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The Bulletin

One University.Many Futures.

Settling inTown halls give David Barnard a chance to share his thoughts and hear yours.

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Global viewStudents use pictures to illustrate what they’ve learned about the world.

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Closing the loopNursing dean Dauna Crooks envisions a program tailored to student and community needs.

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The University of Manitoba Students’ Union isn’t let-ting winter get it down. Instead UMSU is hosting Celebra-tion Week ‘09: Behind Closed Doors! from Jan. 26 to 30.

The theme takes the university community across the fine line that leads to taboo topics such as sex, drugs, and addiction in people’s everyday lives.

The week includes a line up of celebrity speakers.Dancing with the Stars winner and former 98 Degrees

band member Drew Lachey kicked off the speakers on

Wednesday.Frank Warren, the famous PostSecret author, takes the

stage in the Manitoba Room, Second Floor, University Cen-tre, at noon today, while everyone’s favourite Sunday Night Sex Show host, Sue Johanson speaks at noon in the Mani-toba Room on Friday, Jan. 30.

Other events this week include a serving of pancakes from UMSU executive members every morning and ice games in front of the Buller Building in the afternoons.

Photo by Dale Barbour

Heidi Ugrin and Kevin Curtis, members of the eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE) make music with the help of WallBalls, an in-development smart-table interface for collaborative spatial improvisation.

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It’s celebration time

The Man i toba Government presented the University of Manitoba with $26-million for campus improvements which will go towards building structural improvements, insulation upgrades and fire-safety system upgrades.

Overall the province is giving Manitoba’s four major universities $40-million for 54 campus improvement projects. University of Winnipeg president Lloyd Axworthy and Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface rectrice Raymonde Gagné joined president David Barnard at Aboriginal House for the announcement on Jan. 14.

“We are committed to the renewal of post-secondary institutions and revitalizing our campuses to ensure colleges and universities continue to provide exciting and vibrant settings for learning,” McGifford said. “This government has clearly demonstrated that post-secondary education and training is a top priority and this unprecedented commitment is a continuation of our promise to invest in the province’s centres of learning and research.”

Revitalization of the universities, which was assessed and recommended by an independent engineering firm, will include new roofing and plumbing, additional security, increased accessibility, improved energy efficiency through new heating and lighting systems, insulation upgrades and high-efficiency lighting equipment.

“We are extremely grateful to the provincial government for recognizing the infrastructure needs that exist on our campus,” said president David Barnard. “This funding will help us address those issues and ensure we continue to provide a safe and comfortable environment for the students and staff who study and work at the University of Manitoba.”

This two-year capital investment is part of the infrastructure stimulus a n n o u n c e d i n t h e p r o v i n c i a l government’s economic statement and throne speech. It is estimated that for every $1 million invested in renovations, 30 jobs are created and $1.5 million is added to the gross domestic product.

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In The NewsUniversity of Manitoba members are always

making news – demonstrating the university’s impact on the community. Here’s a look at the stories and headlines that show how U of M faculty and staff impact the world around them.

Always on the e-cuspJanuary 27, 2009trainingzone.co.uk

An online information service for learning and development professionals around the world called George Siemens, a well-known theorist on the changing nature of learning in a digital society, for a full-length feature article. The news and information website interviewed Siemens, the associate director of the university’s Learning Technology Centre, prior to his keynote presentation at the Learning Technologies Conference 2009 in London, England.

Baragar on the budgetJanuary 27, 2009CanadianBusiness.com

Fletcher Baragar of the department of economics spoke at length to CanadianBusiness.com on Canada’s deficit and government strategy in anticipation of the federal government’s budget.

Fast food and asthmaJanuary 27, 2009Various

A major study that includes Allan Becker of the departments of pediatrics & child health and immunology and postdoctoral student Xiao-Mei Mai made news headlines around the world for confirming the link between breastfeeding, fast food consumption and asthma. The study found that the benefits babies get from being breastfed in early life can be negated if later on in childhood they eat fast food more than once or twice a week. The study’s lead author, Anita Kozyrskyj, led the team while she was a researcher at the University of Manitoba.

Type your troubles away?January 22, 2009Globe and Mail

Lorne Sexton, an associate professor in clinical health psychology, spoke to the Globe and Mail about a Canadian university that is training social work students to provide online therapy. Sexton was asked for his insight as a psychologist and as chairman of a committee for the Canadian Psychological Association. The CPA is looking at guidelines for psychologists who want to use the Internet to provide counseling services.

Headline NewsWhere else has the U of M been making news?

Here’s a look at just a few of our headlines over the past few weeks.

• “Study finds religious services may lower suicide attempts,” Washington Times, Toronto Sun, CanadaEast.com, Daily Gleaner, MedIndia, Owen Sound Sun Times, Jan. 17, 2009.

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Centre on Aging Student AwArdSAward (Value)• Centre on Aging Betty Havens Memorial Graduate Fellowship ($4,000.00)• Jack MacDonell Scholarship for Research on Aging ($4,000.00)• Esther and Samuel Milmot Scholarship ($500.00)

Purpose• To encourage and stimulate student interest in research activity in aging.

eligibility• For the Centre on Aging Betty Havens Memorial Graduate Fellowship and Jack MacDonnell Scholarship for Research in Aging: Full-time Master’s students, medical residents pursuing full-time research, and Ph.D. students at the University of Manitoba whose studies focus on aging.• For the Esther and Samuel Milmot Scholarship: Full-time students pursuing a program which bears on gerontology either in the Faculty of Arts or in the Faculty of Graduate Studies with the principal field of study in a department of the Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba

Conditions for All Applicants:• Applications and references must be received no later than April 1, 2009.• Applications must include a description of the proposed research including a statement of its relevance to aging.• Applications must include all University transcripts. Two references from faculty familiar with the applicant’s work are to be forwarded by the referee directly to the Centre on Aging, on appropriate forms.• The awards will be payable in instalments during the period September 1, 2009 to May 1, 2010.• All recipients will be required to submit a progress report by May 1, 2010. Any resulting publications must also acknowledge financial support.• These awards may not be held more than once during a specific degree program.

Additional Conditions for graduate Students:• In addition to the two references noted above, a supporting letter must be forwarded by the applicant’s faculty advisor.• A copy of the recipient’s thesis/dissertation, when complete, must be submitted to the Centre on Aging. Financial support from the Centre must be acknowledged.

Committee of Selection• The selection committee for this fellowship will be appointed by the Centre’s Advisory Board. Various disciplines will be represented.

Application forms are available from:Centre on Aging338 isbister Buildinguniversity of Manitobawinnipeg, Manitoba, r3t 2n2(204) 474-8754Closing date for applications: April 1, 2009

Three new videos are now online to educate prospective students about the wide range of opportunities available to them at the U of M.

It’s no secret that the University of Manitoba is a special place. The students, faculty and staff who come to the university each day know it, as do the thousands of alumni around the world who still feel a strong connection to the U of M.

But sometimes it’s hard to put into words what makes the University of Manitoba so special. After all, there’s a lot to talk about: The excellence in teaching. The pioneering research. The championship sports teams. The vibrant student life. And more.

Well it’s a lot easier now with three new student-focused videos developed by Student Recruitment and Public Affairs. Why tell when you can show,

right?Each of the three videos tackles a different theme.

The first is an Introduction to the University of Manitoba, and is a general overview that focuses on the many possibilities open to you at the U of M.

Campus Living and Student Life demonstrates that the U of M is about more than a great education. It highlights all the exciting places you can go and the incredible people you’ll meet when you get here.

And Find your Future: The programs and courses of the U of M features the wide range of academic options available here.

Whatever you’re looking for, you can find your future at the U of M.

Want to check out the videos? View them online at umanitoba.ca.


Forty eight first-year pharmacy students at the University of Manitoba took their first steps toward becoming pharmacists during a White Coat Ceremony held by the Faculty of Pharmacy on Jan. 13.

“We are pleased to present the white coats to the first-year pharmacy students in recognition of their enrolment in a health care profession,” David Collins, dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy said. “The students should be proud of their accomplishments thus far, and can look forward to their future successes

within the program and the profession of pharmacy.”

The White Coat Ceremony is a symbolic event that culminates with each student receiving a new white lab coat that symbolizes entry into the pharmacy profession. During the ceremony, the new students stood together and recited the “Oath of a Pharmacist” in which they promised to show compassion and respect throughout their careers and to set worthy examples in the application of humanistic principles.

