MISCELLANY

The College of Agriculture held its first "Pick Your Major Day" Jan. 27 in the lobby of the Ag. Bldg., with senior students putting on displays explaining the 11 specialization areas to first-year Agriculture students, who must choose a major for next fall. Here, the Applied Microbiology & Food Scienc booth offers information.

Third-year Arts and Science student Natalie Matheson, left, leads a group of visiting Grade 12 students from the Agriculture Building towards Kinesiology Feb. 4, during the massive "Experience US 2000" event, which saw more than 3,000 Grade 12 students from across Saskatchewan visit campus Feb. 3-4.

Matheson was one of more than 160 U of S students who volunteered to help with Experience US, and she took her tour-guide responsibilities seriously, describing University buildings as her group walked past them.

Visiting high school students took in Huskie Athletic videos, messages from U of S Pres. Peter MacKinnon and Students Union Pres. Sean Junor, and three information sessions, out of a choice of 29, on programs and services.

Above, Cory Bautz, with Suer & Pollon Mechanical, works Feb. 11 on the heating and cooling system in the ceiling of the walkway that will soon link the Thorvaldson and Arts Buildings. One end of the link has been punched through into the Arts Building, but the Thorvaldson end remains closed until this spring.

Below, the walkway adds a new architectural view, looking from the north side.

Chantelle Cairns, second-year MSc student in Pathology, explains her research poster-board on "Chemokines: Potential in a Cancer Vaccine", during the 7th Annual U of S Life Sciences Research Day Jan. 21, which had grad students from the medical departmsnts, Pharmacy & Nutrition, Veterinary Medicine, and Nursing displaying research in the St. Thomas More College cafeteria. Cairns won second prize for Masters posters. About 80 groups of students exhibited their research findings.

Above, Dr. Anna Szmigielska guides Grade 6 students as they view clay and sand under the microscope.

Below, Dr. Terry Tollefson helps the young students feel the difference between large-particle sand and small-particle clay. More than 20 students from teacher Lucien Deux’s Grade 6 class at the Saskatoon French School spent two hours Feb. 4 in a Soil Sciences lab in the Agricultural Building, learning about different aspects of soil. Deux said it fits nicely into the youngsters’ Grade 6 study of phenomena like earthquakes and volcanoes.