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| Yesterday |
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Police
want to talk to this man in connection with what's described as "a
serious assault" on August 30 near King Street and University Avenue.
Anyone who can assist in identifying him is asked to call Waterloo
Regional Police at 653-7700 ext. 3386.
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"Visitors can experience the art, music, flavours and festivities of East Asia," said Rebecca Hull, Renison communications officer. "The East Asian community is an important member of Renison College and we are honoured to commemorate their heritage during these three days."
Tickets are already sold out for the Literary Lunch and Launch that will be held Thursday at noon at Renison's Link Lounge. Judy Fong Bates (Midnight at the Dragon Cafe) and Wayson Choy (All That Matters) are the award-winning authors to be featured.
Then, at 1:30 p.m., there will be the opening of Renison's "East Meets West" Garden in the College Link. There's a blend of Canadian and Asian plant species including the red dragon Japanese maple, gold star juniper and maidenhair tree.
Visitors can learn more about East Asian business relations during the Business Breakfast Seminar on Friday starting at 7:30 a.m. Keynote speaker is Gerry Remers, chief operating officer of Christie Digital Systems Inc. and a member of the Renison board of governors. He is responsible for Christie's international engineering and manufacturing groups, particularly in the Orient.
Culture and Family Day is on Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can try their hand at origami, observe martial art demonstrations, learn the art of calligraphy, enjoy live music performances and experience the flavours of East Asian cuisine. Admission and parking are free.
The festival comes to an end with the Closing Gala and Silent Auction on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Federation Hall -- another sellout event.
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Jocus toy sale continues, 9 to 2, Early Childhood Education
Centre, PAS building.
Vendor focus day at Campus TechShop, Student Life Centre: Acer Associates, 10:00 to 3:00. Engineering debates continue today, 11:30, Engineering II room 3324, finals Friday noon, Carl Pollock Hall. Classical Indian music by Anwar Khurshid, 12:30, Conrad Grebel University College chapel, free (postponed from last week). Waterloo Instrumentation and Control group meeting 2:30, Math and Computer room 2009. Career workshops: "Interview Skills, the Basics" 3:30, "Preparing for Questions" 4:30, Tatham Centre room 1208. Waterloo Centre for German Studies reception to honour supporters, 4 p.m., South Campus Hall. Author Carrie Snyder reads from her book of short fiction, Hair Hat, 4 p.m., St. Jerome's University room 3027. Women in Mathematics speaker series: Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto, "Hamiltonian Flows and the Stationary Phase Approximation", 4:30, Math and Computer room 5158, aimed at upper-year undergrads and graduate students. Fit Challenge, an attempt to set the record for largest indoor fitness class in Canada", 4:45 to 6:00, Columbia Icefield. Free. Organizers hope to break University of Alberta record of 187 participants. Perimeter Institute public lecture: James Robert Brown, University of Toronto, "The Role of Visualization in Mathematical and Scientific Reasoning", 7 p.m., Waterloo Collegiate Institute, free tickets 569-7600 ext. 6152. Club for Undergraduate Biomedical Engineers "meet and greet" session for professors, graduate students and undergrads, Thursday 11:30 to 1:30, Davis Centre room 1301. Survey Research Centre lecture: Gary Edwards, Empathica, "Exploring the Service Profit Chain in Full Service Casual Restaurants." Thursday 3:30, PAS room 2030. Anthropology lecture: Christopher Ellis, University of Western Ontario, "Sacred Rituals and World View among Ontario's Most Ancient Inhabitants", Thursday 4 p.m., Arts Lecture Hall room 105. Reception follows with presentation of Anthropology Silver Medal. Staff Special Recognition Program award reception, Thursday 4 p.m., South Campus Hall. Computer science distinguished lecture: Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, "Beyond Mice and Menus", Thursday 4:15, Rod Coutts Hall room 101. 'Sustainable Living': "Lessons from a Costa Rican Eco-Village," report on trip by 15 UW students last year, Thursday 7:15, CEIT room 1015. Alumni Juried Exhibition opening at UW art gallery, East Campus Hall, Thursday 4 p.m. Show continues through January 20. Housing lecture: Larry Smith, economics, speaks on "The Best Argument for Affordable Housing", at fund-raising dinner for Charles Village, project of the House of Friendship. Special music by Conrad Grebel University College music department. Friday evening, St. Aloysius Church, tickets $50, phone 742-8327. 'Persons with Dementia and Their Partners in Care', forum Saturday all day at Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto, sponsored by Alzheimer research and education program. 'Autumn Magic' charity ball in support of Habitat for Humanity, Saturday night, Waterloo Inn, tickets $40, e-mail charity@mathsoc. |
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The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship was established by former UW
professor and local businessman Ronald Schlegel. It is available
to students at St. Jerome's and UW enrolled
in history, philosophy, religious studies and political science.
The book, entitled The Hidden Pierre Elliott Trudeau: The Faith Behind the Politics (Novalis), compiles presentations from a Trudeau conference held at St. Jerome's last year, at which political colleagues, biographers and friends came together to explore a hitherto unexamined aspect of Trudeau's character and political legacy: his faith and spirituality.
The book is edited by Richard Gwyn, John English and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, and gathers the speeches and discussions that occurred over two remarkable days. Included are the speeches of such figures as former prime minister John Turner and cabinet minister Allan MacEachen, along with Tom. Axworthy, Stephen Clarkson, John Godfrey, Ron Graham, Michael Higgins (president of St. Jerome's), Hon. Otto Lang, Jacques Monet, B.W. Powe, Nancy Southam and Michael Valpy.
