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Monday, October 7, 1996
Parking lot H is open
That's right: Don Marr of the security department has moved from the
ancient kiosk beneath the flagpoles at the University Avenue entrance,
and can be found this morning in the new colour-coordinated kiosk
in H lot nearby. The eastern, reconstructed half of the lot is now
open to campus visitors, at $2 an hour ($10 deposit on entering).
And just in time, too: the
co-op department
today begins employer interviews for winter work term jobs. So there
will be plenty of visitors looking for parking within walking distance
of Needles Hall.
A celebration of research
That's what's planned for today in Davis Centre rooms 1301 and 1302.
Highlights of the day:
- 10:30 a.m., welcome and introduction, followed by a talk by Arthur
Carty, president of the
National Research Council: "Research and
Development in Canada in the Global Context".
- 11:25, A talk by Tom Brzustowski, president of the
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council, "The Economic Laws of Scientific Research".
- 12:10, lunch and poster displays.
- 1:15, a report from
Janusz Pawliszyn, holder
of the NSERC Industrial
Research Chair in New Analytical Methods and Technologies, in UW's
chemistry department.
- 1:50, a report from
Paul Guild, holder
of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Management of Technological
Change, in the management sciences department.
- 2:25, a report from
John
Cherry, holder of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Industrial
Contamination of Groundwater, in the earth sciences department.
- 2:55, closing remarks.
Teachers' colleges will visit
Tomorrow through Friday, UW plays host to representatives from more
than 20 faculties of education and other places that train teachers.
They're brought in by the co-op and career services department, and
will be appearing in Village 2 room 207.
Here's who's coming on Tuesday: the University of Western Ontario, University
of Toronto (child study program), Brock University, University of Ottawa,
Queen's University.
On Wednesday: University of Toronto, University of Windsor, York
University, Nipissing University, Lakehead University.
On Thursday: D'Youville University in New York, TEACH, the
JET program from Japan,
the University of Western Sydney (Australia), Griffith University
(Australia), Canisius College (New York).
And on Friday: the Waterloo Centre for Applied Linguistics, Charles
Sturt University (Australia), Daemen College (New York), and Northern
College, St. Andrew's University and the University of Paisley, all
in Scotland.
Freshwater lecture is today
David Schindler, one of Canada's leading
researchers in freshwater environmental science, will speak today
about impacts on Canadian lakes.
He's appearing at UW as part of the Canada Trust Walter Bean
Visiting Professorship in the Environment.
Schindler will be heard in the Humanities Theatre starting at 4 p.m.
In his role of formulating ecological management policy and
shaping public opinion in Canada, he will speak about the
cumulative impact on lakes from global warming, acid rain and
ozone depletion.
Schindler is the Killham Memorial Professor of Ecology at the
University of Alberta and recipient of assorted awards
including the first Stockholm Water Prize for his research on the
acidification and eutrophication (nutrient enrichment) of lakes.
He was formerly with the federal
department of fisheries
and oceans,
working on a freshwater project based far from the ocean -- at
Kenora, Ontario.
Government cutbacks have targeted the project and Canada has
effectively sacrificed its leadership in freshwater science, Schindler
says now. Most Fisheries and Oceans administrators and deputy
ministers are more concerned with marine problems,
warning of a reduction to 22 scientists by 1999 from 59 now, with
funding not guaranteed beyond March 1998.
Xerox program is continuing
There's a ceremony at 1 p.m. today at Confederation High School in
Nepean, a suburb of Ottawa, to launch "Phase II" of the
Xerox
Co-op Teaching
Internships. The program is a partnership among UW, Xerox Canada Ltd.,
and several school boards, under which co-op students in the math teaching
program help to transfer technological expertise to high schools. There
will be a second launch ceremony tomorrow at Alexander Mackenzie High
School in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto.
UW response on research ethics
An official UW response has now been filed to the Draft Code of Conduct
for Research with Humans, circulated earlier this year by the three
federal research granting councils. The proposed code of conduct
has drawn fierce criticism, especially on
the grounds that it would make social science research in unpopular directions
almost impossible. The UW response, drafted by the human research committee,
is available on-line at
http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoor/ethics/response2.html.
CAR