HOLUB TO BE HONOUREDProf. Bruce Holub, Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences, will receive the 2005 Kaplan Award from the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies at its annual conference in June, to be held at Guelph. The award recognizes a member of the federation who has contributed significantly to raising public awareness of science.
PROF IS VISITING SENIOR RESEARCH SCHOLAR University professor emeritus O.P. Dwivedi, Department of Political Science, has been invited by the University of South Florida, Tampa, to be its first visiting senior research scholar from January to June 2005. His main duty is to mentor and assist junior faculty and senior doctoral students in environmental policy, institutions and ethics. He will also give a series of lectures to undergraduate and graduate students.
TREVORS JOINS THINK TANK Prof. Jack Trevors, Environmental Biology, has been invited to become an official member of the newly formed Biology, Medicine and Society Think Tank, UMR CNRS/ IRD Montpellier, France. Trevors says the think tank will deal with revitalizing scientific thinking and “understanding what is only speculative and misleading by scientists and what is established, credible and useful to humanity.” For more information, contact him at jtrevors@uoguelph.ca.
RETIRED DEAN HONOURED Retired College of Arts dean Murdo MacKinnon is one of 24 Ontarians to receive a 2004 Senior Achievement Award from the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration. The award recognizes and honours outstanding seniors who, after age 65, have made significant contributions to their communities. He was recommended for the award by his former student Liz Sandals, Guelph-Wellington MPP.
GRYPHON HEAD THERAPIST IN AUSTRIA WITH ALL-STAR TEAMGuntis Obrascovs, head therapist for the Gryphons, was named to the staff and training camp roster for the Ontario University Athletics men's hockey all-star team that is representing Canada at the 2005 Winter Universiade in Innsbruck, Austria, Jan. 12 to 22.
