People
INCOMING STUDENTS AMONG GLOBE'S TOP 20 UNDER 20
Two of the young people named among the Top 20 Under 20 by the Globe and Mail this month will be attending U of G this fall. Yvonne Su, 17, who plans to study environmental science, was recognized for setting up a successful recycling program at her Newmarket high school. Samantha Whiteside, 17, who will study microbiology, is the second-youngest person to swim Lake Ontario. She swam the lake in August 2006, raising $25,000 for research on juvenile arthritis.
PROF SPEAKS AT IDEACITY
Prof. Steve Marshall, Environmental Biology, is one of 50 presenters this week at ideaCity, an annual gathering in Toronto produced by Moses Znaimer and described as “Canada's premier meeting of the minds.”
LIBRARIANS GIVE TALKS
U of G librarian Wayne Johnston has given several conference presentations in recent months. He spoke on “Working With Campus Partners to Publish Peer-Reviewed, Open-Access Journals” at the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference in Atlanta, discussed “Delivering Personalized Content From Voyager via the Campus Portal” at the Endeavor EndUser Conference in Chicago, presented “Building a National Scholarly Communication” at CANHEIT in Waterloo and gave a talk on “The Library as an Agent for Transforming Scholarly Communications” at IATUL: Global Access to Science in Stockholm. Librarian Melanie Boyd spoke at the Western New York/Ontario ACRL conference in East Aurora, N.Y., on “Librarian-Faculty Relations — Gaps and Bridges: Connecting Within Our Communities.”