Science 100

• March 29, 2:30 pm, NeatbyTmlin Theatre, the First Year Review Steering Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, presents Glen Loppnow who will give a presentation entitled Science 100 at the University of Alberta: A model for year-long interdisciplinary programs.

Who We Are

• March 17, 5 pm, Diefenbaker Canada Centre, Rudyard Griffiths, co-founder of the Dominion Institute, will expand on selections from his book Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto and then at 7 pm, will present Canada’s Afghanistan Policy for 2011 and Beyond. Both events are free, and are presented by the centre, the Office of Global Relations and the Canadian International Council. For more information, email Dan.Sutherland@agr.gc.ca

Applied Mathematics Seminars

For information contact J. Szmigielski at 966-6093

• March 19, 3:30 pm, Arts 217, Peter J. Olver, University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics, presents Moving Frames in Applications
• March 23, 3:30 pm, Arts 134, Mark Ablowitz, University of Colorado, Department of Mathematics, presents Nonlinear waves: from beaches to lasers

Library Dean’s Research Lecture

• March 30, 11 am, Convocation Hall, James G. Neal, vice-president of information services and university librarian at Columbia University, presents Open Access Fanatisicsm, Naysayism, Chaos and Fatigue: Advancing Researcher Understanding and Participation

Nuclear Safety

• March 25, 7:30 pm, Neatby-Timlin Theatre, Michael Binder, president and CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, will discuss trends in the nuclear industry, the commission’s role in regulating safety and waste management for research reactors and common misconceptions about the nuclear industry.

WRTC Seminar

• March 19, 12:30-2 pm, Diefenbaker Canada Centre, David Blackburn, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, presents Non-adherence to Heart Failure Medications: Does the Elephant Move?

Electronic Text Research

• March 16, 3:30 pm, Digital Research Centre, Brent Nelson, Dept. of English, presents Architectures of the Book: Implementing New Knowledge Environments

Fine Arts Research Lecture

• March 14, 7:30 pm, Quance Theatre, Education Building, Harald Krebs, University of Victoria, presents Fancy Footwork: Distortion of the Poetic Rhythm as an Expressive Resource in the German Lied. For information, contact Gregory Marion at 966-8355.

CIHR-THRUST Seminar

• March 16, 11:30 am, East Lecture Theatre, Room G763, Royal University Hospital, Stephen Cramer, UC Davis, professor of applied science, presents Can MRI make you sick? Synchrotron Light Illuminates the Relationship Between Gadolinium MRI Contrast Agents and Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis and Francesca Sampieri, WCVM, presents Gallium maltolate as a treatment for proliferative enteropathy in an animal infection model.

Caldwell Memorial Lecture

• March 19, 7:30 pm, Archaeology 132, Ernie Walker, Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology, presents the annual Jessie Caldwell Memorial Lecture entitled Imagining the West; the Archaeology of Roan Mare Coulee.

Chemistry Seminars

• Feb. 26, 4 pm, Room 159 Thorvaldson, Ruth Signorell, Dept. of Chemistry, UBC, presents Vibrational Spectroscopy of Aerosols
• March 1, 4 pm, Room 205A Thorvaldson, Josiah Obiero, Dept. of Chemistry, presents Modeling Transient Protein – Protein Interactions:  A Structural Study of the Thioredoxin System
• March 5, 4 pm, Room 159 Thorvaldson, Erika Plettner, Dept. of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, presents Insect Olfaction and the Potential Roles of Odorant-Binding Proteins

WCVM Lecture

• March 22, 12:30, Room 2115 WCVM, J.G. O’Donoghue Memorial Lecture, Cornelia Farnum, professor of zoology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., presents Understanding Growth Plate Dynamics: In vivo-based approaches at multiple time scales

Philosophy Lecture

• March 19, 2-4 pm, Room 116 ESB, Emily Brady, University of Edinburgh, presents Aesthetics and the Environment

Philosophy in the Community

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

• March 10, Leslie Howe presents Olympic Sports: An Oxymoron?

Geography and Planning Colloquia

Fridays at 1 pm in 1E85 Agriculture

• March 19, Felix Hoehn presents The Law of Procedural Fairness in Land Use Planning
• March 26, Murray Bell presents Aquatic Cumulative Effect Indicators in Current Practice

Microbiology and Immunology

Thursdays at 4 pm, Room B6, Health Sciences

• March 18, Scott Napper, VIDO, presents Design and Application of Species-Specific Peptides Arrays for Kinome Analysis
• March 25, Chao Zhang presents Role of Human Dicer in HCV Infection
• April 1, Andy Potter, VIDO, presents One World, One Health and Zoonotic Disease
• April 8, Edmond Lemire, Dept. of Pediatrics, presents Medical Genetics