Millions for research projects

St. John’s shakes up campus food options

The Manitoba government announced that it has awarded the University of Manitoba more than $2.3 million in funding to support research projects relating to health, the environment and advances technologies.

The announcement was made on Jan. 23 by Science, Technology, Energy and Mines Minister Jim Rondeau. The funding is provided through the Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund.

“This funding from the Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund will provide an important stimulus to the research capacity at the University of Manitoba,” said Digvir Jayas, acting vice-president (research). The researchers who have received funding are:

Cindy Ellison, pathology, received $100,000 to equip a laboratory focused on investigating the bi-directional interactions between cells of immune system and epithelial cells, which are present in organs such as the skin, lungs and intestines.

Olanrewaju Ojo, mechanical and manufacturing engineering, received $98,758 to outfit a laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment that can be used alongside an existing scanning electron microscope to advance nanotechnology research.

Jenni fer van Wi jngaarden , chemistry, received $100,000 to equip a laboratory interested in the use of high resolution spectroscopic techniques to determine the properties of molecular ions and radicals.

Michael Gericke, physics and astronomy, received $93,940 to establish a state-of-the-art laboratory that can develop and test particle detectors used in subatomic physics experiments.

Davinder Jassal, internal medicine, received $100,000 to establish a laboratory interested in performing noninvasive cardiac imaging techniques that will lead to new understanding of the mechanisms underlying the metabolic syndrome.

Andrey Bekker, geological sciences,

received $267,308 to purchase a gas-source stable-isotope-ratio mass spectrometer and provide infrastructure to further advance the research laboratory.

Wen Zhong , textile sciences, was awarded $100,000 to provide infrastructure for the establishment of a state-of-the-art laboratory to advance research and development in healthcare and medical textiles.

Jitender Sareen, psychiatry, will be setting up a population-based laboratory focused on Aboriginal suicide prevention, military mental health, and anxiety disorders with his award of $98,808.

Frank Schweizer and Scott Kroeker, chemistry, received $364,894 to develop carbohydrate-based investigational drugs that are able to block adhesion of pathogens on cell surfaces, novel hybrid antibiotics against drug resistant bacteria, and to identify health-promoting structures of plant-derived glycopeptides.

Feiyue Wang, environment and

geography, and chemistry, will receive $389,250 to establish the Sea-Ice Environmental Research Facility, which will allow for the fabrication and growth of sea ice under various controlled conditions for microcosm-scale studies.

Torsten Hegmann and Michael S. Freund, chemistry, received $360,708 to establish a small and wide-angle x-ray scattering laboratory capable of advanced structural characterization of liquid crystal nanocomposites and other soft, nanoscale and condensed matter materials.

Warren Cariou, English, film and theatre, received $74,740 to establish the Narrative, Community and Indigenous Cultures: Creative Communities Studio.

David Barber, environment and geography, received $125,000 to purchase an L-band Scatterometer to support sea ice and Arctic climate change research.

Bruce Ford, biological sciences, was awarded $57,089 for the Canadian University Biological Consortium.

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Pharmacy students receive their white coats during ceremony on Jan. 13.

Taking up the white coat

St. John’s College’s Daily Bread Café is doing something that might just seem a little unusual for a college cafeteria; it’s growing.

In fact over the past few months the Daily Bread Café has moved into three new locations; Expresso 101, located next to the new Robert B. Schultz Lecture Theatre, St. Andrew’s College and the federal Freshwater Institute.

Café manager Ian Park said the expansion started with Expresso 101.

“We had small area next to the new theatre that didn’t really serve a purpose, so we thought it would be a good location for a new coffee and lunch counter,” Park said. “It complements our existing service

because we can use Expresso 101 to serve coffee and food in the evening rather than keeping the Daily Bread Café open.”

But after Expresso 101 was up and running last fall, the college received a phone call from St. Andrew’s College wondering if St. John’s would be interested in taking over residence food operations in St. Andrew’s.

In some ways saying yes was a big decision for St. John’s because it meant moving its food services beyond the walls of the college.

“There was some discussion,” Park said. “But we decided that rather than looking at it as an expansion, we were trying to be a good neighbour and were

helping ensure that the residence students in St. Andrew’s would continue to have access to food services.”

The St. Andrew’s location will feature the same meals that are offered in the St. John’s College residence.

“We expect there will be some walk up traffic in St. Andrew’s, but we’re primarily there for the residence students. We always say we feed people so they can learn,” Park said. The move into St. Andrew’s was completed in December.

But even as they were moving into St. Andrew’s, Park said they were offered the opportunity to bid on the cafeteria contract in the federal fishery building.

“We thought it would be a good

match. It’s a different clientele than we typically see in the Daily Bread, they have a nice facility, and we saw it as doorway to doing more catering in Smartpark,” Park said. The menu in the Freshwater Institute will be similar to the Daily Bread Café, but Park said they expect to offer local options, including keeping some deep fried items on the menu. The college took up operations in the Freshwater Institute earlier this month.

Overall, the changes have seen the college’s food service workforce grow from 15 people to 26. Park said any financial benefits from the expansion will flow back into the college to support its programming.


Winter Lecture Series: poverty, politics, ethics, animals, and death

“The ethics of ethics: Re�ections on the public role of ethicists”BY PROFESSOR DANIEL WEINSTOCKDaniel Weinstock is a member of the Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal, and Director of The Centre for Research Ethics. He is the author of The Challenge of Pluralism

Friday, 13th March, 12:30-1:30160 Elizabeth Dafoe Library (The Library Theatre)

“The dog by the cradle, the serpent beneath: some paradoxes of human-animal relationships”BY ERIKA RITTERErika Ritter is a novelist, playwright, essayist and radio broadcaster. Her latest book The Dog by the Cradle, The Serpent Beneath has just been published.

Tuesday, 17th March, 12:30-1:30Private Dining Room, University College

“The Case of Samuel Golobchuk: What lessons can we learn about end-of-life decision-making?”A debate between DOCTORS JOEL ZIVOT AND ADRIAN FINEJoel Zivot specializes in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. He looked after Mr. Golob-chuk during Mr. Golobchuk’s �nal days in the ICU at the Grace Hospital. Adrian Fine specializes in kidney diseases and was critical of the role of the court in the Golobchuk case.

Wednesday, 18th March, 12:30-1:30Private Dining Room, University College

Everyone is welcome to attend any or all of these events.

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grAduAte Student FellowShiPAlzheimer Society of Manitoba

Purpose• To enhance knowledge into the cause, treatment, cure and effects of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders.• To encourage graduate student interest in Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders• To stimulate graduate student research activity in Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders

Value• 2 fellowships of $3,000 each will be awarded.

eligibility• Full-time Master’s, post-graduate medical program (medical residents electing to take a year off from residency to pursue full-time research) and Ph.D. students, attending universities in Manitoba.

Conditions• Applications and references must be received no later than April 1, 2009.• Applications must include a description of the proposed research and a statement of its practical applicability and relevance.• Applications must include all University transcripts. A supporting letter must be forwarded by the applicant’s faculty advisor. Two further references from faculty familiar with the applicant’s work are to be forwarded by the referee directly to the Alzheimer Society Manitoba Graduate Fellowship Awards c/o Centre on Aging, on appropriate forms.• The scholarship will be payable in instalments during the period September 1, 2009 to May 1, 2010.• The recipient will be required to submit a progress report by May 1, 2010 and a copy of the thesis/dissertation, when complete, acknowledging financial support.• This award may not be held more than once during a specific degree program.

Committee of Selection• The selection committee for this fellowship will be appointed by the Advisory Board of the Centre on Aging.

Application forms are available from:Alzheimer Society of Manitoba graduate Student Fellowshipc/o Centre on Aging 338 isbister Building, university of Manitoba winnipeg, Manitoba, r3t 2n2(2o4) 474-8754

Closing date for applications: April 1, 2009


Alzheimer Society of Manitoba10 – 120 donald St.winnipeg, Manitoba, r3C 4g2ph: 943-6622e-mail: [email protected]

By DAlE BArBOurThe Bulletin

The subjects are different, but electrical and computer engineering professor Ekram Hossain’s latest two books from Springer, Introduction to Network Simulator NS2 and Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks, are both filling a niche in the field of wireless networks.

