talk of the talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus | what’s going on? talk of the campus what’s going on? talk of the

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Some developing priorities have emerged a l k after the first phase of Waterloo’s Mid-cycle tric S

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Waterloo’s accomplishments, introduce an Photo: accountability framework, and realign the « strategic plan. An analysis of the feedback Continuing to REAP the benefits of provided by more than 3,400 participants Waterloo’s entrepreneurial spirit identified developing priorities, including: Waterloo’s Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity (REAP), a Faculty » Student opportunities and experience of Arts-based program that pairs academic and private sector partners in the » Quality of education search for innovative combinations of new and existing technologies, opened » Resources a new space to foster research entrepreneurship this fall. The FELT Lab, named for the old felt manufacturing building it occupies in St. Jacobs, is the » Research result of a partnership between the University of Waterloo, Quarry Integrated » Clear effective leadership Communications and Christie Digital. REAP’s objectives include providing » Campus environment students from all faculties with hands-on experience designing, building » Visibility and outreach and commercializing interactive displays. “The future belongs to those who » Image and philosophy can combine design thinking with technological innovation and business entrepreneurship,” said Dave Goodwin, a Waterloo professor and founder In a presentation to the campus of REAP. “The FELT Lab is a game-changer.” community in March, President WEB see REAP at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links Hamdullahpur noted that the developing priorities are closely connected to the university’s foundational pillars of academic excellence, research excellence $21-million gift will fund new and impact, co-operative education, initiatives in Science and Math graduate studies, internationalization, and Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis have pledged $20 million to the Faculty of Science entrepreneurship. Hamdullahpur said the and $1 million to the Faculty of Mathematics to fund new research, development results of the Mid-cycle Review “will guide and scholarships. With this gift, the Faculty of Science has commissioned the us in how we can achieve our goals, and building of a new undergraduate science facility and plans to hire two senior strengthen and enhance our pillars.” research chairs in the areas of condensed matter and astrophysics. The Faculty Phase Two of the review is under way. of Mathematics has endowed scholarships for undergraduate students that will WEB see Mid-cycle Review cover full university expenses for four years of study. To qualify, students must at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/link be medallists in either the International Olympiad in Informatics or the International Mathematical Olympiad before their final year of high school.

WEB see Lazaridis gift at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

What’s going on? 9 « Construction Update

With the construction boom on campus still in full swing, Waterloo looks much different today than even a few months ago. Here are the latest construction updates.

Putting the finishing touches on the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre

With the official ribbon cutting scheduled for September 21, 2012, the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre is well on its way to completion. Crews are currently working on the interior finishes and plan to move in furniture and lab equipment, as well as complete outdoor landscaping, over the summer. Constructed to the most stringent scientific standards – anti-vibration, humidity and temperature controls – the remarkable facility will enable nanotechnology and quantum information research at the highest international level, and will attract the world’s brightest minds to Construction has begun on the new Health Services Complex Waterloo. Based on a cost-per-square-foot In the fall of 2009, a student referendum approved a $10 increase in student fees to help calculation, the $160-million Quantum-Nano fund an addition to the Health Services building and renovation of the existing space. Centre is the most expensive facility to be The expansion project began in November 2011 and is set to be completed by the winter built on campus. of 2013. The finished facility, designed with patient confidentiality and privacy in mind, will offer larger waiting rooms, provide office space for partner organizations like WEB see Quantum-Nano at Student Care Networks, and allow for a significantly enhanced mental health unit. alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links After the completion of the new addition, renovation of the existing space will begin. For the first time, Health Services will have a full-service clinic offering general, obstetric and pediatric care to graduate and international students’ families. The entire project is set to be complete by the spring of 2013.

WEB see Health Services at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links n inso k Wil mes a Conrad Grebel to build

Photo: J Photo: new Centre for Peace On time and on budget Advancement

That was the message at the Waterloo Stratford A $1-million gift from the Mennonite Savings and Credit Union will campus update on March 27. The new building help fund the construction of a new Centre for Peace Advancement at (above) will open its doors at the end of the Conrad Grebel University College. The Mennonite Savings and Credit summer to accommodate the second class of Master of Digital Experience Innovation Union Centre for Peace Advancement will act as an accelerator centre students and the first class of Global Business and bring together faculty, students and policy makers committed to and Digital Arts students in September, with collaborative peace innovation. Construction began in March and the a grand opening to be held on October 16. centre is set to be complete by the end of 2013. Attendees at the update event were told that the campus has received over 400 applications WEB see Peace Advancement at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links for 60 spaces in the undergraduate program.

WEB see Stratford campus at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

10 « AWARDS & GRANTS New leadership Research excellence Waterloo students at the The campus community welcomes recognized top of their game four leaders to new roles: provost, Six Waterloo professors have been A team of Math undergraduate students secretary, associate provost, and dean named Canada Research Chairs, bringing from the University of Waterloo came of engineering. a total of $7.5 million in federal funding in fifth overall at this year's Rotman to the university. International Trading Competition. » Sallie Ann Keller has taken the » D r. Linda Nazar, Canada Research Caleb Redekop, an Arts student, won position of Vice-President Academic Chair in Solid State Energy Materials. the annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oration and Provost. Keller joins the » D r. Richard Cook, Canada Research competition with his Occupy message. university from the IDA Science and Chair in Statistical Methods for Health Caleb will go on to compete in the Technology Policy Institute in the Research. North American contest. , Canada Research United States, where she held the » D r. Brian B. Dixon Three Waterloo Chemical Engineering Chair in Fish and Environmental position of director. students, Arthur Yip, Jake Yeung, and Immunology. Alan Thai, placed first in the national » L ogan Atkinson has been » D r. Carl Haas, Canada Research Walmart Green Student Challenge appointed Secretary of the Univer- Chair in Construction and Management held on February 29 at the TMX of Sustainable Infrastructure. sity. Atkinson has been a longstand- Broadcast Centre in Toronto. » D r. Amir Khandani, Canada Research ing member of Carleton University’s Juliana Yuen of Waterloo’s Master of Chair in Multiuser Wireless Faculty of Law and served as Accounting program (MAcc ’11) was Communications. university secretary and privacy awarded the prestigious Governor » D r. Karen Collins, Canada Research General’s Gold Medal and the Ontario officer for the school from 2006-2009. Chair in Interactive Audio. Gold Medal for having the highest » C hris Read has accepted the standing in Canada on the Uniform Physicist, Dr. Michel Gingras received Final Examination. position of Associate Provost. Read a prestigious Killam Fellowship. holds an MBA and has more than For the second year in a row, students 10 years’ experience working at Dr. Janusz Pawliszyn is the 2012 from the Master of Business, Entre- recipient of the Canadian Society for preneurship and Technology program Waterloo, most recently heading the Chemistry’s E.W.R. Steacie Award. placed first in the RBC Next Great university’s housing department as Innovator Challenge. Ehsan Daneshgar, chief housing officer. Dr. Sanjay Nepal won the Roy Wolfe Amber Manzoor, John Zupancic, Amro Award from the American Association Gushaah, and Xuexia Sophia He, took » P earl Sullivan has been named of Geographers for outstanding home a $20,000 cash prize. Waterloo’s first female Dean of contributions to the field of recreation, tourism, and sport geography. Engineering. Sullivan remains the Co-op Students of the Year department chair for the Depart- Dr. Keith Hipel, Chair of Renison Each year, as part of National Co-op ment of Mechanical and Mechatron- University College's Board of Governors and a systems design engineering Week, Waterloo honours six accom- ics Engineering, until she officially professor, is the recipient of the 2012 plished students enrolled in a co-op takes over as Dean on July 1. Eminent Scientist Award from the Japan program. Meet this year’s winners: Society for the Promotion of Science. » S asanka Nagavalli, Mechatronics Engineering, Engineering Co-op Student of the Year. » Janet Nguyen, Biology, Science Co-op Student of the Year. Waterloo, The University of Waterloo has signed a nanotechnology » C hristina Marchand, Health Studies, research agreement with Soochow University in China. Applied Health Sciences Co-op Soochow Student of the Year. The research agreement, intended to enhance collaboration » Environment sign Nano between researchers and offer commercialization opportunities, Samantha Lynne Dupré, and Resource Studies, Environment agreement will also give students from both universities the chance to Co-op Student of the Year. study abroad. Graduate students will have the opportunity to » M ei Chen, Accounting and Financial pursue four years of co-tutelle doctoral studies, while undergraduate students from Soochow Management, Arts Co-op Student will be able to complete the final year of their Bachelor of Science degree at Waterloo and of the Year. subsequently enrol in a one-year master’s program. The partnership also includes the creation » T errence Chin, Actuarial Science, of the Soochow University Nanotechnology (SUN) and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Mathematics Co-op Student of (WIN) Joint Research Institute for Nanotechnology. Researchers at the institute will collabo- the Year. rate on at least 12 projects, co-funded by Soochow, Waterloo and Suzhou Industrial Park.

