April 24, 2008 Vol. 44 No. 15
The University of Western Ontario’s newspaper of record
www.westernnews.ca
PM 41195534
The year ahead
The Senate-approved university budget highlights two key stories:
n Day-to-day spending will experience modest growth at the same
time several exciting new projects will get underway.
n New construction and renovation, including Talbot Theatre (left),
will continue at a record-setting pace to support a long-term reshaping
of the campus.
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Not So Fast!
Paul Mayne, Western News
Ease up on the pedal next time you drive through the university. Campus Police has purchased a Speed Watch, which can be locked and mounted at several locations across campus. The
device reminds the more than 20,000 drivers a day passing through campus how fast they are going in areas with posted limits of 20 or 40 km/hr. Here, Colleen Kelly-Harvey is ready to
deal with those who don’t get the message. The Speed Watch, which can feed speeds to the central office to identify problem areas and times, will be moved around campus.
How Western controls climate, and cost
By Bob Klanac
When The University of Western Ontario’s Physical Plant
Department installed a rudimentary computerized climate control system in the mid-70s, it was
unlikely it foresaw the kind of day
Wayne Drummond had recently.
Drummond, an Operations
Specialist with Physical Plant, is
one of the two people on campus
responsible for monitoring the
120,000 sensors that control room
temperature and related instruments. When a Western staff or
faculty member calls campus
extension 83304 to register a concern about the temperature in a
room, Drummond or colleague
Joe Arbique are the people who
take care of it.
Sitting in a St. Thomas parking lot on a Saturday afternoon,
Drummond got an emergency
call about a classroom issue that
needed immediate attention.
“This guy said that the class-
room he was in was really warm,”
he says.
“So I turned on the fan in the
room from my cellphone.”
George Qubty, Manager of
Mechanical and Engineering,
says Drummond’s high-tech anecdote is a good example of how far
campus systems have come since
their 70s debut.
“They can also control the systems from a laptop anywhere,”
he says. “Sometimes they go for
a coffee to Lucy’s and monitor
things using the campus wireless
network.”
Qubty says the decision to
install a digital computer climate
system in the mid-Seventies was
“amazingly forward thinking.”
At the time, the system was
only hooked up to 20 buildings
and could do little other than turn
fans on and off. Qubty says today
the system has become more
advanced, cheaper and with more
functionality.
“At the moment we have about
60 of 80 buildings connected to
our system with 120,000 monitoring points,” he says.
Those points allow Qubty and
his team to control heating, ventilation, air conditioning, some
campus street lights, some sump
pumps, meters, utility meters,
water meters, steam meters, most
of the external lights on newer
buildings and even internal lights
in some buildings.
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INSIDE: Academe 19 | Careers 19 | Classifieds 20 | Coming Events 19 | Letters to the Editor 4 | Student Services 20 | Public Space 4
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CAMPUS DIGEST
Distinguished
scholar fellowships
Lorne Falkenstein of Philosophy and Bridget Elliott of Visual
Arts have won the Graham W.
Wright Distinguished Scholar
Fellowships for the Faculty of
Arts and Humanities. The fellowships help the Faculty of Arts
retain strong faculty members
through one-year, renewable
appointments. They reward top
faculty with teaching relief to
focus on their research programs.
Additionally, funds available for
expenditure over the next one to
three years will support research
activities.
UWOFA annual
meeting
The UWOFA annual general
meeting takes place April 25,
at 12:30 p.m. in Room 35, of the
Arthur & Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building.
Maysale on tap
Western favourite rummage
sale is set for May 1 and runs
to May 9 at McIntosh Gallery.
The annual sale of everything
from CDs and jewellery to art and
household furnishings supports
McIntosh programs.
Solution on page 15
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‘Physicians in Fiction’
book club
London’s white coat book club
is back with Physicians in fiction: Literature for the medically
minded. Starting May 1, a doctor
from Schulich School of Medicine
& Dentistry will team up with a
professor from the Department
of English to discuss medically
themed novels. The book club is
free and no pre-registration is
required. The location is at Westmount Branch of the London Public Library for four weeks starting
Thursday, May 1, 7-8:30 p.m. The
books and dates are as follows:
n May 1 Long Day’s Journey
into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Joel Faflack (English) and Laura
Molnar (Psychiatry)
n May 8 The Birth House by
Ami McKay
Manina Jones (English) and
Maggie Rebel (Obstetrics and
Gynaecology)
n May 15 Deafening by Francis Itani
Kim Solga (English) and Lorne
Parnes (Otolaryngology)
n May 22 Middlemarch by
George Eliot
Alison Conway (English) and
Vivian McAlister (Surgery)
Emergency
Preparedness Day
registration
London Emergency Preparedness Day 2008 will be held on
Western’s campus May 8. The
focus will be on incident response
and recovery. The event will feature indoor and outdoor exhibition
and is expected to attract hundreds of staff from government,
police and other non-governmen-
tal agencies from across the province. Western staff and faculty
are welcome. Registration forms
can be downloaded from www.london.ca/emergency. Forms are also
available from Denise Dykema at
denise.dykema@ontario.ca. The
event, which is being organized
by Fire Safety and Emergency
Management, will feature indoor
and outdoor exhibitions. More
information is available at www.
emerg.uwo.ca.
In the swing
The annual Western Employee
Golf League is accepting memberships for the 2008 season.
There will be an organizational
‘meet and greet’ session for new
and old members on May 7 at
4:30 p.m. at the Grad Club, on the
lower floor of Middlesex College.
The co-ed league is largely staff
and faculty with skills varying
from fairly new golfers to scratch
players. It includes nine holes of
easy-going golf every Wednesday after work with tee off times
between 4:30 and 5:45 p.m. from
May 14 to mid-September at Llyndinshire Golf & Country Club, just
north of the city. Costs: one-time
$30 membership plus discounted
individual green fees ($21 - 9
holes). The membership pays for
an end of year party, prizes and
incidental costs. For information
and a registration page visit http://
uwogolfleague.uwo.ca or contact
John Fracasso, 261 North Campus
Building, x88492.
The Distinguished University
Professorship Award Public Lectures
Everyone is invited to the public lectures being presented by
two of this year’s recipients of the Distinguished University
Professorship Award. Plan to attend and help recognize the
scholarly contributions of these outstanding Western faculty.
Richard Seewald, Distinguished University Professor,
Faculty of Health Sciences
Lecture T itle
Developments in Hearing Care for Infants
William Fisher, Distinguished University Professor,
Faculty of Social Science
Lecture T itle
Scientific Study of Sex:
Understanding and Promoting Sexual and
Reproductive Health
Monday, April 28, 2008
4:30 p.m., Conron Hall
Room 224, University College
Followed by a reception
Room 225, University College
The Distinguished University Professor Award is Western’s highest
recognition for a faculty member. This award is presented in honour of
sustained excellence in teaching, research and service accomplished during
an outstanding scholarly career at The University of Western Ontario.
Proudly providing the best student
experience among Canada’s leading
research-intensive universities.
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Breakthrough pilot delivers cleaner water
By Bob Klanac
The championing of a new highefficiency wastewater treatment
technology highlighted the April
18 opening of the reflagged and
re-invigourated Particle Technology Research Centre (PTRC).
According to Jesse Zhu, Director and Senior Research Chair for
the PTRC, the Circulating Fluidized Bed Bioreactor (CFBBR) was
one of several projects he was
working on with George Nakhla,
Salamander Chair for Western’s
Environmental Engineering.
Early on in the research they
built a small model to test the
technology.
“After about 200 days, George
ran to me and said ‘Jesse, look at
these results’,” says Zhu.
“He showed me the effluent
number, nitrogen, phosphorus,
oxygen levels and says it’s beautiful. I know nothing about this.
What do you mean beautiful? He
says it’s supposed to be at a certain level and we are lower.”
The implications? Cleaner
water.
That eureka moment led the
team to build a wastewater treatment pilot project at the City
of London’s Adelaide Pollution
Control Plant with funding from
the Ontario Centre of Excellence
(OCE), Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council
(NSERC) and London-based Trojan Technologies. The goal was to
demonstrate in a tangible way the
advantages of the new device.
“We wanted to tell people, ‘you
don’t have to believe me, let’s do it
side by side’,” says Zhu. “We will
take the water and process it and
put it back to compare. We can
take the phosphorus and nitrogen
away naturally. The other way is
to use a lot of chemicals and a lot
more water.”
In a normal process, wastewater goes through many tanks and
processes including grit removal,
primary clarification, aeration
tanks, secondary clarification and
disinfection, all of which takes 18
to 20 hours to complete.
“This process basically replaces
the primary clarifier, the aeration
tank and then the secondary clarification. So all of this is achieved
in that single column in the pilot
project in about two hours,” says
Nakhla.
Most crucially, Nakhla notes
while phosphorus and nitrates
are normally removed from
wastewater by adding chemicals,
the device achieves even better
results using naturally occurring bacteria -- and with a greater
reduction of biomass sludge.
“It is not genetically engineered,” says Nakhla. “It is exist-
Bob Klanac, Western News
George Nakhla (left) and Jesse Zhu field questions at the site of the new Circulating Fluidized-Bed Bioreactor pilot
project. The new technology recycles wastewater for reuse in a natural process accomplished in a fraction of the
time normally required.
ing in nature.”
“The real contribution or perhaps the most salient advantage
of this technology is that we have
harnessed these microbes in an
efficient process.”
Nakhla says the goal of the pilot
was to determine the technology’s
viability, assess problems and
prove it economically viable. To
date he says they’ve succeeded
on all fronts.
For his part Nakhla is “very
pleased” with the pilot project
and says they’ve received government funding to pursue industrial
wastewater treatment, which will
proceed in a few weeks.
“This is a high-efficiency process,” he says. “We reduce treatment time from 20 hours to two
hours, with less use of water.”
“This is a very beautiful process,” says Zhu.
Labatt family donates $10M, names nursing school
B y P a u l M ay n e
W
ith the recently constructed Health Sciences
building already bearing
the family name, the family of
Western’s chancellor has taken
philanthropy a giant step further with a $10-million donation
towards the naming of the Arthur
Labatt Family School of Nursing.
