ESB Research Series

Fridays, noon-1 pm, Room 189 Edwards School of Business

• Oct. 2, Keith Willoughby presents The 9th Avenue Nightmare: Scheduling Games in the Canadian Football League
• Nov. 6, Marjorie Delbaere and Barbara Phillips present Personification in Advertising Imagery: Using a Rhetorical Figure to Prime Anthropomorphism

 

Veterinary Microbiology

Oct. 16, 2:30 pm, Room 2105 WCVM, Niraj Makadiya presents 100K Protein of BAV-3

 

BPBE Seminar Series

Oct. 30, 3 pm, Ag 2C71, Mark Skidmore, agricultural economics, Michigan State University, presents The Impact of State Government Subsidies and Tax Credits in an Emerging Industry: Ethanol Production 1980-2007.

 

Medical Anthropology Lecture

Oct. 15, 4:30-6 pm, Room 18 Edwards School of Business, Linda Garro, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, presents Enacting Health, Enacting Ethos: Realizing Health in the Everyday Lives of Families.

 

Animal Welfare Seminar

Oct. 21, 12:30-1:30 pm, Room 2302 WCVM, Clément Gauthier, executive director of the Canadian Council on Animal Care, will present Animal Care and Welfare Standards – What Roles do Legislation and Guidelines Play in Setting Standards

 

Storaasli Lecture

Oct. 14, 7 pm, Lutheran Theological Seminary Library, Rev. Dr. George E. “Tink” Tinker, Iliff School of Theology in Denver, presents De-colonizing Lutherans: Confessions, Missions, Indians and Globalization

 

Moving Physical Therapy Forward

Michel Landry of the University of Toronto and past president of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association is keynote speaker at a research event Oct. 3 starting at 8 am in B450 Health Sciences Building. His address – Meeting the Global Health Challenge – the Role of Rehabilitation – will be followed by presentations of research undertaken by graduating masters students from the School of Physical Therapy.

 

Geography and Planning Colloquia

Fridays at 2:30 pm in Room 127 Physics

• Oct. 2, Katherine M. Currie presents Reflections on Planning Practice in Western Canada
• Oct. 9, Robert Patrick presents Nuclear Energy Comes to Saskatchewan: Water resource implications
• Oct. 16, Adam Minke presents Water Storage and Hydrological Connectivity of Prairie Wetlands
• Oct. 30, Bram Noble presents So What’s Wrong with Environmental Assessment Anyway?

 

Wrestling History Lecture

The Dept. of History and the College of Kinesiology present sports historian Nathan Hatton who will present Thrashing Seasons: Roughness, Respectability and Professional Wrestling on the Canadian Prairie before 1930 on Oct. 29 at 7:30 pm in the Physical Activity Complex.

 

CHARM Meeting

Oct. 2, the Dept. of Archaeology and the Saskatoon Archaeological Society host Cultural, Heritage and Archaeological Resources Meet (CHARM) at 5 pm in Room 132 Archaeology Building followed by a 7 pm presentation by Kit Krozser entitled Rock Art and Ruins: The SAS 2009 Tour to the Four Corners Area of the American Southwest

 

Maori Perspective

Oct. 7, 2:30 pm, Room 146 Arts, Khylee Quince, faculty of law, University of Auckland, New Zealand, presents Well, It’s Not our Custome, But It’s Not all Bad – a Maori Perspective on New Zealand’s Youth Justice System

 

Academic Integrity Workshops

All workshops Oct. 7. Register online at www.usask.ca/integrity

• 8:30-10 am, Murray 102, Smart Enough to Cite: An Introduction to MLA Style Documentation with Liv Marken
• 10-11:30 am, Murray 102, Smart Enough to Cite: An Introduction to APA Style Documentation with Angie Gerrard and Mary Lynn Gagne
• 11 am-2 pm in the tunnel, USSU event Burst the Bubble on Academic Dishonesty
• 2-3:30 pm, Learning Commons, Murray Building, Copyright, Copy Left panel discussion with Jim Green, Richard Schwier, Amanda Storey and Frank Winter
• 3:30-5 pm, Murray 161, Smart Enough to Cite: Using Refworks to Make Citing Easier with Erin Watson
• 5-6:30 pm, Murray 102, Smart Enough to Cite: An Introduction to Chicago Style Documentation with Donna Canevari de Peredes

 

Technology and Research

Events scheduled during Technology Week. For details visit www.usask.ca/technologyweek

• Oct. 28, 3:30 pm, Neatby-Timlin Theatre, Walter Stewart presents Canada- Lost on the Road to Cyberinfrastructure
• Oct. 29, 3:30 pm, Neatby-Timlin Theatre, Geoffrey Rockwell presents Ubiquitous Analytics: Weaving Analytical Tools into your Research

 

Spinks Lectures

Robert Farrauto, research fellow at the corporate research laboratories of BASF Catalysts, will present two lectures on campus:

• Oct. 5, 3:45 pm, Thorvaldson 105, Road to the Hydrogen Economy: The Convergence of Energy and the Environment
• Oct. 6, 3:30 pm, Thrvaldson 105, Automotive Emission Control: Past, Present and Future

 

Continuing Nursing Education

For more information or to register, visit www.usask.ca/nursing/cne/

• Oct. 2, 3-4 pm, Adam Ballroom, Delta Bessborough Hotel, Evelyn G. Edwards Memorial Lecture, Annette Stanwick, vice-president of medical affairs with the Gimbel Eye Centre in Calgary, presents Offering Hope and Freedom Inside Prison Walls
• Oct. 22, e-learning event: Oncologic Emergencies: What all Nurses Caring for Cancer Patients Need to Know
• Oct. 30, telehealth event: RNAO’s Best Practice Guidelines on Constipation

 

Neurology Lectures

Accredited group learning event Oct. 2, SaskTel Theatre, Royal University Hospital

• 10-11 am, Dr. Warren Blume, professor, epilepsy program, London Health Sciences Centre, presents Spread of Seizures
• 11-noon, Dr. Samuel Wiebe, professor, epilepsy program, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, presents Electrical Stimulation in the Treatment for Epilepsy

 

Microbiology and Immunology

Thursdays at 4 pm, Room B6, Health Sciences

• Oct. 8, Rui Wen, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, presents Arabidopsis Ubc13/Uev Complex Promotes Lysine-63-Linked Polyubiquitination and Is Involved in DNA Damage Response
• Oct. 15, Kurtis Mansfield presents E. coli’s Repellent Response to DNA Damaging Agents
• Oct. 22, Kiven Erique Lakong, Dept. of Biochemistry, presents The Cellular Implications of Breast Tumor Kinase and its Substrate Sam68

 

Philosophy in the Community

Wednesdays at 7 pm at The Refinery. For more information visit www.usask.ca/philosophy

• Oct. 14, Heidi Epstein, Dept. of Religious Studies, STM, presents Mytho-Poetic Tightropes: Navigating Religious Language in Fundamentalist Climates
• Nov. 11, Peter Alward, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge, presents Why Do We Care About the Fates of Non-Existent People (And Other Puzzles about Fiction)?

 

Philosophy Colloquium

• Oct. 9, 3:30 pm, Room 344A STM, Neil Hibbert, Dept. of Political Studies, presents Responsibility in Theories of Justice
• Nov. 6, 3:30 pm, Room 120 STM, Michael Marder, STM Dept. of Philosophy, presents Decision and Interpretation: On the Possibility of Political Hermeneutics