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NATIONAL KUDOS FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Prof. Rob Corry, Environmental Design and Rural Development, has been chosen to receive a 2007 Excellence in Education Award for Promotion of Sustainable Practices from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The award honours outstanding educational contributions to sustainable practices and recognizes educators who have integrated sustainable concepts in housing and community development into the academic curriculum.
CHAMBER HONOURS ABLETT
Prof. Gary Ablett, research program director at Ridgetown Campus, has been named Agriculturist of the Year by the Chatham and District Chamber of Commerce. Ablett, an M.Sc. and PhD graduate of U of G who joined Ridgetown in 1979 and became director of the former college in 1997, will be recognized at a dinner Nov. 14.
CANCER SOCIETY NAMES BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIST RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH
Prof. Brenda Coomber, Biomedical Sciences, has been named the November “Researcher of the Month” by the Ontario division of the Canadian Cancer Society. Her research aims to provide new information about the biology of colorectal cancer and may suggest new therapies to delay its progression. Coomber is also co-director of U of G's Institute for Comparative Cancer Investigation.
SERVICE QUALITY RECOGNIZED
At the National Quality Institute's annual Canada Awards for Excellence ceremony last month in Toronto, Prof. Anne Wilcock, Marketing and Consumer Studies, received a Canada Award for Excellence — Service Quality for HISTOVET, the company she runs with her husband, retired OVC professor Brian Wilcock. Anne Wilcock also participated in a panel discussion and gave a presentation on “Customers for Life.”
PROF CO-EDITS JOURNAL
Prof. Joe Ackerman, Integrative Biology, co-edited a special interdisciplinary issue of the Journal of Aquatic Sciences, published by EAWAG, the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology. The June 2007 issue addressed numerous possible causes of reduced fisheries in Switzerland's Lake Brienz.