To be paid over a period of 10
years, the money will be allocated
to areas such as student scholarships, education and research
funds and establishment of a
chair in nursing.
“This gift is very special due
to its size and because it helps
us advance the School of Nursing in a number of key areas,”
says Health Sciences Dean Jim
Weese. “It is a great time to be in
the School of Nursing and in the
Faculty of Health Sciences. This
gift will make us even stronger
in all of our core areas of responsibility.”
Speaking to Senate where the
gift was unveiled, Weese said
the support not only provides
scholarships, increased support
for graduate students, creation
of postdoctoral fellowships and
facilitates major renovations
within the Health Sciences addition, it will act as an enticement
for future faculty and students.
“The school is already highly
competitive, but yes, this will
help,” he says, adding while nursing applications province-wide
have grown by 14 per cent over
last year, they are up 22 per cent
Chancellor Arthur Labatt
at Western – with first choice
applications up 29 per cent.
“This gift will heighten the profile of our great program,” says
Weese.
Labatt will complete his fouryear term as Western’s chancellor
following Spring Convocation.
The one significant part of the
gift not directed to Nursing was
$250,000 to support the renovation of Talbot College Theatre
at the Don Wright Faculty of
Music.
During his term, he and his
wife Sonia also donated $5 million to the university. Until July
2005, Labatt was chairman of
AIM Trimark Investments, one
of Canada’s largest mutual fund
companies with more than $40
billion of assets under management.
Mary Anne Andrusyszyn, Acting Director of Nursing, says
she’s grateful the Labatt family
sees the vision within the department and is willing to help fulfill
it.
“This gift has great significance
to the school. It will move our programs and our profile forward in
a very positive way,” says Andrusyszyn. “Faculty and students,
but ultimately our patients, will
be the benefactors of this generosity for years to come.”
Weese says with nursing celebrating its 90th year at Western next year, the program has a
distinguished history which the
Labatt family has assured will
continue for years to come.
“It is a program founded on
the traditions that make Western
such a great university.”
Where the gift goes
The $10 million gift from the Arthur Labatt family will strengthen the School of Nursing in
a number of areas including:
Nursing student scholarships ($2.2 million) – Undergraduate and graduate scholarships,
with an additional $300,000 to establish and support the awards for the first six years.
Clinical education fund ($200,000) - Supports nursing students with the cost of placements in health-care settings outside of London. A large portion will support pediatric
nursing.
Renewal of the Health Sciences Addition ($3 million) - Extensive interior renovations
will reconfigure space to improve educational resources for students.
Nursing education and research fund ($2 million) - About $35,000 annually will develop
and secure research grants for the program. The remainder will support three or four
teaching positions annually.
Chair in Nursing ($2,050,000) – Create a new chair in Nursing.
Talbot College Theatre ($250,000) – Supports renovation of the Talbot College Theatre
at the Don Wright Faculty of Music.
Lansing replaces Chrétien
at Convocation ceremony
Western alumnus and noted
cardiac surgeon Dr. Allan Lansing will be presented with an
honorary degree in June.
Lansing replaces former Prime
Minister Jean Chrétien who was
scheduled to receive an honorary
degree June 11 but has indicated
he will not be able to attend due to
scheduling conflicts. Efforts are
underway to find another date to
honour Chretien.
Renowned for pioneering work
with TMR (transmyocardial
revascularization), he became
one of the first people in the world
to investigate the use of TMR
heart laser surgery for intractable angina and by 1997 had performed 260 TMR procedures.
With a natural talent to lead,
Lansing established the cardiovascular surgical training program at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and the
cardiovascular surgery service at
Jewish Hospital. He also founded
the Humana Heart Foundation
and cardiovascular surgery program at Audubon Hospital in
Kentucky.
On the cutting edge of heart
surgery right up until his retirement as director of the Heart
lnstitute in Louisville, KY in 2001,
Lansing remains an active member of a cardiology technology
group that continues to explore
new means of perfecting heart
surgery.
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to the editor
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The way we were:1971
JNF restores land,
fosters research
On June 24, 2007, we were the
Jewish National Fund (JNF) honourees at the London Negev Dinner.
We were asked to consider this
tribute because of our ongoing
involvement in our professional
and volunteer lives in London, a
home we chose in 1972.
We accepted this honour
because we strongly believe in the
JNF organization and its goals.
Established in 1901 to purchase
land within Israel from both Arab
and Jewish home owners, the
mandate of the JNF has evolved
to include restoration of the land,
and maintaining the important
eco-balance in the country.
JNF has partnered with Israeli
universities and agricultural organizations to develop research facilities in the Galilee and the Negev.
It lends its expertise to peoples of
all countries and nationalities.
It is incumbent upon the ‘honourees’ to name a project they will
support financially. We chose the
restoration of the Naftali Forest,
an area in northern Israel damaged by rocket fire from Lebanon
in the summer of 2006.
In November 2007, we travelled
to Israel. We saw new growth in
the forest- a project that will take
50-60 years to renew.
We remain hopeful and optimistic that Israel and its neighbours
will attain peace and that in time
Israeli and Arab children will be
able to enjoy the flourishing forests and agriculture in the region.
Contributed by Alan Noon (anoon@uwo.ca) London Free Press Collection/Western Archives
In 1971 the administration began installation of bicycle racks to accommodate the increasing number of staff, students and faculty pedaling onto
campus. Claude Brown, head of Western’s security force, stated that the biggest problem was riders chaining bikes to posts, railings and trees. Many
trees were being damaged with bark peeling off, causing disease and death to smaller specimens. After repeated warnings following installation of
the racks, security force staff threatened to “take them away” and issue a $2 ticket.
Joseph and Gloria Gilbert
London
public space
The voice behind ‘the call’
B y E m i ly A b r a h a m s
I
t’s dinner time, your child’s
birthday, or maybe you’ve
just had a bad day. Regardless, when you answer the phone
to hear a way-too-cheery representative of your alma mater on
the other line, your first inclination may be to berate that person for inconveniencing you. Or,
you might just plunk down the
receiver.
For most, the idea of telephone
solicitation brings to mind a
vision of pesky telemarketers
trying to sell you something you
don’t want, or soul-less scammers
who won’t take no for an answer.
Many resent being called in the
first place.
However, before you unleash
your daily frustrations on Peter
or Jane from the University of
Wherever, consider the following.
Chances are, when your school
calls for money, the person on the
phone isn’t a power-hungry exec
hoping to pad his or her own pockets. The caller is likely a student,
attempting to make some money
for the university while balanc-
ing academic commitments. With
on-campus employment hard to
come by, promoting the school
and trying to garner donations is
often the best means of paying
rent and buying groceries.
Simone Robbins, manager
of The University of Western
Ontario call centre, also notes the
job has other benefits. “This job
helps students work on their communication skills,” she says. “A
job like this also requires effective time management and gives
students some experience that
they can use when applying for
jobs after they graduate.”
In other words, telephone fundraising provides callers with tangible rewards that they can take
with them after their university
days are over to become productive members of the workforce.
However, it is true that for
many, any kind of telephone fundraising is intrusive.
Jessica Stephenson, part-time
student and mother, has been
involved with a variety of organizations that used telephone campaigns. Even though she knows
what it’s like to be hung up on, she
is still often annoyed when solic-
ited for donations. Still, having
dealt with both sides, she takes a
balanced approach to calls.
“I think it’s really obnoxious
to go out of your way to be rude
to [callers], even though at times
their persistence may make it difficult for you to go out of your way
to be polite,” she says. “I don’t like
it when they keep asking after
I say no, but I know that they’re
only continuing to ask for money
because their boss is likely listening to make sure they make every
effort to get those funds.”
Prior to becoming manager of
the Western centre, Robbins was
a student caller at McMaster University in Hamilton.
“It is sad that the person on the
other end is that upset in life that
he or she feels the need to yell
at someone and belittle another
human being,” she says.
The bottom line? Callers are
people too, and giving them a
piece of your mind isn’t really
worth it at the cost of making
their work shift more difficult.
Stephenson elaborates: “When
[the callers] phone 100 people
a day and 90 either hang up or
yell at them, [the callers] should
be the ones getting angry—not
you.”
Stephenson suggests that if
those calls are really getting on
your nerves, calmly direct your
complaints to the appropriate
place. “If you have a problem
with telephone fundraising, write
a letter to the organization. Don’t
take it out on the people on the
phone.” Another way to deal with
the situation is to simply ask the
student to take you off the calling
list or to refrain from calling you
on certain days or after a particular time.
Alternatively, take a few
moments to listen to what that
caller has to say. Robbins refers
to post-secondary education as
“the engine of humanity.”
Because of donations, universities are able to better fund scholarships, research, and campus
facilities. In turn, as Robbins
notes, “people at universities are
able to work on amazing research
projects and find cures for all
kinds of diseases. They are able
to travel the world and use their
knowledge to help increase food
production and stability in other
countries.”
Sounds like a charity, doesn’t
it? That’s because it is, or at least
according to the Canadian government. In this country, universities and colleges are considered registered charities. Along
with the positive feelings that
philanthropy usually brings, that
also means a contribution is taxdeductible.
But I digress. The point of this
piece is not to practice my call
centre skills, nor is it to make you
feel guilty. I’m not even suggesting that you welcome the phone
calls with open ears.
My real purpose is simply to
shed some light on the human
side of telephone fundraising.
Don’t feel like donating? That’s
fine. Just try, for the sake of fairness, to be kind.
Sometimes those people on
the phone are campaigning for
a good cause, and just like you,
they’re human beings—people
who’d rather be eating dinner or
celebrating birthdays, or don’t
need another frustration to add
to a bad day.
The writer is a Western student
and call centre staffer.
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Mitch Zimmer, for Western News
The floor of the London District Science and Technology Fair earlier this month was jammed with participants, judges and observers.
How Western supports
London Science Fair
By Ted Medzon
T
he recent London District
Science and Technology
Fair held at Galleria London featured major support from
several faculties, research units,
and faculty, students, and staff
at The University of Western
Ontario.
