March 29, 1999
Extension Division & Ducks Unlimited embark on education project
Posted March 29, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 25, 1999
99-03-20-EX
Ducks Unlimited Canada and Extension Division, University of
Saskatchewan will embark on a $75,000 education project of which
$36,000 is funded by EcoAction 2000 Environment Canada. Funding
for the Greenwing Wetland and Grassland Wildlife Program will
allow teachers and students in Saskatoon and area to enjoy field trips
to wetland and grassland areas at no cost to the school (except for
the bus).
The programs will include a classroom presentation led by Melanie
Elliott and Dee Cole from Extension Division, University of
Saskatchewan. Field trip activities are chosen to enhance and
improve habitat for wetland and grassland species by installation
and maintenance of blue bird and bat boxes, removal of invasive
plant Purple Loosestrife, planting native vegetation, garbage pick up
and a children?s letter-writing campaign. At the same time the
children and their teachers will learn exciting things about wetlands
and grasslands.
The project is also sponsored by Mountain Equipment Co-op,
Saskatchewan Outdoor and Environmental Education Association,
Canada Trust Friends of the Environment, Saskatoon Foundation.
Melanie Elliott, award winning environmental educator for Extension
Division, calls this project "a unique outdoor learning experience."
We are most grateful to the huge financial support of our sponsors."
Elliott comments. "Their contributions are essential to the education
of teacher, students and their families about threats to our
ecosystem."
Melanie Elliott and Dee Cole plan to offer six filed trips a week
throughout the school year. Barbara Hanbidge, Biologist from Ducks
Unlimited Canada who has helped in the planning of the program
comments: "Children of today are our conservationist of the future.
This program will allow children of rural and urban schools to learn
about waterfowl, wetlands and wildlife and have fun at the same
time."
Schools or community groups will be responsible for providing their
own transport. Groups interested in booking a field trip should call
Ducks Unlimited @ 665-7356.
For more information, please call:
Dee Cole or Melanie Elliott
Extension Division
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-5484
March 26, 1999
Engineering will score big with new learning technology centre
Posted March 26, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 24, 1999
99-03-14-ENG
Engineering Will Score Big With New
Learning Technology
The official opening of the Innovative Teaching and
Learning Centre (ITLC), University of Saskatchewan, will
arm students on and off campus with improved learning
technology. President Ivany and Dean Franco Berruti,
College of Engineering, will be on hand for the opening
on Friday, March 26, in the Engineering Building. After a
brief ceremony, faculty members will demonstrate how
new techniques and technologies will improve student
learning on campus and throughout the province.
?The ITLC has two objectives,? says Dean Berruti. ?We
are using an improved delivery system for instruction
which will first, improve teaching for the professors and
second, improve the learning process for students
province-wide.?
The ITLC provides facilities and support to help faculty
harness new technologies which will make engineering
education more effective, efficient, and accessible. This
project will improve the quality of engineering
education that takes place on-campus, in students?
homes, and in communities throughout the province.
The Cameco Access Program for Engineering and Science
(CAPES) is one of the ITLC initiatives and is aimed at
improving access to engineering education. Sponsored
by Cameco Corporation, CAPES works to enable more
residents of Saskatchewan?s North, and other remote
parts of the province, to pursue an education in
engineering and sciences. CAPES works to remove
barriers identified by northern leaders and educators by
raising the awareness of the importance of science and
engineering and offering programs at La Ronge to help
students manage the transition from small schools in
remote communities to the University in Saskatoon.
Cameco Corporation contributed $1 million as a founding
member of the ITLC and helped to establish the CAPES
program. Other sponsors of the ITLC, many of which will
be represented at the opening, are PanCanadian
Petroleum, the Donald Roy Seaman Foundation, Hitachi
Canadian Industries, Canadian Occidental Petroleum,
Fording Coal, Daniels Wingerak Engineering, GE Ground
Engineering, the Estate of Donald Alan Dew, SaskTel, IBM
Canada, JD Mollard and Associates, and. J.D Mollard.
