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Friday, July 16, 2004
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The UW Alumni Dragon Boat team, Team RUCKUS, has been having a fine season and hopes to take a high-ranking spot at this Saturday's Kiwanis Dragon Boat Festival at Laurel Creek Conservation Area in Waterloo. Mike Bluhm, who is a science grad (BSc '99) as well as an admissions and recruitment specialist in the registrar's office, is the Team RUCKUS co-captain. He leads a merry band of enthusiastic alumni and one student, Nicole French (3B Arts Economics), in a growing recreational and competitive sport.
Dragon boating is alive on campus as there are a few other staff and student dragon boat teams, including Brubaker's chef Roland Lynn's team, Naomi's Spirit. "JJ" John Jongerius, manager of the used book store, enters a team called the Junk Boat, in honour of his son who passed away several years ago. His daughters Holly, 2B science, and Amy (BSc '00), are also on the team. Dave Hinton from the FEDS also paddles for Junk Boat. SCRUBS, the science and business student committee, also enters a team.
Look for Team Ruckus under the UW Alumni tent at Laurel Creek this weekend before they go international. On July 31, Team RUCKUS will be paddling under the international spotlight in New York City for the NYC International Dragon Boat Festival. Anyone interested in joining Team Ruckus can contact Mike Bluhm at mbluhm@admmail.uwaterloo.ca or visit the team's website.
The action at Laurel Creek Conservation Area starts as early as 8 a.m. on Saturday and continues all day.
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What do you like best about your job at UW? "I like the flexibility of my position and the constant change. I enjoy meeting people and working on new initiatives. For example, The Certificate in University Teaching, developed in the TRACE office in 1998, is very popular among graduate students. We also organize the New Faculty Orientation program, now in its 3rd year. I am also involved in the Learning Initiatives Fund grants program which was initiated two years ago, and the newly formed Teaching Excellence Council."
What do you like to do in your spare time? "I have met many UW employees through organizing social events. I am especially proud of a new on-campus committee -- the UW Recreation Committee -- which plans events for all UW employees and retirees. I hope to meet a lot more fellow employees in the coming years."
What do you personally value about UW? "There are so many opportunities at Waterloo. If you have an idea, you can pursue it."
What projects do you support? "I have designated my donation to the scholarship program. Waterloo must provide more scholarships to be competitive in attracting students."
What are your fondest UW memories? "Warrior Basketball is a yearly highlight for my family, and we look forward to the Canada Day Celebrations at Columbia Lake. My 11-year-old son, Nicholas, and nine-year-old daughter, Samantha, have participated in the ESQ camp activities for several years. They know more about the Engineering and Science buildings than I do! Their favourite ESQ activity is having lunch with Mom at the Math C&D."
Is there anything special about your background or education that has been valuable to your work at UW? "Because I like being involved in new projects I was excited to be one of the first to enroll in the Masters of Distance Education program offered through Athabasca University in Alberta. All of the course work was completed using technology. I even defended my thesis via a conference call while wearing my pajamas and doing the laundry!"
The Arts Lecture Hall will be the venue for GQ2004, the fourth international conference on groundwater quality, hosted by UW's earth sciences department for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. The conference runs from July 19 to 22, with the opening session at 8:30 a.m. Monday. More than 200 technical presentations will cover subjects from novel groundwater monitoring wells to a program to develop a global inventory of groundwater quality. Coping with dangerous levels of naturally occurring arsenic in Bangladesh groundwater as well as cleaning up megasites are noted challenges. Innovative research tools for integrating groundwater and surface water models will be presented. Sessions will also deal with recent approaches to protect groundwater quality on farms and in well fields.
Laura Henderson, a Student Life 101 coordinator, sends word that volunteers are still needed for the big day on Saturday, July 24, the day when thousands of next fall's frosh and their families will visit the Waterloo campus. Laura writes: "Volunteers are needed from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. to direct visitors around campus, help with presentations, WATCard distribution, and staffing the Ask Me Booths, and to show a smiling face to first-year students and their familiies." You can sign up online or fill out a form in the
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And finally, to correct an error in Thursday's bulletin: the online courses that start July 21 (and August 18) are from the office of continuing education (not distance education) and the four featured courses are just a few of nearly 100 online courses now available.
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