WEB see Nano agreement at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

What’s going on? 11 congratulations

Across Canada and around the world, Waterloo alumni are making signiﬁ cant

contributions to their university, their Philip Tanner (BA ’88, MA ’90) Tanya De Mello (BA ’02) Glenn Ives (BMath ’84) Geo Hayes (MAcc ’04) Patrick A. Reid (BSc ’73) Astha Ramaiya (BSc ’07) Faculty of Arts Faculty of Arts School of Accounting School of Accounting Faculty of Applied Faculty of Applied Alumni Achievement Award Young Alumni Award and Finance and Finance Health Sciences Health Sciences professions and their communities. Alumni Achievement Award Young Alumni Award Alumni Achievement Award Young Alumni Award

The Alumni Awards recognize these individuals and their e orts to build a better world.

It is time for us all to Nityanand Varma (MASc ’70) Stephan F. Matusch (BASc ’91) Sheldon Fernandez (BASc ’01) Kurtis N. McBride Brigitte Shim Howard Sutcli e It is time for us all to Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering (BASc ’04, MASc ’08) (BES ’81, BARCH ’83) (BES ’83, BARCH ’83) Alumni Achievement Medal, Alumni Achievement Medal, Young Alumni Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering Community Service Professional Achievement Achievement Medal Young Alumni Team Alumni Achievement Medal Team Alumni Achievement Medal stand up and cheer Achievement Medal for the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. Vince Lombardi

Dr. Steven E. Franklin Catherine Boivie (BMath ’72) William John Cook (PhD ’83) Virginia Dybenko (MMath ’72) Randall Howard (BMath ’75) Ivan Hubac (PhD ’71) (BES ’80, MA ’82, PhD ’85) Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Mathematic Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Environment Gold Medal Gold Medal Gold Medal Gold Medal Gold Medal Alumni Achievement Award

Zack Urlocker (MMath ’84) Kelly Meissner (BSc ’01) Dr. Peter Bernath (BSc ’76) Dr. Jan Christilaw (BSc ’77) Betty Pries (MTS ’05) Dr. David Morrell (BA ’66) Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Distinguished Alumni Fr. Norm Choate Distinguished J.W. Graham Medal Young Alumni Award Distinguished Alumni Award Distinguished Alumni Award Service Award (Conrad Grebel Graduate Award University College) (St. Jerome’s University) 6711 Alumni Awards 2011 Visit http://uwaterloo.ca/alumni/awards to read about their achievements.

12 congratulations

Across Canada and around the world, Waterloo alumni are making signiﬁ cant contributions to their university, their Philip Tanner (BA ’88, MA ’90) Tanya De Mello (BA ’02) Glenn Ives (BMath ’84) Geo Hayes (MAcc ’04) Patrick A. Reid (BSc ’73) Astha Ramaiya (BSc ’07) Faculty of Arts Faculty of Arts School of Accounting School of Accounting Faculty of Applied Faculty of Applied Alumni Achievement Award Young Alumni Award and Finance and Finance Health Sciences Health Sciences professions and their communities. Alumni Achievement Award Young Alumni Award Alumni Achievement Award Young Alumni Award

The Alumni Awards recognize these individuals and their e orts to build a better world.

What's going on? 13 a faculty infull bloom it’s easy to Be Bleak when looking into the future. climate chanGe, enerGY crises, malnutritiOn, ecOnOmic vOlatilitY, and many other proBlems stalk the world.

faculty and students at the Faculty of Environment know Did Durst want to come along? these looming issues present daunting challenges. But talk to The fi ve-year-old university seemed composed them and, for the most part, you won’t hear doom and gloom. largely of mud and temporary buildings when They’ll tell you that solutions will come from working together – the young man arrived. But the three excellent and this faculty has always excelled at working together. professors made it worthwhile.

The future is being shaped here. And it will be sustainable. In 1963, Durst was one of Waterloo’s fi rst fi ve geography graduates. He would go on to be a the seeds for the faculty of environment were sown geography teacher and eventually superintendent. in 1962. That summer, Bert Durst, an honours geography He still credits Krueger with inspiring him as an student at Waterloo College, now Wilfrid Laurier University, educator and a leader. received a letter from Ralph Krueger, his favourite professor. Even in those early days, interdisciplinary research Krueger and fellow professors Aubrey Diem and Roy Offi cer was emphasized, says Glenn Brubacher, another of were moving to the University of Waterloo to create a new the fi rst graduates. “My geography education was department of geography within the young Faculty of Arts. very useful because of the universal aspect of the discipline; it can be applied in so many ways. You can relate a whole bunch of diff erent things and come up with a good solution.”

A planning program was soon added to the department of geography. In 1967, the Faculty of Engineering started a pre-architectural program, but the following year, it separated from engineering. Unhappy to have an unaffi liated unit, a university committee recommended the creation of an “interdisciplinary man-environment studies group.”

Planning (which separated from geography and became the School of Planning), geography (today called geography and environmental management), and architecture (now once again part of the Faculty of Engineering) joined together with the brand-new man-environment studies

Photo: chris huGhes Photo: (now environment and resource studies). The 1962 | A personal invitation from professor ralph krueger convinced academic unit they created in 1969 was, in all bert durst to join Waterloo’s newly-created department of geography. practical senses, Canada’s fi rst undergraduate »

14 2012 | andrÉ roy began his fi ve-year term as dean of environment in August 2011. half a century after it began as the department of geography, the Faculty’s inﬂ uence is being felt around the globe.

teXt karen kawawada | PhotoGrAPhy Jonathan Bielaski 15 CHANGE BEGINS AT HOME | Geography professor Paul Parker, left, Elena Krakjevska, Master of Environmental Studies energy conservation specialization grad student, and Shane ONeill, PhD student in Geography and Environmental Management, explore energy efficiency at theR EEP house in Kitchener.

faculty of environment – but they called it Today, students can take business, aviation, international the Division of Environmental Studies. development, and many other programs – all with an environmental bent. There’s an increasing emphasis on “What this new group wanted to send, they international research and study, with the faculty leading thought, was a clear signal that this was not the way in establishing the Sino-Canadian College in going to be a traditional faculty. It wanted to Nanjing, China. engage in interdisciplinary work,” says Bruce The Faculty is world class, says Dean André Roy. It has Mitchell, one of six geography professors already changed the world through its research and the hired in 1969. contributions of its 11,000 alumni, he says. It will change The “division” officially became a faculty it more in the future. in 1973. However, the emphasis on interdisci- “There’s something special here,” Roy says. “There’s a belief plinary work continued, as it does today. in something, a commonality of goals, a sense that we’re It has grown through partnerships with all in it together.” other faculties and universities, industry, and non-governmental organizations, says Change begins at home, the saying goes. Geography Mitchell, who is now Waterloo’s associate professor Paul Parker has helped bring change to thousands provost, resources. of homes. In 1998, Parker, with colleagues Daniel Scott, Ian Rowlands University of Waterloo will apply for and Don Eaton, then director of the Elora Centre for Environ- Leadership in Energy and Environmental mental Excellence, had an idea for what was supposed to be Design (LEED) platinum status for the a two-year project. faculty’s newest building, Environment 3, which opened last year. That would certify it The federal government had launched the EnerGuide for as one of the world’s most environmentally- Houses program and evaluated 1,200 houses for energy friendly buildings. Many new programs efficiency. Considering there were 13 million houses in Canada, have been added, including two academic Parker and his colleagues saw a need to do more. units – the Centre for Knowledge Integration “By the second year of the project, we were doing more in 2008 and the School of Environment, evaluations than all of Toronto, 10 per cent of the national Enterprise and Development in 2009. total,” Parker says.

16 Today, students can take business, aviation, international development, and many other programs – all with an environmental bent.

Since then, the Residential Energy Efficiency Currently, our electricity system is built to handle peak demand times, Project, now called REEP Green Solutions, such as hot afternoons when air conditioners are cranked. This means has conducted more than 20,000 evaluations, some infrastructure is “idle or underutilized” the vast majority of the including follow-ups, on nearly 14,000 homes time, Rowlands says. in Waterloo Region. On average, participat- “If, through increased use of information and communications tech- ing households reduce energy consumption nologies, we can shift load from this peak period, perhaps four to five by 27 per cent, says Parker. per cent of our energy capital stock would no longer be needed.” REEP is now an independent organization Transforming landscapes is as vital as transforming lifestyles but maintains strong ties to the university. when it comes to tackling pressing global challenges. Parker still sits on the board and has helped expand REEP’s mandate to areas including Geographer Jonathan Price is part of a multidisciplinary group from water management and indoor air quality. several universities that recently received $6.7 million in government The REEP House for Sustainable Living in and industry funding to do the unprecedented – turn post-mined land Kitchener is a research and education space, in oilsands country back into the peatland that used to cover at least a showcase of how green an older home half of the Athabasca landscape. can be. Its retrofits have resulted in energy In 2003, Price was at a meeting in Fort McMurray, Alta., where a savings of 80 per cent. facilitator stated that, while it may be possible to recreate marshes, Rowlands, of environment and resource “we can’t reclaim to peatlands because they take thousands of years studies, continues to research energy to develop.” efficiency. Working with colleagues in Price wasn’t so sure. He had been involved in restoring damaged environment and engineering, he leads the peatlands. Reclaiming peatlands that no longer existed would be Energy Hub Management System project to harder but doable, he thought, given the availability of materials help households and eventually workplaces and big earth-moving equipment present in the oilsands industry. reduce their energy consumption and costs. Price and his colleagues have started to put a plan into action at a The project has received $2.45 million in pilot site on Suncor land. It involves bringing in “donor” peat and fen funding, including in-kind contributions, plants and re-contouring land so enough water of adequate quality from public and private sector partners. will flow onto it. The goal is to develop a computer-based system that works with a smart electrical Water quality is a challenge because the team is using tailings panel and smart plugs to capture live data materials to create the aquifer that supplies water to the fen. A liner about a site’s energy loads, demands, and will separate the old tailings dump from the fen, but the water flowing perhaps production and storage. from the created aquifer will be high in sodium. Nonetheless, Price and his colleagues believe they can make it work. These data are combined with information such as energy prices, air quality, weather “I think in 10 years we’ll see a system that has many of the features forecasts, and personal preferences such as of a fen peatland, though it will be a system that’s still evolving and not wanting the temperature above or changing as the solute redistributes and the plant layer develops,” below a certain level. says Price. “I feel optimistic.”

