Three new recruitment officers
have taken up their duties in SESD’s Recruitment and Admissions
Division. Chelsea Jukes, a recent commerce graduate,
is in a permanent post while Arvelle Beutler, also
a commerce grad, and Shawn Rempel, a graduate in
Kinesiology, have taken up term positions. Kim Frank
returns to the Marketing & Student Recruitment group on a term
position, filling in for Shawna Moon who is on educational
leave.
Jukes
Beutler
Rempel
Frank
Adams
Pritpal Malhi along with
supervising faculty Gregg Adams and Jaswant
Singh of the Dept. of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, and
Roger Pierson from Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive
Sciences, received the award for best oral presentation at the annual
meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Anatomists last
July. The title of Malhi’s paper was Bovine Model of Reproductive
Aging: Response to Ovarian Synchronization and Superstimulation.
Pierson
Electrical Engineering Professor
Brian Daku, graduate student Enas M.A. Mohamed
as well as Arnfinn Prugger of the Potash Corp. of
Saskatchewan received the award for best paper published in ISA Transactions,
the publication of The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society.
The paper, entitled “A PVDF transfucer for low-frequency acceleration
measurements”, and its authors will be recognized at an ISA
reception in Chicago in late October.
Daku
Campbell
Maria Campbell,
assistant professor of English, is one of two authors receiving lifetime
achievement awards this year as part of the Ânskohk Aboriginal
Literature Festival sponsored by McNally Robinson Booksellers and
the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. The award recognizes contributions
to Aboriginal literature.
Accounting faculty in the
College of Commerce picked up a number of awards over the summer:
• Associate Professor Norm Sheehan won the
Canadian Academic Accounting Association’s (CAAA) Innovation
in Accounting Education Award that included a $500 honorarium and
an invitation to make a presentation at the organization’s
annual meeting.
• Professor Fred Phillips won the CAAA competition
for the best instructional case. He was also appointed to the editorial
board of Issues in Accounting Education.
• Nathalie Johnstone, assistant professor,
received the Year II Teacher of the Year award in the Master of
Professional Accounting program.
Phillips
Harvey, Reimer, Pozniak
Forty years as a breeder at
the U of S Crop Development Centre earned Bryan Harvey
the Clark-Newman-Clayton award from the Canadian Seed Growers recently.
Part of the award involves the recipient naming a post graduate students
involved in a project of value to seed growers, and Harvey chose masters
student Sherisse Reimer who is shown with her supervisor
Curtis Pozniak, assistant professor of plant sciences.
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