A large number of faculty and
graduate students were among the
85 judges who judged the 90 projects of students from the Thames
Valley School Board, the London
District Catholic School Board
and several private schools.
Three high school students,
Chen Sun, Nikhita Singh and Carlie Scalese will have a summer
research job in the laboratories
of the Faculty of Engineering,
the Faculty of Science, or the
Schulich School of Medicine &
Dentistry. These three students
have also been chosen to repre-
sent Canada at the International
Science and Engineering Fair in
Atlanta.
Three students who won “Imagination” prizes sponsored by Western’s Vice President Research will
have the opportunity to meet with
campus researchers this spring.
Sharcnet was a co-sponsor of
trips to the Canada Wide Science
Fair in Ottawa for three other
students. The Faculty of Health
Sciences sponsored prizes for the
junior, intermediate and senior
Life Science category winners.
Two students were awarded
prizes by the Faculty of Education. As well, one student won
a week at the Bit-by-Bit camp
sponsored by the Department of
Computer Science.
Several members of the community sit on the Science Fair
committee; Ted Medzon, Microbiology and Immunology; Patrick
Whippey, Physics; Jim Cole, Phys-
PUBLISHER: Helen Connell
EDITOR: David Dauphinee
REPORTERS: Paul Mayne,
Bob Klanac
“Western provides the best
student experience among
Canada’s leading researchintensive universities.”
ics; Sherman Lang, NRC; Caroline
Whippey, and Alexis Chapeskie,
Anthropolgy along with many
others from education, industry,
and business collaborate throughout the year to encourage project
based science in the London District Schools.
The London District Science
and Technology Fair is an independent, voluntary, non-profit
organization which raises the
funds and produces the London
Regional Fair. Sponsorship is also
obtained from several London
businesses, the Optimist clubs of
Mid-Western Ontario and through
membership in Scitech Ontario,
and the Youth Science Foundation
of Canada.
The writer is a professor emeritus and chair of the London District Science and Technology
Fair.
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Science Fair participant Nikhita Singh discusses her project with Professor
Susan Koval of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Singh
claimed first place in the Senior Life Science Division and also won a summer
job in research in a Western science laboratory.
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EMPLOYMENT
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ANTICIPATED LIMITED-DUTIES (PART-TIME) APPOINTMENTS
Fall/Winter 2008-2009
The University has a central Website displaying complete advertisements for all vacant academic positions.
The following academic units have anticipated Limited-Duties vacancies and these anticipated appointments
are among those being advertised currently on the Website at http://www.uwo.ca/pvp/facultyrelations. Please
review the Website for complete details, including application requirements and forms, or contact the Faculty,
Department, School or Program directly.
General Notes
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Course Dates (unless otherwise stated in posted notices)
Fall:
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January 5, 2009 – April 30, 2009
(Above dates include examination periods)
(See http://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/2008/index.html)
The calendar description of undergraduate courses offered in the academic units is available at http://www.
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separately, using the application form available at either http://www.uwo.ca/pvp/facultyrelations/jobs/anticipated.
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should submit a curriculum vitae and evidence of successful teaching, together with the names and contact information of qualified individuals who could be contacted about the candidate’s teaching experience and ability,
to the contact name provided in each individual notice.
Please note offerings could be assigned to the workload of full-time faculty or to part-time faculty with First
Refusal Rights in accordance with the Collective Agreement, or left unfilled based on operational/enrolment
requirements.
Western student
Goldman Sachs leader
By Bob Klanac
A University of Western
Ontario undergraduate student
has been chosen as a Goldman
Sachs Global Leader Class of
2008, a distinction earned by only
150 students from 20 countries.
The program brings together
exceptional second-year university and college students from
around the world to build student
leadership skills. Each student
is awarded $3,000 (US) and the
title of a Goldman Sachs Global
Leader.
The program is offered by the
Goldman Sachs Foundation in
conjunction with the Institute of
International Education. Goldman Sachs is an investment banking and securities firm.
Students gathered in New York
City in early April for the first
stage of the program. The second
stage sees the group winnowed to
75 and taking part in the Goldman
Sachs Global Leadership Institute, July 13 - 18.
Mark Cicero, a second-year
Western engineering student, one
of four Canadians tapped for the
honour, says the first-stage process was challenging but invigorating.
“I had heard from previous
winners that the experience of
going there and meeting these
global leaders was something,”
he says. “You have a whole bunch
of people who are doing the same
thing that you are doing at your
school. The energy in the entire
room was exciting. ”
Student leaders were put in
small groups and given a case
study to work on so organizers
could watch them collaborate.
“There are five or six people
in the room who watch you interact,” he says. “They pick half of
the people from this weekend
for the July session. If we get to
go back we meet up with people
from China, Europe and all over
the world.”
The July conference includes
sessions on leadership training,
studying the roots of terrorism
and public policy.
Born and raised in Mississauga,
Cicero is studying integrated
engineering involving chemical,
mechanical and electrical. He
wants to put his studies to work in
the future while taking a concurrent degree in medicine.
“It takes creativity to meld
many disciplines,” he says. “I’d
like to eventually specialize in
heart or brain surgery and with
the engineering skills design the
devices I will use.”
For now however it’s back to
New York in July. Cicero says
he’s been chosen to be among the
75 invited to the Goldman Sachs
Global Leadership Institute.
Closing date for applications is May 24, 2008
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ollowing the tech-savvy
instincts of its students,
The University of Western
Ontario’s Office of The Registrar
is turning toward the web and
away from paper versions of a
good number of its books and
processes.
It all starts this summer when
a paperless fee bill will be introduced, eliminating the old method
of mailing out a paper version to
undergraduate students.
According to Michelle Devito,
Student Financial Aid Team
Leader for the Registrar, the benefits are as much rooted in service issues as green ones.
“The first issue was environmental impact in that in any given
year we use 200,000 pieces of
paper and 67,000 envelopes in
mailing out fee bills,” she says.
As well, Devito says paper bills
were often out-of-date because of
student changes in enrollment or
registration status. Another headache was that the bills were often
sent to out-of-date addresses still
on record with the office.
“Now the students are going to
have online access to their state-
ment of account and can access it
at any time they choose.”
And, Devito adds, the online
bills will be much more accurate
with account changes reflected
within a day or two. Printer
friendly versions will also be
available should a student wish to
have a hard copy.
The Faculty of Graduate Studies has already gone the paperless route with graduate students
able to see their account activity
online since this past January.
Ron Wagler, Director of Administration for Graduate Studies,
says that the new system has
gone over very well with graduate students.
“It just seems to make sense,”
he says. “Their funding is actually paid by their programs so the
fact that they can see all of that
online is a great service. The only
reason they were using paper
was for administrative tasks like
joining SOGS. Now students don’t
have to go around showing people
pieces of paper.”
There are more e-innovations
to come according to Krys
Chelchowski, Director of Student
Information Services and Administration in the Registrar’s office
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calendar web-based as of January, 2009.
Like Devito, Chelchowski says
that better service and helping
the environment are behind the
initiative.
“All the benefits are the same
as with the paperless fee bill,” she
says. “If anything changes, new
courses are added, new modules
happen through Senate, then it
will be updated quickly.”
Chelchowski says that the usual
print run of 40,000 copies of the
400-page book will be reduced
to 1,000 with those copies designated for faculty concerned that
a computer is not always accessible when counseling students in
academic matters.
As well Chelchowski says that
the next edition of the registration handbook will not include
the 150-page timetable. Some new
content will be added although
she says that the net loss in pages
will be about 100.
“The timetable is so dynamic
that it changes on a daily basis
during the registration period,”
she says. “We find that since it’s so
out-of-date students don’t refer to
it anyway.”
Joseph Boyden’s poignant
Three Day Road is the winner of
the 2007-08 London Reads competition.
A Canadian writer with Irish,
Scottish, and Métis roots, Boyden
tells the story of two Cree friends
who become infantry snipers in
World War I.
Inspired in part by real-life First
World War Ojibwa hero Francis
Pegahmagabow, Three Day Road
reinvents the tradition of such
Great War epics as Birdsong and
All Quiet on the Western Front. It
delivers a remarkable tale of brutality, survival and rebirth.
The reading list for the 2007-08
competition also included The
Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens, Bloodletting and Miraculous
Cures by Vincent Lam, Governor of the Northern Province by
Randy Boyagoda and Consolation by Michael Redhill – one of
the strongest lists since London
Reads was created as Western
Reads in 2003.
London Reads is presented by
Alumni Western with partners
The Book Store at Western, London Public Library and the City
of London.
The competition promotes
Canadian authors and the importance of literacy. Modeled after
CBC Radio’s Canada Reads,
Boyden
the program
invites the
entire London
community to
read along with
and engage
local celebrity
panelists as
they consider
and debate the
merits of various works of
Canadian fiction.
Ashley White, Charity Commissioner for the University
Students’ Council and President
of Western’s Rotaract Club, and
George Clark, News Director,
Rogers Television, championed
Three Day Road during the London Reads process that started
in October with the first of five
public book discussion events.
Western is working with Boyden to secure an October date
when he can visit the campus and
give a public reading.
Past winners of Western/London Reads include:
n 2006-07 - David Bergen, The
Time in Between
n 2005-06 - Robert McGill, The
Mysteries
n 2004-05 - Douglas Coupland,
Hey Nostradamus!
n 2003-04 - Alistair MacLeod,
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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
IN THE EXACT SCIENCES
A Workshop in Honour of William Demopoulos
Professor of Philosophy
W E S T E R N
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Students break bread
with Warren Buffett
BY BOB KLANAC
May 2-4, 2008
117 North Campus Building
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
Speakers:
Sylvain Bromberger, MIT
Harvey Brown, Oxford University
Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland
Peter Clark, University of St. Andrews
Erin Eaker, University of Maryland
Michael Friedman, Stanford University
Anil Gupta, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Hallett, McGill University
David Malament, University of California, Irvine
Itamar Pitowsky, Hebrew University
Hilary Putnam, Harvard University
Allen Stairs, University of Maryland
Mark Wilson, University of Pittsburgh
Crispin Wright, University of St. Andrews
For a complete schedule and further information,
please visit the conference website:
http://publish.uwo.ca/~rdisalle/DemopoulosConference.html
Sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
The man widely recognized as
one of the world’s wisest investors
recently held court with a number
of students from the Richard Ivey
School of Business, regaling them
with the life and financial lessons
that are his métier.