After monitoring a site’s energy use patterns, Blair Feltmate believes in working to mitigate climate the system develops an optimal schedule change. But “to ignore adaptation is like saying you’ll live on in a that allows users to cut costs, reduce energy house where the shingles are curling up on the roof and the water consumption, and/or reach environmental is starting to drip through the ceiling,” he says. goals. Some actions, such as lowering the As chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Project (Canada), funded temperature at night, can be set to hap- by insurance company Intact Financial Corporation, Feltmate is work- pen automatically, while in other cases the ing to identify the most important actions that can be taken to cope system merely suggests, via a web portal, with climate change within Canada. optimal times to run the dishwasher. Feltmate, a professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and A pilot project is running in Milton, Ont., Development, has brought together 80 top leaders from industry, and Rowlands hopes the system will be in government, academia, First Nations, the legal community and wider use in the future. civil society. This group has identified what it believes are the

A green faculty in bloom 17 most important areas to focus on generally The recommendations include small- and large-scale ideas. For in climate change adaptation, plus the most example, one is to reconnect ecological patches, such as small important areas that the property and casualty forests, by building natural corridors that would enable species insurance sector should consider. to migrate from one place to another as the climate changes.

The next step has been to create a report iden- Another recommendation is changing Canada’s residential tifying recommendations to address the chosen building codes to mandate the installation of backwater valves areas of focus. But Feltmate says the report is that would allow water to flow out of basement drains, but not just the beginning. The rest of the project is into them. These valves would only cost about $300 per new home convening meetings with Canada’s foremost but would save millions that would otherwise be spent fixing leaders in government, industry, First Nations, flooded basements. and other decision-making sectors, to turn All the recommendations are “practical, meaningful and recommendations into action. cost-effective,” and backed by organizations as diverse as Suncor, the Pembina Institute and First Nations groups, says Feltmate. “You’ve got people who never agree on anything – agreeing.”

Environment researchers are having an impact internationally too. One such person is Luna Khirfan, whose project focuses on three Middle Eastern cities on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

The trend over the last two decades has been to focus on preservation, which is expensive, says Khirfan, a professor in the School of Planning. This has tended to result in poorer residents being replaced by richer ones, and some neighbourhoods losing residents altogether in favour of tourist infrastructure.

“What I am looking at is how we can balance this,” says Khirfan. “We need people to pay more taxes but we also need to maintain the socio-economic structure. I’ve been trying to prove the tourists are not only interested in buildings, but in people’s ways of life.”

She did extensive interviews with tourists and found that, more than buildings, they enjoyed activities such as markets and drinking tea with locals. Her conclusion? “There is actually no difference between tourist needs and local needs.”

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k works to balance the needs of c a a voice in planning. tourists and locals in UNESCO World Heritage cities. Natural science, social science, local Photo: J or international – Environment faculty and students do it all. Luna Khirfan hopes her research will » Jennifer Clapp is one of several professors result in residents who study policy and governance. She recent- of heritage areas ly published two books on global food issues, gaining more and says the rise of a global industrial food of a voice in system has led to people knowing little about planning. the origins of their food, which may include practices that are ecologically unsound and socially unjust.

18 » Rob de Loë focuses on water governance. Historically, water issues have been considered technical matters, but it’s become clear that most involve organizational and relational problems that can’t be solved with technology alone, he says. For example, drinking water quality on many First Nations reserves is poor “despite the fact that we have the technology to make water safe.”

» Larry Swatuk, head of the international development program, which will be graduating its first students this year, works on international water governance. In the days of the Soviet Union, water originating in Tajikistan was largely used for cotton Jeff Casello, a professor in the irrigation in Uzbekistan. Now Swatuk is School of Planning, is a strong advocate of better public transportation. helping the two countries figure out how to fairly share water.

» Olaf Weber, Export Development Canada » Jean Andrey studies road safety. She and a graduate student Chair in Environmental Finance, studies published one of the first papers on how much the crash rate how environmental and social justice issues leaps when young drivers have passengers. Her work helped can cause problems for banks, how banks’ influence the Ontario government in bringing in graduated financing choices can cause environmental licensing rules restricting passengers for new drivers. and social justice problems, and how some » Stephen Murphy helps restore natural areas, including parks. financial products can support sustainable Though parks are supposed to be protected, they often need development. ecological restoration due to legacies of land use or because » Tara Vinodrai is director of the local of current recreational use, he says. economic development master’s program. The list of ways the faculty has changed, and is changing, In Waterloo Region, she is leading a team the world could go on and on. Professors with deep expertise in of researchers studying the local food, green specialized fields bring ideas and people together from different energy, and creative/cultural sectors, focusing disciplines, sectors and locales to come up with solutions that in particular on how rural and urban commu- wouldn’t arise in silos. nities integrate within those sectors. There is now an academic unit devoted to interdisciplinary » Jeff Casello has been a strong advocate studies – the Centre for Knowledge Integration. Environment of the benefits of enhanced urban public is the natural home to the program, since environmental transportation. He has been working with problems are by nature interdisciplinary, says co-founder Linda the Region of Waterloo to upgrade its express Carson. “When I walk in this building, I don’t have to fight the bus service, the iXpress, and to aid in the battle about interdisciplinarity. Everybody in this faculty is an planning and design of the rapid transit interdisciplinary practitioner.” project. He has also addressed several city councils elsewhere in Ontario. “The problems and issues that society is facing, most of them cannot be solved by just looking at them from one perspective,” says » John Lewis focuses on how cities can Dean Roy. But “interdisciplinarity isn’t just a question of solving better accommodate the needs of an problems. It’s also a question of shaping minds.” aging population. He trains his students in part through a simulation that puts them Environment students turn out well-rounded – but there’s more in wheelchairs, vision-impairing goggles, to it than that. “They’re engaged in this world and they want to and other limiting devices so they can make a difference somehow,” Roy says. “And they will. Lots of experience urban navigation with a physical our alumni are making a difference already.” impairment. It’s an exercise many future planners find unforgettable. WEB See Green Faculty at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

A green faculty in bloom 19 Cool heads

20 Cool heads prevail

Bike tO WOrk, BuY Green, Drive a hYBriD vehicle. we all know what we’re supposed to Be doing to help the planet.

university of waterloo professors and works into bleached, barren wastelands. Acidic oceans, students are doing much more than that. rising water levels and intense tourism are considered some of the culprits. But so is warming water. They’re researching not only the eff ects of climate change on our planet, but fi nding “This is a major lesson that I’m trying to get through ways to prepare communities that have to my students,” LeDrew says. the most to lose. “Everyone really has a role to play in terms of global It’s the fi rst day of Ellsworth LeDrew’s fi rst ecosystems. What we do in North America, in terms of year physical geography class, a course the climate change and ecology, can have an impact on the eminent geography and environmental other side of the earth.” management professor has taught for years. The impact on coral reefs is only one way large scale The students, jittery and excited to fi nally climate change and circulation patterns are already be sitting in a lecture hall aft er leaving high having an impact on things we’ve taken for granted. school behind, grow quiet as LeDrew begins A large body of scientifi c studies from across the globe to fl ip through slides depicting something has examined other issues we could experience (and, most he’s passionate about protecting and of the experts say, likely will experience) if carbon dioxide preserving: coral reefs. levels go unchecked and the earth’s mean temperature The beauty of the reefs is unmatched by rises long term. Although it’s impossible to know exactly almost anything else on earth, with brilliant how serious future global warming and climate change orange, red and blue hues created by corals – could be for the planet, the list of consequences is cause tiny animals that attach themselves to the for serious concern. hard calcium carbonate skeleton of the reef. For instance, temperature changes and rising ocean levels They dot oceans and draw tourists and div- could mean tourism patterns would shift as erosion wipes ers in droves. Oft en compared to tropical out coastal beaches in resort communities. rainforests, reefs represent some of the Submerged coastlines would also impact millions who most diverse ecosystems in the world, and live in places such as New York, Prince Edward Island and serve to cycle carbon dioxide in the ocean. Shanghai. Weather pattern change could lead to stronger But they’re in serious trouble. fl oods and droughts, struggling fi sheries, and extinction for animals unable to adapt. Climate change – the term used to describe when long‐term weather patterns are Daniel Scott, an associate professor of geography and altered – is having a serious impact on reefs, environmental management and Canada Research Chair, turning what were once thriving bionet- Global Change and Tourism, has spent over a decade »

» Geography and environmental management professor ellsworth ledrew is passionate about protecting coral reefs, but his recent research has moved to colder climates. Photos courtesy oF ellsWorth ledreW

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studying the implications of climate change for international tourism, which is now one of the largest economic sectors and employers in developing nations.