Also in Homecoming weekendNaismith Classic basketball tournamentApplied health sciences Fun Run on Saturday morning |
Those attending the dinner, which takes place in the St. Jerome's Community Centre, will also receive a copy of the book and enjoy a gourmet dinner featuring broiled lobster tail and charbroiled filet mignon. Tickets are $150 per person. A charitable receipt will be issued for a portion of the ticket cost. Tickets can be ordered from Sarah Daly, the college's development coordinator, s2daly@uwaterloo.ca.
And which chair does he recommend? "They're all pretty good," he says, "now that we have realized that repetitive exposure of the back can have the same net effect as a single acute exposure. In other words, lifting something too heavy can generate the same pain as sitting at a desk all day every day."
Callaghan's research has been to discover at what point repetitive strains cause injury. He has been testing animal spines as a model of the human spine in his lab. "We place a stress on a spine and track the response until it fails," he explains. A spine segment is put it in a large machine that applies forces similar to those an individual would experience in lifting. These forces cause the spine to deform, which mimics the changes that can occur in repetitive loading such as the intervertebral disc bulging until it presses into the spinal cord or nerves leaving the spine, sending a pain message to the brain.
"We take several exposures and can watch the injury progressing," he says. "However, this information does not provide a frequent enough feedback to allow us to halt the testing and examine the spine in various stages of the injury progression.
"Fortunately, with a recent Canadian Foundation for Innovation and partnered Ontario Innovation Trust infrastructure grant, we are getting a digital X-ray so that we can know instantly when and how the injury is happening."
The equipment in the lab has also tested the strength model used to predict joint strength, similar to the bone density scans used to test for osteoporosis. Typically, a bone density X-ray is taken and will predict whether or not your bone density levels fall in a range associated with osteoporosis. Callaghan's lab found that a decreased bone density did not necessarily mean that the spine would fail at lower magnitudes of force.
"We were very surprised. We performed bone density testing on spine segments and when we compared the forces required to injure the specimens, bone density was actually a poor predictor with more error than expected."
In addition, there have been tests on car seats and office furniture. The lab has a mockup of a car's front seat and alternative office sitting configurations including funny little stools. The stools look like mushrooms and move side-to-side when someone sits on them, just like an exercise ball. "We just finished a study on exercise balls, actually, and we found that they are pretty similar to that of a normal desk chair but with a few added concerns like stability," Callaghan says.
"I am probably part of about 20 ongoing studies right now," he notes. He returned to Waterloo, in a Canada Research Chair position, where he received his master's degree and PhD after being at the University of Guelph for five years. "Coming back to Waterloo is great; it is like coming home. It is nice to be at Waterloo where kinesiology is so well recognized and established. Plus, the support received both within my own department and from the rest of campus is unlike any other place," he said.
| POSITIONS AVAILABLE |
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On this week's list from the human resources department:
Longer descriptions are available on the HR web site. |
Psychology. Karen Menard, "Means-end Search for Hidden Objects by 6.5 Month-Old Infants: Examination of an Experimental Limitation Hypothesis." Supervisor, Daniela O'Neill. Thesis on deposit in the faculty of arts, HH 317. Oral defence Friday, November 5, 10:30 a.m., Psychology room 3026.
Systems design engineering. Yi Liu, "Automated Type and Dimensional Synthesis of Planar Mechanisms Using Evolutionary Optimization." Supervisor, J. McPhee. Thesis on deposit in the faculty of engineering, CPH 4305. Oral defence Wednesday, November 10, 2 p.m., Engineering II room 3324.
Psychology. Kristyn Scott, "Female First, Leader Second? Examining the Role of Leader Gender in the Categorization of Leader Behavior." Supervisors, Doug Brown and Pat Rowe. Thesis on deposit in the faculty of arts, HH 317. Oral defence Friday, November 12, at 9:30 a.m., Psychology room 3026.
Statistics and actuarial science. Shoja'eddin Chenouri, "Multivariate Robust Nonparametric Inference Based on Data Depth." Supervisor, C. G. Small. Thesis on display in the faculty of mathematics, MC 5090. Oral defence Friday, November 12, 1 p.m., Engineering II room 1307G.
Management sciences. Francine Schlosser, "The Market-Oriented Contribution of Individuals: Translating Strategy into Action." Supervisor, R. McNaughton. Thesis on deposit in the faculty of engineering, CPH 4305. Oral defence Monday, November 15, 9 a.m., Engineering II room 3324.
Combinatorics and optimization. Michael William Newman, "Independent Sets and Eigenspaces." Supervisor, C.D. Godsil. Thesis on display in the faculty of mathematics, MC 5090. Oral defence Thursday, November 25, 10 a.m., Math and Computer room 5136.
Physics. David Poulin, "Emergence of a Classical World from Within Quantum Theory." Supervisor, R. Laflamme. Thesis on deposit in the faculty of science, ESC 254A. Oral defence Friday, November 26, 9 a.m. in BFG building room 2125.
Health studies and gerontology. Lynn Martin, "Assessing the Needs of Adults with Intellectual Disability in Different Care Settings: Development and Evaluation of the interRAI-Intellectual Disability (interRAI-ID)." Supervisor, John Hirdes. Thesis on display in the faculty of applied health sciences, BMH 3120. Oral defence Tuesday, November 30, 10 a.m., Matthews Hall room 3119.
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