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Engineering prof elected to Royal Society
-- from the UW News Bureau

Haas, who joined UW in 1968, is among the 64 Canadian professors and others raised to the ranks of the Royal Society this year. They will be inducted at a ceremony in Ottawa in November.

"The work and research accomplished by each of these distinguished men and women have had a profound impact on sciences and humanities in Canada," said William Leiss, president of the Royal Society. "The society is proud to welcome them as fellows, and in so doing to recognize and salute their outstanding contribution to their disciplines."

Haas joins 45 other professors at UW, active and former, who have been elected fellows of the Royal Society. He was elected to the Royal Society's Academy of Science in the area of applied science and engineering.

"It's an honour for the University of Waterloo as well," said Haas, who holds the status of Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He also received the Order of Canada in 1999 for his pioneering work in road construction.

Although he officially retired 1996, Haas has continued to teach and conduct research on how to improve our roads and highways. He pioneered the systems concept and development of engineering technology for managing networks of paved roads.

The author of 10 books and more than 300 technical papers, Haas has also lectured and consulted in several countries. His innovations have led to many management and economic benefits for public transportation agencies in Canada and around the world.

The Royal Society says in a citation that Haas has developed the theoretical foundation for pavement management and has guided its adaptation to practice. "Professor Ralph Haas' national and international eminence in road and pavement engineering have been gained through his original contributions in materials characterization and structural analysis, performance modelling, high speed automation of in-service pavement evaluation and network optimization procedures, and through his pioneering of the pavement management concept which has been adopted worldwide by transport authorities.

"This concept involves a unique and comprehensive integration of component technologies, life-cycle economic analyses and decision processes."

Since its inception 119 years ago, the Royal Society has been regarded as "a force for the enrichment, interpretation, and strengthening of Canada's intellectual heritage."

Unlike most scholarly and scientific societies, the Royal Society encompasses a broad range of disciplines: natural and applied sciences, medicine, social sciences and humanities.

Its mandate is the promotion and development of learning and research in the arts and sciences, achieved through the work of its three Academies: the Academy of Science, the Académie des lettres et des sciences humaines, and the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Reading your e-mail from the Web -- more tips from Information systems & technology

UW Engineering MailMan is a website maintained by the faculty of engineering, that will grant you access to your e-mail. To reach the MailMan go to: www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/mmstdol.cgi.

A login screen will appear asking for your userid, your password, and your mail server. The login screen has a 60 second timeout, meaning that if you have not typed anything in for 60 seconds, it will exit and you will have to return to try again. It will also exit if your login has failed more than three times.

Also note that this server will only provide access to your inbox and a message composer. E-mails stored in folders (IMAP or POP) will not be available, nor will your address book.

Once you log in, your inbox will be opened and will list all your messages. You can view a message by clicking on the show button to the left, or select delete from the right to permanently remove that message from your inbox. Once you view a message a new set of buttons will appear at the top of your screen enabling you to reply to, forward, or delete the current message. You can also move to the next or previous e-mail in your inbox, and send attachments. To return back to the list of all messages in your inbox, click on the reload button.

To compose a new message select the compose button. And when you are through checking your e-mail, do not forget to click on the log off button. Be sure to do this so that the next person coming along can not access your inbox.

Wednesday notes

• Customer service representative -- Co-operative education & career services (USG 4)
• Food services assistant -- Food services (40 hrs/week)
• Kitchen porter -- Food services (40 hrs/week)
• Cook -- Food services (35 hrs/week)
• Assistant catering serviceperson -- Food services (35 hrs/week)
• Assistant/associate secretary -- Secretariat (USG 9/11)
• Secretary to the director -- Computer systems group (USG 4)
• Research financial administrator -- Office of research (USG 5)

Today from noon until 1 p.m. there will be a live performance of Hindi film songs outside the Student Life Centre. Organizers say the performers will take requests from the crowd.

A request for help from Imprint: an error has left the newspaper without archive copies of its November 3, 2000 issue. Editor-in-chief Ryan Matthew Merkley requests that students, faculty and staff who have copies of the November 3, 2000 issue -- and are willing to part with them -- drop them off at SLC 1116 (the Imprint office). They may also notify him via e-mail if they have copies available.

A blood donor clinic continues in the Student Life Centre until the end of the week. Sign-up sheets are available at the turnkey desk.

A reminder that uwstudent.org is hosting its first-ever "developer kitchen" today at 5 p.m. in MC 4042. The event is a chance to learn about what makes the site tick. Organizers say "you don't need to be a programmer to attend."

And looking ahead to the weekend, A Midsummer Night's Ceili will be held at St. Jerome's University on Saturday evening. The special night of Irish music, song and dance will give both "experienced dancers and the bipedally challenged" a chance to learn the basics of Irish dancing, and to witness demonstrations by champion-level dancers. Tickets are $12 ($8 for children under 12), and are available by telephone at 884-8111 ext. 255 or at Words Worth Books, Old Goat Books, Second Look Books and the KW Bookstore. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.

Photo by Barbara Elve Lime green tags on bicycle handlebars are a friendly reminder to use bike racks for parking on campus -- rather than handrails, shrubbery or other locations that pose safety hazards, limit access by persons with disabilities or cause environmental damage.

Avvey Peters

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