Scott lead a scientific advisory panel on climate change for the United Nations World Tourism Organization and has also been a contributing author and expert reviewer for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

While his work spans the globe, it is the Caribbean, which is the most tourism-dependent region in the world, that has become the focus for his research team over the last five years. “The impacts of climate change, particularly sea level rise, on tourism are a major We wanted to ask homeless concern to regional leaders, and there is a real thirst for informa- people in the community: tion on how best to cope with these future problems,” he says. How did they deal with weird Scott and many of his students have collaborated with researchers weather patterns and large- scale from the University of Oxford, the University of the West Indies, change in climate? and the United Nations Development Program to try to provide some answers.

“Sea level rise is considered to be one of the most certain and “With those horribly cold nights in June, that prominent consequences of climate change. It will transform was actually a much bigger problem than a coastal communities and their economies. It’s a unidirectional colder night in March,” Wandel says. impact, so we know it is coming. It’s just a matter of how much and when. The project was able to shine a light on a local problem created by a much larger global issue. If you’ve got a dilapidated resort that has lost its beach to erosion, Waterloo Region, it turned out, is well prepared and the others start to look a little shoddy, the whole destination for most weather challenges, despite the sum- image begins to decline and prices have to drop. “It’s a slippery mer of 2009. A large volunteer base, money, slope to uncompetitiveness,” says Scott. These are long-term and political will prompted one homeless challenges, but information on how to begin adapting to them person to tell Wandel, “Nobody starves and is required now. nobody freezes to death in Waterloo.” Understanding the whole picture, of course, takes many minds. Still, that’s not necessarily the case in other Waterloo professors and students are putting the pieces of the areas of the world, where climate change puzzle together, one project, field trip, major study and experi- can have a serious impact on not just marginal- ment at a time. ized populations, but nearly everyone who Think global, study local lives there. A few years ago, when Johanna Wandel first joined Waterloo as an That’s why Wandel, along with numerous other assistant professor in geography and environmental management, Waterloo professors, including Scott, are now she decided to look at climate in a very hands-on way. She gath- working on a large-scale, five-year, $2.5 million ered a team of graduate students and, working with a psycholo- project alongside academics from Jamaica, gist, a local shelter program and the Region of Waterloo, they Trinidad and Tobago, Nova Scotia and PEI. took to the streets. They wanted to ask homeless people in the Scott is co-director of Partnership for Canadian community: How did they deal with weird weather patterns and Caribbean Community Climate Change Adap- large‐scale change in climate? tation, (ParCA), along with Murray Simpson of Caribsave. The group is working with It turned out to be a perfect year for the question. The summer Caribsave, with headquarters in Barbados. of 2009 was cool and rainy by day, wet and frigid by night. And because the homeless typically ditch their winter gear each year The teams will assess vulnerable communities, as the weather grows warmer, they were left shivering and but this time they’ll focus on those who live, miserable. The social service system wasn’t prepared either. Who work and depend on coastal regions in the expected to run an “out of the cold” program at that time of year? Caribbean and on Canada’s east coast.

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What does it mean if we have a less snowy winter?

What does it mean to people in Waterloo in terms of their tax bills?

Richard kelly, geography and environmental management professor

Some look at sea levels, others, snow and ice. There are those who explore physical science, while many research resource management, and still others deal with issues of environmental policy. A natural focus of this activity came with the inception of IC3 (pronounced “ice cube”), the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change, that since 2009 has brought researchers from numerous faculties and departments together to understand everything from atmospheric science to the human impact of climate change, and how computers can be used to more accurately model what happens in the real world.

What would rising sea levels do to a country “Without that critical mass of scholars looking at one area, or community that is economically dependent it’s tough to compete internationally,” Scott says.

on coastal tourism? What would happen to Richard Kelly, a geography and environmental management the fishery industries if local reefs degraded? professor, is a core member of IC3 who values the way Waterloo What kind of coastal engineering would help supports disciplinary perspectives and interdisciplinary ties to keep beaches intact, rather than ripped apart promote innovation. “Promoting the conversation between by storm surges or slowly lost to erosion? natural scientists and social scientists – and then handing it off to How can communities cope with stronger policy people – is quite a unique thing. IC3 is a very exciting, yet storms and more variable rainfall? very challenging, endeavour,” he says.

This summer, teams will fan out to talk directly Still, it is perhaps not as exciting as his own years in the field with residents and a wide range of planning and researching snow and ice anywhere it falls or forms. Kelly, who other professionals in these coastal communi- has also worked for NASA, has dug around in snow in places as ties. “This is about putting a human face on how far flung as Manitoba, the Yukon, Norway, and Colorado. In the we experience climate and how some groups most general terms possible, he wants to know where the snow is, are affected,” Wandel says. and how much exists. Considering the cold climates in which he Power in numbers conducts field work, it’s a good thing he enjoys his work. Waterloo is also good at putting a human face “One of the best places to be is after you’ve dug a two-metre on its researchers. Part of the reason the univer- snow pit and you’re sitting there having a cup of tea before you do sity netted funding for the project is the wealth the analysis on how the snow pit structure looks,” he says, smiling of professors and grad students who research from his seat in a busy office on the first floor of an Environment climate change. building. “If it’s not too cold, that can be fantastic.”

Cool heads prevail 23 For years, Kelly has been using satellite images irrigation, industrial cooling, flood damage and the insurance to determine snow location and depth or mass. industry, drinking water, and the ski industry. Not only is snow Until recently, the data were only able to formation an indicator of how climate is changing, but getting a reflect 25-kilometre-square areas, making handle on snow means that people will have a better sense of how accurate analysis challenging because condi- to manage it as a resource. tions can vary widely in an area that large. Drinking water in California is a plus. Raging floods in Winnipeg, “It’s a bit like looking at the snow on the not so much. ground from space through out-of-focus goggles. You know it’s there, but you are not Getting the message out to the public about complicated technol- quite sure how much,” he says. ogy and research – even when it has a direct impact on our lives – is not always easy, Kelly says. Add that to the fact that a sense of But new, alternative radar technologies are green fatigue may be setting in as mixed messages and good inten- being developed to let Kelly gather informa- tions compete in the media for public attention. It’s up to Canada’s tion on a 100-metre scale. The more localized researchers, who are looking closely at the issues, to spread the information gleaned from this complex word in a way that makes sense to everyone. technology is something that Canadian water “We’re starting to do that better, but there’s still more to be done. management resource organizations are What does it mean if we have a less snowy winter? What does it clamouring for in order to improve model mean to people in Waterloo in terms of their tax bills?” Kelly says. snow estimates for basin management. Abstract ideas, concrete results With more exact information, they would have Christopher Fletcher, assistant professor in Geography and a better idea about when snow is expected to Environmental Management and SHARCNET Research Chair, melt or how much time a community might knows how challenging it is to explain what he does and why have before a flood. it matters. His area of research, using computer models to simulate Understanding the where, when and why of climate patterns and large-scale circulation of the atmosphere, snow is incredibly important from a safety can seem a bit on the esoteric side to the average person. Yet standpoint, as well as from an economic one. creating numerical experiments for climate systems is incredibly There’s snow removal, obviously, but snow also important for long-term thinking, particularly if you’re looking has a dollar-and-cents impact on agricultural for consistent data.

» You can do something about climate change too Waterloo professors and students who study climate change are doing their part to understand it and plan for the future, but there are things anyone can do to make a difference.

Look for Energy Star-qualified Walk or ride your bike to Think before you fly. Get over yourself. appliances and computers. work or school. Daniel Scott says he’s much less Studies show that many people feel Refrigerators today are much more That’s what Christopher Fletcher likely to fly to a conference these paralyzed by the enormity of climate energy efficient than they were does, even on cold days in March. days to give a 30-minute talk. change, so they change nothing in even 10 years ago. If that’s not an option, public transit “I’ve said no to a lot of things that their own lives. The reality is, there is another green way to go. would have doubled or tripled my is plenty everyone can do to help. It carbon footprint,” he says. Using might start with turning off the light Skype and video-conferencing when you leave the room, but where is another way to go. it ends is up to you.

24 “I would say I spend 95 per cent of my time looking at the model world rather than the real world. Things are generally cleaner and clearer when you’re using computer models as laboratories,” he says.