The media are invited to attend the opening starting at
2:30 p.m. with a plaque unveiling and the announcement
of the official name of the ITLC. Demonstrations of new
techniques and technologies will follow. Ceremonies
will be held in Rm 1B71, College of Engineering,
University of Saskatchewan.
For more information, please contact:
Franco Berruti
Dean, College of Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-5273
OR
Keith Jeffrey
Director, ITLC
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-4831
New Primary Health Service Sites Established in Regina and Saskatoon
Posted March 26, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 24, 1999
99-03-16-ME
New Primary Health Service Sites Established in
Regina and Saskatoon
The Department of Academic Family Medicine, University of
Saskatchewan, is pleased to announce its successful bid to secure
monies through the federal Government's Health Transition Fund.
The $319,000 awarded will support research and the development
and evaluation of a new integrated delivery model for primary
health services in Regina and Saskatoon.
"Viv Ramsden, Principal Investigator is to be congratulated on
receiving this award," says Dr. Barry McLennan, Assistant Dean of
Research, College of Medicine. "This research grant will greatly
facilitate the research interests of the Department of Family
Medicine."
The proposal, submitted in April 1998 by the Department of
Academic Family Medicine, received support from Saskatchewan
Health, Regina Health District, Saskatoon District Health and the
Colleges of Medicine and Nursing, University of Saskatchewan.
This new model will place a greater emphasis on health promotion
and disease prevention with special attention being paid to
individuals as a whole (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual) and
continuity of care. To help facilitate this change, the Family Practice
Unit will be physically moving to the community (city-centre) where
they can provide integrated, accessible primary health services for
residents in Saskatoon. The Regina unit is located at the General
Hospital.
"This initiative dovetails with the province's efforts to support the
development of primary health service sites in health districts across
the province," said Associate Health Minister, Judy Junor. "Not only
will the residents of these communities benefit from this new
integrated service delivery model but it has the potential to benefit
allSaskatchewan residents as students from medicine and other
health disciplines are exposed to this model and begin their
professional practice in the province".
Research, education and primary health services at these sites will be
facilitated by an interdisciplinary team comprised of a variety of
health care professionals and will be directly linked to the Health
Districts in both Regina and Saskatoon. In addition to this, the pilot
project sites will be linked to all appropriate community-based
resources such as recreation, libraries, self-help groups, police
services, education facilities and Housing Authorities.
"This project will look at ways of considering the real needs,
planning, implementing and evaluating an integrated approach to
both education and ways of delivering primary health services,"
Tom Archibald, Vice President, Saskatoon District Health stated. "We
are very supportive of this endeavor and look forward to
collaborating with the Department of Family Medicine."
"Primary health services in the Regina Health District will help to
strengthen our partnership with the community," said Linda Young,
Vice-president of Operations Medical, Regina Health District. "This
model of care provides access to a wide range of health services and
will help us to address the main health needs of our clients and the
communities in which they live. Clients will also receive earlier and
easier access to health care right in their own community."
"This expansion of the research activities of the Department of
Academic Family Medicine will also have a positive effect on
undergraduate and graduate students. They will be working in an
integrated system that will allow them to have interdisciplinary
interaction and therefore increase the scope and breadth of their
learning," says Dr. Gill White, Chairman of the Department of
Academic Family Medicine.
This model is committed to involving individuals within the
community in the planning and decision-making based on identified
priorities and the subsequent allocation of financial resources. This
innovative approach to primary health services provides an
enhanced level of care and will be transferable to other sites in
Saskatchewan, Canadaand around the world.
For more information, please contact:
Viv Ramsden Dr. Gill White
Principal Investigator Chairman
Department of Family Medicine Dept. of Family Medicine
(306) 655-6800 (306) 766-4044
Jeff Brown
Saskatchewan Health
Regina, SK
(306) 787-4088
Synchrotron Hair Analysis may Reveal Breast Cancer
Posted March 26, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 24, 1999
99-03-15-OTHER
Synchrotron Hair Analysis May
Reveal Breast Cancer
A potential new breast cancer screening method
that uses synchrotron- produced X-rays to analyze hair
fibres underscores the need for Canada to build the
proposed Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University
of Saskatchewan, says a U.S. researcher involved in the
discovery.
