By Вen Li
The Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Alberta Science and Research Investments Program announced the establishment of a new economics lab last week.Scheduled to open in January 2003, the $415,000 lab will enable researchers to study how behaviour in the financial marketplace and towards the environment are affected by gener, culture and social norms, according… Continue reading Behavioural economist’s lab gets funding
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Less than two weeks into the job, Vice-President of Finance and Services Phyllis Heaphy is already putting in long days in her sparsely decorated office. Heaphy didn’t begin her career in finance. Her first degree was in English Literature, earned at McGill University in 1970. Her second came in Finance nearly a decade later."Those were… Continue reading New VP Finance and Services
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It’s convocation week at the University of Calgary as approximately 4,000 students receive their degrees.Festivities started on Mon., June 10, 2002 with U of C President Harvey Weingarten’s opening remarks in the Jack Simpson Gymnasium."We are a university with more commitment than history, more future than past," he said to graduates and guests. "And like… Continue reading Convocation week
By Вen Li
Several dozen academics, geoscience professionals and CEOs of Calgary-based petroleum companies celebrated the opening of a new training facility at the University of Calgary last week. The Geoscience Professional Development Centre incorporates the existing Tom Oliver Core Laboratory, the Gallagher Library of Geology and a new teaching lab equipped with industry-scale software and data to… Continue reading Geology gets a boost
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On Tue., June 11, 2002 the Students’ Legislative Council voted to become more efficient.By a vote of 11 to 1, they approved on second reading the purchase of the $15,570 automated time and labour management system from ITR."Since we opened the new MacEwan Hall, the number of hourly employees has increased by 60 per cent,"… Continue reading New SU hand-scanner
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Three U of C researchers received more than $5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to fund interdisciplinary training and research in health and disease on June 10, 2002."This investment helps the next generation of leaders in the field of health research and as a result, will strengthen Canada’s position in the biotechnology… Continue reading Alberta universities share in research funding
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Last week, the University of Calgary Faculty of Management changed its name to honour local businessman and former U of C Board of Governors Chairman Dick Haskayne, who donated $16 million to the university. Money drives things, that’s great. We can never have too many people supporting post-secondary education. What’s bothersome is the school’s creative… Continue reading Business? Lying? Who knew?
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“It’s not so much what you do but how you do it.”In his own words, Jack Perraton summed up his four-year term as the University of Calgary’s Chancellor. U of C Senators wholeheartedly agree."He’s been an excellent, timeless ambassador to the university," said U of C President Harvey Weingarten. "He’s taken the time to know… Continue reading The very long goodbye
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The U of C’s Faculty of Management became the Haskayne School of Business on Tue., May 28, 2002. About two hundred local business leaders and members of the campus community honoured Richard Haskayne for his charitable and other contributions to the university and the community.“He’s been active in business for the past four decades,” said… Continue reading Business school renamed
By Вen Li
Alberta heart researchers announced two new findings this week. University of Calgary and University of Alberta scientists showed that elderly heart patients received the greatest absolute benefit from heart surgery, and that men and women receive the same treatment proportional to their ailments."A number of prior studies suggested women were less likely to get cardiac… Continue reading New insights in heart health