Introduction to Network Simulator NS2 was written by Hossain and Teerawat Issariyakul, a former University of Manitoba PhD student now working as an adjunct faculty member at the Asian Institute of Technology and as an engineer for the TOT Public Company Limited in Thailand.

NS2 will be a familiar name to engineers in the communication field. It’s an open source programming tool that is used to simulate communications networks. What Hossain and Issariyakul have done is put together a how-to book for the program

“We’ve been using NS2 for almost ten years, but there are no books to explain how to use it,” Hossain said. “There are resources on the internet but they’re scattered and they don’t really talk in detail about the architecture of the system itself or how the simulation program was developed. So for students starting out the learning curve has been pretty steep and the web resources haven’t been terribly user friendly.

“We really wanted something that would be useful

to undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers who are doing implementations with NS2,” Hossain said.

Introduction to Network Simulator NS2 is intended to work through the program in a systematic way, which should give students and researchers a better understanding of how they’re building their simulation models.

Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks provides a roadmap for students and researchers who are grappling with how to create better wireless networks.

“There are all sorts of different wireless systems. The challenge we’re trying to address is how do you configure all of these diverse wireless systems together? How do you manage them in an integrated way?,” Hossain said.

“We tried to provide a sort of big picture of the related problems in linking all of these wireless access points together.”

The book includes 16 articles from researchers from North America, Europe and Asia, including the top experts in the field. Hossain edited the book and provided the introduction.

The book covers both the theoretical challenges and implementation issues involved in creating the architecture behind heterogeoneus wireless networks.

“If you’re a user, you could be in your car and tied to a cellular system. If you then try to switch to a hotspot, how do you efficiently switch? What is the most cost effective way to do that?,” Hussain said.

Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks provides some of those answers. It is targeted at researchers, students and people in industry working in the area of wireless technology and telecommunications.

The science of wireless networksBooks

by University Staff


Electrical and computer engineering professor Ekram Hossain is keeping busy with two new books focused on the area of wireless networks.


At town hall meetings on the Fort Garry campus late in the fall term and on the Bannatyne campus early in the winter term, I had opportunities to speak with members of the university community about several things.

I described some of my impressions based on the roughly six months of visiting the city and the campus between the announcement at the end of November 2007 that I would be the next president and my arrival in July of 2008, and the additional six months of living and working here after my arrival. I have tested these impressions in conversation with many people who have lived and worked here for long periods of time. I was impressed with the welcome I received from the broader community – people in business, in government, in the cultural community, in NGOs, and so on. There is a strong awareness in the city and in the province of the importance of the University of Manitoba to economic, cultural and social development here. I also became aware of the academic and leadership strengths in the university community.

I also formed an impression of a connotation of distance in the use of “Bannatyne and Fort Garry” to talk about the campuses with a frequent implication of the distance between them, in the use of “Broadway and Fort Garry” to talk about government and the university with a frequent implication of distance between them, and in the use of “downtown and Fort Garry” to talk about business and the university with a frequent implication of distance between them. I’ve mentioned this to many people and always see heads nodding or get affirmative responses, so I think there’s some substance in this. One of the things to which I’d like to pay attention to during my term is minimizing this sense of distance – between the geographically separated parts of the university, between the university and government, and between the university and the larger community.

At the town hall meetings I also described my concern about understanding the appropriate ways in which being president here is the same as having

been president elsewhere, and the appropriate ways in which it should be different. One aspect of continuity for me is my brief description of the role of president as 1) set the tone, 2) work with others to set the direction, 3) get good people, 4) get them the resources they need and 5) then get yourself and other obstacles out of their way.

One last component of the town hall meetings that I’ll mention here is brief descriptions of where we are with respect to developing a new planning framework. As she completed her term, president Szathmáry published what was explicitly designated as the final report on the planning framework that covered the period ending in 2008. We are now engaged in developing a new framework for the next few years. There will, of course, be considerable continuity between the previous framework and what is developed next; this is because there is much good work going on at the University of Manitoba and the new framework must continue to facilitate that work. But there will be some new emphases as well. Work is ongoing on this project, in consultation with the Board of Governors, and with the deans and directors. My intention is to do a good deal of preliminary work before engaging the larger community in discussion about the choice of emphases for the next planning period. This discussion will certainly include Senate as well as other inputs.

The meetings ended with opportunities for audience members to make comments or ask questions. I appreciated the level of engagement in the sessions as represented both by the number of

people who turned out and by the number and range of questions. There will be other such sessions. They are good opportunities for me to meet large numbers of members of the university community and to get a sense of what they are thinking about. They also give me an opportunity to describe in an informal setting some of the ideas that are of concern to me. I would like once again to thank all those who were instrumental in setting up these meetings, and all members of the university community who participated in them.


Public affairs communication officer Michael Marshall holds the microphone for one of the audience members at the Bannatyne campus town hall.

Town halls engage communityBarnard fields questions, brings audience up-to-date

CAll For noMinAtionSThe dr. and Mrs. ralph Campbell Award(for particularly meritorious service in outreach activities)

To mark the end of the term of Dr. Ralph Campbell as President of the University of Manitoba, his colleagues and friends established a trust fund to support the Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Campbell Outreach Award for meritorious service in outreach activities. The award is referred to as The Campbell Award.

The Campbell Award shall normally be presented at the University’s June Convocation to a staff member of the University of Manitoba. The value of the award will be that determined from time to time by the Board of Governors. In each of the past years, the award has been $1,000. If, in the judgement of the committee of selection there are two candidates of equal merit, the committee may recommend that the Campbell Award be divided between the two candidates.

Nominations for the Campbell Award will be accepted from staff members of the University, alumni and members of the community.

No recipient of a Campbell Award is eligible to receive it a second time until the tenth year after the first receipt of the award.

The Presidential Advisory Committee on University Outreach will continue to act as the selection committee for the Campbell Award and to advise the president of the most appropriate recipients for this year. The committee will bear in mind the diversity of faculties, schools and administrative units within the University and will attempt to give due recognition to all areas over a period of time.

Nomination forms can be found on www.umanitoba.ca/admin/vp_academic/awards_honours.html and submitted to: dr. Karen r. grant, Vice-Provost (Academic Affairs), Chair of the Selection Committee, by Monday, March 2, 2009. The nomination forms must be accompanied by three letters of support, including at least one letter from outside the University.


The President’s Viewwith David Barnard

STADiuM PlAnSEfforts to bring the Winnipeg Blue

Bombers to the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus continue to be on pace. Vice president (administration) Debbie McCallum told Senate on Jan. 7 that the university has been meeting with Creswin Properties on a regular basis and that things are progressing well. The university is also waiting for a traffic study on the areas to be completed by the city and Creswin.

The stadium, if it goes ahead, will be located at the corner of Chancellor Matheson Road and Univers i t y Crescent.

EnDOWMEnT FunDThe university continues to keep

its eye on the markets. McCallum said the economy can impact the university in three potential areas; pensions, endowment funds, and provincial grants.

The university’s endowment fund is down 21 per cent in value to the end of November due to the decline in the stock markets.

“We’re not alone in being impacted and some universities have been hurt worse,” McCallum told Senate. However, the University of Manitoba has chosen to continue allocating funds from its endowment fund.

Typically the university allocates 4.5 per cent of its three-year average. However, even at that rate there will be some decline in allocations over last year given that the three-year average will be impacted by this year’s declines. Overall, McCallum said, allocations will likely be

down about six to nine per cent from last year.

The U of M’s pension fund is also down 16.5 per cent to the end of November.

The impact on provincial grants is something the university can’t put a finger on yet.

ACCESSiBiliTySenate approved and recommended

the Board of Governors approve a draft policy and procedures on accessibility for students with disabilities. Student services/student affairs executive director Lynn Smith said the new policy updates the language of the policy and separates policy matters from procedural matters.

There were some concerns raised at Senate that the new language in the policy did not go far enough in meeting the needs of people with disabilities. While the policy passed through Senate, Smith said she would take those concerns into account.

BiGElOW rEMEMBErEDSenate members paid their respects to

Charles (Charlie) Bigelow of Victoria who died on Nov. 25, 2008, of complications following a fall and subsequent surgery. Bigelow was 80. He held a BASc in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto and a MSc and PhD in physical chemistry from McMaster University. After working at the University of Alberta, University of Western Ontario and Memorial University, Bigelow went on to be dean of Science at St. Mary’s University and, between 1979 and 1989, dean of Science at the University of Manitoba.