Warren Buffet, chairman and
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, met
the students at the company’s
headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska
on March 31. The “Oracle of
Omaha,” as he is known, also took
the students for a steak lunch at
his favorite restaurant.
“The visit exceeded our expectations by a long shot,” says Nick
Kuzyk, an Ivey MBA student. “I
didn’t expect him to be so wise,
so funny and so accessible with
his time.”
Kuzyk says while Buffet
wouldn’t offer him or his colleagues any specific insights
about future plans or his process
of valuing companies, he was generous with sharing what he had
learned.
“He gave us the example of
how to function as a self-actualized person,” he says. “He does
Lotus
“The visit exceeded our
expectations by a long
shot. I didn’t expect
him to be so wise, so
funny and so accessible
with his time.”
– Nick Kuzyk, Ivey MBA student
what he loves every day and has
been doing it since he was 11.
“He says to be dedicated to
your craft and doing something
better than everyone else makes
you tap dance to work everyday,
as he says he does.”
Kuzyk kept a blog detailing the
lead-up to his Omaha trip and the
meeting itself.
We excerpt parts of the blog
here with Kuzyk’s permission.
The entire blog can be read at
http://iveyandtheoracle.blogspot.
com.
We pick up Kuzyk’s blog entry
for March 31 as he and the students settle into lunch with Buffett. They had been driven to the
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cagily grabbed a spot directly
opposite him at one of the banquet tables.
“I got through all of my questions, took some notes, listened
to every word he said, and was
surprised at the humility, clarity,
and complete honesty of all of his
answers. While I tried to stick
with investment and researchbased questions, other people
asked about his family life, the
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Profiling community contributions of faculty, staff and students
Where do you volunteer?
I am a Sparks leader and trainer
with Girl Guides of Canada
(GGC).
How many hours a week do
you volunteer? About 10-15 hours per week on
average.
What or who inspires you to
volunteer?
I was a Brownie, a Guide and a
Junior leader when I was a girl.
I never left the organization! It
was a place where I could have
fun, learn new things and make
new friends. I loved being in the
out-of-doors whether it was hiking, bird-watching, backpacking
or camping. It was adventurous
to me doing something other
than chores at home! When I
became an adult, I became a
leader. I held various administrative positions and enjoyed
each and every one them. It
was a place where I could laugh
and have fun with new and old
friends, a place where I could
help young girls become good
citizens of their community, no
matter where they ended up in
life. I have the chance to make
a difference in the lives of girls
and women in our community
right now. Feeling the reward of
helping a girl or a young woman
develop her potential is indescribable.
Why is giving back to the community important to you?
Giving back to the community
is important to me for many reasons: making a difference (even
if it is just one girl); meeting
new people; feeling appreciated;
learning about the out-of-doors,
our world, our country, our community, health, safety; exploring
new interests; teaching the girls
about service projects and why
they are important (i.e. Women’s
Shelter, Food Bank, Angel Tree);
developing skills in a variety of
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and other leaders; developing
a girl or a young woman to her
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Memorable volunteer
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There are so many stories I
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N E W S
W E S T E R N
N E W S a p r i l
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Western to boost First
Nations academics
In the budget
With details in the budget pointing to modest
growth in day-to-day spending, a continued
building boom and a variety of initiatives
across campus, we’ve highlighted a few items
from the 103-page document. Western News
will provide more detailed coverage of individual measures as information becomes
available. View the entire budget document at
uwo.ca/univsec/senate, then click on Senate
meeting agenda and follow the links.
B y P a u l M ay n e
T
he University of Western
Ontario is one of the few, if not
the only, Canadian universities
to undertake a funding initiative to
attract more First Nations faculty,
says a current Aboriginal professor
at Western.
Karl Hele, Assistant Professor of
First Nations Studies and Anthropology and cross-appointed in the
Department of History, says he’s
aware of only three other indigenous
faculty at Western but a budget priority approved last week by Senate
marks an important first step for the
university.
“I’m hoping this will encourage
other departments and faculties
across campus to hire indigenous
faculty – and not just for First Nations
Studies,” says Hele. His hope is that
First Nations faculty will not be “ghettoized” by teaching only First Nations
courses.
The new hiring initiative presented
in the 2008-09 budget – one of three
priorities including graduate expansion and promotion of ‘signature
areas’ of excellence – would seek to
increase the diversity of faculty. The
initiative extends a 2003-04 program
to support recruitment of women
faculty to include First Nations academics.
A special budget would provide 50
per cent of the first year’s salary and
benefits when faculties hire a First
Nations academic through the normal
selection process. A total of $500,000
has been set aside to hire additional
women and First Nations members.
Hele, a member of the Garden
River First Nation community of the
Anishinabeg people and Director of
First Nations Studies at Western, says
the initiative will take time to yield
results.
“We also have to ensure the new
faculty feel welcome in their environment,” he says. “If you don’t have a
welcoming atmosphere it won’t matter how much money you throw at
them, they won’t come to Western.”
Overall, the operating budget,
which governs day-to-day spending
on campus, will experience modest
growth following a number of years
when Western took advantage of provincial programs and front-end loaded
spending to build new programs and
foster graduate growth.
While revenue growth is expected
to grow by more than $17 million from
last year to $531 million, spending
will be kept on an even keel. By way
of comparison, the university anticipates growth in operating resources
of 14.3 per cent for the period 2006-07
to 2011-12, compared to 43.3 per cent
during 2001-02 to 2006-07.
“This coming year’s budget represents the university’s turn into a
period of more modest increases in
operating resources than has been the
case over the last several years,” says
Fred Longstaffe, Provost and VicePresident (Academic), adding he sees
the budget as being prudent, without
being unnecessarily conservative.
“We are able to continue with the
During this budget cycle (2006-07 to 2011-12),
full-time enrolment is expected to increase
just 1.4 per cent with operating revenues
increasing 14.3 per cent; this compares to the
previous budget cycle (2001-02 to 2006-07)
where enrolment increased 14.1 per cent and
operating revenue grew 43.3 per cent.
Western will soon identify up to 10 internationally recognized ‘signature areas’ on campus which it will promote.
Some space allocations in this planning cycle
include:
n Space in Alumni Hall for Engineering to
accommodate graduate student offices temporarily.
n Space in Alumni Hall for Health Sciences
to expand the Metras Museum and accommodate Sports and Recreation Services ticket
sales.
n The Bank of Montreal Alumni Western Centre Building (located near the university gates
at Richmond Street) given to the Ivey School
of Business for staff groups
Paul Mayne, Western News
Karl Hele, Assistant Professor of First Nations Studies and Anthropology and crossappointed in the Department of History, is encouraged by the university’s decision
to hire more First Nations faculty.
next stage of the Long Range Space
Plan, which is essential to our graduate expansion and to the development
of common space for all.”
Longstaffe adds the university is
able to fulfill all of the base-budget
and one-time commitments anticipated last year for year two of the
four-year budget plan in both the faculties and the support units – and add
to them in modest ways – particularly
across the faculties by increasing
them by $3 million to $312 million in
2008-09.
A component of this year’s budget
is the continued strong investment
into graduate expansion. Between
year one and two of the budget, Longstaffe says Western has allocated
an additional $2.25 million in base
funding and $3.8 million in one-time
funding (including the Provost’s Academic Support Fund) towards graduate expansion and enhancing the
graduate student experience.
In year two, this includes base
funding for additional graduate student support in Engineering, Science
and Social Science, faculty appointment support in FIMS, one-time support for graduate teaching assistants
training initiatives in Arts & Humanities, graduate student scholarships
and laboratory equipment in Health
Sciences, graduate student recruitment initiatives in FIMS and Science,
graduate course and program development in Engineering, and office
furniture and equipment for graduate
students in Social Science.
On top of this, the Graduate Expansion Fund (GEF) and Graduate
Expansion Fund Plus (GEF+), which
Longstaffe jokingly refers to as the
“alphabet soup”, will provide significant additional resources to all the
faculties for graduate expansion – a
total of $6.5 million in 2007-08 and
a total of $9.3 million projected for
2008-09.
This is contingent, of course, on
the successful recruitment of highly
qualified domestic/permanent resident students to take up these positions.
“We have realized the majority of
the new funding provided through
the Reaching Higher plan of the provincial government, with forward
growth in revenues arising mostly
from funds available to support graduate education,” says Longstaffe.
The university will also see a modest revenue boost in tuition fees with
undergraduate increases ranging
from four to eight per cent.
While a surplus of $11.6 million
is projected in the current financial
year that ends April 30, a deficit of
$10.5 million is projected for 2008-09.
To balance the budget, the university’s operating reserve – an account
created to help cover such shortfalls
– will decline to $10 million from $20.6
million.
In future years, the multi-year budget plan calls for a further gradual
decline in the size of the operating
reserve to be near the Board of Governors-mandated level of $2.5 million.
It is expected to be reached at the
end of the four-year planning period
in 2010-11.
“We will also make certain that
the funding levels needed to ensure
effective support for the ‘nuts and
bolts’ operation of our university are
not overlooked,” says Longstaffe.
“The creativity, careful planning
and dedication of Western’s people
will make it possible for us to build
upon this platform and sustain these
accomplishments during the coming
year, as we enter a period of significantly lower growth in revenues.”
Some other measures include:
n Talbot Theatre will receive a $5-million
upgrade for new lighting, seating and acoustical enhancements.
Photo by Claus Anderson
Don Wright Faculty of Music students, such as those in the wind ensemble seen here recently rehearsing, look forward to the much-need renovations to the Talbot Theatre.
