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| Yesterday |
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Watercolour shows tower and two wings]](/images/2005/1004pharmacy.jpg)
'Our vision
for health care' -- that's the promise of an open house tonight for
UW's future
school of
pharmacy. This vision is an architects' drawing of the
proposed
pharmacy building and health sciences campus at the corner of Victoria
and King Streets in downtown Kitchener. The open house will run from 7
to 9 tonight in the rotunda of Kitchener city hall on King Street.
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The first lecture is by Max Allen, a producer on CBC Radio's "Ideas" program, co-founder of the Textile Museum of Canada, and author of Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs. Allen will illustrate his talk, called "Toronto's Best Building -- and Why", by a selection of the 7,000 construction photos he took of "Toronto's Best Buildings". To find out what "Toronto's Best Building" is, you'll have to attend the lecture!
On October 12, the Toronto Star's architecture critic and urban issues columnist Christopher Hume will give a lecture entitled "Stand Tall: The Tower in the 21st Century, An Update". Hume says that despite reports of its demise, the tower is alive and well and doing better than ever, and he plans to prove it with examples from Ontario and international projects.
The third and final lecture in Private Passions, Public Places happens on October 19. Gary Michael Dault, a Toronto-based critic, writer, artist, and author of a weekly visual arts review column in the Globe and Mail, will transport the audience to the dramatic cliff tops of the Italian island of Capri with an illustrated talk called "My Favourite House: The Casa Malaparte".
All lectures are presented by the Cambridge Galleries at the Architecture building, 7 Melville Street South in Cambridge. Lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. and there's plenty of free parking. Tickets are $25 for the three-part series or $20 for members of Cambridge Galleries. Single lectures are $10 or $8 for members or $5 for students. For more information, please call the Cambridge Galleries at 621-0460.
In the last four and half years, the Independent Electricity System Operator has hired 28 full time former co-op students. And with 80 per cent of junior co-op students returning for second and third work terms, there seems to be more students coming, than going. "The key is to entice students to return for more work terms by exposing them to everything the company has to offer," says Strome.
IESO, a not for profit crown corporation, began hiring co-op students after splitting from Ontario Hydro in 2000. "We hire about 65 a year, which is a lot for a company of 400," says Strome.
Having started with 30 co-op students five years ago, Strome recognized the potential in Waterloo's co-op program: "Our population here is getting older, and we've been on the job for a long time, so we're always open to fresh new ideas. The students are our future, and we want them to have first-hand experience working in a corporation which is part of a growing industry."
![[Vast acreage of screens]](/images/2005/1005ieso.jpg)
IESO offers its students more than the opportunity to grow, network, and be
"mentored by the brightest in the field." Through such
value-added programs as Lunch and Learn (topics include the 2003
summer
blackout) and Power Systems 101 (a twenty-hour
certification course surveying the complexities of the power
business), students are given an up-close and personal look at
how IESO balances Ontario's demand for and supply of electricity
(control centre, pictured at right).
Strome sums it up: "We realize that we're competing for these
students, so we're continuously finding new ways to improve the
mentorship in the program."
Job shadowing at IESO allows less experienced co-ops to get a feel for different departments in the organisation, and is another incentive for students to return for a second or third term. IESO's student tours of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station and the Sir Adam Beck Plant in Niagara Falls spark the interest of engineers and non-engineers alike. "It's a win-win situation. We invest time and effort in the students, and we give them different exposures to make them want to come back. In return we get the freshest and brightest minds that Waterloo can offer." One IESO student first arrived as a junior, stayed for three work terms and then was hired even before he graduated, on the condition that he passed all his courses.
Strome points out that co-ops are more than highly motivated and enthusiastic employees. She recognizes the role of students as public relations ambassadors on campus, which contributes positively towards recruitment efforts, company image, and marketplace identity. "Co-op provides the opportunity for our business to be known. Peers trust peers, so word of mouth marketing is the best recruitment tool. When we were interviewing three years ago, nobody knew who we were because we had just broken off from Ontario Hydro. I was here last week interviewing students, and everybody knew about us ahead of time."
