SEMINARS

Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology Seminar Series

• Fri., Nov. 8, 12:30 p.m., in Rm 2105 WCVM, Dr. John Ellis, Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology, will present on 'What's the best booster shot for my dog, Doc? - or - 'The Comparative Efficacy of Intranasal and Parenteral Vaccines for Bordetella bronchiseptica'.

• Fri., Nov. 15, 12:30 p.m., Rm 2105 WCVM, Dr. Henry Tabel, Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology, will present on 'Immunopathogenesis and Immunity in African Trypanosomiasis'.

• Fri., Nov. 22, 12:30 p.m., Rm 2105 WCVM, Dr. Meiqing Shi, Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology, will present on 'Experimental African Trypanosomiasis: IFN-gamma Mediates Early Mortality'.

• Fri., Nov. 29, 12:30 p.m., Rm 2105 WCVM, Dr. Jude Uzonna, Dept. of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania, will present on 'Enhancing Vaccine-Induced Local and Systemic Immunity Against Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in Cattle'.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine Seminar Series

Tues., Nov. 5, 12:00-1:00 p.m., RUH East Lecture Theatre G763, Dr. Heather Boon, U. of Toronto and Drs. Joseph Schnurr & Michael Epstein, U of S., will present a seminar on 'National & Local Initiatives in Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM)'. Includes an overview of current national research and educational initiatives in CAM, and a description of the CAM initiative recently launched in the College of Medicine. Dr. Boon is Assist. Prof in the U of T Faculty of Pharmacy, and is co-ordinator of the Toronto Complementary & Alternative Medicine Research Network. Drs. Schnurr and Epstein are project co-ordinators with the U of S Initiative in Complementary & Alternative Medicine.

Civil Engineering Nooner Series

Wed., Nov. 6, 12:35 p.m. to 1:20 p.m., Rm 1B79 Engineering, a PowerPoint slide-show entitled 'Bridges around the World with emphasis on the Construction of the Confederation Bridge' will be presented by Dr. Mel Hosain, P.Eng., Prof. of Civil Engineering. Sponsored by the CSCE Student Chapter. Everyone is welcome.

Department of Languages & Linguistics Seminar

Fri., Nov. 15, 4:00 p.m. in Arts 512, Dr. Silke Falkner will speak on "An Iconography of the Other: The Case of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg". All are welcome.

Culliton Lecture

Mon., Nov. 4, 12:30 p.m., in the Moot Court Rm, College of Law, Dr. Jim Miller, Canada Research Chair and Prof. of History, will deliver the Culliton Lecture entitled 'Native Residential Schools". Everyone welcome. For info. call Law, -5873.

Math-Music Seminar

Wed., Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 202 Arts, Mathematics & Statistics Assoc. Prof. Murray Bremner will present a seminar, 'Musical Composition with a Computer Algebra System', describing how the decimal expansion of an irrational number can be used with the help of a computer to determine all musical parameters in a composition for piano. A recording of the piece will be played. See website: http://math.usask.ca/~bremner/creative/mathmusic.html

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia

• Fri., Nov. 1, 4:00-5:00 p.m., in Rm. 206 Arts, Prof. Peter Gibson, Univ. of Calgary, will speak on "Topology and Discrete Geometry Arising from a Simple Mechanical Model".

• Fri., Nov. 15, 4:00-5:00 p.m. in Rm. 206 Arts, David C. Brydges Canada Research Chair, UBC Dept. of Mathematics & Univ. of Virginia Dept. of Mathematics, will speak on 'Branched Polymers & Dimensional Reduction'. For a general audience, addresses a solution to a variant of the old and unsolved problem of determining the expected end-to-end distance of a long self-avoiding random walk in three dimensions. At 6:00 p.m. some may go to dinner at the Genesis. Those interested should contact Steve Berman, Tel: 966-6083.

Veterinary Medicine Seminar

Tues., Nov. 5, 12:30 p.m., in Rm. 2115, WCVM, Dr. Jonathan LaMarre, Univ. of Guelph Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, will speak on 'Regulation of Gene Expression During Hepatocyte Growth'. This is part of the WCVM Lecture Program - DLT Smith Visiting Scientist.

Visiting Artists, Critics & Curators

Talks scheduled for the fall term in the 2002-03 Dept. of Art & Art History 'Visiting Artists, Critics & Curators Program include the following. All are held at 12:00 noon at the Snelgrove Gallery, Rm. 191.1 Murray Bldg.

• Wed., Nov. 6 - Carl Heywood (printmaker from Kingston, Ont.).

• Thurs., Nov. 7 - Joanne Tod (Toronto painter).

• Thurs., Nov. 14 - Tony MacAuley (media-based artist from London, Ont.).

U of S Distinguished Researcher
Free Public Lecture

Wed., Nov. 6, 4:00 p.m., in Rm. 103 Physics Bldg., U of S Distinguished Researcher Award winner Physics Prof. Ted Llewellyn will present a free public lecture on the development of OSIRIS, a U of S-designed instrument that maps ozone and tracks ozone depletion, as well as his life in Siberia as a member of the ODIN satellite launch team and his plans for atmospheric remote sensing at the U of S. Reception to follow.

Chemistry Dept. Seminars

• Mon., Nov. 4, 2:30 p.m. in Thorvaldson 176, Dr. Susan Aitken, Molecular & Cell Biology Dept., Univ. of California. Berkeley, will give a seminar entitled: 'Mechanisms for Enzymes Involved in Sulfur Amino Acid Metabolism'. Refreshments at 2:15 p.m. Everyone welcome.

