A paper entitled “A
Dialogue Between Dialogues: Erasmus’s ‘De recta pronuntiatione’
and ‘Ciceronianus’” earned English professor Judith
Rice Henderson the Montaigne Prize, awarded by the Canadian
Society for Renaissance Studies. The prize recognizes the best paper
presented by a non-student member at the society’s annual meeting.
Psychology professor Jim
Waldram has been named a Champion of Mental Health by the
Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) for
his research towards an understanding of Aboriginal mental health
issues. The award was presented in Ottawa in early October. Waldram’s
research has had a major impact on how the historical mistunderstanding
of Aboriginal cultures has had a negative impact on mental health.
Waldram
Maria Campbell,
assistant professor of English, Dr. James Dosman,
director of the Institute of Agricultural Rural and Environmental
Health, Bryan Harvey, professor emeritus of Crop
Science, and Dr. Annu Thakur, clinical professor
in the department of psychiatry, were all named Oct. 11 to the Saskatchewan
Order of Merit, the province’s highest honour.
Campbell
Dosman
Harvey
Thakur
Massey
On Nov. 4, the first Ruth
Murray Award for Outstanding Support of the University of Saskatchewan
Library will be made posthumously to Dr. Lorne Massey,
former head of the Pathology Department. The award will be made at
the second annual Library Fundraising Gala.
Dr. Kyathanahalli
Janardhan, a PhD student in the Department of Veterinary
Biomedical Sciences under supervisor Dr. Baljit Singh,
won first prize in the poster competition, for his poster on Expression
of Toll-like receptor 4 in acute lung inflammation, and second prize
in oral presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association
of Veterinary Anatomists held recently in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Janardhan
Albritton
The newly formed Canadian
Academy of Health Sciences has admitted four U of S faculty members
as Fellows, a rank that recognizes national and international contributions
to the promotion of health science. Inducted Sept. 21 at the academy’s
inaugural meeting were: Dr. William Albritton, dean
of the College of Medicine; Dr. James Dosman, director
of the Institute of Agricultural Rural and Environmental Health; Dr.
Jawahar Kalra, professor of Pathology; and Roger
Pierson, professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive
Sciences.
From left, Dr. Jawahar
Kalra and Dr. William Albritton visit with
federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh at the recent
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences meeting.
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