Stage designer at bookstore todaySet, production and costume designer Astrid Janson will be this year's speaker in the Silversides Theatre Artists Series, and will visit the UW bookstore in South Campus Hall from 12:00 to 1:30 today.Work by Janson -- a faculty member in drama at the University of Toronto -- has been seen on stages across Canada, the United States and Europe, and many times on specials and films for CBC television. She designed for the Stratford Festival for nine seasons, and has worked for the National Ballet, the Shaw Festival and other venues. She is the winner of 12 Dora Mavor Moore Awards. The format of the Silversides event is "a conversation": Bill Chesney, chair of the drama and speech communication department, will talk with Janson, and questions and general discussion will follow. Everybody is welcome, and there are refreshments. |
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Entrepreneurship Week events in the Davis
Centre: breakfast, workshop ("Turning Clark Kent Entrepreneurs
into Super Sales People"), noon lunch with keynote address
by Stéphane Boisvert, president of Sun Microsystems Canada. Details
online.
Employee safety orientation session 10 a.m., Davis Centre room 1304. Faculty of education talks from overseas institutions, 10:30 to 5:30, Tatham Centre, information from career services. Campus recreation garage sale with T-shirts and old sports equipment, 11:30 to 2:30, Physical Activities Complex, Red North entrance. Career workshops: "Introduction to Career Services Online Modules" 2:30, Tatham Centre room 1208; "Starting Your Own Business: Next Steps" 4:3, Tatham room 1112. Centre for International Governance Innovation presents a panel discussion: "Why Is There Still Hunger?" 7 p.m., 57 Erb Street West, free tickets e-mail rsvp@cigionline.org. EinsteinFest continues at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Displays and exhibits daily; Sanu Shamdasani, University College London, "Psychology as a New Science in 1905", today 7 p.m. Faculty of education talks from Canadian institutions, Wednesday and Thursday 10:30 to 5:30, Tatham Centre, information from career services. Demo Day: "Faculty, staff and students are invited to stop by and learn how the latest technology can make their academic or research careers easier," Campus TechShop, Student Life Centre, Wednesday 11:00 to 3:00. 'Managing Stress Before It Manages You', counselling services workshop, Wednesday 12 noon, Student Life Centre multipurpose room. Free noon concert: classical chamber music, cello and piano, Wednesday 12:30, Conrad Grebel University College chapel. Waterloo Centre for German Studies conference: "15 Years of United Germany", Wednesday afternoon and evening, Davis Centre, details online. Novelist and poet Stan Dragland reads from his work, Wednesday 2:30, St. Jerome's University room 2011. Canada-US Fulbright program information session for faculty and graduate students, Wednesday 3:00, Needles Hall room 3001. Don Kasta, distance and continuing education, retirement reception Wednesday 3:30, Laurel Room, South Campus Hall, RSVPs to Janet Moser, ext. 2025. Computational mathematics colloquium: Fue-Sang Lien, mechanical engineering, "High-Fidelity Numerical Model for Hazard Prediction in the Urban Environment", Wednesday 3:30, Math and Computer room 5158. Environmental studies alumni event, Sutton Place Hotel, Toronto, Wednesday 5 to 7 p.m., details online. |
Something else that's been out of commission is the third floor of the Dana Porter Library, where renovations to the periodicals area have been under way through the summer. Eric Boyd, facilities manager for the library, says most of the space is expected to be open for users as of tomorrow -- the contractors and plant operations department are finished, and all that's left is to get the place ready and take down the detour signs. "This will open the periodicals and study carrels to public use," says Boyd, "and provide easier access to LT3," which has its offices in a corner of the third floor. "Next week, furniture for the open area outside the reading room is scheduled to be installed. The reading room will continue to be closed until as-yet-undelivered overhead lighting and waiting lounge furniture is installed."
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The recent report on co-operative education and career services at UW
recommended,
among
many other things, that each faculty should designate a key person
-- possibly an associate dean -- to be the contact person and have an
overview of co-op issues in that faculty. Even before the report was
official, the faculty of mathematics has done exactly that: as of
September 1, pure mathematics professor Brian Forrest (right)
has been added to the dean's office as associate dean (co-operative
education). He joins associate deans for undergraduate studies, graduate
studies and research, computing (that post is vacant just now), and
external relations.
Elvina Henrich, who was a member of UW's staff from 1969 to her retirement in May 1987, died September 4, the human resources department advises. She worked as a food services assistant.
Water will be turned off in part of Engineering III building for the day as connections to the new "clean lab" there are completed. . . . The bicycle auction on "Car-Free Day" last week raised $1,080 for the UW Bike Centre. . . . Shirley McDermitt, a staff member in food services since 1978, and most recently salesperson in the Davis Centre Tim Horton's outlet, officially retired October 1. . . .
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