Senate Briefs


Global vision

3rD PlACEuntitled

This is a stone carving of Avalokitesvara in the Wuyou Si caves in Leshan, Sichuan. She is the Bodhisattva of infinite compassion and mercy who has a thousand arms and an eye on each palm to see and help as many mortal souls as she can. This cave lies beneath the ground a few hundred meters away from the Leshan Giant Buddha, a 233-foot tall giant Buddha, said to be the biggest stone Buddha in the world.

Dustin Boehr

FirST PlACEWater Taxis

In Bangladesh, a country with a substantial amount of the population living in poverty, there are many people competing against each other for scarce income. Whether it is working as a day la-bourer smashing bricks into gravel on the side of the road, planting trees in exchange for rice, ped-dling a rickshaw or in this case, operating a water taxi, these jobs are physically demanding and low paying. The climate is hot with high humidity and a blazing sun that is both physically and mentally draining. I was, and am continually impressed by the amount of work that I saw many individuals do while maintaining a positive attitude. Then again if they do not work, they do not eat; however, it was the ability to maintain such a friendly and positive disposition in the face of adversity that has resonated with me the most.

Dylan Hoemsen

SECOnD PlACEunder The Stars

This summer, I had the opportunity to travel to Clearwater, Manitoba through a travel study program at the University of Manitoba. I went with the intention of fulfilling 6 credit hours of third-year geography prerequisites, and came back with a broader outlook on life. Clearwater, Manitoba doesn’t sound very exotic compared to places like Thailand, Bolivia, or Yemen, yet one can still experience the uniqueness of the prairies. This picture is meant to not only represent the beauty of the prairies, but also the cultures that thrived there before the colonisation of North America.

Joey Goertz

The World W.I.S.E. (Work, In-ternships, Study, Exchange) Centre held its Global Col-ours Photography Contest this month. Students were asked to submit a photograph that portrays a cross cultural expe-rience they have had and the lesson they learned from that experience. The goal of the Glo-bal Colours contest was to help students put into words and im-ages their encounters with the world. The submissions will all be on display in the Gallery of Student Art, University Centre until Jan. 30. Here’s a look at the top three photographs.


Migraines may lead to mental disorders, which in turn may lead to migraines, according to a new study in the January-February 2009 issue of General Hospital Psychiatry.

“Together, migraine and mental disorders cause more impairment than alone,” says lead study author Gregory Ratcliffe in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba. “Patients who have one condition should be assessed for the other so they can be treated holistically. Although it is important to know that both are present, treating one will have an effect on the other.”

Ratcliffe and his colleagues analyzed data on 4,181 individuals in the German National Health Interview and Examination Survey, in which migraines were diagnosed by a physician and trained interviewers evaluated participants for mental disorders. Eleven per cent of participants had migraines and also a variety of disorders: major depression, general anxiety disorder, dysthymia, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, panic disorder, substance abuse disorders, agoraphobia and simple phobia.

Migraines and mental disorders


The University of Manitoba has well over six million square feet of building space spread between more than 60 major buildings. Some of those buildings, such as Aboriginal House are brand new while others, such as the Administration Building, are pushing 100 years old.

It’s facility assessment coordinator Jorg Klinger’s job to keep an eye on all of them. Needless to say, he doesn’t do the job alone.

“I maintain cost models for the buildings and cost models for the building systems, each of the systems has a lifespan and a renewal cost and we use that information to try to project future requirements for the buildings and immediate needs,” Klinger said.

The cost models for each building include everything from the condition of lighting and carpets to specific challenges like washrooms that need renovating.

Klinger is a mechanical designer by training and does spend part of his time looking through the university’s buildings and snapping pictures of their condition. But the lion’s share of the information needed to put together the building profiles comes from other physical plant workers.

“You rely very much on the trades people and the caretaking staff, who have specific knowledge about the buildings,” Klinger said. “Some of these people have been around 20 or 30 years.

“You can go through the building and everything has a life expectancy assigned to it, but it depends on how it’s maintained. So you talk to the trades people and get a good history of the work they have had to do on a building. If they keep having to replace pipes

in a certain area, that tells you something about that building.”

Building occupants are the other critical resource for giving a first hand appraisal of what their facility needs.

Thirty or 40 years ago, Klinger’s job probably wouldn’t have been necessary.

“This came about fairly recently. Most of the institutions in North America are probably the same age as U of M and they all had a big building boom in

the 1950s and 60s. In fact 50 per cent of our buildings, or 3.2 million sq. ft., were built in the period between 1956 to 1972.”

Given that the most of the systems in a building – the windows, the doors, etc – have a life expectancy of 35 to 40 years, the University of Manitoba had a window of time where it didn’t have to worry as much about making upgrades to its buildings.

But by the 1990s the U of M’s buildings were starting to show their age and cutbacks during that time meant that they weren’t getting the timely upgrades they needed. Faced with aging infrastructure on one hand and limited resources on the other, universities have had to get a lot smarter about tracking their needs and being able to show funding agencies what those needs are.

So, for example, when the province announced earlier this month that it would be giving $26 million to the University of Manitoba, it was the facility assessment database put together by physical plant that justified the need for that money and which will guide its use.

Maintaining the database is an ongoing process. The university has nearly completed a full audit of the Fort Garry and Bannatyne campuses and once that’s done reports from physical plant staff and reports on work that has been completed will be used to maintain the database.

Klinger has been with the university for 22 years. He started in architectural engineering services but had a aptitude for computers, so as physical plant’s computer network expanded Klinger increasingly took on an administrative role with the network.

The background in design and computers, made him a natural fit to guide and maintain the facility assessment database.

“You hope to see the campus condition improve, that’s what we’re here for,” Klinger said. “I like to see renovations take place and I like to see some of our buildings that are a little run down, get turned around. And ultimately, I like to see building users get satisfied.”

Keeping an eye on the U of MDatabase gives university the facts on where repairs are needed


As facility assessment coordinator, it’s Jorg Klinger’s job to know which university buildings are going to need work and when.

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Department of Chemistry 2009 Armes Lectures Prof. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University Dr. Stoddart is a leader in the design and construction of molecular-scale machines and complex supramolecular architectures. His work epitomizes both the practical and aesthetic aspects of chemistry.

Thursday Feb. 26, 2:30 pm Chemistry and Molecular Nanotechnology in Tomorrow’s World Room 207 Buller

Thursday Feb. 26, 7:30 pm Mingling Art and Science Robert B. Schultz Theatre, St. John’s College Contact: Dr. P. Hultin, [email protected], 474-9814

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A Day in the Life of a facility assessment

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Fort Garry Campus

Women’s HockeyFeb. 13 – Saskatchewan at Manitoba, Max Bell, 7 p.m.Feb. 14 – Saskatchewan at Manitoba, Max Bell, 7 p.m.

Men’s HockeyFeb. 6 – Calgary at Manitoba, Max Bell, 7 p.m.Feb. 7 – Calgary at Manitoba, Max Bell, 7 p.m.

Women’s VolleyballFeb. 5 – Duckworth Challenge, Winnipeg at Manitoba, Investors G r o u p A t h l e t i c C e n t r e , 6 p.m.F e b . 8 – M a n i t o b a a t Winnipeg, Duckworth Centre, 1 p.m.

Men’s VolleyballFeb. 5 – Duckworth Challenge, Winnipeg at Manitoba, Investors G r o u p A t h l e t i c C e n t r e , 7:30 p.m.F e b . 8 – M a n i t o b a a t Winnipeg, Duckworth Centre, 3 p.m.

Women’s BasketballFeb. 6 – Trinity Western at Manitoba, Investors Group Athletic Centre, 6:15 p.m.Feb. 7 – Simon Fraser at Manitoba, Investors Group Athletic Centre, 6:15 p.m.

Men’s BasketballFeb. 6 – Trinity Western at Manitoba, Investors Group Athletic Centre, 8 p.m.Feb. 7 – Simon Fraser at Manitoba, Investors Group Athletic Centre, 8 p.m.

Track and FieldJan. 31 – Manitoba Indoor Games, Max Bell, 12 p.m.Feb. 13-14 – Manitoba Indoor Games (Age Classic), Max Bell, 12 p.m.

Ticket informationSingle GameAdults: $10

Students and Seniors: $512 and under: free

Season passpackages available

Tickets available at all Bison home games, Frank Kennedy, Max Bell Equipment Desk.