"This research looks very promising and very
exciting," said Thomas Irving, assistant professor of
biology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
"The proposed CLS would be ideal for this sort of
research and analysis."
In an article published this month in the peer-
reviewed journal Nature, Irving and an international
team of researchers found that hairs from breast cancer
patients generate atypical X-ray images when the hair
samples are exposed to high-intensity beams from a
"third-generation" synchrotron like the one proposed
for the U of S.
It's not clear why this is so, but the researchers
think the atypical pattern indicates a particular kind of
breakdown in the highly ordered structure of hair which
"may indicate a propensity to malignancy and be related
to breast cancer per se."
The changes in hair structure were seen in all hair
samples -- 23 of the 23 tested -- from women
diagnosed with breast cancer. None of the women had
been treated with chemotherapy which is known to
affect hair.
The test was also positive for five women who did
not have breast cancer but who had both a family
history of breast cancer and a mutation in the BRCA1
gene -- factors which together confer very high odds of
getting breast cancer.
If confirmed by larger studies now in progress, the test
could provide an accurate, non-invasive, but less costly
alternative to mammograms, Irving said. All that's
required from the patient is a single hair.
Since a high volume of hair samples could be
analyzed daily on a third-generation synchrotron, the
new test would likely cost only a few dollars per
sample, making it cheaper than any other breast cancer
screening technique, he said. Women in remote areas
without access to mammograms could even mail in hair
samples to synchrotron facilities, he added.
He cautioned the hair analysis technique,
performed at the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron
facility in Illinois, needs to be tested on more women to
know how useful it will be. "We will know in a year or so
whether it will work well enough to be an effective
screening tool for breast cancer," he said.
If further research confirms the value of the new
X-ray hair test, demand for the test alone "may justify
building whole new synchrotron machines," he said.
But even if the technique does not lead to an accurate
cancer test, the underlying research into the link
between breast cancer and microscopic changes in hair
structure could lead to new knowledge about how cells
communicate with each other as the disease progresses,
he said. Such research is only possible with the brilliant
X-rays produced by a synchrotron, he added.
"Our study could create even more demand for
synchrotron light sources as a research tool," he said.
"People in the research community will be looking for
changes in different patterns from tissue samples to see
whether other disease states can be diagnosed in a
similar way."
Canadian-born Irving, who earned his bachelor and
doctorate degrees at the University of Guelph, said it's a
"national embarrassment" that Canada doesn't have a
synchrotron, unlike all other G7 countries.
"When I finished my Ph.D., there was nowhere for
me to go in Canada to do synchrotron research," he
recalls.
"Having a synchrotron in Canada would create
scientific opportunities for Canadian researchers and
would mean they won't have to go elsewhere."
At present, it's difficult and expensive for Canadian
researchers to get time on foreign synchrotrons.
"Most synchrotron beam lines are vastly over-
subscribed," he said. "All the big shots use the machines
and there aren't enough of the new generation of
researchers being trained on these machines."
Millions of times more intense than medical X-rays,
synchrotron light is an indispensable tool for pure and
applied research in a great variety of areas including
materials, science, medicine, biology, chemistry, physics,
and the environmental sciences.
In an unprecedented show of support for a new
research facility, 17 of Canada's major universities have
endorsed the proposed CLS as essential to the country's
technological future.
Designed to be one of the brightest X-ray sources
in North America, the CLS could be under construction on
the U of S campus as early as next month and in
operation by the year 2003. A decision from the Canada
Foundation for Innovation on a key funding component
is expected March 30, 1999.
For more information, contact:
Kathryn Warden
Research Communications Officer
Office of the Vice-President Research
(306) 966-2506
Seventh Poundmaker Memorial Lecture
Posted March 26, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 24, 1999
99-03-18-LA
Law Lecture
?An Aboriginal Lawyer-Statesman Model:
Continuation of the Peace Model?