In Fletcher’s computer world, volcanoes don’t erupt, setting off a chain of weird climactic events all over Europe, unless he wants them to.

Using his models, he can test the impact of doubling carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. What would happen to the ocean, land surface, vegetation and the amount of ice and snow? Running simulations can help him see possible outcomes.

“It’s a classic physics experiment-type configuration, really. We just change one thing, while holding all other things fixed, and see what the effects are,” Fletcher says.

Sometimes that butterfly effect can lead to surprising results. The common theme of Fletcher’s research can be boiled down to two words: atmospheric circulation. He looks at how the atmosphere moves and how circulation can have a connection to other areas of the world. These connections telescope over long distances to create what are called teleconnections.

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was warmed by similar amounts, the resulting responses in the Photo: northern climate’s temperature and precipitation were opposite.

“That was not easy to predict ahead of time,” he says. This is an evolution of 40 years of work The upside of warmth modeling the interactions between climate Sometimes it does pay to get away from computers, models change and shifting sea ice in the Arctic. and even university campuses to work out the realities behind This has involved many years of fieldwork climate change. Although LeDrew tends not to jump into the in some of the world’s most remote, stark ocean to dive down to where the coral is anymore (in recent and beautiful places, such as north of years he has left that work to stronger swimmers, he says), he Baffin Island in Canada’s high arctic. has worked with students doing fieldwork in Fiji and Indonesia, He remembers arriving and setting up matching data collected from satellites 700 kilometres above the equipment and tents one year when earth with reflected solar radiation measurements from reefs up everything was covered in ice. Soon, spring to 10 metres deep. That research has helped map damaged coral, moved in and little tufts of vegetation as well as design marine protection areas. appeared from under the melting snow.

But over the past decade, much of LeDrew’s work has shifted “As soon as some warm air comes in, away from ocean reefs to far frostier environments, where he there’s a total explosion of life. Birds, provides data and information management infrastructure for animals, seals all arrive quickly,” LeDrew the Canadian cryospheric community. He’s developing a polar says. “It’s an experience I wouldn’t want data catalogue where Canadian physical, social and even medical to forget.” scientists can log polar data so it can be used well into the future for comparison. WEB See Climate research at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

Cool heads prevail 25 26 you’ve got to hand it to humans for Being the most CompleX Beings on the planet.

We lie, crY, lOve, fOrGet anD make DecisiOns that seem tO make nO sense at all. But WhY? a beautiful

waterloo’s psychology professors and mind students are getting to the bottom of some of life’s most compelling mysteries of the mind.

It begins with a single thought: “Before I leave the house, I better check the stove and make sure I turned it off .”

For most of us, that’s where the story ends. We step back into the kitchen, perhaps touch the stove’s dials, and then, keys in hand, head out for the day.

But that’s not the case for those suff ering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a debilitating condition that creates an internal maze of persistent, unwanted thoughts that trigger repetitive behaviors. Someone who has OCD might be highly anxious about transmitting germs to her kids, so she washes her hands for hours each day. Another continually checks his stove to be sure no harm will come to his home or family. christine purdon, a clinical psychology professor at Waterloo works with grad “We understand why they check once. student Bianca Bucarelli in a lab designed to measure compulsive behaviour. We kind of understand why they check twice, but why do they keep checking aft er that?” says Christine Purdon, a clinical many OCD suff erers experience: Boiling water in a kettle and psychology professor at Waterloo, well turning the element off ; Putting a pot of dry rice on that cool known for her research into OCD. burner; Walking out of the room.

To uncover some clues, Purdon has created They’ve also outfi tted research participants with a portable visual a unique workspace – a tiny, comfortable, eye tracker. Purdon’s team wants to not only see how people react well-equipped kitchen any grandmother to the tasks, but what their eyes fi xate on. The pack of matches would love. Purdon and her team of graduate beside the stove? The stash of coupons? The roll of paper towels? students use it to simulate common situations The appliance itself? »

A beautiful mind | teXt kira vermond | PhotoGrAPhy Jonathan Bielaski 27 Being intoxicated doesn’t mean that you’re going to make stupid, risky decisions, It means that in the heat of the moment, you’ll be influenced by any cues that are salient.

Mark zanna, Professor, Killam Prize Winner

The data is still coming in, but a fascinating Canadian equivalent of the Nobel. Over the past finding seems to be emerging: There’s a strong 41 years, he has helped evaluate tobacco control correlation between how often an OCD policies, studied cigarette warning labels, tested sufferer looks at the stove and how certain the subtle effects of onscreen smoking by movie he is that he has done the check properly. stars, and has unlocked mysteries concerning automatic/intuitive prejudices and attitudes The more someone checks, the more toward minorities such as Asian Canadians. they doubt themselves, and the more they doubt reality, the stronger the urge to check And he has managed to get student volunteers becomes. The mind essentially becomes “good and drunk” – all in the name of science. locked in an exhausting and endless loop. Wear this bracelet

Understanding how the cycle works is Here’s a question to consider before reaching A simple bracelet helped important for eventually treating patients, for a third glass of wine: Why do you want it? Mark Zanna find says Purdon, who hopes to use what she is Or, to be more exact, why would you want to drink evidence that alcohol doesn’t learning to help her anxious clients someday. a third glass when you know from experience it will necessarily lead people to make foolish choices. “This can really help people with OCD lead to a monster headache the next morning? make sense of their experience, and begin to Zanna chalks it up to “alcohol myopia theory.” understand that the strong ‘need’ to redo the check is a false alarm,” she says. The typical story goes that when people become intoxicated, their thinking becomes fuzzy and disjointed. Hence, a propensity Evolution of psychology at Waterloo for making stupid errors in judgment, such as driving drunk, or Making sense of the human experience is at sweet-talking a person who is clearly not interested. the very core of what psychology is about. Or, maybe not. It’s also what Waterloo professors have been teaching students since the department According to alcohol myopia theory, booze actually narrows a launched in the mid-’60s, drawing some of person’s focus of attention to the here and now. They can’t think psychology’s brightest minds, including very far into the future. So if that bottle of wine is sitting at eye Donald Meichenbaum, the distinguished level, it makes sense to pour another glass. On the flipside, writing professor emeritus who was voted by his peers “DON’T DRINK MORE THAN TWO GLASSES OF WINE OR in the mid-’80s one of the 10 most influential YOU’LL BE SORRY” on your cocktail napkin might be enough psychotherapists of the 20th century. to put the brakes on. “Being intoxicated doesn’t mean that you’re going to make stupid, Today, Waterloo’s psychology department is risky decisions,” says Zanna. “It means that in the heat of the moment, known for mind-expanding research in six you’ll be influenced by any cues that are salient.” major areas: clinical, cognitive, cognitive neuroscience, developmental, industrial/ In fact, according to the research Zanna has conducted with teams organizational, and social. It also houses over the years, if you make the conditions right, alcohol can actually Waterloo’s Centre for Mental Health Research, help convince people to do the right thing. The trick is all in how where professors and senior PhD students you go about it. help treat adults, teens and children. In one study, University of Waterloo students were asked to watch In all, over 800 students enroll as psychology either a control video about drinking and driving, or a powerful video majors and about 100 graduate students work about people who had contracted HIV. A third group saw that second alongside award-winning professors. video and were given a woven friendship bracelet to wear. There was also a directive: Look at that bracelet and remember the video’s basic Mark Zanna is one of those professors. message about having safe sex and wearing a condom. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he won the 2011 Killam Prize in the Social At the end of the semester, the students came back to be evaluated. Sciences, one of only a handful of psychologists The intervention had worked. Amazingly, these students, particularly to have ever won this prestigious $100,000 if they had been drinking, were more likely to have practised safe award. The prize, which honours lifetime sex, partly because the reminder cue couldn’t be ignored. It was research achievement is considered the on their wrists.

28 Zanna says he’s still amazed that after so many years of conducting studies concerning alcohol and decision-making, he was able to “bottle” this one and end up with results.

“The probability that we would be able to get that finding was low, but when it happened, it was astounding,” he says.

Making your case make sense

He might not know the secret to winning friends, but Jonathan Fugelsang, associate professor in the cognitive psychology division, knows how to influence people. Last year he and Jason Ozubko published the results of a study that could impact how lawyers argue their cases or how advertisers sell their wares: They looked at what makes a fact more believable.

Over the years, other researchers have shown that people are 78 per cent more likely to believe a fact if statistics back it up. (Actually, that stat is a lie, but see how easy that was?) But numerous studies have shown that people are more apt to believe a fact if it’s supported by proof that appears official and reliable like a statistic But does it make sense? Jonathan Fugelsang’s research examines the or an MRI brain scan, even if the proof is factors that make information seem believable, even when it shouldn’t be. completely bogus. In other words, we’re all a lot more gullible and willing to believe things simply because someone gives us “When something comes from within, you basically have to treat a “fact” to build on. it as true or it would create dissonance,” says Fugelsang. But what would happen if you stripped all Put it this way: If you can’t believe yourself, who can you believe? of that away? What if you simply stated a fact more than once to people? Would it In a sense, with this research into memory and belief, Fugelsang and become more believable? Ozubko have found a psychologist’s way through the front door of what has historically been the philosopher’s stomping ground: In a word, yes, says Fugelsang. Participants “What is truth?” in the study were given the same facts once or multiple times. Those who received the “Our conscious experience – what we hear, see and remember – message four times found the facts the it’s all an active reconstructive process. It doesn’t necessarily directly most compelling. correspond to reality,” Fugelsang says.

