U of S Ag Professor and Fine Arts Alumnus Receive Prestigious Canada-U.S. Fulbright Awards

Posted November 04, 2003


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Tuesday, November 4, 2003 2003-11-03-AG

U of S Ag Professor and Fine Arts Alumnus Receive Prestigious
Canada-U.S. Fulbright Awards

University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist Hartley Furtan and fine
arts alumnus Garnet Hertz have won prestigious Canada-U.S. Fulbright awards
to conduct research at American universities.

Starting in January 2004, Furtan will spend four months at the University of
Maryland studying Canada-U.S. agricultural trade disputes.

Hertz, who graduated from the U of S in 1997 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree, will pursue a Master's degree at the University of California,
Irvine.

"The success of these outstanding scholars brings tremendous credit to the
University of Saskatchewan," said Steven Franklin, U of S Vice-President of
Research. "Professor Furtan's work has the potential to promote greater
collaboration between Canada and the U.S. in developing better strategies
for agricultural trade relations, as well as furthering our reputation for
excellence in agricultural economics."

Furtan, a former deputy minister of agriculture and food in Saskatchewan and
past-president of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Association, will
examine the possibility of harmonizing domestic agricultural policy between
Canada and America, with a view to minimizing trade disputes between the two
countries. He is widely consulted by governments and business across Canada
for his expertise in Canadian agricultural policy.

Hertz will conduct interdisciplinary research in art, computing and
electrical engineering at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. As part of
his studies, he will use computing and biorobotics to create several
cybernetic organisms to act as a metaphor for the post-human condition.

"I am pleased to welcome Professor Furtan and Mr. Hertz to the distinguished
group of Fulbright scholars," says Michael Hawes, executive director of the
Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program.

The U of S's record of success in the competition for Canada-U.S. Fulbright
awards now spans more than a decade, during which time it has attracted
three American Fulbright award recipients to its campus and seen five of its
scholars and graduates selected to participate in the prestigious program.

Furtan is the second U of S professor to receive a Fulbright award. Law
professor Daniel Ish received a Fulbright award in 1995 to conduct research
at Stanford University on the taxation power of First Nations and tribes in
Canada and the United States.

In addition to Hertz, U of S graduate students Verna St. Denis (Stanford,
1994) and Kate Sutherland (Harvard, 1995) have also received the prestigious
awards.

With the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade Canada and the U.S. Department of State, the Canada-U.S. Fulbright
Program strives to enhance mutual understanding by engaging Canadian and
American scholars in reciprocal educational exchanges. Since its creation in
1990, the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program has supported nearly 500 Canadian
and American scholars.

The Program, named after Senator William J. Fulbright, oversees Canada's
relationship with the worldwide Fulbright Program, which has established a
global system of bi-national partnerships for the exchange of scholars
between the United States and more than 140 countries, including Canada.

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For more information, contact:

Professor Hartley Furtan
Agricultural Economics
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-4032

Garnet Hertz
garnet@conceptlab.com
(949) 854-4476

Kathryn Warden
Research Communications Officer
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-2506
kathryn.warden@usask.ca
www.usask.ca/research

Amy J. Harvey
Program Officer
The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program
(613) 688-5517
www.fulbright.ca