On Monday, March 29, 1999, Wilton Littlechild, Q.C., Barrister and
Solicitor, will deliver the Seventh Poundmaker Memorial Lecture
entitled ?An Aboriginal Lawyer-Statesman Model: Continuation of
the Peace Model?. The lecture will take place in the Diefenbaker
Centre Theatre, Diefenbaker Centre Building, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact:
Sharon Wandzura-Fehr
Guest Speakers? Secretary
College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
Phone: (306) 966-5873
"Women and Their Experiences in the Legal Profession
Posted March 26, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 24, 1999
99-03-19-LA
Law Presentation
?Women And Their Experiences In The Legal
Profession?
On Monday, March 29, 1999, Madame Justice Gene Anne Smith,
Court of Queen's Bench Judge; Kathryn Ford, Q.C., Mediator and
Lawyer; Karen Prisciak, Lawyer at Robertson Stromberg; Theresa
Dust, Saskatoon City Solicitor's Office; Anne Wallace, Lawyer at
Wallace Meschishnick Clackson Zawada, will present their view on
"Women and Their Experiences In The Legal Profession". The
presentation will take place in the Moot Court Room, College of Law,
University of Saskatchewan, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Everyone is
welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact:
Sharon Wandzura-Fehr
Guest Speakers? Secretary
College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
Phone: (306) 966-5873
March 19, 1999
Kirkpatrick Travel Awards
Posted March 19, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 19, 1999
99-03-13-ED
Kirkpatrick Travel Awards Announced
A Saskatoon Arts Education specialist and both principal and vice-
principal of Riverview Collegiate, in Moose Jaw, were selected as
winners of the Kirkpatrick Travel Award for 1998-99 - - Dana Ross,
Liam Choo-Foo and Doug Craig.
Dana Ross, a full-time Arts Education specialist at Dr. J. G. Egnatoff
School, will be traveling to the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City,
for the Virginia Tanner Workshop. This workshop is designed for
teachers who wish to incorporate dance and art into their teaching
curricula. Ross has been teaching arts educations in Saskatoon for
the past two years and believes that the innovative nature of the
Virginia Tanner Workshop will directly support the development of
the Arts Education curriculum within the school system.
Liam Choo-Foo, currently principal at Moose Jaw Riverview
Collegiate, operates Riverview under a unique student scheduling
system called the Copernican (Block) system. This system separates
the school year into five equal parts with the students able to take
two subjects in each block. Choo-Foo will travel to other schools in
Calgary and Okotoks, Alberta, to compare notes with other
administrators in the same scheduling system.
Doug Craig, currently vice-principal at Moose Jaw Riverview
Collegiate, has over 25 years experience as a teacher in the Moose
Jaw School Division No. 1. With support of the Kirkpatrick Travel
Fund, Craig, like Choo-Foo, anticipates meeting with other
administrators operating the block system in hopes of bringing back
some concrete ideas that will enhance the use of the system at
Riverview Collegiate.
The Kirkpatrick Travel Fund is administered jointly by the U of S
College of Education, The U of S Alumni Association, and the
Saskatchewan Teachers? Federation. The annual award celebrates
the contribution the late Dean Emeritus Balfour Kirkpatrick made to
education in Saskatchewan.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Ken Jacknicke
Dean, College of Education
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-7647
March 15, 1999
Law Lecture
Posted March 15, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 15, 1999
99-03-12-LA
Law Lecture
?Discussing the myth that women have become
as violent as men?
On Wednesday, March 17, 1999, Kim Pate, Executive Director,
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Ottawa, will deliver
a lecture entitled ?Discussing the myth that women have become as
violent as men?. The lecture will take place in the Moot Court Room,
College of Law, beginning at 3:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to
attend.