But repetition wasn’t the only factor. Those Minds can handle only so much who were given a break between reading Don’t tell a mother being pestered by her kids at the grocery the facts on their computer screens and store that her frustration isn’t real. There’s a good reason she can’t responding to a task that relied on those remember her grocery list with all that whining. facts were much more likely to be swayed by the factual information, even if it wasn’t That’s what Myra Fernandes, an award-winning associate professor true. Retrieving information from memory in cognitive neuroscience, believes after looking into what kind of mattered, too. stimuli distract us most.

A beautiful mind 29 Myra Fernandes, an associate professor in cognitive neuroscience, studies stimuli distraction There are and the way context helps or hinders memory. other ways Everybody’s into multi-tasking and trying to be the most efficient, but you can’t be so efficient that you cause harm. to leave a Myra Fernandes, associate professor

It turns out that our brains can only handle For example, say you meet a man at a party. Within a few legacy… distractions as a combination. Two voices can minutes, you’ve learned the names of his children, where distract you while you’re talking, but classical the family goes on vacation and that he works at RIM. But music might not because it’s competing with a week later, you see him again at the grocery store and, WATERLOO, ONTARIO, JUNE 3, 1958* a different area of your brain. although you have a feeling you know him, you have no idea how. He’s out of context. “It’s only when you have competition for the exact same brain structure that you’re going “We find this to be one of the frustrating aspects of The university’s gi planning experts are here to help to get what we call ‘catastrophic interference.’ memory,” says Fernandes, whose work with Shahnaz Koji, You can’t remember as much as you normally a PhD student, has revealed that as adults age, we’re less you explore all kinds of options to make a lasting impact at would,” she says. likely to be able to remember a face if it appears in a Waterloo – ones that don’t require late-night engineering feats. different context than where we first saw it. Understanding distraction can lead to numerous real-world applications. For Context has no bearing on how we recognize people we instance, if employees are working in a love though. We’d know our best friends anywhere. room full of cubicles and expected to talk We’re only human on the phone over the din, what happens to productivity? Or how about air traffic Psychologists at Waterloo have an in when it comes to the Planned Giving | O ce of Development controllers? They might have no problem human mind, and understanding why we act the way we do. 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 listening to auditory, verbal input from pilots But does this information have an impact on how they act circling the airfield, but add a visual element in their own lives? To ﬁ nd out more about how you can leave a legacy at Waterloo, to the job and it could spell trouble. Especially Fugelsang laughs at the question. He admits that contact Sharon McKay-Todd at 519-888-4567, ext. 35413 if the person already has an eye on a few understanding how people make complex decisions based or [email protected] screens. Understanding what distractions need on facts – true or false – has made him more careful about to be avoided could save lives. development.uwaterloo.ca/plannedgiving what to believe. At the same time, unlocking the mysteries “Everybody’s into multi-tasking and trying of behaviour may have actually made him more tolerant of to be the most efficient, but you can’t be so the weird and illogical choices we all make. efficient that you cause harm,” she says. “Honestly, before I went into this field, I’d see something More recently, Fernandes has focused her and say, ‘What the heck were they thinking?’ But now I * In 1958, in an attempt to get Waterloo on the map, three students painted the word energy on understanding context and memory. think, ‘They’re human.’ ” What impact does context have on how well “BEER” on top of the Lester Street water tower WEB See Beautiful Mind at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links we remember faces? Is it the same when we’re 7244 7244 young and old? UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO LIBRARY, KITCHENER-WATERLOO RECORD PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE COLLECTION

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1965 semi-retirement to become a student again after 15 years teaching aviation Stephen Douglass (BSc ’65, Science) management subjects and 16 years of has recently published his first book, aviation management and international The Bridge to Caracas, a Canadian aviation consulting. He was admitted crime fiction novel. Douglass, who what are you up to lately? into the Master of Strategic Studies spent much of his career in the oil Let your classmates know what you’re up to by program in the Centre for Military and and gas industry, has woven that sending a brief update to [email protected]. Strategic Studies, University of Calgary Or visit our alumni e-community to update experience into a novel exploring the effective fall 2012. His multidisciplinary your profile at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/ecommunity. dark side of making money. doctorate involved transportation

1967 geography, transportation economics and transportation engineering while Boris Trnavskis, (Honours BA ’67, the MSS program is primarily military Geography; MA ’71, Transportation history, political science and strategy. Geography and PhD ’74, Air Trans- His wife, Melyssa (MS ’98 Civil Engi- portation Planning, Calgary) has left neering, Berkeley) is a senior project

Imagine an academic environment where put class notes online. From there, the project » student success is not measured by standardized snowballed into building technology that Breaking testing, where course material can be tailored would allow faculty to create their own down to individual learning objectives, and where content, teach online and take assessments, and barriers geographical location is not a barrier to high culminated with “building a whole learning quality education. Sound Utopian? Not to experience that could break down barriers to JOHN BAKER (BASc ’00, Systems Design), high-quality learning.”

president and CEO of Desire2Learn. Breaking down barriers continues to be a main

Since starting Desire2Learn in 1999 while tenet of Desire2Learn. “One of the barriers we still a student at Waterloo, Baker has steadily found was the lack of opportunity for people transformed the learning and education with visual disabilities to access high-quality landscape. Using innovative software suites to education,” Baker said. As a result, he ensured enhance and personalize the learning experience, that Desire2Learn platforms were certified by the National Institute for the Blind. “We set out to Desire2Learn has quickly grown from a small be nothing but the best learning system for the start-up to an organization supporting more blind and we’ve achieved that goal. The majority than 8-million users worldwide. of websites today are not accessible. We set out to Baker, a self-described “problem-finder,” was make sure learning was, and we will continue to inspired to start Desire2Learn after taking a invest in improving the experience.” third-year design workshop at Waterloo where he In fact, Baker continues to be intrigued by helped re-invent how crutches worked. “I realized all aspects of accessible learning. On a recent that helping to improve society was something I sightseeing trip down the Amazon River, Baker was passionate about. So I started looking around passed a boat full of children. It was a school bus. for problems where I could have an impact. That “I didn’t know they used boats to ship students up course taught me about problem finding, not just and down the river to go to class, but I guess the problem solving, and that sparked something in me.” last thing you’d want to do is be taking kids home Seeing potential to improve the learning in the dark in the Amazon,” he laughed.

experience, Baker began helping his professors TEXT: CHRISTINE BEZRUKI

engineer for the Calgary Airport Kevin O’Leary’s (BES ’77, Authority. Between classes, Boris Man-Environment) new television remains a stay-at-home dad for show, Redemption Inc., is similar to his sons, aged 7 and 9. Donald Trump’s popular The Appren- tice reality series, but instead of 1973 celebrities or budding entrepreneurs Geospatial solutions company being put through business-related » AeroMetric has hired Garth Lawrence challenges, the contestants are when oprah calls (BSc ’73, Earth Sciences) as vice- ex-convicts. The show began airing president of business development, in January on CBC. A phone call from an editor at Oprah Winfrey’s magazine was the last thing leading AeroMetric’s mining and land- AMI RICHTER (BA ’01, Recreation & Leisure Studies) expected to 1978 fill solutions team. Lawrence’s back- receive. Yet one Monday morning in 2006, after less than a year in business, ground includes leadership positions Leonard Lodder (BES ’78, the travel accessory entrepreneur picked up her office phone to learn as an executive, consultant, technical Pre-professional Architecture; BArch that one of her company’s products, the trendy yet functional Puddle director, and researcher in the areas ’80, Architecture) has been elected Jumper bag, had caught the eye of Oprah and was going to be featured in of remote sensing, geophysics, and statewide president of the American an upcoming issue of O Magazine. While Richter (nee Davie) was initially photogrammetry. Institute of Architects (AIA) in Oregon. surprised to have made the exclusive O List, an honour that practically Lodder is principal architect at Studio guaranteed skyrocketing product sales, she knew that nothing like her 1974 3 Architecture in Salem, Oregon. travel accessories were currently on the market. Tim Wynne-Jones (BA ’74, Fine Arts) has been made an Officer of the Order Full Metal Zinc Ltd. has appointed Tired of the “black and boring” products populating the travel accessory of Canada. Wynne-Jones, of Perth, David Petroff (BMath ’78, Mathemat- market, Richter and her future husband, Jason, founded Lug to address Ontario, was honoured for his work in ics) to its board of directors. Petroff’s what they saw as an overlooked demographic: women between the ages of arts and literature. He is an award- career has included executive roles 28 and 60 with a sense of style and a passion for travel. “We really thought winning children’s author, with more with a number of mineral resource there was a void in the marketplace, so we started exploring ideas about than 30 story books and novels to companies, including zinc producer how we could bring colour and some fun into an industry that is typically his credit. Breakwater Resources. filled with black,” explained Richter.

