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Friday, August 5, 2005
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca E-mail announcements to bulletin@uwaterloo.ca |
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In the kitchen,
and clearly prepared to stand the heat, is fine arts professor Bruce
Taylor, who's serving as acting chair of his department for a year that
began July 1. Taylor poses in the ceramics room
glaze kitchen in East Campus
Hall: "It has all the raw materials that we use to formulate
glazes and clays," he explains. Photo by Chris Hughes, UW Graphics.
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"Every day we are learning more about the best ways of caring for our oldest and most vulnerable members of society," said Milloy. "Today we are introducing a way of taking this knowledge and applying it in long-term care homes and seniors' homes to enhance the lives of seniors and provide support to their caregivers."
The funding will enable the RIA to join with the Elisabeth Bruyère Research Institute in Ottawa in leading the development of a Seniors' Health Research Transfer Network. This network will promote ways of passing health research findings to health care providers in geriatric care and involving front-line providers in setting research priorities, a news release explained.
RIA and EBRI will present workshops, make on-line access to "literature and best practices" available, and support health care providers, particularly nurse practitioners connected with Community Care Access Centres and psycho-geriatric consultants working with behaviour management issues, to use new research to improve the care of the elderly in long-term care homes, retirement homes and their own homes.
The Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto and the Aphasia Institute of Toronto are also part of the Seniors' Health Research Transfer Network. A total of $1.67 million in new funding will get the network started and also provide eight regional co-ordinators to implement Registered Nurses Association of Ontario Best Practice Guidelines -- such as treating diabetes and preventing falls -- in long-term care homes.
"We are increasing expertise among caregivers and improve public education and awareness," health minister George Smitherman said. "This involves driving best care practices and research into the geriatric care field, so that seniors receive the best care possible, and families and caregivers get the most support."
The government said the initiative was in response to Monique Smith's report Commitment to Care: A Plan for Long-Term Care in Ontario, which called for improved quality of life for long-term care residents, more informed consumer participation and higher standards of care.
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The announcement came from Bud Walker, UW's director of business operations, to whom Graphics reports. "I am very happy for Sean and for UW Graphics," Walker wrote in a memo this week. "Sean brings to the job a passion for UW, sound management experience at UW, and a successful business background in the graphics/communications industry. Please join me in welcoming Sean to this new opportunity."
Chris Read has been interim director of the department for a little more than a year, since Linda Norton resigned as director in April 2004. Read can now return to his regular job as manager of the UW bookstore.
Walker's memo gave the credentials of the new director: "Sean is currently Assistant Registrar for the Faculty of Mathematics and the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. Sean has been with UW since 2001, initially as Development Officer for the Faculty of Science. Prior to coming to UW Sean was the Director of Market Development for Creative Options, a Waterloo firm specializing in corporate communications.
"Sean has Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of
Waterloo. He lives in Waterloo with his wife and four children.
While an undergraduate student in economics at UW Sean was a
five-time
co-captain of the UW basketball team, five time MVP
and, after graduation, a member of Canada's national team."
"The University of Waterloo Muslim Students' Association (MSA) denounces in the strongest possible terms today's indiscriminate terror attacks in London. The horrific attacks that shook the city earlier in the day are completely incompatible with the world's great religious traditions, including Islam, and can never be excused or justified. Our sympathies and our prayers are with the victims, their families, and friends.
"MSA remains consistent in its position regarding terrorist attacks, regarding them as repulsive and cowardly acts irrespective of the motivation or perpetrator. Islam upholds the life of every human being as sacrosanct and completely prohibits indiscriminate violence and the targeting of innocents, which sow fear and chaos in the world."
A few days later, a group of Canadian Muslim leaders issued a statement to similar effect: "We will confront and challenge the extremist mindset that produces this perversion of our faith." A similar statement was issued by Muslim leaders in the United States last week.
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Centre for International Governance Innovation presents Stephen
Toope, Trudeau Foundation, "Can the UN Really Protect Human
Rights?" 11:45, 57 Erb Street West, free tickets 885-2444 ext. 226.
Certificate in University Teaching research presentations by graduate students, 1:00, Math and Computer room 5136. Audience registration online. Inter-University Symposium on Infrastructure Management sponsored by transportation group, department of civil engineering, Saturday in the Davis Centre, details online. Walking tour of Uptown Waterloo, organized by UW Recreation Committee, Sunday. |
UW's first-ever International Optometric Bridging Program is winding up its on-campus session today. The program has brought 14 professionals to the optometry school for a crash course over the past two weeks, and now they'll head out for an eight-day internship. "The program," says Susan Cooper of optometry, "is funded by the government of Ontario. It increases access for internationally trained optometrists to the profession in Ontario by bridging their current skills to those needed to practice in Canada and to pass their national board exams. We have participants from 7 countries -- UK, Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan, India and Colombia. We have had 15 UW faculty involved, and 16 optometrists from Kitchener to Ottawa volunteer to host the participants as interns. The class will return next Thursday for their final clinical evaluations. They have bonded wonderfully and have formed a support group for each other as they move forward to their Canadian board exams in October."
Two young women, one of them a UW student, were killed in the early morning of July 22 when an SUV rear-ended their car in a construction zone on highway 401 near Chatham. They were Sara Leili, who had just completed first year in arts (based at Conrad Grebel University College), and Sarah Mouland of the University of Ottawa. Both were from Leamington, Ontario, southwest of Chatham. Leili "was a kind and gentle leader," a friend told Imprint. Chatham-Kent Ontario Provincial Police charged the SUV driver, a 32-year-old man from Brooklyn, New York, with dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death.
The office of waste management coordinator at UW has been vacant since Patti Cook left the job earlier this summer for a new role as development officer in the faculty of environmental studies. "During the summer months," says vice-president (administration and finance) Dennis Huber, "waste management responsiblities are being shared between Plant Operations and Central Stores. I will be reviewing he detailed waste management requirements in the fall."
Relatively experienced young teachers ("those who have taught a minimum of three university-level courses independently") are the audience for a workshop to be held next Thursday morning, sponsored by the teaching resource office. Its title: "Reflecting on Your Teaching". Says the course description: "One helpful way to re-energize ourselves as teachers is to spend some time thinking about how and why we teach the way we do. This workshop provides a time and place to focus on our teaching. We will engage in various activities to increase our self-awareness about our role as teachers, and work to uncover the assumptions that affect our actions. We will also discuss tools to use with our students and peers to get feedback from them to round out our reflections beyond our own ideas." There's more information -- including an explanation of the advance assignment, and a way to register -- online.
A jury is meeting this week to choose among five proposals -- one of them from UW architecture student Ken Lum -- for the Flight 93 Memorial in central Pennsylvania, with the winner to be announced next month. . . . Organizers have announced that this year's Pascal Lectures on Christianity and the University will be given October 27 and 28 by Lamin Sanneh, scholar of Christianity and Islam based at Yale University. . . . Downtown Kitchener will host the Blues, Brews and Barbeques Festival this weekend, with a Saturday night appearance by Ike Turner, whose show (with then wife Tina) at the Physical Activities Complex in September 1972 was a headline moment in UW student life. . . .
The city of Waterloo will be doing repairs to water pipes on Phillip Street starting Monday for two or three days. Access from University Avenue will be blocked, but drivers can still reach UW's parking lot B and East Campus Hall from the Columbia Street end of Phillip.
And . . . I'm going to be away from the university for the next couple of weeks. Other staff in Communications and Public Affairs will keep the Daily Bulletin going while I'm away, and information can be sent to bulletin@uwaterloo.ca.
CAR