For more information, please contact:
Sharon Wandzura-Fehr
Guest Speakers? Secretary
College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-5873
March 12, 1999
U of S Joins Brain Awareness Week March 15 to 21
Posted March 12, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 12, 1999
99-03-09-ME
U of S Joins Brain Awareness Week March 15 to 21
Saskatoon, SK. -- Brain Awareness Week events will highlight exciting
strides University of Saskatchewan neuroscientists are making to help
unravel the mysteries of the brain and find treatments for disorders such as
Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injuries.
"Advances in neuroscience are happening at such an incredible rate that it's
difficult for the public to keep up," said U of S professor emeritus Sergey
Fedoroff.
"We've joined this international brain awareness campaign so the public is
aware of the latest developments both locally and worldwide."
The special week highlighting brain and spinal cord research has been
officially proclaimed by the Saskatchewan government, the City of Saskatoon
and five other cities.
Health Minister Pat Atkinson and Judy Junor, Associate Minister of Health,
will attend a kick-off dinner tonight at the Ramada Hotel. David Schreyer,
director of the Cameco MS Neuroscience Research Center and a U of S
associate professor, will report on the state of neuroscience in
Saskatchewan and some of the year's outstanding achievements.
During the week, U of S researchers will present public lectures, make TV
appearances, speak to service clubs and host a "Brain Show" at Innovation
Place. As well, graduate students will visit several area elementary and
high schools to give presentations.
On three evenings during the week, public lectures will be held at the
Francis Morrison Library on Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and child
language development.
The Brain Show will take place on Saturday, March 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at the Innovation Place Galleria. The event will feature more than 30 booths
on wide-ranging brain and spinal cord research, video presentations, and
questions-and-answer sessions. This year for the first time a free transit
bus will leave hourly from City hall and travel to the Galleria. The bus
will stop at the Place Riel Student Centre along the way.
Fedoroff noted basic research carried out at the U of S almost a decade ago
has helped pave the way for some of the most exciting work going on today
into the possibility of brain and spinal cord regeneration. "Our researchers
have laid the groundwork for some very important research around the world
in neural cell transplantation," he said.
Now U of S researchers are doing basic research into repair of damaged
neural cells, work which could be important in treating spinal cord injury
or finding treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases. As
well, an anticonvulsant with potential to treat epilepsy has been developed
at the U of S and clinical trials could begin as early as this spring.
Fedoroff noted disorders of the brain and nervous system afflict one in five
North Americans. "The prevalence of neurological disease is enormous.
Practically everyone has a relative with Alzheimer's disease, for instance.
We want to ensure that families coping with these disorders don't miss out
on anything," he said.
For more information, visit Saskatchewan's Brain Awareness Week home page at
http://duke.usask.ca/~rondouc/BAW.html or contact:
Sergey Fedoroff
Saskatchewan Neuroscience Network
c/o Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-4080
fedoroff@duke.usask.ca
Kathryn Warden
Research Communications Officer
Office of the Vice-President Research
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-2506
kathryn.warden@usask.ca
Found: One Great Essay... Reward: $1,000
Posted March 12, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 11, 1999
99-03-10-MED
Found: One Great Essay Reward: $1,000
Each year at the annual convention of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural
Municipalities (SARM), one lucky and talented grade 12 student receives a
$1,000 scholarship. This award is available to students who live in a rural
municipality and have a farming background, to help them pursue
post-secondary education in Saskatchewan in an area of study related to
agriculture or health.
The winner of the 1999 scholarship is Darrel Monette from Neville, RM of Lac
Pelletier, #107. In his essay entitled 'Safety and Health Hazards on My
Farm', he wrote, "Carrying passengers on a tractor is illegal and unsafe.
It is so tempting to give my brothers and sister a ride in the front-end
loader when I am loading bales but I know the fun could end tragically. A
front-end loader takes a lot of experience to run properly." Darrel is
planning to enroll in the College of Agriculture at the University of
Saskatchewan this fall.