Building boom continues on campus
B y P a u l M ay n e
G
et used to the building cranes
across campus as Western gears up for yet another
record-breaking year of construction
and facility upgrades.
With a planned capital budget of
$122.6 million for 2008-09, more than
half of this ($61.1 million) will go
towards new construction with the
$15-million Student Services Building
and $13.9-million Claudette MacKayLassonde Pavilion (Green Building)
leading the way.
Other significant new and ongoing
construction projects include the Support Services Building ($9 million), the
Advanced Facility for Avian Research
($5.3 million), Material Sciences Addition ($4.4 million), and the Institute for
Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative
Resources Facility ($2.8 million), as
well as work at the Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre, West Valley Building,
Insurance Research Lab for Better
Homes and the Biotron.
“I am very happy to see that the
Long-Range Space Plan, which was
unveiled in 2006, is proceeding on time
and within budget,” says Fred Longstaffe, Provost and Vice-President
(Academic). “This is indeed a major
transformation to our campus, and
it is being accomplished, I believe,
in a fashion that complements and
enhances the intrinsic character and
beauty of Western while fulfilling its
needs for the future.”
Longstaffe adds he looks forward
to the renewal and “uncrowding” that
it promises, the return of several historic buildings in the core of the campus to academic purposes, the provision of additional first-class facilities
for our students, staff and faculty, the
creation of common space for all and,
of course, “to those of us in buildings
under renovation - to it being completed.”
With 80 per cent of the major buildings on campus built before 1978,
renovations to these buildings are a
continuing part of the university’s
capital planning.
This coming year an additional $7.1
million will go towards ongoing work
in the Biological and Geological Building; $5.9 million towards the Physics
and Astronomy Building and $5 million has been earmarked for the Talbot
Theatre.
The Talbot Theatre renovation is
music to the ears of Professor James
McKay.
As Chair of Music Performance
Studies at the Don Wright Faculty of
Music, the improvements to the the-
atre – including new lighting, seating
and acoustical enhancements – will
boost all of the programs within the
faculty.
“This [Talbot Theatre] is the heart
and soul of our faculty. Every student
will use it at some point during their
time here,” says McKay. “In essence,
this is our lab.”
While he is thrilled with the muchneeded renovations to the theatre,
McKay emphasizes the work does not
replace the need for a proper concert
hall – an issue he says is still in the
works.
Work on the Talbot Theatre is
scheduled to begin next month, with
a completion date set for June 2009.
Some of the financial support for the
theatre renovation is being provided
by the family of Chancellor Arthur
Labatt. See more about the Labatt gift
on Page 3.
Another area expected to see an
increase in spending in the future is
utility infrastructure projects including boilers, chillers, electrical, water
and sewer distribution. Given the fact
most of the equipment is more than 30
years old, renewal and upgrading is a
critical part of future capital budgets.
A total of $5.3 million in work is
scheduled this year, including the
replacement of two boilers at $1 mil-
lion, with an additional $1 million
planned for next year.
“I have been personally very grateful for the co-operation, insight and
support of staff, faculty and students
as we enter into this period of slower
growth,” says Longstaffe. “Their
understanding of our need to hone our
plans ever more carefully has made all
the difference in our ability to move
forward collegially and with enthusiasm, energy and optimism.”
n Overall student support funding is projected to increase by $2.7 million to a total of
$48.3 million.
Some one-time allocations in the coming
budget include:
n $1 million to provide furniture and equipment for units relocating to the new Support
Services Building, and another $1 million for
renewal of an undergraduate teaching laboratory in the Chemistry Addition.
n $750,000 for the purchase of fitness and
pool equipment for the new Student Recreation Centre, set to open this fall.
n $2.1 million to complete the integration with
Robarts Research Institute.
n $700,000 to the Vice-President (Research)
to support research-related initiatives, including research development and commercialization of intellectual property.
Chelladurai accepts
new responsibilities
n $200,000 to the Vice-President (External)
to support advertising initiatives associated
with the university’s next fundraising campaign.
Ruban Chelladurai will take
on responsibilities of the Acting
Associate Vice-President (Physical Plant & Capital Planning Services) while a search is underway
to replace a retiring Dave Riddell.
Riddell, who has guided the university through a period of spectacular growth in recent years,
has announced his retirement
effective at the end of June.
The search for a new Associate Vice-President has begun and
will be carried out over the sum-
n Tuition for a first-year undergraduate entry
program will rise from $4,521 to $4,724, up
4.5 per cent; first-year Engineering ($6,940
to $7,495); Law ($11,372 to $12,282); and
Dentistry ($19,945 to $21,541) will rise eight
per cent.
mer. The university expects to
announce a replacement this fall.
In the meantime, Chelladurai
will assume responsibilities of the
position, in addition to maintaining his ongoing responsibilities as
Associate Vice-President, Institutional Planning & Budgeting.
Chelladurai has extensive
involvement in the university’s
capital planning and expansion
activities and has worked closely
with many areas of Physical Plant
in the past.
n $85,000 to campus police for hardware/
software upgrades and a self-contained
breathing apparatus.
n In 2007-08, $170,000 was allocated to
Intercollegiate Athletics and an addition to
the base of $105,000 is being allocated this
coming year.
n A three-per-cent increase in parking rates is
proposed for the coming year to offset higher
salaries, increased costs to maintain lots and
general inflation.
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N E W S
A night to remember
About 150
students
and seniors
danced away
the evening
at the fourth
annual Intergenerational
Gala
Photos by Paul Mayne
Second-year medical student Wajid
Sayeed wasn’t afraid to get out on
the dance floor with the Nostalgia
Theatre Group’s Trudy McCarthy.
And that gave Sayeed’s companion
for the night, Beth Chapman (above),
a good chuckle.
B y P a u l M ay n e
When the Village People’s
YMCA starts blaring and the
dance floor is packed, age doesn’t
seem to make quite the difference it did a moment ago.
That’s the idea behind the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry’s annual Intergenerational
Gala which was held recently in
London.
Medical and dentistry students
were paired with residents of
Grand Wood Park Apartments &
Retirement Residence and Trafalgar Terrace Retirement Residence for what was a memorable
evening for all.
“I enjoyed this evening even
more than I did last year because
I had a chance to meet Mrs.
(Beth) Chapman again and had
been looking forward to some
really interesting conversation,”
says second-year medical student
Wajid Sayeed. “It was a memorable night.”
With performances from the
Meds Orchestra and Meds Choir,
along with an interactive performance from the Nostalgia Theatre Group, the fourth annual
event continues to grow in its
excitement.
Second-year medical student
Jean Chen, one of the event’s
organizers, says the main idea of
the evening is for the seniors and
students alike to just have fun.
“The gala has really grown over
the years and I believe this spring
gala is the most memorable yet,”
says Chen, who herself was dancing up a storm. “The seniors were
up dancing as soon as the music
played. They sang along with the
students and really enjoyed themselves. There were real connections and enjoyment to be shared
in both parties.”
While the focus of the evening
was conversation, dancing and
overall good time, there is still an
opportunity to learn.
“I certainly hope it opens students’ eyes to see how one can
have tremendous quality of life
and potential, despite disability,”
says Laura Diachun, Director of
the Geriatric Residency Program
at Schulich.
“I hope that by humanizing
elders, students will better appreciate the impact that respectful
and dignified healthcare can have
for an older population.”
First-year medical student Janelle Rekman shares a laugh with Henry Wilde
after dancing the Macarena.
Elsie Brown had first-year dental student Daphne Pala in stitches the whole
time on the dance floor.
Faye Gray enjoys a quick spin around the dance floor with second year medical student Xiao Zhao.
Nostalgia Theatare Group performers Shirley Barber and Frank LeFrank
entertained the crowd with songs of old.
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Operators monitor more than 120,000 building sensors
Continued from page 1
“The main idea is to save
energy,” he says. “We can schedule every single fan on and off
and monitor many points on each
system. If there is somebody they
want to come to work on the weekend, we switch them on.”
Qubty says when a call about a
climate problem comes into the
Work Control Centre, they contact Drummond or Arbique who
call up the problem on their computers.
“If the problem fan looks OK,
he’ll turn it on immediately,” he
says. “He may send someone to go
and check things afterwards.”
“This saves us a lot of labour,
manpower and energy which of
course is number one.”
Qubty notes that all of this
work is handled by the control
room operators and four control
mechanics.
“In Physical Plant, we do the
programming, installation, engineering, graphics all in-house
and we coordinate with trades,”
he says. “Because of our limited
resources, we subcontract but
keep everything under our control.”
There is a priority list, Qubty
says with residences taking priority – “because people live there”
– then research facilities and
offices.
“Sometimes people get frustrated but we have limited
resources and a huge campus,”
he says. “We’re trying our best
and we definitely try to get to
everyone as fast as possible.”
The limitation in controlling
temperatures is based on how a
building was designed according
to Qubty. Newer buildings are
less problematic with older buildings more so.
“Take Stevenson Lawson,”
Qubty says of the aging building
(Lawson was built in 1934, Stevenson in 1955). “We have difficulty
giving people in there the right
temperature. We do our best but
there are limitations.”
The recent spate of building and renovation on campus
is slowly eroding the number of
problematic facilities. Stevenson
Lawson, Physics and the Services
buildings are next in line for complete renovations including HVAC
systems.
“To get all buildings on line, I’m
hoping it will be done in about five
years.”
The building boom on campus
has been whiplash fast with the
number of points monitored rising from 80,000 in 2000 to the
current level of 120,000.
“The biggest energy consumption is the amount of fresh air we
put into a building,” says Qubty.
“We have standards to keep up
but in certain buildings at certain
times it may vary.
Plans are in place to monitor
more building lights and sensors
at building entrances. There’s
even an ambitious CO2 sensor
Bob Klanac, Western News
Joe Arbique (left), Wayne Drummond (middle) and George Qubty handle climate control calls in the Physical Plant’s
Control Centre. Arbique and Drummond, Operations Specialists, are front-line crew who field campus calls dealing
with room temperature, among other concerns. Qubty, Manager of Mechanical and Engineering, says carbon diozide
measurement to determine the number of people in a building may soon be added to the 120,000 sensor points
his team monitors.
project that would monitor CO2
levels in a building’s exhaust to
determine the number of people
inside. With that information,
operators could adjust air delivery based on occupancy.“If for
some reason there will only be 20
people in a building designed for
100, why should we put the full
amount of fresh air in the building
and consume so much energy?”
