Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, June 14

FELLOW AWARDED:  A UW expert on child development will
be able to advance his international research after
receiving a major award from the Ontario Mental Health
Foundation.

Prof. Ken Rubin, psychology, is the recipient of the
foundation's Senior Research Fellowship.  The two-year
award, which can be renewed, begins July 1.  The
fellowship provides funds for a temporary faculty
replacement, at the assistant professor level, to
perform Rubin's teaching duties while he concentrates
on research.

"The award frees my time for research projects," Rubin
said, adding that his work takes in the area of psycho-
pathology in the development of children.  "Our
research program covers the period from birth to
adolescence."

The work focuses on the many factors affecting a
child's development -- internal ones such as anxiety
and depression, plus external ones such as hostility
and violence from others.  Over the next two years,
Rubin's research will take him to universities in the
United States and China.

QUOTING DOWNEY:  At the UW board of governors meeting
last Tuesday, president James Downey said:  "I'm
constantly amazed by the depth, the range and the
quality of the research that goes on in the institution
in many fields of human endeavor.

For example, he cited the work by Prof. Jan van Pelt on
the architectural reconstruction of Nazi death camp
Auschwitz.  The research by the faculty member of UW's
School of Architecture will soon be featured on the
BBC.

OWNING IDEAS:  The Record, our local newspaper,
published an intriguing front-page story last Saturday
on the smouldering controversy of intellectual property
rights.

Members of the UW Graduate Student Association, past-
president Duncan Phillips and colleague Kevin Erler, as
well as Jim Kalbfleisch, UW's vice-president academic
and provost, were quoted in the article by reporter
Rose Simone.

In a nutshell,  the graduate students contend that, in
a number of occasions, their contributions to research
advances are given insufficient credit by project
supervisors, usually tenured faculty members.

UW does have a policy that protects a creator's
intellectual property rights, but it's unclear how
those rights are to be shared among researchers
involved in a project.  A university committee is
currently investigating the issue.

POLITICAL UPDATING :  UW alumnus Andrew Telegdi,
Waterloo's Member of Parliament, has earned a recent
promotion in the House of Commons.  Last week, he was
named vice-chair of the Commons standing committee on
Human Rights and the Status of the Disabled.

Telegdi, who during his student days served two terms
as president of the Federation of Students, was first
appointed to the standing committee earlier this year.
He will lend assistance to the chair of the committee,
MP Beryl Gaffney.

In his first week as vice-chair, Telegdi and his
committee members held hearings for delegations from
strife-stricken Rwanda and Myanmar (Burma).  He is also
a member of the standing committees on the Environment
and Sustainable Development, and on Industry.

John Morris, Jim Fox
UW News Bureau, (519) 888-4444
jmorris@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca
jfox@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca