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Monday, August 23, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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The name has been mentioned occasionally since it got approval
from officials and donors early this summer, but hasn't been
publicly explained until now.
"Musagetes (pronounced 'mews-a-GET-ease') is the epithet of the god Apollo as father of the muses," writes Rick Haldenby, director of the architecture school. "It is also the name of the foundation that was established within the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation by philanthropists Michael Barnstijn and Louise MacCallum to fund cultural projects.
"Their $2.5 million gift was directed specifically to the architecture library in Cambridge. Hence the name."
Barnstijn and MacCallum, retired executives of Research In Motion, have been cited as leaders among "a new generation of volunteers and philanthropists". They were two of the guests of honour when the architecture school held a reception in November to celebrate major gifts to the Cambridge project.
Last-minute work on the architecture building is getting it ready for the arrival of students the day after Labour Day. "If all goes well, the library will be open for business on September 13," says Michele Laing, the librarian -- currently in Dana Porter -- who will be in charge of the Musagetes facility.
She notes that work started last week to box up the architecture materials in the Dana Porter and Davis Centre collections, in the present Map and Design Library in Environmental Studies I, and in the library's storage facility in Guelph, to ship them down to Cambridge. Besides books and journals on the shelves, the Musagetes Library will include historic and rare items in a rare books room.
Books will be labelled ARCH, for architecture, when they appear on the shelves of the new library, and Trellis -- the library's electronic database -- will show the Musagetes location for items that are in Cambridge. The Musagetes name "will be engraved in glass on the atrium wall immediately adjacent to the entrance to the library", says Richard Pinnell, manager of branch library services.
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Red Green
has been at work in room 347 of the Optometry building, says
faculty member Graham Strong, pointing to the lavish use of duct
tape in recent temporary repairs. The good news: it's going to be
replaced with more conventional upholstery by the time classes
start next month. "This significantly-oversized lecture
theatre," Strong says, gets heavy use from outside the optometry
school, particularly from applied health sciences, as UW has been "forced
to cope with larger class sizes and a limited number of large classrooms".
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Assisting with the launch, expected by September 5 at Vanscoy Air Base about 30 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon, is a UW team. Included is Kaley Walker of the UW chemistry department, who is a researcher with the Canadian Scisat-1 spacecraft's Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment mission based at Waterloo.
The large balloon will carry an instrument package nearly 40 kilometres high in the atmosphere, passing through most of the ozone layer in the earth's stratosphere as part of the Mantra (Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assessment) research project. The payload on board the Mantra balloon is comprised of 11 instruments, including an ozone-measuring instrument called Maestro (Measurements of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratospheric and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation), which was developed in 2002 by Environment Canada.
The original Maestro instrument was launched into space in 2003 on board Scisat-1 and is now measuring the ozone layer from space. Lead scientist for the research is another UW chemistry professor, Peter Bernath. The balloon-borne version of Maestro, and some of the other instruments that are part of the balloon payload, will take readings as the satellite passes, which will serve to verify the accuracy of the measurements made from the satellite.
The primary balloon is as tall as a 25-storey building and will carry a payload exceeding a half tonne. Instrument packages will record the thickness of the ozone layer and measure CFCs and other ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere. Scientists will compare these readings to measurements recorded by balloon flights over Saskatchewan over the past 20 years.
This study will help researchers monitor the effectiveness of measures to reduce ozone-depleting chemicals undertaken since the Montreal Protocol, a global agreement to protect the ozone layer. The extent of global ozone depletion is a cause of concern among scientists, because it is still larger than predicted by the research that formed the scientific basis for the Montreal Protocol and its subsequent amendments, Environment Canada says.
Three types of research balloons will be used: The giant research balloon (height 80 metres when inflated, payload 630 kilograms) will be launched only once, between August 20 and September 5, at night. A somewhat smaller balloon will be launched to make measurements of bromine oxide using an instrument from France called Systeme D'Analyse par Observations Zenithales. The instrument weighs about 20 kilograms. This flight will be made near sunrise or sunset when the sun is low on the horizon. Much smaller "ozonesonde" balloons (height eight metres when inflated, payload three kilograms) will be launched approximately every other day until after the main Mantra flight, weather permitting, during daylight hours.
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Solar Energy Society of Canada annual conference: lecture by
solar architect Steven Strong, 11:30, Davis Centre room 1351; trade
show, 1:30 to 4:30, DC 1301.
More
information online.
Hot water and steam shutoff in most campus buildings (all buildings inside ring road, plus Village I) today and tomorrow, ending 11 p.m. Tuesday. Matthews Hall cooling will e shut off Tuesday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fans will continue to run for ventilation. Computing systems shutdown affecting Quest, Trellis and many other services, Friday 6 p.m. until about noon Sunday. Details online. |
The event -- with "singing and dancing and good eats, too" -- is being conducted by Healing of the Seven Generations, a Kitchener agency that offers support programs for native people "suffering from the effects of the legacy of residential schools."
According to UW aboriginal student counsellor Jean Becker, although the last Canadian residential school for native children closed in 1984, the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the residential school generations continue to feel the effects of their family's loss of connection with their heritage, language, culture and community. For some descendents of the children who were forced to attend the residential schools, that legacy may include dysfunctional families, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, or poor self esteem.
Confidential counselling sessions at Healing of the Seven Generations are available to status natives, and efforts are underway to extend the services to non-status natives, as well.
The drum social will include a raffle to raise money in support of the agency's programming.
CAR