Qubty says that their focus is
the air quality and delivery in all
seasons, a costly process given
Canada’s extremes.
“To cool every cubic feet per
minute per year costs around ten
dollars. You can do the math.”
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Spring Perspectives on Teaching
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Room 3345, Somerville House
9:00 – 10:45 a.m. – Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marilla Svinicki, The University of Texas at Austin
Teach Me, I Dare You!: Changing Students’ Attitudes about Who’s Responsible for Learning
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. – Recipients of the 2007 Fellowship in Teaching Innovation Award
A New Medicine for Physics: Using Medical Imaging as a Tactic for Teaching Physics
Tamie Poepping, Blaine Chronik, Ian MacDonald, Eugene Wong, Joel Cox, Reggie Taylor
Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Medical Biophysics
12:30 – 1:15 p.m. – Lunch and Learn: Wimba Collaboration Suite, Jane Winkler, ITS
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
The Role of Supervisory Agreements in Graduate Education
Carol Beynon, Graduate Studies; Stephen Sims, Graduate Studies; Nick Kuiper, Psychology
OR
Developing Innovative Study Abroad Experiences
Facilitator: Jeff Tennant, International Programs Development Coordinator
Panelists: Kim Baines, Chemistry; Ann Bossers, Occupational Therapy; Darwin Semotiuk, Kinesiology;
Sandy Smeltzer, Information and Media Studies
2:45 – 4:00 p.m.
Evaluating Oral Participation in Class
Facilitator: Nadine Le Gros, Teaching Support Centre
Panelists: Anthony Skelton, Philosophy; Graham Smith, Geography; Kim Solga, English
OR
What to Do to Get Them Through: Supervising Graduate Student Writing
Johnston Miller, Writing Support Centre and Teaching Support Centre
Registration is free and everyone is welcome. Please register online at: www.uwo.ca/tsc
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291st CONVOCATION - SPRING 2008
Spring Convocation takes place during the week of Monday, June 9 - Friday, June
13, with ceremonies at 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Members of Faculty, Senate,
the Board of Governors and Emeritus/a Professors are invited to take part in
the Academic Procession. Full information on joining the academic procession
(including order of ceremony, honorary degree recipients, assembly and regalia)
may be found on the Senate Website:
http//www.uwo.ca/univsec/senate/academic_procession.pdf
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This award is open to graduate or undergraduate students
in any program of any year at Western who have been
accepted to pursue course work or significant scholarly
activity for a minimum of three months at a university or
college in Greater London Authority or the City of London,
England, during the 2008-2009 academic year.
For application details contact:
Western’s International Exchange Program
exchange@uwo.ca or 519-661-2111 ext. 85196
The Graduate Program in Neuroscience - Seminar
The Annual Treva Glazebrook Lecture
Dr. Kuei Yuan Tseng
Rosalind Franklin University
Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
“Developmental regulation of prefrontal
cortical plasticity by dopamine during the
peri-pubertal transition to adulthood:
Implications for schizophrenia
pathophysiology”
Monday, April 28, 2008, 12:30 p.m.
Siebens-Drake Research Institute,
Room 217
The Neuroscience Program wishes to thank the
family of Treva Glazebrook for supporting
this lecture in her name.
For further information, please contact the
Neuroscience Program Office at 519-661-4039
W E S T E R N
N E W S
Campus police help
Louisiana rebuild
B y P a u l M ay n e
Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina smashed the northcentral Gulf Coast of the United
States, a great deal still needs to
be done to bring many communities back to life.
Members of Western’s Campus
Community Police Service will
be rolling up their sleeves May
3 to make a difference through
Rebuilding Together New
Orleans.
Along with officers from the
universities of Windsor, Guelph
and Carleton, Western’s contingent will make the 18-hour trip
to Louisiana where, with a $1,000
donation from their police fund,
they will help purchase construction material and pay for licensed
tradespersons to supervise their
crew.
Staff Sergeant Michael Mics,
Special Constables Ryan Craig
and Lee Pressey, Police Communications Operator Suzanne
Ypma, Ken Hoggart of Universal Defensive Tactics Training
Services, and four of Pressey’s
family members will spend the
week in New Orleans hammering
and rejuvenating a still battered
community.
“I was unaware so much work
still had to be done and was surprised after this much time, many
were still struggling to reclaim
their homes,” admits Mics, who
with others is using vacation time
and personal savings for meals
and accommodations.
“So many times, we think of
each of our organizations as being
too small to make a difference
on our own but when you gather
a collection of like-minded individuals that want to help, you can
assemble a team that can make a
world of difference.”
It was late August, 2005 when
Hurricane Katrina struck a devastating blow causing 53 levee
breaches and leaving 80 per cent
of New Orleans covered with
water, causing 1,577 deaths across
the state.
Since then a steady stream
of volunteers has been offering
assistance. Rebuilding the city
could take 10 years.
Craig wanted to be one of the
volunteers.
“I really think this will be a
life-changing experience, both
for the people who are getting a
new home as well as for me, who
will get the opportunity to assist
another person, to provide them
with a basic necessity – shelter,”
says Craig, adding in policing he
often gets to assist others, but
New Orleans will be in a whole
new realm.
Is he surprised close to three
years later there is still devastation?
“I don’t think I’m as surprised
as I will be when I get there and
see for myself how much rebuilding still needs to be done,” says
Craig.
Ypma agrees.
“Having watched the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina unfold,
I felt a strong sense of compassion for those who were suffering
and a desire to provide what help
I could,” says Ypma, who traveled
to New Orleans in 2006 to assist in
the early clean up.
“That experience was very eyeopening as to the extent of the
damage. So now two years later
to have the opportunity to return,
there was no question in my mind
I wanted to be a part. The people
of New Orleans are very much
still in need.”
Campus police welcome financial assistance for their trip. Contact Mics at mmics@uwo.ca or
extension 85640.
TO:
DEANS, DEPARTMENT HEADS AND BUDGET UNIT HEADS
FROM:
Carter Scott, Controller
DATE:
April 02, 2008
SUBJECT:
YEAR END DEADLINES
The University’s year-end is Wednesday, April 30, 2008. All transactions occurring before year-end must be dated April 30, 2008 or earlier
and be included in the 2007/2008 budget year. It is the responsibility of each department to submit its accounting records before the deadlines listed below. The transactions received before these deadlines will be included in the 2007/2008 budget year.
CASH RECEIPTS
All cheques and cash must be deposited by the central cashier on or before April 30, 2008 in order to be processed with an April date. All
deposits made after April 30 will be May dated. Due to the volume of deposits anticipated on April 28, 29 and 30, the cashier will not be
accepting petty cash reimbursements on those dates. Petty cash reimbursements can be processed with an April date up until Thursday
Monday May 5, 2008 (see petty cash note below). In order to accommodate the anticipated volume on April 28, 29 and 30, the cashier hours
will be as follows: April 28 & 29 9:00 am-12:00 pm and 12:30-3:30 pm; April 30 9:00 am-2:00 pm.
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE INVOICES
All April dated invoices for external customers must be finalized and printed by 6:00 pm on April 30, 2008.
INVENTORIES
The last day for submission of the physical inventory sheets is Friday, May 2, 2008.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL CHARGES
Interdepartmental charges for goods received or services rendered before April 30, 2008 must be dated April 30, 2008 or prior and journaled no later than Monday, May 5, 2008. Ensure the Accounting Date on the Journal Entry Header Panel is changed to April 30, 2008.
TRAVEL EXPENSES/TRAVEL ADVANCES
Travel costs incurred prior to April 30, 2008 must be submitted on a travel expense report no later than Wednesday, April 30, 2008. All outstanding travel advances should be cleared by that date. For employees using the on-line travel expense system, claims must be approved
by the final approver by April 30, 2008 to be included in the 2007/2008 budget year. Hard copies of on-line expense reports with receipts
attached must be forwarded to SLB 280 by Friday May 9, 2008.
PETTY CASH
Expenses incurred prior to April 30, 2008 must be submitted through the central cashier no later than Monday, May 5, 2008 to be processed
with an April date. It is strongly encouraged that Petty Cash claims be submitted prior to April 28 where possible to ensure your claim will be
processed in the 2007/2008 budget year.
PAYROLL INSTRUCTIONS
Regular and vacation pay for part-time employees and any overtime owed to employees should be paid in April. Financial Services will accrue amounts earned in April and paid during the period May 1 - May 2, 2008.
PURCHASING INSTRUCTIONS
Purchase orders where shipping and invoicing take place before May 1, 2008 must be received by the Purchasing Department prior to April
30, 2008. Purchase orders with invoice attached, for the 2007/2008 budget year must be received no later than Friday, May 2, 2008. Electronic requisitions with invoice received must be entered and submitted to the Purchasing Department no later than May 2, 2008. Purchase
Orders, where shipping and invoicing take place after May 1, 2008 will not be committed against your account until after May 1, 2008.
W E S T E R N
N E W S Perseverance, serendipity
play roles in success
B y M i t c h e l l Z i mm e r
Jeremy McNeil’s path to success has not been a straight line.
“One of the things I have
learned is that things do happen
rather serendipitously and you
have to be ready to say ‘this is
an opportunity I hadn’t planned
on.’”
McNeil’s ability to take advantage of unplanned opportunities has helped to earn him the
prestigious Fry Award from the
Canadian Society of Zoologists
(CSZ), presented for making an
outstanding contribution.
Coincidentally, the 1977 winner
of the award was Helen Battle
from Western, “since I’m the Battle Professor of Chemical Ecology.”
While finishing his undergraduate degree at Western McNeil
started searching for a place to
pursue a graduate degree. He
joined the lab of a researcher in
North Carolina who was then relatively unknown. As luck would
have it, “within the year of my
being there, he became an international sort of guru/philosopher
because he organized an international symposium.”
