![[University of Waterloo]](/goldbar.gif)
| Yesterday |
Thursday, October 9, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Moo-Young gesturing]](/images/2003/1009moo.gif)
Speaking on behalf of Allan Rock, minister of industry, Kitchener-Waterloo MP Andrew Telegdi announced federal funding of $2.077 million over five years for the network. "Once again, the University of Waterloo is demonstrating its commitment to innovative research," said Telegdi, as he praised the university's leadership in the project.
As well as funding from NSERC's Research Partnerships Program, almost $1 million in further funds are being contributed by seven industrial sponsors over the same period. They are Amersham Biosciences Inc., Apotex Fermentation Inc., Aventis Pasteur Canada, Biotechnology Research Institute of the National Research Council, Cangene Corp., DSM Biologics and NPS Allelix Corp.
The team, which includes researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, University of British Columbia, University of Guelph, Universit´ Laval, University of Manitoba and UW, will seek ways of using cells as factories.
In Canada, as elsewhere, there is a growing need for new and improved bioprocessing strategies for the production of new and existing drugs. The need is driven by increasing pressures from regulatory and economic concerns.
| Moo-Young named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1997 . . . holds Industrial Biotechnology Chair . . . honoured with symposium, 2002 |
"The network will build on the University of Waterloo's core expertise and then link with selected university and industrial research centres across Canada to create the necessary critical mass and expertise," he said.
"It takes collaboration at every level to achieve success," Rock said in a statement. "Our goal is to fast-track world-class Canadian innovations through the collaboration of universities, industry and the federal government on exciting projects such as CellNet."
The mission of the project is to develop these biological cells for "new and improved biomanufacturing strategies focusing on pharmaceuticals." As well, the network will train postgraduates in bioprocessing for the growing need of Canadian industry, government agencies and academia.
All in support of the United WayDepartments across campus are letting their imaginations run wild as they find ways to support the United Way campaign. Here are some events that have been announced so far:
And tomorrow's another Dress Down Day. Details of most of this lunacy can be found on the United Way web site. |
![[Saxon logo]](/images/2003/1009saxon.gif)
"This is a great partnership with great potential. We are very pleased,"
says Judy McCrae, director of athletics.
"In the competitive world of sport, we wanted to be associated with a company of Canadian origin and management. Saxon is a company that has a long and rich history with intercollegiate sport here, in Canada, that we felt could be enhanced. The quality and fashion of the uniforms are second to none. Saxon can deliver in the areas of design manufacturing, fashion, durability, service, and price point, all important pieces of our athletic management needs.
"The relationship is professional and prideful. Both of the parties felt that we could benefit from each others involvement with each other. This is the making of a good relationship."
As for the company, "Saxon Athletic is proud to be associated with the University of Waterloo's athletic department," says Ron McKerron, general manager of Saxon. "They are a very professional group that is committed to the growth and development of student athletes. The management team has offered us some unique and creative ways to grow our business in return for the service and support that Saxon can offer to the university. We are very excited about the possibilities resulting from this agreement. The Saxon team will be working hard to ensure that our efforts add value to the Waterloo Warriors and the athletic department."
The pension and benefits committee is meeting this morning in Needles Hall room 3004 -- a closed session at 8:30, then an open session from 10:30 to noon.
![[Beach party tonight at Federation Hall]](http://www.feds.ca/graphics/picture3.gif)
Today's career workshops are titled "Are You Prepared to Work
Outside Canada?" (10:30), "Job Search Strategies" (2:30), and "Taking
Care of Business, Session II" (3:30). Details are on
the career
services web site.
Amy Harvey of the Fulbright exchange programs will give a briefing about Fulbright grants at 2:30 in Humanities room 334. . . . "A special research colloquium for graduate students" is planned by the South Western Ontario Research Data Centre, or SWORDC, starting at 3:30 in PAS (Psychology) room 2030. . . . The Native issues lecture series continues with a talk at 8 p.m. (MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul's United College) by Rick Hill on "Recurring Aboriginal Stereotypes". . . .
Daniel Stashuk of systems design engineering will give the first "Prof Talk" sponsored by the new Club for Undergraduate BioEngineering, or CUBE, tonight at 5:30 in Rod Coutts Hall room 309. He'll speak on "Quantitative Electromyography: Characterizing muscles using biological signal detection and processing". "This promises to be a very interesting lecture," says Astha Gupta, one of CUBE's organizers.
The architecture school's Arriscraft Visiting Lecture series, which has been in abeyance for a while, is resuming, tonight with a talk by Peter Clewes, a Toronto-based, award-winning designer of innovative residential buildings. He'll speak about his recent work, and said the other day that he is thinking of talking "about the difficulty of creating architecture in a city that lacks any semblance of a design culture . . . Practice and Banality". The lecture starts at 7 p.m. in Environmental Studies II room 286. (And before architecture students come to the lecture, they'd better hand in their resumé packages if they're hoping for co-op interviews this term -- the deadline is 8:00 tonight, the co-op department says.)
Tomorrow morning, the tourism lecture series continues with a talk on "Partnerships in Promoting Peripheral Areas", by Geoff Wall of UW's geography department. He'll speak at 9:30 a.m. in Environmental Studies I room 132.
Among the big things coming shortly: the official opening of the Student Life Centre expansion, at noontime on October 20 (I noticed yesterday that the construction fence is down already); the Pascal Lectures on Christianity and the University, this year by Nicholas Wolterstorff of Yale University, October 22-23; and Renison College's annual East Asian Festival, October 30 through November 1.
![[With a sprig of mint]](/images/2003/1009cookies.gif)
Finally, in the interest of full disclosure I'd better acknowledge the
recent arrival of a bribe. Yep, a full box of chocolate mint cookies,
as currently being sold by the
Girl Guides of Canada as their
annual fund-raiser. I can further report that the cookies -- made to a
new recipe this year -- are, like a certain brand of soup, mm! mm! good.
"Our consumer research shows," says a modest news release, "that this new
cookie exceeds all expectations of what a great-tasting Girl Guide
cookie should be. It has a superior chocolate-mint combination. . . ."
All right, let's not get carried away. Various people on campus with Guide
connections are selling the cookies in the next few days, and anybody who
can't find a local pusher can find Laurie Strome in the UW library, who is
commissioner for the Waterloo Division of the Guides and will be delighted
to take orders. She can be reached at lestrome@library.
CAR