1977 1980 When Lug launched in August 2005 with the tag line “live life in colour,” Burlington City Council has announced Veterinary Lawyer Douglas Jack “we just had luggage belts, luggage tags, and travel wallets,” Richter said. Jeff Fielding (BES ’77, Geography; MA (BA ’80, English) has joined Borden But by January of the following year, the company had ventured into ’79, Geography) as their choice to be- Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) in Waterloo, lifestyle products and bags, including the now famous Puddle Jumper. come the new city manager of the City where he will continue to provide Fast-forward seven years and three more O List appearances and Richter of Burlington. Fielding served as chief dedicated legal service to the has securely established Lug as a brand of choice among female jet-setters. administrative officer for the City of Canadian veterinary industry. Jack, Kitchener from 2001 to 2004 and held a sought-after speaker in the field, Despite having no formal fashion training, Richter and her husband design the same position in London, Ont. teaches veterinary jurisprudence at all of the products themselves from their Markham, Ont. headquarters. from 2004 to 2011. His municipal a number of veterinary colleges. “We always think intuitively about what people want,” she said of the career has also included stints in process. “Personally, I think of the things I need to get me from point Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary. Tina Roberts (BSc ’80, Kinesiology/ A to point B.” And these styles are always evolving. “Even if we have a Health Studies) has recently published best-seller, we are always redesigning and making tweaks so the styles Canada’s first ever Golden Energy The Two Sisters Cookbook, featuring can accommodate changes in technology and the needs of travellers,” Globe World Award was won recently 20 family-inspired menus from an she explained. by Doug McClenahan (BASc ’77, appetizer, to a main entrée and Systems Design), for initiating the dessert. In November, Roberts As the styles continue to evolve, so does the brand. A partnership with Drake Landing Solar Community was elected to a three-year term Frommer’s and new line of children’s travel accessories means that Richter project in Okotoks, Alta. The develop- as director of the board of the is busier than ever. “It’s been a really fun ride for us,” she said, “and as long ment includes a public park used for Stratford Chefs School. as that spark and that passion is there for us to keep growing, we will.” heat storage. TEXT: CHRISTINE BEZRUKI

Who’s doing what? 33 Carla Ladd (BA ’80, Recreation & & Regional Planning) as Deputy 27 years in various management novel about a Russian pogrom in Leisure Studies), who has been Minister, Policy and Delivery, Cabinet consulting roles. IMAX offered 1903 that led to the exodus of Jews Kitchener’s chief administrative offi- Office. The two were among 10 Evers this new role after being a to the United States and Canada. cer since 2004, is leaving to assume provincial appointments announced consulting client of his for a year. Rachel’s Secret looks at a fairly the same position in Barrie. Ladd by the Premier in December. Ross Joe continues to leverage the unknown place and period. spent 26 years at the City of Kitch- was previously Deputy Minister of experiences gained through his You can read the synopsis at ener, starting in planning, and headed Research and Innovation and Acting co-op work terms. In addition to shellysanders.com. the strategic services department Deputy Minister of Consumer enjoying the challenges of this new before taking over as CAO in 2004. Services. Thompson, who has held a role, Evers and his wife, Sandy 1986 number of assistant deputy minister (nee Roadhouse BMath ’84), enjoy Carl Orthlieb (BASc ’86, Systems 1981 positions, most recently served as travelling with their children. Design) joins Appcelerator as the new The Waterloo Chapter of the Interna- executive lead to the Drummond vice-president of engineering, where tional Association of Business Com- Commission, and will continue to 1985 he will be responsible for leading the municators (IABC), in association with provide support as part of his LogFire appointed Alain Poirier development of Appcelerator’s inte- Conestoga College’s Public Relations new Cabinet Office role. (BASc ’85, Mechanical Engineering) to grated mobile platform products. The degree program, named Don Shilton the post of executive vice-president Mountainview, Calif.-based company (BSc ’81, Science – Program 2) the Chris Atkinson (BMath ’82) has been of worldwide sales, responsible for is a leading open platform provider first winner of their “Excellence in appointed president of Rolta Canada global sales and account manage- for rapid and rich mobile innovation. Communication Leadership Award.” Ltd. Atkinson will provide leadership ment organization. Logfire specializes Orthlieb has more than 25 years soft- Shilton was honoured for his ongoing for development of Rolta OnPoint, in global software and supply chain ware engineering experience with a work as president of St. Mary’s which is at the heart of Rolta Geospa- execution. variety of technology companies. General Hospital in Kitchener. tial Fusion offerings, and for business operations, with a focus on the North Shelly Sanders, (Honours BA, English 1987 1982 America market, especially Canada. ’86) will have her first book –Rachel’s Daniel Lalonde (BMath ’87, Math/ Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has Secret – published on April 16 by Business – Info Systems) was named named George Ross (BES ’82, Envi- 1984 Second Story Press in Canada and president of Ralph Lauren Interna- ronmental Studies) as Deputy Minister Joe Evers (BMath ’84) joined IMAX the U.S. It can be purchased at book- tional in December, leaving his previ- of Northern Development and Mines, Corporation in July 2011 as their vice- stores all over Canada and at Amazon. ous role as chief executive officer of and Scott Thompson (BES ’82, Urban president, information systems after Rachel’s Secret is an historical fiction Moët & Chandon, the world’s leading

Remember that spoon you ate breakfast with this morning? Or what about the chair DESIGNING WITH A you sat in at your last doctor’s appointment? If you didn’t give these items a second thought, DIFFERENCE then HELEN KERR (BES ’82, Geography) is satisfied she has done her job well. Kerr is an industrial designer and co-founder of Kerr-Smith, a leading Toronto-based industrial » design firm. Despite the fact that only five per cent of industrial designers in Canada are women, Kerr has led her own design firm for over 20 years and earned an international reputation among big-name clients like Umbra and Pepsi for her work. Never opting for the road well-travelled, Kerr recently merged with the graphic design company Hahn Smith to create a unique hybrid-style agency that offers a fully integrated approach to traditional industrial design services.

Since the Industrial Revolution, industrial designers have been creating the everyday products consumers typically take for granted – like tableware and washing machines, and running shoes. But, as Kerr explained, “Today industrial designers work in a more evolved way. Now industrial design is a process and the output might be a product, service, system, space or even policy for governments. What’s common is an evidence-based process. Problem solving is at the core of what we do.”

Kerr and her team are certainly not afraid to tackle big problems. They are in the process of developing ecosystem performance standards for the island of Manhattan. “We are creating tools to improve buildings, roads and policy planning. It’s our hope that this prototype can be replicated in other parts of world. It’s a big, complex project,” she said.

But Kerr is quick to point out that she is equally proud of the seemingly smaller projects she works on, like designing flatware. “Sometimes I walk into people’s homes and see something that I designed, something that started as a wooden model in my shop. That’s exciting,” she said. “Our best work is when we are invisible. When we made something that you can hold and use and maybe even fall in love with but you don’t even know that, at some point in time, we were a part of it… . Sometimes those are everyday products and sometimes they are very complex systems or products.”

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34 champagne house owned by luxury vice-president of engineering. Exinda conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy is a global company providing Louis Vuitton. Born in Cornwall, Ont., WAN optimization and application Lalonde has held a variety of execu- performance management solutions. tive roles in the luxury goods sector. Based in Boston, Mass., the company plans to create a North American 1989 development centre in Waterloo. Bob Copeland (BA ’89, Recreation & Leisure Studies; MA ’91, Recreation & Tim Jackson (BA ’92, Chartered Leisure Studies), uWaterloo’s athlet- Accountancy St, HCO) was awarded ics director, was honoured by the the Michael R. Follett Community

U.S. Taylor Hooton Foundation, which Leader of the Year Award by the » acknowledges outstanding service in Greater Kitchener Waterloo INVESTING IN anti-doping education and in protect- Chamber of Commerce. Jackson is THE FUTURE ing young people from the dangers vice-president, external relations, at For SATISH RAI’s parents, it was no surprise that their of performance-enhancing drugs. the University of Waterloo. son decided to pursue a career in finance. After all, as a