Even some of his renowned
insect research was rather for-
McNeil
tuitous, although it didn’t appear
so at first.
“We were working on one insect
called the European Skipper and
we were going to test different
bacteria and viruses as biological
control agents.” says McNeil.
“We had set up all of these replicated plots in this enormous field
when we had an outbreak of the
true armyworm and the larvae
came through and ate everything
in sight.”
Finding himself with no plots
and a lot of caterpillars, McNeil
altered research directions.
“A friend of mine had just
isolated the sex pheromone of
the armyworm, but nothing was
known about the pheromone biology, such as what age do females
start producing it and at what
time of night. So I thought ‘Well,
this would be a good point of
departure because we have all
this material.”
It turns out, 25 years and 50
papers later, the armyworm
has become a model system for
understanding the reproductive
biology of migratory species.
McNeil says the beginning of this
work was not due to a particular
insight, instead: “The damn thing
ate everything that I was going to
use so I said ‘I’m getting even and
I’m going to use you.’”
McNeil attributes his success to
“perseverance and enthusiasm. I
think that if you really care about
what you’re doing, then perseverance isn’t a problem because you
find it exciting.” He also notes
that not every research avenue
is successful. “One of the things
that I’ve found hard is when you
think you have a really neat idea
and on paper it makes sense…
and then you invest quite a lot of
time and energy and finances and
it doesn’t work. Learning to say
‘enough is enough’ … on certain
projects is really hard to do, but
you must eventually do it.”
McNeil will accept the award
May 19 at the opening of the Canadian Society of Zoologists annual
general meeting in Halifax.
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Review of the Faculty of Engineering
A Senate Decanal Selection Committee for the Faculty of Engineering has been
constituted and is now engaged in a review of the Faculty’s operations. Input
from Faculty members, staff and students forms an important part of the assessment of the Faculty’s scholarly and educational programs, its academic plans for
the future, and its administration. This input also will be most valuable as the
Committee develops a sense of the characteristics that are most important in the
next Dean, and in the selection process itself.
External Reviewers will visit the campus on May 1 and 2, 2008. They will meet
with members of the University and Faculty administrations and with representatives of particular constituencies within the Faculty, including students, to seek
their views about the Faculty’s operations. The Reviewers’ itinerary also will
include open meetings to which Faculty members, staff, and students will be
invited. The External Reviewers are:
Amit Chakma, Vice-President Academic & Provost, University of Waterloo
Mo Elbestawi, Vice-President (Research & International Affairs),
McMaster University
Murat Saatcioglu, Professor and University Research Chair,
University of Ottawa
Faculty, staff and students in the Faculty of Engineering are encouraged to make
written submissions regarding any aspect of the Faculty’s operations, and the
characteristics required to be Dean in this Faculty at this time. Submissions may
be addressed directly to: “External Reviewers – Faculty of Engineering, c/o The
Office of the Provost,” prior to April 30, 2008. Submissions addressed in this
manner will be reviewed only by the External Reviewers and will otherwise be
held in strict confidence.
Those wishing to make comments directly to the Selection Committee may
address them to: Dr. Fred Longstaffe, Provost and Vice-President (Academic),
and Chair of the Decanal Selection Committee for the Faculty of Engineering,
Stevenson-Lawson Building, Room 115, The University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario N6A 5B8. These submissions will be shared with Committee
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grandparents to family friends.
“I’ve been told that at that age,
I was trading fake money for fake
goods and services,” laughs Oana
Branzei.
Sitting on a black, faux-leather
chair in the comforts of her quiet
office, Branzei explains how that
was the beginning of her life-long
interest in business. That interest led her to pursue business
degrees in three different countries.
And now, Branzei holds a
position as Assistant Professor
of Strategy at the Richard Ivey
School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
But for Branzei, getting the
opportunity to study foreign
business in her home country of
Romania was a feat.
“I grew up during communism
Background
Title: Assistant Professor, Richard
Ivey School of Business
Specialty: Strategy
Relationship: Married to a (secret)
colleague
Any kids?: “Yes, two very demanding
golden retrievers.”
Non-academic project: “I’m learning
how to ride a motorcycle.”
times,” she explains. “So the borders were closed to the outside.”
The country placed tight controls around international relations, leaving few doors open
to explore the world outside of
Romania.
But when Branzei was 12 years
old, her parents took her on a
holiday, giving her a rare glimpse
into that outside world.
“Going from communist Romania into Western Europe—it was
like going from black and white
television to colour television.”
From that experience, Branzei’s craving to “draw bridges
to the outside world” was reaffirmed.
In Grade 11, her chance came.
It was 1989, a year after communist rule ended in Romania,
and the country finally allowed
universities to offer programs in
foreign trade and diplomacy.
“When it opened up, I was quick
to pursue that opportunity,” she
says.
Entry into the program was
competitive, with 9.6 as the lowest admission score out of a possible 10. Branzei scored a 10.
She began the program in 1991
at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, the oldest university
in Romania. Branzei worked her
way to the North American equivalent of an honour’s degree. She
graduated first in her class and in
her cohort.
In 1998, she received a master’s
degree from the University of
Nebraska, specializing in international business, before getting
her PhD in business administration at the University of British
Columbia in 2005.
Branzei has since taken her
passion for business into the
classroom.
Glenn Rowe, a professor and
colleague at Ivey, noticed her
teaching potential when he saw
her present a paper at a conference several years ago.
“She had a style of engaging
the audience, of engaging students,” Rowe says. “It was a style
that would prove effective in an
Ivey classroom.”
Rowe worked to recruit Branzei to Ivey, finally succeeding last
summer, when Branzei joined the
faculty.
She brings her expertise in
strategic issues to the school.
“I’m very interested in studying how a company’s strong set
of capabilities can feed upon one
another to foster the momentum
of innovation,” Branzei says. In
simpler terms, she studies the
strategies that firms use to deal
with challenges, to better understand why some are more successful than others at dealing
with their challenges.
“Coming to Western was an
easy choice. I already knew many
of my colleagues here,” replies
Branzei. “And I’m even married
to one,” she adds with a slight
smile.
However, she’s keeping that
piece of information to herself.
Some of her students are curious about her husband’s identity,
but she prefers to keep her personal life personal. She would
rather talk about her work at
Ivey.
“I just love teaching,” says
Branzei. “I am able to facilitate
students’ goals.”
And although she’s received
several awards for research and
teaching, her most memorable
moments in her career are the
ones that involve seeing her students graduate.
“When they walk across that
stage, the future winks at you,”
she says. “You see talented individuals take flight.”
The writer is a graduate student studying journalism.
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Alumni Western is sponsoring
a cross-Canada tour of singer
and Western troubadour mainstay Rick McGhie. This first-ever
McGhie tour will kick off May 30
in Toronto and travel to Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, Ottawa and
London.
“It’s a great opportunity for
alumni to reconnect with old
friends from Western. It’s also
an opportunity to get current students and alumni out together,”
says Ryan Rodrigues, MBA’07,
Associate Director, Alumni Outreach.
The event is planned for the
summer to reach as many students and alumni as possible.
“We’re choosing cities, locations with alumni branches. It’s
an introduction for students to
branches. We’re using volunteers
to help (at each location). It also
introduces a lot of alumni to their
local branch.”
How does McGhie feel being
centre-stage for his first ever
cross-Canada tour for Western
alumni? “It’s great,” says the laidback campus icon. “It’s always,
always a different crowd every
time.”
Because his performances have
spanned three decades, he has
fans whose parents saw McGhie
play when they were on campus.
“I actually had a girl come up
to me and whisper, ‘Can I talk
to you?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘You dated my
mother’,” says McGhie. “At least
no one has said – yet – you dated
my grandma,” he jokes.
McGhie has played music
professionally since high school
when he was with a band and
did weekend gigs. The start of
his Western longevity began in
1975 when he was a solo act and
did a week’s stint in the Elbow
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Room - then operated by administration and located under where
the Centre Spot now is in UCC.
He returned in the fall of ’75 for
another week. The year of the
Montreal Olympics, 1976, was the
beginning of his regular presence
on campus. In the early 1990’s he
switched to the USC and started
playing The Spoke – then located
in Somerville House.
For five years he played the
Spoke’s old location and then five
years in the new one at UCC. And
he still plays occasionally in the
further refurbished Spoke.
And why does he still play after
all these years? “People come up
to me and say: ‘Of all the time I’ve
spent at Western I don’t remember my Tuesday morning Math
class – but I remember Wednesday nights with Rick McGhie.’”
Although not as many members
of the audience come up on stage
and sing with him as they did in
past years, people will still feel
the urge to dance to his signature
tunes, like “Brown-Eyed Girl” or
sing along to “American Pie.”
Although not officially an alumnus of Western, McGhie’s wife
Linda, BA’86, BScN, is an alumna.
He met her before he started
playing at Western. And they
dated while she was a student
here. His son attended Western
and his daughter is still a student
here.
“The people are a vital part
of a university’s presence. And
alumni are a big part of Western’s spirit. People make Western a great place,” says McGhie.
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great place.”
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coming events
April 24
McIntosh Gallery Exhibition – Fanshawe College Fine Art Program Graduation Exhibition.
See some of London’s newest artists in the
culmination of their three-year program. www.
mcintoshgallery.ca
Oncology Grand Rounds –Robert Sibbald, Clinical Ethicist, LHSC. “Palliative Care Ethics – Of
Right, or Rights? Room A3-924 a/b. 12 – 1 p.m.
National Centre for Audiology – Phonak Symposium in Pediatric Audiology. Karen A. Gordon,
University of Toronto. “Promoting auditory
development in children with severe to profound hearing loss. 5:30 – 7 p.m. Elborn College.
Contact kieffer@nca.uwo.ca or 519-661-3901.
April 25
Department of Chemistry – Paul de Mayo
Award Lecture Award Winner 2007, Ian S. Young.