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Events ListingUniversity of Manitoba

Leo Mol’s take on Norrie

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THUrsdAy, JAnUAry 292009 James A. Jackson Memorial lecture, An Environmental History of ‘Progress’: Damming British Columbia by Tina Loo, history, Cross Common Room, St. John’s College, 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 29.

FrIdAy, JAnUAry 30Elizabeth Dafoe library, Graduate Student Lectures, Youth Environmental Aw a r e n e s s : P e r s p e c t i v e s o n Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer in Churchill, Manitoba by Linda Chow, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, Iceland Board Room, Third Floor, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, 12:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

German and Slavic Studies: Central and East European Study Group, Letters from War: Galician Peasants about the First World War by Andriy Zayarnyuk, department of history, University of Winnipeg, The Quiet Room, St. John’s College, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

Philosophical Fridays, Performance Means: why is it impossible to perform the Hammerklavier Sonata on the piano? by Carl Matheson, philosophy, 384 University College, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

Economics, How Valuable Is The Gift of Time? Disentangling Entry Age and Test Age In The Birth Date Effect by Justin Smith, University of Manitoba, 307 Tier Building, 2:40 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

linguistics, Universal Grammar and theories of second language acquisition by Yuhko Kayama, Asian Studies Centre, 302 Tier Building, 2:40 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

Biologica l Sc iences Seminar Series, Floral evolution: investment, manipulation, and deceit by Anne Worley, department of biological sciences, Z201 Duff Roblin Building, 3 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

Psychology, Neural mechanisms governing trans-saccadic memory of multiple visual features by Steve Prime, department of psychology, P412 Duff Roblin Building, 3 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

Physics and Astronomy, Nuclear Theory - Nuclear Power by Juris Svenne, physics and astronomy, 330 Allen Building, 3:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

MondAy, FEBrUAry 2K i n e s i o l o g y & r e c r e a t i o n Management, Physical Activity and Health in Kids: How Much, How Hard and How Often by Ian Janssen, assistant professor, Queen’s University, community health and epidemiology, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Conference Room A 238 Investor’s Group Athletic Centre, 11:30 a.m., Monday, Feb. 2.

TUEsdAy, FEBrUAry 3Entomology, The Hessian fly – a model of adaptation to environmental changes by Ian Wise, Cereal Research Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 220 Animal Science/Entomology Building, 10 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3.

High Performance Computing, The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research - A View from Berkeley by Paul Lu, associate professor, department of computing science, University of Alberta, E2-568 Engineering and Information Technology Complex, 12 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3.

High Performance Computing, Differential Equation Models of Infectious Disease Dynamics by James Watmough, department of mathematics and statistics, University of New Brunswick, E2-568 Engineering and Information Technology Complex, 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3.

universal Algebra/lattice Theory Seminar, More on Tarski’s Equational Spectra Ternary Modular Lattices by R. Padmanabhan, 500A Machray Hall, 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3.

2008-2009 robin Connor lecturer in the History & Philosophy of Science, Brain-Based Values by Patricia Smith Churchland, UC President’s Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego, 100 St. Paul’s College, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3.

research , Making Every Kernel Count by Digvir Jayas, distinguished professor of biosystems engineering, Canada Research Chair in Stored-Grain Ecosystems, 343 Drake Centre, 8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3.

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The University of Manitoba Libraries’ annual giant Book Sale runs 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11 in the Manitoba Room, Second Floor University Centre.

The sale features thousands of books that are priced to sell in the bargain section: biographies, academic and popular non-fiction, and literature in a wide range of subjects.

Individually-priced choice titles are available for collectors. This year the sale will also include a selection of art and architecture pho-tographs.

The Libraries Annual Book Sale offers for sale donated or with-drawn items which are not needed by the libraries. The funds raised are used to purchase new materials which the university would not be able to acquire with its regular acquisitions funds.

For more information visit umanitoba.ca/libraries/booksale.

The University of Manitoba will unveil a Leo Mol bust of William Norrie, Chancellor of the University of Manitoba at 2:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 2 at the William Norrie Centre, 485 Selkirk Ave.

Norrie, who has distinguished himself in public service, most notably as mayor of Winnipeg from 1979 to 1992, has served as the 12th Chancellor of the University of Manitoba since June, 2001. In 2007, he was elected to his third three-year term as Chan-cellor.

Named in honour of the Chancellor, the William Norrie Centre is home to the Uni-

versity of Manitoba’s Inner City Social Work ACCESS Program and the University of Win-nipeg’s Bachelor of Education ACCESS Pro-gram.

The unveiling of the Leo Mol bust will also include speeches by president David Barnard and Norrie. A reception will follow the event.

Given that street parking is limited, peo-ple are encouraged to carpool or use public transit.

If you plan to attend RSVP to Siobhan Kari at 474-9022 or [email protected].

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St. Boniface General Hospital and Research CentreBannatyne Campus

EntertainmentArts&Gallery One One One Gallery One One One is located on the main floor of the FitzGerald Building. It is open Monday to Friday, noon to 4 p.m.

Les Newman: “Major Solo Retrospective”January 15 to April 2

Les Newman is perhaps most widely known for works shown at Plug In Inc several years ago that dealt with his experiences as a telephone market researcher. Since then much of his work has consisted of computer drawings and graphics that he re-photographs so that the finished work is at several removes from its digital source. Since 2000, he has done this photo/digital work, but most recently he has been making paintings that build on the methodologies of his previous text and digital prints.

The Black Hole TheatreThe Black Hole Theatre is located in the lower level of University College. For tickets call 474 6880.

The Crucibleby Arthur Miller

the Gas Station Theatre7 p.m., January 22 to 24 and 26 to 31,2 p.m., matinees, January 24 and 31.

The Black Hole Theatre Company presents Miller’s timeless classic The Crucible for this year’s MTC Master Playwright Festival, MillerFest. In 1692 New England, the town of Salem, Massachusetts runs wild with accusations of black magic and consorting with the devil. This mad witch-hunt leads to trials that see many innocent people sentenced to hang and that expose the forces of religious extremism and social repression in the town. The Black Hole Theatre Company’s 1950s interpretation makes explicit Miller’s comparison of Salem with the McCarthy era witch-hunt and offers striking, yet complicated comparisons to today’s terrorism trials and religious excesses.

Archives and Special Collections330 Elizabeth Dafoe Library.

FitzGerald and FriendsCurated by Marilyn Baker, PhD, Art History, School of Art

January 8 to March 31, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.Letters to Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald from members of the Group of Seven and Others from the FitzGerald Study Centre Collection. With a special showing of paintings by Lawren Harris from Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba and by Charles Comfort and Barker Fairley, from the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. Call 474-9986 for more information.

Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of MusicThe Faculty of Music hosts recitals and performances at Eva Clare Hall, located within the Faculty of Music building on Dafoe Road. Recitals and events are free unless otherwise noted.

Music events• XiE will attempt to make music using burned, spurned, de- and re-constructed pianos and other large pieces - at the Ceramics Studio, 8 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 29, free admission. • The university Singers & Women’s Chorus take part in the annual New Music Festival at Westminster United Church, Maryland & Westminster, Time TBA, Sunday, Feb. 1, admission charged.• u of M Wind Ensemble performing in the New Music Festival, URBAN METAL!, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3, tickets at www.wso.mb.ca/tickets or at the door.• university Singers Banquet & Auction, Marshall McLuhan Hall in University Centre, 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 7, individual tickets - $65, table of 8 - $450. Limited seating available. Call 474-6016 for tickets or to reserve a table.• university Concert Band participates in the annual New Music Festival, Glenlawn Collegiate, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 7, $10 for adults & $5 for students - tickets at the door.• university Symphony Orchestra presents “The French Connection”, Great Hall in University College, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11, Tickets at the door• Karl Kohut, Masters Jazz Bass Recital, Eva Clare Hall, 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11, free admission.• XiE plays live soundtracks to a selection of film, at Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street in conjunction with GroundSwell, 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb 12.

• The Bulletin publishes events involving the university community.

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• The deadline for the Feb. 12 Bulletin is Feb. 4 at 4:30 p.m.

Medical rounds are typically targeted at university staff and professionals directly involved in the medical field.

THUrsdAy, JAnUAry 29immunology: Annual Graduate Student research Presentations with Stéphane Dragon and Dong Liu, 500 John Buhler Research Centre, 12 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 29.