• Tues., Nov. 5, 4:00 p.m., in Thorvaldson 159, Dr. James Nyangulu, Nat'l Research Council, Plant Biotechnology Institute, will give a seminar entitled: 'Synthesis of Benzo [c] Phenanthridines as Potential Antimalarial Agents'. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Everyone welcome.

• Tues., Nov. 12, 4:00 p.m., in Thorvaldson 159, Dr. Thomas Exner, U of S Dept. of Chemistry, will give a seminar entitled: 'Quantum Mechanisms of Biomacromolecules'. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Everyone welcome.

Biology Seminars

• Thurs., Nov. 7 at 4:00 p.m. in Rm. 125 Biology Bldg., Dr. Dick Neal, U of S Dept. of Biology, will present a seminar on 'South Africa Experiences'. All welcome.

• Thurs., Nov. 14 at 4:00 p.m. in Rm. 125 Biology Bldg., Dr. David Eberth, Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alta., will present a seminar on 'Declining Dinosaur Diversity and Possible Climatic Cooling in Northern Latitudes 72-66 mya: The Beginning of the End'. All welcome.

Applied Microbiology & Food Science - Grad Student Seminars

Fridays at 3:30 p.m., Rm. 2E25, Agric.

• Nov. 8 - Kychul Lew on 'An Introduction to Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) Time-of-Flight (TOF) Mass Spectrometry and its Application to Protein Chemistry'.

• Nov. 15 - Grant Leung on 'Microbial Fuel Cells'.

Dept. of Archaeology
Special Seminar

Fri., Nov. 8 at 2:30 in Rm 132, Archaeology Bldg., Dr. Jack Ives, Canada Research Chair candidate in Ethnoarchaeology, will give a talk entitled 'On the Subarctic Origins of the Apache and Navajo Peoples'. Dr. Ives has explored research over 30 years including the relationship between social structure and economy in Subarctic and Plains societies, the historical development and ethnography of Dene and Algonquian kin systems, history of the Athapaskan language family and Subarctic and Plains prehistory. All are welcome.

Teaching Excellence Presentations

Thurs., Nov. 7, 2:30 p.m., in Rm 212 Arts, Skip Kutz, former Program Director for the Co-operative College of Canada and now Instructor in the Sask. Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP), will give a presentation on 'Co-operative Learning'. This is the latest in the Dept. of Sociology Teaching Committee's series of presentations on Teaching Excellence on Campus.

Equity in Education

Nov. 15-16 the seminar 'Creating a Culture for Change: Towards Equity in Education' will be held by the Equity in Education Forum in Rm. 146, Arts Bldg. For registration ($45 incl. lunch) contact Veronica Soltys, College of Education, 966-7649.

• Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. - Public Lecture by Craig Melvin, Exec. Director, Saskatchewan School Trustees Assn. Melvin believes depriving society of the contribution of any excluded group is harmful.

• Nov. 16, 8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. - Presentation by Irene Fraser, Commissioner on First Nations, Métis Peoples, & Justice Reform. Fraser is addressing the over-representation of First Nations and Métis people in the justice system.

Socialist Development in Cuba

0Tues., Nov. 5, 4:00 p.m. in Rm. 214 Arts, Dr. Ken Cole, Director, School of Development Studies, Univ. of East Anglia, UK, will speak on 'Socialist Development in Cuba'. Cole, a scholar and economic advisor with strong links to Cuba, is an authority on development, the politics of knowledge, and competing ideologies of science. Sponsored by the Humanities Research Unit.

Physiology/Anatomy & Cell Biology

• Thurs., Nov. 14 at 11:30 a.m. in Rm A226, Health Sciences Bldg., Dr. Rui Wang, Dept. of Physiology, will present a seminar entitled 'Gasotransmitters - A new concept and a new challenge'.

Toxicology 990 Series Seminars

Seminars held at 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays in Rm. 12, Toxicology Centre. For info. call Allison Hill, 966-7441.

• Nov. 6 - Toxicology Grad. Student Jorgelina Muscatello will speak on 'Chronic toxicity and tissue targets of uranium accumulation in the aquatic invertebrate Chironomus tentans'.

• Nov. 13 - Toxicology Grad. Student Jayda Cleave will speak on 'Characterization of dust associated with swine facilities'.

2002 Myrtle Crawford Memorial Public Lecture

Thurs., November 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Place Riel Theatre, Marilyn Oermann, PhD, RN, Fellow of American Nursing Academy (FAAN) & Prof. of Nursing at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, will present this lecture on 'Consumer Perception of Quality Health Care: Using the Internet to Educate Consumers'. Co-sponsored by the U of S College of Nursing and the Nursing Division of the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science & Technology (SIAST).

P.A. Nat'l. Park Presentation

Wed., Nov. 6, 7:00 p.m., in Rm. 103 Physics Bldg., Anne Morin, Prince Albert Natl. Park Sup't, some Park staff, and Ann Coxworth of the Sask. Environmental Society, will speak on the Park's management plan for the next five years, on planned activities for next year's 75th anniversary of the Park, on the vegetation management plan for Waskesiu, and on the relation of Canada's boreal forests to global carbon, water & energy cycles, climate change, and the Kyoto Protocol.