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ENGINEERING STUDENT WINS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Third-year environmental engineering student Madavine Tom of Montreal is one of five undergraduate engineering students from across the country to receive a 2009 scholarship from the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation. Designed to encourage women to choose engineering as a career to honour the memory of the 14 women who died at Ecole Polytechnique, the awards recognize students who are leaders, volunteers, involved in community activities and willing to go out of their way to inspire others. A member of Engineers Without Borders, Tom will be awarded the $5,000 scholarship at the annual general meeting of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers May 22 in Montreal.
GRYPHON COACH HONOURED
Dave Scott-Thomas, head coach of U of G’s cross-country and track-and-field teams, has been named the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Fox 40 Male Coach of the Year. This is his second consecutive award and third overall. Under Scott-Thomas’s guidance, the Gryphon cross-country teams swept both the men’s and women’s OUA and Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships in 2008.
GRAD STUDENT PRESENTATION WINS CONFERENCE AWARD
Katie McLean, an M.Sc. student in the lab of Prof. Matt Vickaryous, Biomedical Sciences, won the Brian K. Hall Award for the best oral presentation by a student on a topic in comparative morphology and development at the annual Canadian Society of Zoologists meeting in Toronto this month. The title of her paper was “A Morphological and Histological Investigation of Tail Regeneration in the Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis macularius).”
OVC PROF TO READ AT ‘AFTERNOON OF MYSTERY’
Prof. David Waltner-Toews, Population Medicine, will read from his mystery novel, Fear of Landing, May 31 as part of “An Afternoon of Mystery” at the Moonshine Café, 137 Kerr St., Oakville. Running from 2 to 5 p.m., the event will feature readings by six crime writers. Fear of Landing, which is Waltner-Toews’s first mystery novel, was named one of the nine best mysteries of 2008 by Publishers Weekly. Reservations are recommended at 905-844-2655 or moonshinecafe@cogeco.net.
PHYSICIST HOLDS LAUNCH CONCERT FOR NEW CD
Prof. Diane Nalini de Kerckhove, Physics, is holding a launch concert for her new CD, Kiss Me Like That, May 24 at 8 p.m. at Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. W., Toronto. For more information, visit www.dianenalini.com. Several songs from the CD, which was inspired by people’s fascination with the sky, stars and moon, were played during a segment of CBC Radio’s Fresh Air May 16 when de Kerckhove appeared on the program to discuss music and physics.