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| Friday |
Monday, December 8, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
Lyle Hallman Institute excavation is under way -- photo by UW
Graphics Photo/Imaging. There's also
a webcam keeping
its eye on the project.
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"The expansion is slated to be ready in late fall 2004," says Michelle Douglas-Mills of the AHS dean's office, "and will provide space for the growing Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation -- the behavioural research arm of the Canadian Cancer Society -- and the Health Behaviour Research Group, currently located in the Math and Computer building.
"When a third floor is erected, it will house UW's proposed Institute for Health Informatics Research, as well as research modules for the departments in AHS."
At its October meeting, the UW board of governors approved a construction contract with Buttcon Ltd. and a total budget of $5,919,000 for the project. Under the contract, the university can decide to spend another $780,000 on construction, and increase the total budget to $7.3 million, to add a third floor to the new wing.
Originally AHS proposed a two-storey building with 14,500 square feet of space, and the possibility of adding a third storey to bring the total to 21,750 square feet. As planning went on, the design changed, so that two storeys will now provide 18,170 square feet, and three storeys a total of 26,674 square feet (a bit smaller than the Arts Lecture Hall).
"The larger than estimated two-storey addition provides approximately 85% of the total space contemplated in the original three-storey option," a report from the board's building and properties committee points out. "The Faculty of AHS is committed to providing the funding necessary to construct the larger two-storey facility."
And adding a third storey would be even better if the money can be found, the board was told. Dennis Huber, UW's vice-president (administration and finance), said the decision has to be made "prior to putting the roof on", which probably means February.
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Senate undergraduate council, 12 noon Tuesday, Needles Hall
room 3004.
Carol sing in the Modern Languages lobby, 19th annual event led by Jake Willms, 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. Mature students' luncheon, noon Wednesday, information ext. 2429. What's So Grossi about Concerti? K-W Symphony concert, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Theatre of the Arts. Understanding the Learner: workshop for teaching assistants and other instructors, 1:30 Thursday, Math and Computer room 4063, registrations ext. 3132. Job descriptions: workshop for managers who are responsible for preparing job descriptions, 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Davis Centre room 1302. Deadline for financial documents, including travel claims, to be submitted to finance office for payment before Christmas is Friday, December 12. |
The centre was created in June. The proposal presented to UW's senate at that time noted that "CCAT provides a physical and virtual space for bringing together people who share a common interest in the digital design of sound, text, hypertext, images, and video."
Says a UW news release now: "Drawing on its long-standing strengths in the study of images, text, sound and video, UW's Faculty of Arts is establishing CCAT in order to attract top researchers and students to an innovative centre that integrates artistic, cultural and technological literacy.
"Located in the Modern Languages Building on the UW campus, CCAT currently supports an interesting cluster of research projects, each of which explores the emerging possibilities for people-centred digital design."
The centre is headed by Heather MacDougall, history professor and associate dean (graduate studies and research) in arts, and includes faculty from such fields as drama and speech communication, English, fine arts, and Germanic and Slavic.
Today's celebration starts at 10 a.m. in Modern Languages room 117 -- the former faculty lounge, now renovated as offices and computer labs for CCAT.
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Niccoli, Higgins, Iacobucci |
Iacobucci is a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and received an honorary degree from UW in June. Higgins is the president of St. Jerome's University, where Niccoli serves as the chair of the department of French and Italian studies.
The distinctions were conferred by mayor Giuseppe Albo at a packed ceremony at Grimaldi's city hall attended by distinguished representatives of the province's political, academic and religious elite, including premier Giuseppe Chiaravalloti.
The three received these honours in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the social and cultural growth of Italian-Canadian life in Ontario and for the promotion of academic links between Italian and Canadian universities. St. Jerome's and UW have established a tripartite exchange agreement with the University of Calabria and are collaborating with the University of Florence on an international conference on conservation and restoration.
The three were also honoured as special guests at the official opening of the University of Calabria's academic year and met with a number of distinguished figures including Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission.
CAR