FrIdAy, JAnUAry 30Pharmacology, Estrogen And Brain Function by Solmaz Nafez, pharmacology and therapeutics, Pharmacology Library A229 Chown Building, video-link to R4013 Saint Boniface Research Centre, 9 a.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

Community Heal th Sc iences Colloquium, But what if it doesn’t bleed?: The utility of media analyses for health research by Michelle Driedger, associate professor, community health sciences, Tier II Canada Research Chair Environment and Health Risk Communication, Dr. Betty Havens Seminar R060 Medical Rehabilitation Building, 12 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30.

MondAy, FEBrUAry 2Seminars in infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Burkholderia cenocepacia Pathogenesis in Real Time: Bacterial Physiology and Metabolism Modeled in Caenorhabditis elegans by Silvia Cardona, 540 Basic Medical Sciences Building, 9 a.m., Monday, Feb. 2.

TUEsdAy, FEBrUAry 3Medicine, Closing the gap: Health Equity and the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health by Royal College McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Fellow professor Sir Michael Marmot, Theatre A Basic Medical Sciences Building, 12 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3.

Is there hope for peace in the Middle East?

Access Awareness Day on Feb. 6

WEdnEsdAy, FEBrUAry 4Palliative Care Educational rounds, Emergencies in Palliative Care by Cornelius J. Woelk, assistant professor, Family Medicine, N1026 Education Building, St. Boniface General Hospital, linked to Classroom A/B Lower Level, Day Hospital, Riverview Health Centre, 12 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 4.

Bench to Bedside Series, Topic and Speaker TBA, Theatre A Basic Medical Sciences Building, 12 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 4.

THUrsdAy, FEBrUAry 5immunology Annual Graduate Student research Presentations with Qingdong Guan and Dong Liu, Immunology Library 604/605 Basic Medical Sciences Building, 12 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 5.

FrIdAy, FEBrUAry 6Community Health Sciences, I want my stomach out!: Current Approaches to Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (HDGC) by Debrah Wirtzfeld, provincial lead, surgical oncology, associate professor of surgery, oncology and community health sciences, Dr. Betty Havens Seminar Room R060 Medical Rehabilitation Building, 12:10 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6.

MondAy, FEBrUAry 9Seminars in infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Vaccination against high containment viruses and basis for immune protection by Gary Kobinger, 540 Basic Medical Sciences Building, 9 a.m., Monday, Feb. 9.

The 25th annual University of Manitoba Political Studies Students’ Confer-ence (PSSC), entitled The Never-Ending Story: Conflicts in the Middle East runs until Friday, Jan. 30, in University College.

This year’s conference will bring together leading academics, government and military officials from Canada and other countries to explore some of the more salient contemporary challenges facing the peace process in the Middle East. The conference will also explore NATO’s expanding role in contemporary international relations and the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century.

This year’s conference will feature eighteen speakers on six panels that con-sider challenges facing the Israeli-Palestinian question and Canada’s role in the Middle East.

This year’s panels include: “At the Core: Israeli-Palestinian Question”, “So-cial Conflict: Religion and Political Culture”, “Economic Conflict: Oil and Wa-ter”, “Military Conflict: Proliferation”, “Geopolitical Conflict:Territory and Exter-nal Powers”, and “Canada, Conflict and the Middle East.”

A question period will follow each panel to allow audience members to interact with the presenters.

The PSSC was founded in 1984, coordinated by students in the department of political studies at the University of Manitoba and aided by faculty mem-bers.

Its mandate is to explore issues of current relevance in international affairs by inviting several speakers from the academic, diplomatic and government communities to present their views in a variety of academic panels.

Every year the conference is eagerly anticipated by students, faculty and the general public wishing to seize the opportunity to interact with leading thinkers and officials in an intimate, collegial setting.

Disability Services is holding its 8th annual Access Awareness Day on Thursday, Feb. 6. Disability Services celebrates the accessibility of the University of Manitoba and honours faculty and staff members of the university. Faculty/Staff Access Awards will be presented to academic staff at the

University of Manitoba for outstanding service in providing accommodations for students with disabilities on campus.

Displays and activities will take place in the University Center starting at 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please check the displays and take in the movie presentation starting at 10:30 am, “In Her Shoes.”


Smartpark Research and Technol-ogy Park is hosting an open house for Fort Richmond residents at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 9 in the Lobby Board-room, 135 Innovation Drive, Smart-park. The open house will be an op-

portunity for community members to learn about the latest developments at Smartpark and raise any questions they might have. If you plan to attend RSVP [email protected] or phone: 474-7975.

Academic Job Opportunities

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A ful l l ist ing of employment opportunities at the University of Manitoba can be found at umanitoba.ca. The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Please include the position number when applying for openings at the university.

FACUlTy oF dEnTIsTrySchool of Dental HygienePosition: Instructor IStart date: As soon as possibleS a l a r y : C o m m e n s u r a t e w i t h qualifications and experienceApplication deadline: Feb. 29, 2009Position number: 09228For information: Prof. Salme Lavigne, director, school of dental hygiene, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0W2, fax 789-3948, e-mail: [email protected].

FACUlTy oF MEdICInEDepartment of Clinical Health PsychologyW i n n i p e g r e g i o n a l H e a l t h AuthorityPosition: Contingent geographic full-time clinical psychologist at the assistant or associate levelStart date: April 1, 2009S a l a r y : C o m m e n s u r a t e w i t h experienceApplication deadline: Feb. 29, 2009Position number: 08874

For information: Dr. Bob McIlwraith, department of clinical health psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, PZ 350 - 771 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3N4, phone 787-3876, fax 787-3755, e-mail: [email protected].

Department of Clinical Health PsychologyPosition: contingent geographic full-time clinical psychologist at the assistant professor level based at Victoria General HospitalStart date: April 1, 2009S a l a r y : C o m m e n s u r a t e w i t h experienceApplication deadline: Feb. 29, 2009Position number: 09131For information: Dr. Bob McIlwraith, department of clinical health psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, PZ 350 - 771 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3N4, phone 787-3876, fax 787-3755, e-mail: [email protected].

Departments of Community Health Science and Family MedicineCancerCare ManitobaPosition: Post-doctoral Fellowship in Primary Care OncologyStart date: July 21, 2009S a l a r y : C o m m e n s u r a t e w i t h qualifications and experienceApplication deadline: March 31, 2009For information: Dr. Alan Katz, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Oncology, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, 408-727 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3P 3E5.

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Join the Department of Biological Sciences in celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, and the bicentennial of Darwin’s birthday with two public lectures:

Darwin Backwards While Looking Forwards

Dr. Barry Glickman,University of Victoria,

Friday, February 13th 2009 7:30 P.M.

Fish that Climb Waterfalls and Other Facts that Charles Darwin

Would Have LovedDr. Brian Hall, Dalhousie UniversityFriday, February 27th 2009 7:30 P.M.

Robert B. Schultz Lecture TheatreRoom 172, St. John’s College, 92 Dysart Road

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WEdnEsdAy, FEBrUAry 4institute for the Humanities: Power and resistance in latin America, Under Rich Earth: Ecuadorian Peasants and their Struggle against Global Capitalism, documentary and discussion by Malcolm Rogge, filmmaker and writer, 409 Tier Building, 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 4.

2008-2009 robin Connor lecturer in the History & Philosophy of Science, Decisions, Responsibility and the Brain by Patricia Smith Churchland, UC President’s Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego, 223 Wallace Building, 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 4.

THUrsdAy, FEBrUAry 5Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Candidacy Examination, An Improved Wide-Band System Equivalent Technique for Real-time Digital Simulators by Yuefeng Liang, E2-330 Engineering and Information Technology Complex, 2 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 5.

Advanced Plant Science Seminar, Food Security That Tastes Great: Manitoba’s Expanding Fruit Crop Industry by Anthony Mintenko Mafri, Carolyn Sifton Lecture Theatre 130 Agriculture Building, 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 5.

FrIdAy, FEBrUAry 6English, “Diminished Impressibility”: Addiction, Neuroadaptation and Pleasure in Coleridge by Thomas H. Schmid, University of Texas at El Paso, Quiet Room 111 St. John’s College, 10:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 6.

