March 12, 1999 Volume 6, Number 12

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MISCELLANY

Neuroscientists promote annual Brain Awareness Week

To promote public awareness of the great strides that have been made in how the brain functions in both health and disease, neuroscientists across North America will again be celebrating Brain Awarenes Week from March 15 to 20.

For BAW-related activities in Saskatoon and the province, check out the Saskatchewan Neuroscience Network website at http://duke.usask.ca/~rondouc/BAW.html

Activities include a number of public lectures and visits to service clubs by U of S personnel and a 40-booth Brain Show that begins in the Galleria of Innovation Place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 20.


'Memory Book' planned for Ivanys

The steering committee that's planning farewell activities for George and Marsha Ivany wants to compile a 'Memory Book' to give to the Ivanys to remind them of their time at the U of S.

If you have an anecdote or message that you would like to include, please send it on a sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper, unfolded, to Maureen Gammell, E220 Administration, 105 Administration Place, S7N 5A2.

Feel free also to send any photographs or other memorabilia, keeping in mind that these will not be returned to you.


In Memorium

Dr. Herzberg


Dr. Gerhard Herzberg, who was a research professor and teacher at the U of S from 1935 to 1945 and the 1971 winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, died in Ottawa, on March 3, at 94.

Fleeing Nazi persecution of Jews in the early '30s, Dr. Herzberg, through the efforts of Dr. J.W.T. Spinks, came to the U of S, where he established a spectroscopy laboratory. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel - which acknowledged his world supremacy as a molecular spectroscopist - he recalled "...the full and understanding support of successive presidents and of the faculty of the University [of Saskatchewan] who, under very stringent conditions, did their utmost to make it possible for me to proceed with my scientific work."

Herzberg eventually moved to Ottawa, where he conducted high level research at the National Research Council. His daughter, Dr. Agnes Herzberg, currently a professor of statistics at Queen's, is a member of the U of S Senate.

Donations in lieu of flowers may be made either to:

  • Neuro Science Unit, Loeb Medical Research Institute, c/o Ottawa Civic Hospital Foundation, 1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4E9 or to:

  • Herzberg Fund, c/o Alumni and Development Office, 117 Science Place, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK., S7N 5C8. This Fund is designed to support graduate students and research in the physical sciences, thereby commemorating Dr. Herzberg.


    Notes from the Editor

    • In our February 19 piece on the Family Care Committee's plans to formulate family-related policies for the University, we failed to mention that the Committee was established on the basis of a recommendation to the president from the President's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women.

    • Also in the February 19 issue: Our apologies to Dr. Thomas Courchene, the 1999 Timlin Lecturer, for running the wrong name under his photograph. We also apologize for the mis-ordering of one of the names under the photograph of the CSDIG working group on p. 2 - an error picked up on the blueline, but not corrected by the printer.

    • We welcome letters. Send them to Editor, On Campus News, 280 Administration Bldg. Fax: 966-6815. E-mail: Wayne.Eyre@usask.ca

    • Remember to tell your wired friends that On Campus News is online at www.usask.ca/archived_ocn/. The un-wired can still subscribe.


    March make entree in white

    March came in on little hoary cat feet, left its tracks on trees outside Qu'Appelle Hall, then moved on.



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