Newly appointed assistant professor of marketing in the Edwards School of Business, Maureen Bourassa, tied for first place in a 2008 dissertation competition. The event was sponsored by the American Marketing Association's Relationship Marketing Special Interest Group and the Center for Business and Industrial Marketing at Georgia State University. Bourassa will defend her PhD at Queen's University this summer.

Orleigh Bogle, graduate student in veterinary biomedical sciences, has won the student paper competition at the 2009 International Embryo Transfer Society held in early Jan. in San Diego, California.  Orleigh's paper, Evidence for the Presence of Ovulation-Inducing Factor in Porcupine and Equine Seminal Plasma, was judged to be the best in the field of over 30 other entries in the competition.

Graduate student and registered nurse, Terri Bloski, in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences returned from the 54th annual conference of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society with two awards: the best student paper for western Canada for her work Finger Length Ratios as Anatomical Evidence of Prenatal Androgen Exposure in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. She was also chosen to travel to England later in the year as the society's exchange speaker with the British Fertility Society.

Annette Horvath has joined University Communications in a new position as the communications specialist for the Academic Health Sciences project.  Horvath previously worked with the College of Medicine where she was the alumni and communications officer.

Geochemist Jim Hendry of the Department of Geological Sciences, in partnership with Cameco, has earned the 2008 Synergy Award for Innovation in the large companies category by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for the 15-year effort to protect groundwater from toxins stored in uranium tailing ponds. Hendry received the national award and a $200,000 research grant, which he intends to spend on field work, lab research and computer modeling.

CANARIE, the agency responsible for developing and managing Canada's national research, innovation and education network, has elected Rick Bunt, chief information officer and associate vice-president of information and communications technology, to its board of directors.