The first scholarship was presented by the Centre for Agricultural Medicine
in 1997 in order to commemorate the outstanding relationship between SARM,
its member municipalities and the Centre for Agricultural Medicine. Funds
from auctioning the first copy of SARM's history, entitled "The Building of
a Province: Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Saskatchewan
Association of Rural Municipalities," were presented by the Board of
Directors to the Centre for Agricultural Medicine. In return, the Centre
set up the student essay award to accomplish the double goal of sensitizing
rural students to farm and rural health and safety issues and recognizing
the tremendous role that SARM has played in agricultural health and safety
in the province through its support for the Agricultural Health and Safety
Network.
The Centre for Agricultural Medicine received over 40 applications for this
year's scholarship. To qualify, students wrote a 1,000 word essay on "The
Importance of Safety and Health in the Farm Workplace" or "Safety and Health
Hazards on Your Farm".
The scholarship will be offered again next year, with a deadline for
applications early in January. Keep watching for announcements about the
Year 2000 SARM Scholarship at your school or RM Office.
For more information, please contact:
Lori Lockinger
Centre for Agricultural Medicine
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-6643
U of S agricultural engineering professor appointed new dean of College of Agriculture
Posted March 12, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 12, 1999
99-03-11-AG
U of S agricultural engineering professor appointed new dean of College of
Agriculture
The University of Saskatchewan's Board of Governors today ratified the
unanimous recommendation of a search committee that Dr. Ernie Barber be
appointed dean of the College of Agriculture for a five-year, renewable
term, effective July 1, 1999. He will succeed Dean John Stewart, who is
retiring this summer after 10 years in the position.
The appointment comes in the wake of an extensive, open search for
candidates in national and international newspapers and publications,
various websites, and nomination solicitations from deans of agriculture and
vice-presidents academic in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The search
yielded 60 applicants, from which a short-list of four - two external to the
University - were interviewed.
Professor Barber, currently head of the Department of Agricultural and
Bioresource Engineering, U of S, has received many honors for his research
and teaching contributions. In 1986, for example, he was named Canadian
Agricultural Engineer of the Year. He has received a number of teaching
awards - two in the College of Engineering (in 1993 and 1995), one in the
College of Agriculture (1995), as well as a USSU Teaching Excellence Award
(1997).
His research has focused primarily on problems related to environmental
quality in intensive livestock units, including the impact of barn
environments on human health.
Barber has played an active role on a number of University-wide committees
including acting as chair of the Academic Affairs Committee for 2.5 years,
and is currently a member of University Council. He joined the University
as an assistant professor in 1981 and achieved full professor rank in 1990.
He has been head of Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering since 1994.
Dr. Michael Atkinson, vice-president (academic), says the nine-person search
committee*, which met 12 times, was "very pleased and impressed with the
quality of the search consultant and with the broad consultative manner in
which the search was conducted." The search consultant was Dr. Dan Birch,
of J. Wright and Associates, of Toronto
* Its members: Bernie Goplen, Board of Governors; Alexander Livingston,
dean, WCVM; Franco Berruti, dean, Engineering; Jack Stabler, of Agricultural
Economics; Gordon Rowland, of the Crop Development Centre; Hank Classen, of
Animal and Poultry Science; Glen Hass, of Saskatchewan Institute of
Agrologists; Ryan Russell, of the Agricultural Students' Association);
Pauline Melis, Committee secretary; and Michael Atkinson, vice-president
(academic), who was Committee chair.
For more information, contact:
Professor Ernie Barber
Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
PH: (306) 966-5305
OR
Dr. Michael Atkinson
Vice-President (Academic)
University of Saskatchewan
PH: (306) 966-8484
March 10, 1999
University expresses sorrow at death of Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Gerhard Herzberg
Posted March 10, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - MARCH 10, 1999
99-03-08-OTHER
University expresses sorrow at death of Nobel Prize recipient
Dr. Gerhard Herzberg
The University of Saskatchewan wishes to express its sorrow and extend its
sincere condolences to family and friends of the late Dr. Gerhard Herzberg.
