October 31, 2008
| John Courtney, scholar in residence at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre and professor emeritus of political studies, will undertake an audit of the national electoral register of Bolivia on behalf of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The audit will evaluate the accuracy of Bolivia's voter enumeration and registration system in advance of the country's referendum on land reform and the constitution in January 2009. |  Courtney |
 Harkot |
Troy Harkot has been appointed director of information strategy and analytics, and Simone Knapp has been appointed to the position of business and communications analyst, both with Information and Communications Technology. |  Knapp |
| Dr. Marcel D'Eon and Dr. Mario Taillon received teaching excellence awards from the College of Medicine. Dr. Ken Stakiw is this year's recipient of the Continuing Professional Learning Teacher of the Year award. |  D'Eon |
Author Allison Muri, assistant professor in the English Department, has been named a finalist for a scholarly book prize awarded by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is one of six nominees in the category of best English-language book in the humanities for The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660-1830. |
 Williams |
Jaime Williams, associate professor, has joined the Psychology Department. Her research interests include caregivers of seniors with dementia and the fear of falling among seniors. |
| Cheryl Piché, head secretary in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, received the 2008 Dean's Distinguished Staff Award in the College of Arts and Science for her outstanding work over the past 30 years. Piché received a certificate and a cash award of $1,000. |  Piché |
 Woodhouse |
Howard Woodhouse, professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, has been appointed to a three-year term on the board of trustees of the Association of Process Philosophy of Education based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Woodhouse has also been appointed to the international advisory panel of the African Journal of Public Affairs. |
| Brian Pratt, professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, has been elected to a four-year term as a member of council for the Geological Society of America. GSA has over 20,000 members and is the second- largest international geoscientific society. |  Pratt |
 Borsa |
The Saskatchewan Arts Board has awarded Joan Borsa with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Lieutenant Governor's Arts Awards. Borsa, head of Women's and Gender Studies, has been a strong supporter of the arts in the province for more than three decades. |
Professor Emeritus Michael Hayden has been awarded the Academic Freedom Award by the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association. Hayden joined the History Department at the U of S in 1966 and a received many awards throughout his career, including the Master Teacher award in 2000. |
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