Elizabeth Dafoe library, Graduate S tudent l ec tures , The Met i s : Complexities of Identity by Kris Friesen, education administration, foundations & psychology, Faculty of Education, Iceland Board Room, Third Floor, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, 12:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Seminar Series, Recent advances in queueing theory and applications in telecommunication network modeling by Attahiru S. Alfa, department of electrical and computer engineering, E3-262 Engineering and Information Technology Centre, 2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6.

Chemistry, Topic TBA by Chris Daiper, NAEJA Pharmaceutical Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, 539 Parker Building, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6.

Economics, Environmental Policy in the Presence of an Informal Sector by Soham Baksi, University of Winnipeg, 307 Tier Building, 2:40 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6.

TUEsdAy, FEBrUAry 102009 Trlabs iCT Symposium , eHealth Benefits - Fact or Fiction?, Delta Winnipeg Hotel, 350 St. Mary Ave., 7:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10. Symposium costs $80. Register online at www.win.trlabs.ca/icts/register.php.

Entomology, Insect pollinators of tall-grass prairie plants by Diana Bizecki-Robson, Botany Curator, Manitoba Museum, 220 Animal Sc ience /Entomology Building, 10 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10.

institute for the Humanties, Power and resistance in latin America, Money, Markets and Myths: Resistances to Centralizing and Socializing Discourses in Santa Cruz, Bolivia by Dr Karl Koth, history, 409 Tier Building, 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10. German and Slavic Studies: Central and East European Study Group, Beyond the Post-Soviet Transition: Youth, Change, and the Crafting of Personhood in Ukrainian High Schools by Anna Fournier, department of anthropology, The Quiet Room, St. John’s College, 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10.

WEdnEsdAy, FEBrUAry 11native Studies, Forever Lost: First Nations Heritage Beneath The Human Rights Museum by Leigh Syms, associate curator of archaeology, The Manitoba Museum, 307 Tier Building, 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11.

Agricultural and Food Sciences Faculty Seminar Series, Colony Collapse in Honey Bees: Mysterious Disorder or Death by a Thousand Cuts? by Robert Currie, department of entomology, 130 Agriculture Building, Carolyn Sifton Lecture Theatre, 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11.

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, Topic TBA by Philippe Teillet, department of physics & astronomy, University of Lethbridge, 330 Allen Building, 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11.

FrIdAy, FEBrUAry 13Chemistry, Topic TBA by Galen Sedo, department of chemistry, University of Manitoba, 539 Parker Building, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 13.

Biological Sciences: Darwin Days Celebration, Darwin backwards while looking forward by Barry Glickman, department of biology, University of Victoria, Robert B. Schultz Lecture Theatre, 172 St. John’s College, 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 13.

Starting a business?Don’t know where to turn?

Call 474-9949

The clinic is designed for entrepreneurs who require information* regarding new business organizations: incorporation, partnership, sole proprietorship and non-profit.

Get free information* from theL. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinicat the Faculty of Law

*Students do not give legal advice

Smartpark to hold open house

The International Centre for Students at the University of Manitoba is host-ing the Beyond Our Borders Film Festival 4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 29, in the Atrium of the Engineering & Information Technology Complex. The featured films include Under Rich Earth, the story of an extraordinary collision between humble family farmers and the powerful global mining industry.

Under Rich Earth filmmaker Malcolm Rogge was born in Winnipeg and is a graduate of the University of Manitoba (BA Hons 1994). Filmed over a two-year period in the remote Intag valley of Ecuador, Under Rich Earth premiered internationally at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.

Under Rich Earth at U of M

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try the simple approach to see if it �ts the experimental result,” Chakraborty said.

“So, what we’ve done in the more complicated theory is to take the fact that electrons repel each other into account and model the system in this much more complete way,” Abergel said.

“And when you include these interactions, it does predict this di�erence in the energy that the experimentalists found. It’s a fundamental addition to the whole jigsaw puzzle of knowledge about this material, and you have to include these interactions if you want an accurate theoretical description of graphene,” he said.

It was, in short, an important discovery.“I was telling David how lucky he

is,” Chakraborty said. “There are so many groups around the world studying the same thing, and that makes it all very exciting, although it makes it a challenge too. But we hit the right thing. We found the explanation.”

Public Lecture

Making Every Kernel Count

By Digvir Jayas

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

8:00 PM

343 Drake Centre

For more information:

Phone: (204) 474-6915

Speaker Series

When Family is Business and Business is Family

By Reg Litz

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

7:00 PM

Robert B. Schultz Lecture Theatre,

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Bringing Research to LIFEBY SEAN MOORE

Take a carbon nanotube, snip it open, lay it �at, and you have graphene, one of the most rigid materials known, and one full of strange properties that were �rst predicted in 1947 by Canadian physicist Philip Wallace.

Judging by the thousands of papers written about graphene since 2005 (when Wallace’s predictions about electrons behaving relativistically in graphene were veri�ed experimentally), it’s safe to say that this puzzle has plenty of pieces – and two University of Manitoba researchers have just found a big one hiding, as they sometimes do, in an advanced theory.

Their �ndings will be published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.

Tapash Chakraborty, Canada Research Chair in Nanoscale Physics, and his post-doctoral researcher David Abergel, have developed a theory which explains why bilayer graphene displays strange properties when placed in a magnetic �eld. Their explanation has implications for industries hoping to make the next generation of computer chips.

But let’s take a step back for a moment.Monolayer graphene is one atom

thick and looks, as other have written, like molecular chicken wire. Stack two monolayers and you get bilayer graphene.

Recently, researchers at Columbia University put this material in a magnetic �eld and shone speci�c wavelengths of light at it to see what was absorbed – measuring what’s called the cyclotron resonance.

By doping graphene so that it has an overall positive charge in one experiment, and an overall negative charge in another, the researchers observed how much energy the cyclotron resonance absorbed.

Imagine an elevator in a building. It should take the same amount of energy to move it from the basement (negatively doped) to the main �oor (no doping) as it does to go from the main �oor to the �rst �oor (positively doped). At least, that is what you would expect if you used the simple theory.

What the Columbia team found, however, was that it took less energy to move from the basement to the main �oor than it did to move from the main to the �rst �oor.

Simple theory ignores the interactions between electrons because when you account for these, the equations become very difficult to solve. But interacting theory does take them into account.

“Interacting theory is usually a very di�cult thing to handle so people �rst

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Finding a nano puzzle pieceMillions for

research

T h e M a n i t o b a g o v e r n m e n t announced that it has awarded the University of Manitoba more than $2.3 million in funding to support research projects relating to health, the environment and advanced technologies.

The announcement was made by Science, Technology, Energy and Mines Minister Jim Rondeau. The funding is provided through the Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund.

The principle investigators who received funding include: Cindy Ellison, pathology; Olanrewaju Ojo, mechanical and manufacturing engineering; Jennifer Wijngaarden, chemistry; Michael Gericke, physics and astronomy; Davinder Jassal, internal medicine; Andrey Bekker, geological science; Wen Zhong, textile science; Jitender Sareen, psychiatry; Frank Schweizer and Scott Kroeker, chemistry; Feiyue Wang, environment and geography, and chemistry; Torsten Hegmann and Michael Freund, chemistry; Warren Cariou, English, Film and Theatre; David Barber, environment and geography; and Bruce Ford and Robert Roughley, biological sciences.

BY SEAN MOORE

Kinks are rarely, if ever, a cause for celebration, unless that kink is propagating through a carbon nanotube.

“The kink propagation e�ect through a carbon nanotube, identified through my research, is exciting and enlightening to researchers in this f ield,” Quan Wang, mechanical and manufacturing engineering professor, said.

As Canada Research Chair in Solid Mechanics, Wang has been characterizing the fundamental properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and recently applied those findings to a practical research project: developing a way to transport atoms via CNTs.

His most recent �ndings are published in the January 2009, edition of the journal NANO Letters (Vol. 9, No. 1, pp 245-249). The paper discusses his simulation, using molecular dynamics, of helium atoms being transported through a single-walled CNT. The tube’s diameter was 0.63 nanometres; a nanometer, to jog your memory, is 10-9 meters, which is so small that this comma, is half a million nanometers across.

The ability to transport molecules through nanotubes would be a boon to drug delivery systems. A doctor could,

for example, direct a cancer drug to the exact spot where it will do the most good, thereby avoiding any collateral damage such drugs may cause to other healthy tissues. Other potential applications include nanorobotics, helium energetics, micropumps, microarrays, atom optics, chemical process control, and molecular medicine.

