Research Presentations

Jan. 31, 9 am and non, Room 161 Murray Library, the National Aboriginal Health Organization will hold two research presentations that will include information on Metis research ethical guidelines and a tutorial on how to use the NAHO Metis Centre databases. For more information, visit iportal.usask.ca; RSVP to Deborah Lee at 966-6019.

Law Lectures

• Jan. 31, noon, MacPherson Leslie and Tyerman LLP Lecture Theatre, Room 150, College of Law, the Si Halyk, QC, Visiting Scholar in Advocacy Lecture featuring Aaron Fox, QC, McDougall Gauley LLP who will present Farmboy Advocacy
• Feb. 2, 7:30 pm, MacPherson Leslie and Tyerman LLP Lecture Theatre, Room 150, College of Law, the Stack Lecture in Law with Phil Fontaine who will present Social Justice, Reconciliation and Moving Forward
• Feb. 9, 7:30 pm, Convocation Hall, the Gertler Family Lectureship in Law will feature Justice Thomas Cromwell, Supreme Court of Canada who will present The Ethical Dimensions of Practical Judgment

Chemistry Lectures

4 pm, Room 159 Thorvaldson

• Jan. 28, Sunish Sugunan, Department of Chemistry, presents Photophysical Properties of Porphyrins and Fullerenes for Low-power Noncoherent Photon Upconversion
• Feb. 4, Andrew Grosvenor, Department of Chemistry, presents Final-state effects in X-ray spectra: a solid state study

Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

• Feb. 3-4, TCU Place, U of S graduate seminar for civil and geological engineering
• Feb. 7, 4-6 pm, U of S Structures Lab, Room 1C01 Engineering, third annual CSCE Popsicle Stick Bridge Contest - Professionals Challenge
• Feb. 17, noon, Faculty Club, the Feb. Nooner topic is the Maple Creek Washout

Philosophy Colloquium

Jan. 28, 2:30 pm, Arts 1008, Brian Zamulinski presents Backing Blackstone: Rehabilitating the Declaratory Theory of the Common Law

Veterinary Microbiology Seminar Series

12:30 p.m., Lecture Theatre – VIDO

• Jan. 28, Sanjeev Anand, Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology, presents Role of mitochondria during bovine adenovirus 3 infection
• Feb. 4, Lisanework Ayalew presents The role of polypeptide VIII of bovine adenovirus-3 in virus replication
• Feb. 11, Niraj Makadiya presents 100K protein of BAdV-3

WCVM Events

Room 2115, WCVM

• Feb. 8, 12:30-1:30 pm, D.L.T. Smith Lecture, Dr. Harvey Artsob, Montreal, presents Addressing emerging diseases of animal origin
• March 8, 12:30-1:30 pm, Robert and Virginia Rausch Visiting Professorship, Dr. Hana Weingartl, CFIA, Winnipeg, presents Pathogenesis of Nipah virus in swine
• March 9, 12:30-1:30 pm, Robert and Virginia Rausch Visiting Professorship, Dr. Hana Weingartl, CFIA, Winnipeg, presents Emergence of zoonotic viruses – the pig connection
• March 29, 12:30-1:30 pm, DLT Smith Short Term Visitorship, Dr. Matthias Ochs, Hannover Medical School, Germany, presents Quantitative microscopic analysis of the pulmonary surfactant system

Traditional Healing

Jan. 31, 7-8 pm, SaskTel Theatre, RUH, Dr. Danièle Behn Smith, Eh Cho Dene and Mètis physician presents Lessons from my Elders: how traditional healers shape my practice

WRTC Seminars

For more information or to register, contact the Western Regional Training Centre for Health Services Research at 966-8866

• Jan. 28, 12:30-2 pm, Studio B (EMAP), Education Building, Jill Strachan, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), presents CIHI: The Difference Data Makes.
• Feb. 11, 12:30-2pm, Studio B (EMAP), Education Building, Dr. Cheryl Waldner, professor of epidemiology, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine and professor, School of Public Health, presents Opportunities for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Research in Population Health.

Fine Arts Research Lecture

Feb. 22, 7:30 pm, Quance Theatre, Education Building, Gregory Marion, assistant professor of music theory, presents Vers un mise-en-scène: Disentanglement, Debussy and the Ballet

Microbiology and Immunology Series

4 pm, Room B6 Health Sciences Building

• Feb. 3, Lixin Liu, Pharmacology, presents Revealing the mechanisms of leukocyte transendothelial migration using intravital microscopy

Geography and Planning Colloquia

Fridays at 3:30 pm in Room 146 Kirk Hall

• Jan. 28, Daniel Béland, CRC, presents Territorial Redistribution in Federal Equalization Policy: Canada and Australia
• Feb. 4: Kevin Shook presents Memory Effects of Depressional Storage in Northern Prairie Hydrology
• Feb. 11, Nich Fraser presents Quality of Life of Urban Aboriginals in Social Housing
• Feb. 25, Nicholas Kinar presents Automated Measurement and Analysis of Snowpack Physical Properties
• March 4, Sandra Beardsall presents Talking to Strangers: Feminist Women in Ecumenism (International Women’s Day public lecture)
• March 11, Kai Wang presents Optical and Radar Remote Sensed Data in Large-Area Wildlife Habitat Mapping

Philosophy in the Community

7 pm, The Refinery, 609 Dufferin Ave. www.usask.ca/philosophy/

• Feb. 9, Ulrich Teucher, Dept. of Psychology, presents Lots of Living to Do, Death at any Moment: Time in Narratives of Cancer and Aging