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| Yesterday |
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Graduate students in environmental studies got together with faculty members for a barbecue Friday in the "northern extension" of the Dorney Garden outside the ES buildings. Photo by Donald Duff-McCracken. |
Elaine Garner of the UW graduate studies office provides this list of what's scheduled. "Current and prospective graduate students, as well as faculty and staff, are invited," she writes.
Today: Representatives from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council talk about Canada Graduate Scholarships, 10:00 to 12 noon, Needles Hall room 3001. Graduate scholarship information session for the faculties of science and engineering, 3:30 to 4:30, Rod Coutts Hall room 211.
Wednesday: "Key Components of a Winning Scholarship Application", a presentation by Brian Dixon of the biology department, 2:30 to 4:00, Math and Computer room 1056. Graduate scholarship information session for the faculties of arts and applied health sciences, 3:30 to 4:30, Needles Hall room 3001. Graduate scholarship information session for the faculty of environmental studies, and wine and cheese social, 4:45 to 6:00, Environmental Studies I courtyard.
Thursday: Graduate scholarship information session for the faculty of mathematics, 3:30 to 4:30, Math and Computer room 2065.
Monday, September 19: Representatives from Canadian Institute of Health Research talk about scholarship opportunities "from undergraduate to postdoctoral", 8:30 to 10:30, Needles Hall room 3001.
Tuesday, September 27: Representatives from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council talking about graduate scholarships, 9:30 to 12:00, Needles Hall room 3001.
![[Jarvie]](/images/2005/0912jarvie.jpg)
"Peggy has taken over the helm of one of Waterloo's biggest and most high-profile academic support departments," says the UW Recruiter newsletter in its fall issue. It gives some background, quoting Bruce Mitchell, associate provost (academic and student services), to whom CECS reports: "Our search started early in the winter. With a committee approach, and with reference to what was being learned from the ongoing review of co-op and career services, we considered the needs of the department and in turn, what kind of person might be the best fit."
The article continues: "The candidate required the capacity to enhance and broaden the relationship with co-op employers. Recognizing the differing needs and interests of employers, the candidate needed to possess a deep and thorough understanding of the employer mindset. Simultaneously, the candidate required the ability to manage a fair sized operation, bearing in mind some change may be required within the CECS organization.
"Also, at all times the candidate needed to understand that co-op is an educational undertaking which requires a strong partnership among co-op, the Faculties, students and the rest of the campus. Finally, the candidate needed to have an understanding about the role and opportunities for Career Services."
That's a tall order, Mitchell acknowledges: "We recognized the necessity to start with as wide and deep a pool possible for our search. . . . We drew from the university, the private sector, public sector as well as not-for-profit sectors. We believed it was possible that someone from any of those sectors would have relevant experience. We ended up with a pool of candidates with a breadth and depth we found very encouraging.
"Peggy Jarvie offered us many of the abilities and strengths we had identified. The committee was particularly impressed with Peggy's ability to work within the collegial model and manage change through consultation, discussion and extensive communication. She has broad experience in marketing, corporate communications, corporate finance, team building and change management.
"As the former Assistant Vice-President of Customer Knowledge and Branding at Sun Life Financial, Peggy had led the implementation of all facets of the Clarica name and brand at the time of the de-mutualization of Mutual Life of Canada. This achievement certainly demonstrated her significant change management responsibilities and her subsequent success."
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Return-to-campus interviews for co-op students Tuesday-Thursday,
schedule
online.
Meningitis vaccine clinic for students born 1985 through 1990, Tuesday-Thursday 9:30 to 11:30, Health Services, no charge. Campus Recreation open house 11:30 to 3:00 outside Student Life Centre. Registration this week for campus rec leagues; starts September 19 for instructional programs; details online. 'Starting Your Own Business' career workshop, 4:30, Tatham Centre room 2218, registration online. Campus Crusade for Christ coffee house 5:30, Student Life Centre. Joseph Novak, department of philosophy, speaks on novelist Robert Sawyer, 7:00, Kitchener Public Library main branch. Library books borrowed on term loan before the beginning of August are due Wednesday -- return or renew online. Chemical engineering seminar: Larry Frisch, State University of New York at Albany, "Aharonov-Bohm Effects in Entangled Molecules," Wednesday 11:30, Doug Wright Engineering room 2517. Arriscraft architecture lecture: Eyal Weizman of Tel Aviv and London, organizer of map-making project for a human rights organization to study violations through architecture and planning in the West Bank, Wednesday 7 p.m., Architecture building lecture hall. Orchestra@UWaterloo open rehearsal Thursday 7:00 to 9:30, Ron Eydt Village. New players (students, staff, faculty, alumni) invited -- register online. |
As for what's in the library, there's a lot more than just printed books and electronic journals, as this recent announcement of a new resource makes clear: "Based on the Aldrich series of reference volumes, Aldrich Spectral Viewer is an electronic resource that allows text and data field searching, plus the manipulation, printing, and exporting of spectra. This resource provides viewing capabilities for the IR (infrared), 1H (proton), and 13C (carbon 13) spectra for thousands of compounds. Compounds covered by the Aldrich Spectral Viewer are primarily organic, but some coverage of inorganic and organometallic compounds is also included. One user interface is provided to search for all 3 types of spectra." There's more information in the library's electronic newsletter.
Work is continuing on the dredging project at Columbia Lake -- in fact, it's starting to look like a lake again, and the main thing missing now is water. Tom Galloway of UW's plant operations department says the various groups involved in the project -- his department, the city of Waterloo, the contractor, the Grand River Conservation Authority -- will have to gauge things carefully when it's time to let the lake fill again, to avoid draining the Laurel Creek Reservoir (upstream from the lake) or letting Laurel Creek (downstream) run dry. It'll happen later this fall, he says. Meanwhile, some 74,000 cubic metres of "nutrient-rich" sediment have been dredged from the lake area and deposited elsewhere in the north campus environmental reserve.
UW's registrar has announced that Maureen Jones will start next week as Assistant Registrar for applied health studies and mathematics, a job that has been vacant since Sean Van Koughnett moved to UW Graphics this summer. "Maureen has worked at UW for 24 years," writes registrar Ken Lavigne. "She is currently Manager, Continuing Education. From January 2004 until July 2005, she was Acting Director, Student Awards and Financial Aid." Jones graduated from UW in 1982 with a BA in English, and holds a certificate in adult and continuing education from the University of Manitoba.
The UW graduate studies office has more information about this year's Rhodes Scholarships, and notes that the application deadline is September 23. . . . At its next meeting the UW senate is expected to approve the design of the academic hood for the Bachelor of Software Engineering degree, in time for the first BSEs to be awarded at spring convocation. . . . Hard to believe in mid-September, but most of Ontario is under a smog advisory today. . . .
Here's a reminder that the final piece of the University Avenue paving project will be done tomorrow, starting in the early morning. Lanes will be closed all the way from the railway tracks near Phillip Street up past Westmount Road to Keats Way. Sounds like it might be a good day to arrive on campus at the Columbia Street entrance instead.
And . . . I was taken to task by a reader for saying yesterday that Waterloo Christian Fellowship will hold a "U-2 theme evening" tonight in the Bombshelter pub. The band isn't "U-2" with a hyphen, it's just "U2", I was told. Correction duly noted. (The WCF event, with a live DJ, will run from 6 to 10 tonight.)
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