![[University of Waterloo]](/goldbar.gif)
| Yesterday |
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Toppings:
Here's what Canada's "best overall" university looks like, from a
high vantage point in the new graduate residence at St. Paul's United
College. Herman Li of the school of computer science took the photo early
on the first snowy morning of the year (yesterday). Celebrating UW's "best
overall" ranking
in Maclean's
magazine, which is hitting newsstands this week, the president has
invited students, faculty and staff to
a pizza lunch
today in the Davis Centre great hall, noon to 1 p.m.
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The individual Fellowships are named after distinguished alumni, many of whom attended the reception at the Laurel Room in South Campus Hall. "The alumni responded with much enthusiasm for being recognized with a named Fellow," said Alister Mason, director of the school of accountancy.
"They have spoken glowingly about the chance to be paired with a current student and to share their knowledge and experience with someone in the early stages of a career in accounting," adds Grant Russell, director of the Accounting and Financial Management program.
The Fellowship program was established last year with the first class of students entering the new undergraduate Bachelor of Accounting and Financial Management program. Ten to 12 students each year -- about one-tenth of the BAFM class -- receive an award of $6,000, which is paid to the student as $1,000 per year for the first two years and then $1,000 per term for years three and four of the program.
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Dana Ellis,
the former Warrior athlete who placed sixth in the pole vault at last
summer's Olympic Games,
is
featured this month in the "@ UWaterloo" electronic newsletter
for UW alumni.
"Attending UW was an easy decision for Ellis," says the
online article. "With medical school as a dream, UW's kinesiology
program was very appealing." She took her BSc in 2002.
Ellis was a guest of honour at Homecoming celebrations over
the weekend.
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Each Fellow is named after an alumnus; thus each becomes the "name of the alumnus" Fellow of the School of Accountancy. The "naming" of each fellowship provides an opportunity for the school of accountancy to recognize the achievements and support of the school by the alumnus.
As well, it provides the Fellows with a role model that would be helpful to their own professional objectives. The alumni are at various stages of their careers, some of them having graduated from UW as early as 1974 and others as recently as 2003.
Fellows for 2003 were David Catarino, the Chris Govan Fellow; James Harris, David Rozee Fellow; Emad Hussain, Kenneth J. Klassen Fellow; Desmond Lau, Steve Glover Fellow; Sarah Lau, Carrie Boutcher Fellow; Alicia McTaggart, John R. Hanna Fellow; Natalie Muzyczka, Aleksander R. Olsen Fellow; Bridget Pereira, Brian D. Leader Fellow; Kristan Piett, Teresa Fortney Fellow; Sherlaine Tai, Scott Wetmore Fellow; Gigi Tat, Jerry Whelan Fellow; Tiffany Wong, Norbert Woo Fellow.
Fellows for 2004: Johannes Chan, Upkar Arora Fellow; Matthew Chan, Mike Garvey Fellow; Xiao Dong, Janice Deganis Fellow; Jessica Everest, Cindy Ditner Fellow; Stephanie Gates, Steve Aldersley Fellow; David Ha, Andrew Bauer Fellow; Yulia Hulevich, Tim Bauer Fellow; David Lin, Robert Harding Fellow; Bridget Stockie, Donald G. Craig Fellow; Bo Wang, Keith Farlinger Fellow; Jun Zhou, David Forster Fellow.
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The Centre for Mathematical Medicine, to be formally launched early
next year, will be co-directed by Siv Sivaloganathan (right), a
professor of applied mathematics at UW, and Amit Oza, deputy chief
oncologist at Princess Margaret Hospital. The centre will be based at the
Fields Institute for Research
in Mathematical Sciences, located in Toronto.
"Over the past decade, it has become increasingly apparent to us that there is an urgent need and a unique opportunity to create this centre," Sivaloganathan said.
"Given the diversity of medical specialty hospitals in Toronto as well as the concentration of applied math departments and research groups in Ontario, a centre encompassing all the relevant groups is the most suitable means of developing an integrated and cohesive strategy." At present, the centre is made up of a number of members of Princess Margaret Hospital, Hospital for Sick Children, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sunnybrook Hospital and Women's College Hospital, together with a number of applied math faculty members from Waterloo and other Ontario universities.
The centre would consolidate research initiatives already under way, as well as serving as a focus for researchers from medicine and mathematics. It would also provide a critical mass of researchers for new initiatives and research directions. Funding is expected from government peer-reviewed grants along with fundraising.
