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Moveable feast/Festival scientifique

May 01, 2008; Berkowitz, Peggy ... Springtime brings scholars to conferences, and this spring there are two vintage gatherings that University Affairs plans to attend for our readers. First up in early May is the 76th annual conference of the Association francophone pour le savoir, or Acfas, meeting this year at the ...

A call for composition in Canada

May 01, 2008; Christensen, Marc ... Congratulations on raising the complicated issue of writing instruction on Canada's campuses with Sunny Marche's essay ("Who cares about writing, anyway?" April 2008). Instructors at colleges and universities have the best of intentions when standing in front of their classes or marking student ...

What are we flushing down the drain?

May 01, 2008; Charbonneau, Léo ... Although the issue was first raised about 10 years ago, Canada has not yet developed a plan to deal with the pharmaceuticals and personal-care products that get flushed down the drain, pass right through municipal wastewater treatment plants, and end up in our rivers and lakes. If that isn't ...

RESEARCH SHORTS

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Buy this or I'll hit you A recent study by Memorial University business professor Tim Jones and colleagues at Queen's University found that about 13 percent of the advertisements on Canadian prime-time television contain violent content, and the majority of this content involves ...

Waterloo's incubator residence

May 01, 2008; Charbonneau, Léo ... There's never been anything quite like it in Canada: the University of Waterloo is setting aside its smallest student residence to serve as an "ideas incubator" filled with entrepreneurially inclined students. Starting in September, the 72 students picked to live in the university's Minota Hagey ...

McGill on House

May 01, 2008; Gill, Balbir ... Is Dr. James Wilson a McGill man? Rumour and speculation abound since he was first seen sporting a McGill University sweatshirt in season two of the popular medical drama House, which airs on Fox TV in the U.S. and on the Global network in Canada, attracting some 20 million viewers per ...

Grad student hopes to preserve his native tongue

May 01, 2008; Crawshaw, Caitlin ... At a time when indigenous languages are vanishing around the world, a University of Alberta graduate student is working towards preserving the language of his people, the 30,000 inhabitants of the small Japanese island of Tokunoshima. "I want to give something back to my island because we're ...

SHORT TAKES

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The royal bridge to China Royal Roads University has adopted an official Chinese name. The six characters (above) are written in the Latin alphabet as Huang Jia Man Liang DaXue. Royal Roads began offering an MBA program in Asia in 1999 and today has close to 2,700 alumni in China. Eric ...

Un pacte vert

May 01, 2008; Lambert-Chan, Marie ... La lutte contre les changements climatiques passe par la mobilisation de la communauté étudiante universitaire. Telle est l'opinion de Christophe Dossarps et de Peter Schiefke. Ces deux anciens étudiants de l'Université Concordia ont cofondé le Pacte des Générations, une initiative visant la ...

Putting knowledge into practice

May 01, 2008; Fitzpatrick, Joey ... There's growing respect for a collaborative kind of research activity that starts with a two-way exchange of information between researchers and the community by Joey Fitzpatrick Aroadkill in 1987 made ecological history in Newfoundland. There · had been sightings and unconfirmed ...

L'université comme moteur économique

May 01, 2008; Lambert-Chan, Marie ... Selon l'expert Mario Polèse, les chercheurs s'intéressent de plus en plus à la mobilisation des connaissances, mais sa portée reste difficile à cerner, et ce, particulièrement en région par Marie Lambert-Chan La mobilisation des connaissances est une expression fort à la mode ...

When students sue

May 01, 2008; Mullens, Anne ... There is a growing tide of litigiousness on Canadian campuses. While some complaints may appear frivolous, universities never take them lightly by Anne Mullens Like the legendary case of the elderly woman who sued McDonald's for $2.9 million when she spilled hot coffee in her ...

Immigration and diversity in focus at Congress

May 01, 2008; Charbonneau, Léo ... Participants to this year's gathering in Vancouver urged to "think beyond borders" by Léo Charbonneau Roughly 20 percent of Canadians under the age of 15 are children of immigrants. There are many assumptions about these second-generation Canadians, but surprisingly little ...

Universities applaud Ont. budget

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Ontario's universities reacted positively to new spending initiatives contained in the provincial budget tabled at the end of March. Among the highlights, the Ontario government will invest $200 million this year for the maintenance and renewal of university facilities, building on earlier ...

IN BRIEF/EN BREF

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... University status for Grenfell The Newfoundland government is moving ahead with its plan to grant university status to Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. Grenfell, now a campus of Memorial University, is based in Comer Brook in western Newfoundland. In the Conservative government's speech ...

Your research coming soon to TV

May 01, 2008; Lawlor, Allison ... Atlantic region uses cable network to publicize research successes It may not be prime-time television but this spring Atlantic universities are bringing more stories about the best research taking place on their campuses to the region's cable network. Building on the momentum of ...

Upper-Year Exam Malady

May 01, 2008; Quinlan, Roberto ... The discovery of a heretofore unidentified pathogen I believe there may be a potentially heretofore unidentified pathogen that afflicts upper-year students at Canadian universities and that urgent action is required by university administration officials to investigate this matter ...

Compelling tale of runaway slaves

May 01, 2008; Galt, George ... Compelling tale of runaway slaves Dramatic work adds to history of African Canadian community In 1985, Karolyn Smardz Frost's archaeological team unearthed the remains of what had once been the home of two escaped slaves from the United States. It was a unique discovery that ...

PEOPLE

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... QUE FONT-ILS? York University appointed Roy McMurtry chancellor of the university. He will be installed May 23. Mr. McMurtry is a graduate of York's Osgoode Hall Law School. After practising as a trial lawyer for 17 years, he was elected to the Ontario legislature in 1975, where he was ...

John Polanyi takes the gold

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Twenty-two years after winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry. University of Toronto professor John Polanyi continues his prolific research career, having just been named winner of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Awarded annually by the Natural Sciences and ...