Some researchers have tried to transport atoms down the tube using waves (think of a cork bobbing ashore).

Wang, however, has a good grasp of civil and mechanical engineering concepts and began testing whether instability itself – something disastrous in engineering structures – can move an atom along.

It can.By applying torsion to the end of the

tube, a kink, or instability, appears. The key point though is this kink travels the length of the tube pushing what’s ahead of it out the other end. When the force is removed from the carbon nanotube it springs back to its original shape.

“I started my nano research in 2003 and most of it has been on fundamental and theoretical points so as to answer questions like whether civil and mechanical engineering principles can apply to nano science.

“Simulations verified the theories and uncovered new potential for carbon nanotubes. The results are very exciting.”

Wang’s future work will be aimed at �nding the optimal operating temperature, applied force, and nanotube diameter. He will also begin using larger molecules.

To date, 128 international journal papers by Wang have received more than 770 SCI citations. He also serves on 12 journals’ editorial boards and acts as a technical review for 34 international journals.

Kinky nano engineering

Photo by Sean Moore

Photo by Sean Moore

David Abergel (left), and Tapash Chakraborty, from Physics and Astronomy

Quan Wang, mechanical and manufacturing engineering, sits in front of his computer displaying a graphic of a kink pushing atoms out of a nanotube.


Looking at the big pictureCrooks hopes to match nursing program to student goals


Faculty of nursing dean dauna Crooks says a university education gave her options when she was growing up.

Meet The Dean

“(nursing) was a profession where you would meet people, you would be part of the community and you would meet people’s needs. ”

Dauna CrooksFaculty of Nursing dean


There’s something to be said for an economy of scale.

It’s something that Faculty of Nursing dean Dauna Crooks has come to appreciate since coming to the University of Manitoba in July 2007 after spending most of her career in Ontario.

“There’s a different culture here,” Crooks said. Sure we’re friendly and that’s made it easy for Crooks and her husband to settle into the province.

But the real difference is how plugged in the University of Manitoba is to the province. Crooks said soon after taking up her position, she set up a meeting with Health Minister Theresa Oswald.

“I was thinking I was just going to speak with her alone, because that’s what would happen in Ontario,” Crooks said. “But when I arrived at the meeting the table was full of people. So I met ministers from different divisions, and we were able to talk about what was I thinking, where the Faculty of Nursing was going, and what the ministry saw as priorities and where were they going. The government is our major funder and it was just a wonderful way to start.”

That experience wasn’t unique. She found Manitoba Health, the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs and a long list of other groups involved with community health were equally keen to see what the U of M was doing.

“In Ontario a number of universities and colleges vie for resources and attention. Here’s it’s different,” Crooks said. “It’s not that we’re the only game in town for nursing, we’re not. But you don’t find that same sort of political manoeuvring.

“I think it’s the economy of scale that you find here. Ontario is a messy sort of conglomeration of things, and they don’t all speak to each other.”

Crooks said that collegiality also extends to how the university operates.

“The other thing that is really different here was the fact that deans, myself included, are asked for their opinion and it actually matters. In Ontario it would be the president who speaks for everybody,” Crooks said.

Since she arrived at the U of M, the faculty has revised its masters program.

“It had been a specialty program,” Crooks said. So, if you were interested in cardiology, you would take the cardiology stream. If you were interested in child health, you would take the child health stream and so on. But students and faculty were spread thinly between the diverse streams and often the fields being offered didn’t reflect what students went on to do.

“We looked at where our masters’ students ended up and we found they went on to become educators for us, clinical educators, clinical nurse specialists or they went on to be administrators,” Crooks said. Given that, the faculty has turned to focus on giving students the skills to enter their field of choice or giving them the skills to acquire their specialization in the work place.

The new masters program will be up and running this fall. The next step will be to create a doctoral program.

“We have a whole community of

masters prepared nurses that have come out of the U of M for the most part but nowhere for them to go locally.” Developing a doctoral program won’t happen over night. The first step will be to bring in a consultant to pull together faculty and community ideas and give the faculty members a straw dog to react to. Even as it looks toward developing a doctorate degree, Crooks said the faculty will have to look at its undergraduate program.

“We’ll need to ensure that we’re refining our programs so that students are ready by year four of undergraduate to move on to a graduate program, if they so choose.” The faculty is also hoping to develop an af ter degree program if there is sufficient govern-ment interest.

“It would be a two-year accelerated degree program,” Crooks said. “If you have a science degree then we would spend the two years socializing the students into the aspects of nursing.” With this cohort in nursing it would lead nicely toward the goal of a nurse physiologist graduate stream.

“So this all fits together, the jigsaw is forming. We almost have the corners, but not quite.”

Crooks has spent most of her life thinking about how that puzzle should go together. She was born in Toronto, but her father worked for Trans Canada Pipelines, so she spent her youth moving from place to place in Central and Western Canada.

“It was just normal,” Crooks said of the multiple moves. The family did settle down in Saskatchewan during her teen years. “What it does is allow you to adjust

to new places and to love them very quickly because you’re not going to be there that long and to make friends very quickly and find the best in situations.”

She knew from the start that she was interested in the medical field.

“It was a profession where you would meet people, you would be part of the community and you would meet people’s needs.” A visit to the Faculty of Nursing while she was studying science at the University of Toronto sealed the interest. The experience was everything she might have hoped for.

“The faculty were excellent mentors, and our classes were small so they knew all of us and would join us for lunch,

giving us all those experiences that created, for lack of a better word, a fellowship,” Crooks said.

Just by deciding to study nursing in a university setting, she was influencing how her career

would go.“At that point only about three to

five per cent of nurses in Canada were actually university educated. So in that sense as a university graduate, you were an outlier.” The other 95 per cent of nurses entering the field were trained by a facility or hospital where they would later be working and their training was tailored to meet the needs of that specific work setting. University trained nurses were given a broader education that included courses in philosophy and history. They were also given placements at multiple agencies in the field.

“We weren’t bound to one agency. We had an idea of how different agencies worked and what they were like, how they treated students, and where you

would want to be when you graduated, based on the environment you were working in,” Crooks said. “One of the hot topics in the 2000s has been quality work environments, but we were thinking about that way back.”

Crooks kicked off her career by working with the Victorian Order of Nurses. “During the first six months in that role – in terms of being in the community and entering someone’s home, learning how to do assessments and to make referrals – I learned more than I did in four years of school. So it was good for me. It developed me as an independent thinker.”

She knew quickly that she wanted to continue her education, but she was juggling family responsibilities and career aspirations. So it was a question of being able to fit everything in.

“The other thing is that within my family there were no role models: no one had gone to university on either side. So there was no guidance there to say Dauna you should go back and do this,” Crooks said. But she did go on to get her MScN from the University of Western Ontario in 1983, balancing four jobs and three children under two years old. The PhD from State University of New York at Buffalo would follow in 1997. The masters helped Crooks get a job in the School of Nursing in McMaster University, where she split her time between teaching and working with cancer patients as a clinical nurse specialist, a focus that would encourage her to study breast cancer in older women during her doctorate.

“The experience at McMaster University was great because it gave me the ability to refine my approach to education in a wonderful environment, but it also gave me an opportunity to make an impact clinically.”

Crooks was involved in the graduate and doctoral level curriculum at McMaster University – perfect training for her current goals at the University of Manitoba. But she also moved on to become a researcher in the Hamilton Regional Health Centre and then director, education services, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto from 2001 to 2003 and then associate chief of nursing: education from 2003 to 2005.

“Sick Kids was an incredible environment that allowed me to develop educational strategies and work with the clinical educators, developing their standards and career paths,” Crooks said.

In 2005 she was appointed as the director of the Trent/Fleming School of Nursing at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Crooks had interviewed for the U of M when she was working for the Hospital for Sick Children, but at the time she didn’t have experience leading a school or faculty. When the opportunity to apply came up again last year, Crooks was ready and willing.

“I knew my background in cancer research matched one of the major thrusts here, so it was a good fit that way. And through talking with people I had a sense of the community and this faculty, and that if there were issues, people were willing to address them,” Crooks said. “It was an easy decision to come here when the job was offered.”

Crooks’s three children – a daughter and twin boys – are grown up now and she has four grandchildren. Her husband Terry, a teacher, is now retired and devoting himself to studying and writing about the U.S. Civil War.

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