Dr. Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel prize recipient, was born in Hamburg, Germany
and emigrated to Canada in 1935 at the age of 30. Herzberg was already one
of the world's leading molecular physicists and for the next decade became
a research professor and teacher at the University of Saskatchewan.
Following his time at the U of S, Herzberg was invited to establish a
laboratory for fundamental research in spectroscopy, at the National
Research Council in Ottawa, which he accepted. Herzberg received the Nobel
Prize for Chemistry in 1971 for "his contributions to the knowledge of
electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free
radicals". He continued his distinguished research well into his eighties.
In October 1997, the U of S officially opened Nobel Plaza, located at the
westside of the historic administration building, which honors Dr. Gerhard
Herzberg and fellow Nobel Laureate, Dr. Henry Taube.
For more information, please contact:
Iain MacLean
University Secretary
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-4632
Public Service Announcement: "Candide at Large: Canada, Human Rights and Hemispheric 'Integration'"
Posted March 10, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 10, 1999
99-03-07-LA
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
"Candide at Large: Canada, Human Rights and Hemispheric 'Integration'"
On Monday, March 15, 1999, John Foster, Sallows Professor, College of Law,
University of Saskatchewan, will deliver a lecture entitled "Candide at
Large: Canada, Human Rights and Hemispheric 'Integration'". The lecture
will take place in the Law Library, College of Law, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact:
Sharon Wandzura-Fehr
Guest Speakers? Secretary
College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
Phone: (306) 966-5873
March 08, 1999
Poultry Centre addition officially opened
Posted March 08, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 8, 1999
99-03-05-AG
Poultry Centre addition officially opened
The Department of Animal and Poultry Science has a new Poultry
Centre addition.
The new facilities were officially opened Friday, in conjunction with a
two-day conference in Saskatoon of the Saskatchewan Poultry
Industry.
The addition adjoins the Poultry Centre (at the corner of East Road
and Preston Avenue) that was opened as a teaching and research
facility in 1985. It houses a modern hatchery, a gnotobiotic animal
research facility, and a building for turkey research. The term
gnotobiotic refers to a known microbial exposure in a given area.
Professor Hank Classen says the hatchery?previously located in the
virtually unusable Poultry Science Building (1917 vintage)?
represents an essential component of the teaching program not only
in the School and College of Agriculture but also in the Western
College of Veterinary Medicine.
The gnotobiotic facility is built, Classen says, ?to support research
involving the microbial ecology of the digestive tract and how it
impacts on animal production.? It houses isolators capable of
providing a controlled microbial environment and the infrastructure
(hatchery, animal space) required for the production of both
conventional and gnotobiotic stock.
The facility for conducting turkey research?hitherto conducted in a
swine farrowing barn deserted when the Prairie Swine Centre was
opened?is attached to the Adult Cage barn and currently is housing
a rare bronze turkey breed that has been and will be a valuable
control for studies on growth and development, digestive tract
function, and reproductive physiology.
Funding for the $800,000+ facility was obtained from both the
University and the poultry industry.
For more information please contact:
Professor Hank Classen
Animal and Poultry Science
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-6600
Law Lecture
Posted March 08, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 8, 1999
99-03-06-LA
?Human Rights - Victims of Pan-Economic Ideology?
On Thursday, March 11, 1999, Peter Leuprecht, Visiting Professor,
Faculty of Law, McGill University, will deliver a lecture entitled
?Human Rights - Victims of Pan-Economic Ideology?. The lecture will
take place in the Law Library, College of Law, beginning at 2:00 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact:
Sharon Wandzura-Fehr
Guest Speakers? Secretary
College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
Phone: (306) 966-5873
March 04, 1999
Pharmacy Awareness Week
Posted March 04, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 3, 1999
99-03-02-PH
College of Pharmacy and Nutrition Promotes
Pharmacy Awareness Week
March 1 - 7, 1999
The College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, U of S, is promoting
Pharmacy Awareness Week, March 1-7, with a visit from Associate
Health Minister Judy Junor on Friday, March 5.