Christine Anderson-Cook (BMath 1993 12-year-old paper delivery boy, Rai (BMath ’86, Computer ’88, PhD ’94) of Los Alamos National Zhongyi Deng (PhD ’93, Chemistry) Science) did not spend the money he earned on candy at the Laboratory was recently selected as has been appointed chief operating convenience store like most children his age. He walked to the a Fellow of the American Society for officer at PowerGenix. Headquartered bank and invested in silver coins. Despite losing money on his Quality, or ASQ. Anderson-Cook, in San Diego, Calif., PowerGenix is an early investments, Rai maintained a lifelong interest in banking who works in the Statistical Sciences environmentally-friendly battery and finance. Group at LANL, was recognized for manufacturer, which has developed research in the areas of design of and patented a high-power and Today Rai is the Chief Investment Officer for TD Asset experiments and reliability, for low-cost nickel-zinc battery. Management and Senior Vice-President of TD Bank Group. interdisciplinary collaboration and On a daily basis he leads more than 100 employees and training of statistical thinking and 1995 oversees the management of $190 billion in investments. quality ideas, and for dedicated Charmaine Hammond’s (BA ’95, When asked about the stress of managing such a huge sum service to the growth and practice Social Development) best-selling of money, Rai simply states that he couldn’t see himself doing of the quality profession. book, On Toby’s Terms, is now in anything else. “I think finance is incredibly exciting,” he said. development to become a major “I view investments as a complex game of chess, where there 1990 motion picture. Hammond’s dog, are many, many variables and moves someone can make and Jai Shah (BA ’90, Chartered Toby, is also the basis for her books: the outcomes are a reflection of the moves you make and Accountancy Studies/PPAS; MAcc Toby the Pet Therapy Dog & His the events taking place outside your control. Every day is a ’90, Accounting) is vice president of Hospital Friends, and Toby Says completely different day and you don’t know what that day finance, retail/wholesale at Masco Be a Buddy, Not a Bully. In honour will hold until you walk in the door.” Corporation in Michigan, one of the of Toby’s recent passing, Hammond world’s leading manufacturers of is launching A Million Acts of Or, perhaps more literally, off the plane. Rai travels extensively home improvement and building Kindness – Toby’s Global Mission. in his role, meeting with clients throughout North America products. He also represents busi- The goal is to bring kindness to the and searching for global investment opportunities. “One of my nesses in Michigan on the state’s forefront in family, community, work- great passions is going to plants and doing tours to see what Talent Investment Board. place, and ultimately, the world. makes the corporation tick and then taking that knowledge and buying securities that best fit our clients’ needs,” Rai said. 1991 Painter and craftswoman Shawn Steve Matusch (BASc ’91, Systems O’Hagan (MFA ’95, Studio Art) has Yet despite the high stress nature of his role and his busy travel Design Engineering), co-founder of won several awards for her work, schedule, Rai makes giving back to the community a priority. Ionic Engineering, was honoured and currently teaches a stagecraft “It’s very important from my point of view to give back to with the 2011 Ontario Professional course at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell society,” he said. He has served on the Board of Directors for Engineers’ Engineering Medal for campus of Memorial University in Women in Capital Markets and is passionate about promoting Entrepreneurship. Ionic Engineering, Newfoundland. diversity within the financial industry. He is also a member of based in Sudbury, Ont., focuses on the Board of the Toronto East General Hospital Foundation. automation and robotic systems Vanessa (nee Spiro) Cloughley Recently Rai funded a scholarship for a mathematics integration and custom machine (Joint Honours Computer Science graduate student at Waterloo. “There are some very bright building serving heavy industries and Applied Math ’95) and Jim people who may not have the financial resources to fully around the world. Cloughley (BMath ’94) have started develop themselves,” he said. “I felt making a difference in an a company Leisurerules Inc. and are 1992 doing mobile game development. individual’s life was the most important gift I could give. I truly Exinda announced the appointment They released their first app for believe that if you reach out and help, the recipient will in turn of Greg Veres (BMath ’92, Computer iPhone/iPod/iPad in November and give back to society someday.”

Science/Electrical Engineering; are busy at work adding to this title TEXT: CHRISTINE BEZRUKI MMath ’96, Computer Science) to and thinking up new ones.

Who’s doing what? 35 The International Conference on Sirius Canada Inc.) where he served breakthrough in quantum mechanics 2007 Online Media Measurement (ICOM), as CFO during the company’s merger which was published in the journal Stephen Litt (BASc ’07, Systems an industry-backed international with XM Canada. Science. The breakthrough is a crucial Design), Adam Overing (BASc ’08, forum, has appointed Joni Ngai step toward perfectly secure cloud Mechatronics Engineering), and (BASc ’95, Electrical Engineering ) as 2000 computing. Andrew Teeple (BASc ’08, vice-chair for China. Ngai is a partner John Baker’s (BASc ’00, Systems Mechatronics Engineering) formed at Azurio, working with business Design Engineering/Management David Saunders (BES ’02, Geogra- The Madison Development Group leaders to realize the potential of Sciences) company, Desire2Learn phy) started a new role as the in March 2010. Their next project how data and technology can help to Inc., won the Greater Kitchener director of public infrastructure for is a condo conversion in downtown target, acquire, and retain customers Waterloo Chamber of Commerce Huntsville, Ont., on January 16. Kitchener. more intelligently in today’s con- Business of the Year award for com- Saunders, who previously held nected world. She is also a part-time panies with more than 20 employees. director of public works positions Patryk Laskowski (BASc ’07, Electri- lecturer who teaches an analytics The e-learning company, launched in with Laurentian Valley and Graven- cal Engineering) and three others course for the Master of Science in 1999, currently has 380 employees. hurst, is also past-president of the have started the magazine Pivotr, New Media program at the Chinese An additional 200 are expected to Ontario Association of Certified dedicated to startups in this region University of Hong Kong. be hired by the end of the year. Engineering Technicians. and around southern Ontario. Las- kowski calls it “... a magazine written 1998 Roger Melko (BSc ’00, Physics/ 2005 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.” Tom Chau (PhD ’98, Systems Design Mathematics; MSc ’01, Physics) and Ron Schlegel (Honourary LLD ’05) two international associates have Engineering), biomedical engineer has been honoured by Governor 2009 and Canada Research Chair in discovered a way to split a virtual General David Johnston as a recipient Addy Cameron-Huff (BSc ’09, Pediatric Rehabilitation Engineering, electron. The notable discovery about of a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Biomedical Sciences) has developed has been appointed vice-president the unusual behaviour of electrons Schlegel also received the Waterloo software for a U.S. presidential of research and director of the Bloor- has implications for all of physics. Region’s fourth Barnraiser award. The campaign, and a new online portal The findings appeared in a January view Research Institute at the Holland award, sponsored by the Waterloo tracking the political process at the edition of Science, one of the world’s Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Region Record newspaper, honours Ontario Legislature. He also runs a pre-eminent journals for original, Hospital. Located in Toronto, Holland community leaders. As a professor software and app development firm peer-reviewed scientific research. Bloorview is Canada’s largest chil- in the applied health sciences (AHS) called Summerhill Design. dren’s rehabilitation hospital, serving faculty between 1972 and 1991, 2001 about 7,000 children each year. Schlegel was the architect behind 2010 Global Science & Technology, Inc. the establishment of the health stud- Geoff Christou (BAS ’10, Architectural 1999 announced the hiring of DeWayne ies and gerontology department in Studies), and his friend Chris Porte- Rakesh Malhotra (BASc ’99, Cecil (PhD ’01, Earth Sciences) as 1973 as well as the development of ous, teamed up to build the ultimate Computer Engineering) has joined the firm’s program manager of the the MA and PhD programs. He also in recycling: a shelf and a desk made Apprenda as its new vice-president climate data records program at the founded the Schlegel-UW Research from paper. The pair founded Our of products. Prior to joining National Oceanic and Atmospheric Institute for Aging in 2005 and Paper Life, selling lightweight, sturdy, Apprenda, Malhotra worked at Administration’s National Climatic co-founded both the Centre for recyclable desks and shelves designed Microsoft, most recently as principal Data Center. The centre, located in Applied Health Research and the to appeal to a student market. Asheville, NC, is the world’s largest group program manager for cloud Murray Alzheimer Research Education active archive of climate data. and data centre management. Program (MAREP). 2011 Grant Cleary (BSc ’11, Physics) and VeloCity, the University of Waterloo’s Karim Karim (BASc ’99, Computer Andrew Clinton (BASc ’05) was two others are setting up shop for innovative student startup incubator Engineering; PhD ’03, Electrical & among 28 people honoured by The their company Thinkalee, which pro- program, has a new director – Mike Computer Engineering) recently Academy of Motion Picture Arts and motes arts and creative enterprises Kirkup (BMath ’01, Computer Sci/ won a $100,000 national grant Sciences at the 2012 Scientific and with a non-profit, community boost- Software Eng Opt; MMSc ’07, Mgmt towards developing an inexpensive Technical Awards Presentation ing sideline, in Cambridge, Ont. The Sciences/Mgmt of Tech). tuberculosis test to combat the held on February 11 in Beverly Hills, company designs websites, prepares contagious disease ravaging develop- 2002 Calif. Clinton earned a Technical advertising, and runs marketing ing countries. Karim, an associate Achievement Award along with Mark campaigns, working to connect local Email security provider, Abaca professor in Waterloo’s electrical and Elendt for his work on “the invention businesses with like-minded goals. Technology Corporation, announced computer engineering department, and integration of micro-voxels in the appointment of Thomas Lynam was one of 15 researchers recognized the Mantra software.” (MMath ’02, Computer Science; as a rising star in February by In Memoriam PhD ’09, Computer Science) as Grand Challenges Canada. 2006 chief scientist. Lynam’s role will We recently received news of the Reviews of Lauren Hall’s (BA ’06, include extending the company’s following deaths. 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