Sivaloganathan said the centre aims to bring together research in mathematics and medicine to address many questions arising at the mathematics/medicine interface. "With the recent emergence of mathematical medicine as a distinct discipline, it has become abundantly clear that an interdisciplinary approach is essential for the successful application of the mathematical/computational sciences to problems arising in the medical sciences."
The centre will be a focus for communication between the different groups and a means of facilitating research collaborations. It will offer a combination of workshops, discussion meetings, collaborative health projects and short- and long-term visitor programs -- all designed to stimulate interdisciplinary research within Ontario and in collaboration with other groups across Canada.
Teaching will be a major part of the centre's activity at both the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. "Our aim is to promote the application of mathematical modelling to medicine and the biomedical sciences and to generally stimulate interdisciplinary research in Ontario and across the country," Sivaloganathan said.
UW's University ProfessorsMark Zanna, psychology |
Posters are going up across campus inviting nominations for next year's Special Recognition Awards for staff members. The first round of $1,000 awards was given just a few days ago, to honour "dedication, hard work and continued commitment to excellence" by more than 200 staff. Nominations for the 2005 awards will be received from now through June. A memo to department heads from Catharine Scott, associate provost (human resources and student services), notes that "The majority of nominations this year came from peer staff members and students, which certainly reflects the wide spectrum of service which our staff members provide to UW. However, it does suggest that managers and department heads might want to take a more active role in nominations for 2005."
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Macromedia's Contribute demonstration by Jesse Rodgers,
communications and public affairs, 9:30, Davis Centre room 1304.
Business Etiquette career workshop 2:30, Tatham Centre room 1208. Arts faculty council 3:30, Humanities room 373. 'Why Culture Matters' lecture by writer and critic Max Wyman, sponsored by UW Centre for Cultural Management, 4 p.m. at Perimeter Institute, details online. Investment Club first information meeting 6 p.m., Davis Centre room 1304. German 359 film: "In the Line of Fire" (1993), 6:30, Rod Coutts Hall room 308. 'Web Accessibility Demystified' seminar by Jesse Rodgers, communications and public affairs, 9:30, Davis Centre room 1304. Employee safety orientation one-hour session Wednesday 10 a.m., Davis Centre room 1302, information ext. 5613. 'Xerox Focus Day' at Campus Techshop, Student Life Centre, Wednesday 10 to 3. Classical and jazz piano: Elena Klyucharova and Andrey Tikhonov, Wednesday 12:30, Conrad Grebel University College chapel, free. Health informatics seminar: Colin Mayfield, biology, "A Different Perspective on Health Informatics -- Its Role and Importance in Developing Countries." Wednesday 3:30, Davis Centre room 1304. Green roofs workshop sponsored by UW Sustainability Project, Wednesday 4 p.m., Environmental Studies I room 132. Communitech annual general meeting and open house, Wednesday 5 to 7 at 57 Erb Street West, details online. Electronic Portfolio Landscapes day-long showcase of ePortfolio projects at UW and elsewhere, November 15, information and reservations e-mail tracy@lt3, deadline tomorrow. Winterfest staff association family event, Sunday, December 12, 2 to 4 p.m., Columbia Icefield, registration forms online, deadline this Wednesday. |
UW's revenues this year will be higher than originally budgeted, because enrolment is up "significantly", the provost told UW's board of governors at its fall meeting late in October. Despite a drop in predicted government grants for 2004-05, the fees from those extra students are pushing income for the year up to $296.5 million, compared to $294.4 million shown when the budget was approved last spring. At the same time, spending is going up, partly because there's an automatic formula for distributing most of that fee revenue to the faculties and departments that have to teach the students. Salaries are expected to total $184.3 million this year and benefits another $34.9 million, out of total expenditures of $297.6 million. Bottom line is an operating deficit that's expected to edge just over $1.0 million by the time the fiscal year ends next April 30. That's manageable this year, the provost told the board.
Information systems and technology reports that various network services, including e-mail distribution across campus, have suffered some difficulties thanks to "two independent power outages in the server room" over the weekend plus "ongoing issues with our DHCP servers". . . . UW representatives are in Bridgetown, Barbados, today and tomorrow to speak to potential students at an education fair. . . . The bookstore is holding a holiday book sale today through Thursday in the South Campus Hall concourse. . . .
CAR