“In Pursuit of the Impossible? Natural Products
That Just Don’t Want to be Made”. Contact Brian
Pagenkopf, ext. 81430. bpagenko@uwo.ca. uwo.
ca/chem./aboutus/distlectureships.htm#Paul.
North Campus Bldg. Room 117. 1:30 p.m.
April 30
April 26
Modern Languages and Literatures presents
“La Tertulia” - Spanish Conversation Group. Anyone wishing to speak Spanish and meet people
from different Spanish-speaking countries is
welcome. Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. UC 117.
South Asian Medical Students’ Association,
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry Women’s Health, B. Bhayana & S. Vaideswaran;
Diet and Nutrition, Shabnam Jabran; Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, F. Rehman; Mental
Health, R. Harricharan; Spiritual Health, Pandit
Doobay. Followed by Q&A session. Free food and
entertainment. Wolf Performance Hall, Central
Library. 1 - 4 p.m.
Campus Communicators is a Toastmasters
club. Develop and improve communications
skills, in a supportive and learning environment.
SLB 330, 12 noon. Contact Megan Popovic mlpopovi@uwo.ca. website cctm.freetoasthost.info
London Clinical Research Association Spring
Meeting – “Practical Aspects of Clinical Studies and Time Management Tips” St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Monsignor Roney Bldg. Shuttleworth
Auditorium, Rm. D0-104, 6 p.m. RSVP: darlyne.
morlog@sjhc.london.on.ca. or 519-646-6000 ext.
64605.
Western Celebrates Feminism – An interdisciplinary conference to honour Julie Ashford.
Speakers: Carol Agocs, Western; Elizabeth Harvey, University of Toronto; Carole Farber, Western and Marilyn Frye, Michigan State University.
Registration (includes lunch) $20, $10 for students. Windermere Manor, 9 – 4:30 p.m. Contact
mjones5@uwo.ca. uwo.ca/womens/
April 28
Physiology and Pharmacology Seminar –
Masa Negishi, Laboratory of Reproductive and
Developmental Toxicology, NIEHS, NIH. “Nuclear
Xenobiotic Receptors CAR and PXR: What Regulates Them and What do They Regulate?” MSB
148, 4:30 p.m.
May 1
Biochemistry Visiting Speaker Seminar – Frank
Sicheri, Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto. “Principles of protein kinase regulation: Insights into the mechanism of action of
the UPR sensor Ire1” MSB 384. 10:30 a.m.
April 29
May 5
Oncology Grand Rounds – Xiango-Jiao Yang,
McGill University. “Protein Lysine Acetylation:
Epigenetic and Signaling Links to Leukemia and
Heart Diseases” Room A3-924a/b. 12 – 1 p.m.
Department of Chemistry Fred Pattison Senior
Lecturer. Erik J. Sorensen, Princeton University.
“Nature-Inspired Natural Product Synthesis” NCB
114, 3 p.m. Contact Michael A. Kerr, 519-661-2111
McIntosh Gallery Maysale – All proceeds support Gallery exhibitions and programs. Contact
Catherine at 519-661-3181 or celliots@uwo.ca
Runs to May 9.
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May 6
Department of Chemistry Fred Pattison Senior
Lecturer. Erik J. Sorensen, Princeton University.
“Our Preoccupation with the Diels-Alder Reaction” NCB 114, 3 p.m. Contact Michael A. Kerr,
519-661-2111 ext. 86354 email makerr@uwo.ca
Department of Chemistry Fred Pattison Senior
Lecturer. Erik J. Sorensen, Princeton University.
“Rapid Formation of Molecular Complexity in
Natural Product Synthesis” NCB 114, 3 p.m.
Contact Michael A. Kerr, 519-661-2111 ext. 86354
email makerr@uwo.ca
May 7
Campus Communicators is a Toastmasters
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skills, in a supportive and learning environment.
SLB 330, 12 noon. Contact Megan Popovic mlpop-
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PhD Lectures
Aneta Kielar – Psychology, Representation of
Language in the Brain: Behavioural and Imaging
Investigations of English Past Tense Morphology, April 24, 1 p.m., Room 9420 SSC
Shahid Islam – Statistics, Peridocity, Change
Detection and Prediction in Microarrays, April
25, 1 p.m., Room 248 WSC
Michael Broczkowski – Chemistry, The Effects
of Hydrogen and Temperature on the Electrochemistry and Corrosion of Uranium Dioxide,
April 29, 1:30 p.m., Room 115 ChB
analysis of inequality in China, with emphasis
on public policy considerations. Chapters focus
on inequality of income, poverty and inequality
in wealth and wages. Topics include migrants,
women, the elderly, the relationship between
income and health funding, and the impact of
the rural tax reform. Sicular is a professor and
director of the undergraduate program. More
information is available at
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Faculty & Staff
John Trevithick (Pathology and Kinesiology),
and Pathology graduate student, Tomasz Dzialoszynski, will attend the annual meeting of
the Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology in Fort Lauderdale April 27-May 1.
They will present a poster “Modeling Astronaut
Cataract Risk Reduction: Radiation Effects on
Lenses Exposed to 60Co, Proton and Neutron Beams” co-authored by themselves and
undergraduate student Carmen Carrasquilla.
The research explores the role of heat shock
proteins and related chaperone and protective
proteins in porcine lenses exposed to elevated
temperature, or different types of radiation,
using tissue culture of pig lenses as a model to
simulate potential conditions astronauts might
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identified several stress protein responses to
gamma radiation, as well as high energy protons
and neutrons. The objective is to explore possible preventive dietary compounds astronauts
might use on Mars voyages.
The annual McIntosh Gallery Maysale begins May 1 and runs until May 9. The early bird gets the china.
Modern Languages and Literatures presents
“La Tertulia” - Spanish Conversation Group. Anyone wishing to speak Spanish and meet people
from different Spanish-speaking countries is
welcome. Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. UC 117.
Terry Sicular (Economics) is co-author of a
new book – Inequality and Public Policy in
China – published this month by Cambridge
University Press. $90. The book, which has
been well-received by reviewers, provides an
A central Web site displays advertisements for
all vacant academic positions. The following
positions are among those advertised at www.
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school or department directly.
FULL-TIME ACADEMIC
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Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry,
Department of Paediatrics. Applications are
invited for a limited-term position at the rank
of Assistant Professor in Children’s Population
Health. Applications will be accepted until the
position is filled.
All positions are subject to budgetary approval.
Applicants should have fluent written and oral
communication skills in English. All qualified
candidates are encouraged to apply; however,
Canadian citizens and permanent residents
will be given priority. The University of Western
Ontario is committed to employment equity and
welcomes applications from all qualified women
and men, including visible minorities, Aboriginal
people and persons with disabilities.
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Dr. Gildo Santos, DDS, MSc, PhD has a dental practice
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Contact Dr. Gildo Santos at 519-661-2111 ext 86171
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or Werner at 519-472 5495.
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Halina Koch Bed & Breakfast, 250 Epworth.
Share an artist’s home of white-washed walls
and old beams in London North, patio fireplace.
Within walking distance of Western, LHSC – UC
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visiting faculty; available weekly or monthly.
www.sumacridgebb.com. Phone 519-670-5219.
Summer Rental
Bachelor apt in private home May 1 – Sept
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study, complete kitchen, 4-piece bathroom.
Laundry facilities. Friendly housecats on premises. No smoking. No parking available. $490/
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By the Turquoise Sea - our clean, charming hide-away Cape Cod-styled Bruce-Peninsula-Georgian Bay cottage is awaiting mature,
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Fall/Winter 2007/08 grades will be suppressed
as of April 11, 2008 and will not appear on
your transcript unless all of your grades have
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Some institutions may not accept your transcript until it indicates that you have successfully completed your academic year. If you
require this, please use our Official Transcript
Request form and choose the option of “Hold
for Final (Fall/Winter) Grades”. This option is not
available through our online ordering system.
If you are a graduating student and would like
to have your degree appear on your transcript,
select the “Hold for Degree to be Conferred”
option on your transcript order.
Tax Receipt Information
T2202A’s (tuition tax receipts) for the 2007 tax
year are available on-line under your Student
Services page (studentservices.uwo.ca).
T4A’s (income tax slips for scholarships, bursaries and monetary awards) for the 2007 tax
year were mailed at the end of February 2008
to eligible students.
2008 Spring/Summer
Term Information
For information on Important Summer Dates
visit: http://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/pdfs/
ImportantSummerDates2008.pdf
Summer work load restrictions can be found
in the 2008 Summer Calendar on page 4. The
2008 Summer Calendar is available at: http://
www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/pdfs/SummerCalendar2008.pdf
Undergraduate students interested in taking a
course during the 2008 Spring/Summer term
must complete the online term activation www.
registrar.uwo.ca.
OSAP - Summer 2008
Summer OSAP applications are now available
on the Registrar’s website or in hard copy from
Student Information Services. Applications for
Fall/Winter 2008-2009 will be available in May.
Student Information Services
(Room 190) Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - 9am to 4pm,
Wednesdays - 10am to 5pm
Telephone Helpline: 519-661-2100
Regular hours - 9am to 4pm
Job Prep 101: May 5-9
Support for Finding Employment
The Career Centre @ Western is offering a oneweek program for15 students who are actively
seeking employment. Visit www.career.uwo.ca
Job Prep 101: May 26-30
Preparing For Non-Academic
Employment
The Career Centre @ Western, in cooperation
with The Faculty of Graduate Studies is offering a one-week program for 12 PhD students
actively seeking non-academic employment.
Visit www.career.uwo.ca
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Beginning Summer 2008, Statements of Account
will no longer be mailed. Statements are available online.
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been submitted and are visible to you via the
Student Centre.
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Summer 2008 Statements
of Account
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Visit www.registrar.uwo.ca
Publication
Schedule
Following this issue of Western News, the newspaper shifts to publishing every other week
during May and June. Persons wishing to advertise in the issues of May 8, May 22, June 5 and
June 19 should contact Advertising Coordinator
Denise Jones at advertise@uwo.ca. Those seeking to publicize events should contact Western
News with complete information at least 10 days
before publication at comingevents@uwo.ca.