The focus of the associate minister?s visit is the Saskatchewan
Consumer Drug Information Service. The Service operates from the
College and was developed for the general public to encourage
responsible use of medications and supplement the information and
advice provided by their pharmacists and physicians.
?The purpose of the service is to ensure rational drug utilization
throughout the province,? says Paul Melnyk, manager of the
Consumer Drug Information Service. ?This telephone service
provides increased access to licensed pharmacists, enabling
consumers to ask questions about drug therapy with convenience
and anonymity.?
The Service is funded through a grant from Saskatchewan Health.
The service is in its eighth year of operation and receives in excess of
120 calls a month.
Consumers can reach the service at (306) 975-DRUG [3784] in
Saskatoon and 1-800-655-DRUG [3784] for the rest of
Saskatchewan. Office hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to
Friday, excluding statutory holidays. After-hours messages may be
left on an answering machine.
For more information, please contact:
Paul Melnyk
Manager, Consumer Drug Information Service
College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
(306) 966-6349
Yvonne Shevchuk
Director, Consumer Drug Information Service
College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
(306) 966-6330
March 03, 1999
U of S Law Team wins big at National competition
Posted March 03, 1999
U of S Law Team wins big at National
Competition
The University of Saskatchewan has returned from
Dalhousie University, Halifax, with a national award. The U
of S law team won the national award for Best Memorial -
the best written argument - at the Canadian Divisions of the
Jessup International Moot Court Competition.
The U of S team consisted of five second and third-year law
students: Dwight Newman, Erin Seed, Dana Brule, Jefferson
Rappell and Mark Prescott, and was coached by U of S
sessional lecturer, Ruth Thompson.
?I am very proud of our team for winning the Best Memorial
award. All memorials are adjudicated by the same judges so
it is very uniform. There was no doubt that we had the best
memorial of the 20 Canadian Universities that attended,?
says Thompson.
Moot courts are used in law schools as the training ground
for courtroom procedure. A moot is a simulated appeal
before a panel of judges, where one pair of students argues
for the applicant and the other side argues for the
respondent.
In addition to the team winning Best Memorial, team
members Dwight Newman and Erin Seed won individual
awards. Dwight Newman won Best English Speaking Oralist
and placed second overall in the speaking competition and
Erin Seed placed fifth overall in the oral competition.
The U of S written memorial will be advancing to the
International Competition in Washington, D.C., at the end of
March.
For more information, please contact:
Ruth Thompson
Coach and sessional lecturer
College of Law
(306) 966-6189
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Posted March 03, 1999
March 3, 1999
99-03-03-OTHER
INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT
CONFERENCE
The public are invited to attend a graduate student conference at the
University of Saskatchewan titled "Changing the Climate: An
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference" March 4, 5 and 6,
1999 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All sessions to be held at the
Diefenbaker Centre on campus.
The conference will showcase presentations from graduate students
in the Humanities and Social Sciences on a wide variety of subjects,
and will also feature discussions from:
Keynote Speaker: Maria Campbell, author of Halfbreed and
translator of
Stories of the Road Allowance People
Thursday, March 4 at 10 a.m.
and
A Panel Discussion: Preserving the Disciplines: Examining the
Boundaries
that Define the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday, March 5 at 9 a.m.
All are welcome to attend. Admission is free.
For more information, please contact:
Chris Kirkland
Department of English
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-8835
kirkland@duke.usask.ca
Law Lecture
Posted March 03, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 3, 1999
99-03-04-LA
Law Lecture
?A Report from Canada?s Gender War Zone:
Reforming the Child Related Provisions
of the Divorce Act?
On Monday, March 8, 1999, Nicholas Bala, Professor, Faculty of Law
at Queen?s University, will deliver a lecture entitled ?A Report from
Canada?s Gender War Zone: Reforming the Child Related Provisions
of the Divorce Act?. The lecture will take place in the Law Library,
College of Law, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to
attend.
For more information, please contact:
Sharon Wandzura-Fehr
Guest Speakers? Secretary
College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
Phone: (306) 966-5873
