AGENDA ITEM NO: 8.1 UNIVERSITY COUNCIL NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE REQUEST FOR DECISION PRESENTED BY: Bev Pain, Chair, Nominations Committee of Council DATE OF MEETING: January 24, 2013 SUBJECT: Nomination for Committee DECISION REQUESTED: That Council approve the following nomination: That Carolyn Tait, Psychiatry, be nominated to the Committee on Research, Scholarly and Artistic Work for a term ending June 30, 2016. ATTACHMENT Membership of committee 1 Research, Scholarly and Artistic Work Committee Membership Members 2012-13 Council Members - Nine members of the General Academic Daniel Beland Public Policy2014 Assembly at least three of whom will be elected Yu Luo Biochemistry 2015 members of Council, normally one of whom Jaswant Singh Vet Biomedical 2015 will be chair. Two members will be Assistant Stephen Urquhart (Chair) Chemistry 2013 or Associate Deans with responsibility for research. General Academic Assembly Members - One undergraduate student appointed by the Pam Downe Arch and Anth 2015 U.S.S.U. Sheila Carr Stewart Ed Admin 2015 - One graduate student appointed by the G.S.A. Tony Kusalik Computer Science 2015 Tim Nowlin Art and Art History 2015 Ex Officio Graham Scoles Plant Sciences 2015 The Vice-President (Research) The Dean of the College of Graduate Studies Other members Ruvimbo Kanyemba, VP Academic, USSU and Research Dylan Beach, VP Academic, GSA The President (non-voting member) The Chair of Council (non-voting member) Adam Baxter-Jones Acting Dean of CGSR Karen Chad Vice-President Research Kathryn Warden Director, Research Administrative Support Communications Office of the Vice-President (Research) Susan Blum Director, Research Services The Office of the University Secretary Laura Zink Office of the Vice-President Research Secretary: Sandra Calver, University Governance Coordinator, Office of the University Secretary 2