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| Yesterday |
Friday, August 20, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Cover of the 2004 campus map, just published |
![[Clipping from map]](/images/2004/0820mapclip.gif)
Maps are updated annually by the office of communications and public affairs, and every year there are changes to be made. This year, for example, the new north section of the Columbia Lake Townhouses appears, as well as the new apartment tower at St. Paul's United College. There's also a street name ("South Service Road") in the research and technology park that wasn't there last year, and the designation of a visitors' section in the Optometry parking lot has disappeared.
In the 2003 map, both the Tatham Centre and the Centre for Environmental and Information Technology were new. The campus changes constantly.
But this year the significant change is not on the main campus map, which occupies the centre of the four-page map brochure. The important thing is the back page, with its "directions" note and sketch map of the route from highway 401 and other major routes. Last year, it was a map of Kitchener-Waterloo; this year it goes south of the 401 as well, to show the Melville Street waterfront location where the architecture school will open for business next month. The most dramatic feature of the sketch map (shown in part, top left) is the Grand River, mostly hidden from drivers in Waterloo Region but dominating the map as it meanders east of K-W but right through Cambridge.
(But you wouldn't know from the sketch map that it's possible to get to the Melville site via Westmount Road and Cedar Street -- or Homer Watson Boulevard and Blair Road -- as an alternative to the Conestoga Parkway and highway 8.)
An inset map shows the downtown Galt section of Cambridge with streets, the river and a sketch of the building, a 100-year old converted factory.
For good measure there's also an inset map of the neighbourhood where UW's continuing education office is housed, at 335 Gage Avenue in Kitchener. The sketch map of the Region shows its location with a red dot.
And just wait till next year: maybe the map will show the planned location of UW's Kitchener "health sciences campus" as well.
Copies of the 2004 map are available at no charge from C&PA -- call Linda Howe at ext. 3580, e-mail ljhowe@uwaterloo.ca. An electronic version should be on the UW web site shortly.
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"The future of solar energy certainly is bright," says Alfred
Brunger, technical chair of the conference and manager of energy
systems at Bodycote Materials Testing Canada in Mississauga.
"Demand for solar energy products has been growing at over 20 per cent annually. Even greater usage is expected in the future as prices continue to fall. This conference will highlight not only the latest in technological innovation, but also strategies for utilizing solar energy across a variety of applications," said Brunger, a former UW professor.
Among the confirmed speakers is Teun Bokhoven of the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation, who will provide an international perspective on solar energy. Other speakers will examine developments in the United States, future global trends and policy options for Canada.
![[Collins]](http://mecheng1.uwaterloo.ca/dept/img/staff/collins.jpg)
"The conference is the premier event in the Canadian solar energy
calendar," said
Michael
Collins (right), chair of the conference organizing
committee and a faculty member in mechanical engineering.
"With so much solar energy activity in the Waterloo Region -- not
least of all, photovoltaic panels on UW's own
Federation Hall -- we are delighted that the Solar Energy Society
accepted our offer to host the conference," he said.
Members of the community interested in learning more about solar energy have several opportunities to take part in the conference:
The athletics department Gold & Black newsletter reports on how some members of the baseball Warriors are keeping in shape this summer: playing for the Kitchener Panthers of the Intercounty Baseball League, or the Waterloo Tigers of the Intercounty Major league, which is at a lower level in spite of the name. "The OUA season is very short and intense, so the summer league is imperative," says one of the Panthers, pitcher Tyler Wilson. (The season will begin September 1 when the Warriors play Brock -- at Toronto's SkyDome, no less -- and end before September's over.) The Panthers finished the summer season third in their nine-team league, losing to London 4 games to 3 in the first round of playoffs. One of the Warrior participants, infielder Mark Johnston, led Kitchener to two of its victories, with four hits in the first playoff game and three hits in the fourth game.
Art Green of the fine arts department sends word that one of last spring's graduates, Ricki Oltean-Lepp, has been named the Ontario winner of a competition with a tricky name: "the BMO Financial Group's 1st Art! Invitational Student Arty Competition". A memo from the Bank of Montreal, the sponsor, says that "This was the second year the competition was offered, and we were quite pleased with the response. Our six-member selection committee met on July 6th to determine the winning submissions, one from each province and territory plus the national winner. This was not an easy task -- it's clear that there is a lot of exciting work being produced by Canada's emerging generation of artists! . . . Ontario was one of the most challenging regions for our committee. There were 50 entries and several were very strong." It tells Oltean-Lepp that her submission, titled "To: From #3", "is a creative and original painting that is both visually captivating and technically accomplished. It was viewed with interest by all of our judges." It'll be featured in Canadian Art magazine next month, the original artwork gets hung in one of BMO's offices, and Oltean-Lepp receives a cheque for $1,000.
And . . . I'm wondering whether anybody can tell me, and the rest of the campus, about the whereabouts of the three oval wooden desks that are an interesting tidbit in UW's history. Originally, and this would be when most of UW's administrative offices were in the Dana Porter Library, the big oval desks were used by three senior executives -- vice-presidents, I think. As offices moved, people retired and tastes changed, the desks were dispersed. One of them is in the office of Emily Barnes, associate secretary of the university, in Needles Hall. The other two -- she doesn't know what's become of them, and neither do I, but surely they're still on campus somewhere. Any tips?
CAR