Around the Bowl

• MacLean

  Michael MacLean, campus chaplain at St. Thomas More College, is attending an international study session of Catholic students in Budapest, Hungary Feb. 11-18. "I’m very excited and honored to be chosen as the sole representative for the Americas at the European study session," MacLean said. He will join 35 European representatives looking at the topic "Students Making choices: Building a Meaningful Lifestyle".

  
  
  

• Elliott

  Bob Elliott, a former Head of U of S Internal Audit, Assistant Controller, Director of Management Services, and About-US Project Manager, has been appointed to the position of Director of Support and Development in the Financial Services Division, effective Feb. 1, 2001. He has more than 25 years’ experience at the University. Assoc. Vice-President for Financial Services Laura Kennedy says his experience "will be a real asset to the Division".

  
  
  

• Walz

  Dr. Wolfgang Walz and Dr. Jim Thornhill, both professors of Physiology and both basic neuroscientists, have been appointed to the new Canadian Stroke Network, one of the recently announced national centres of excellence established by the federal government. It is comprised of 145 researchers from across the country. Thornhill is part of a three-member project on cellular and molecular pathways that signal life versus death in stroke-injured nerve cells, and Walz is a project leader looking at the role of scar tissue in the brain after a stroke.

  
  
  

• Sutherland

  Dr. Ron Sutherland, Head of Chemistry, has just returned from the Hague, where he chaired a meeting reviewing a pilot program for chemists from developing countries. Based on feedback, a new program will start in August.

  
  
  

• Kasap

  Dr. Safa Kasap, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, has just had his textbook, Optoelectronic and Photonics: Principles and Practices published by Prentice-Hall. His first text on electronic materials, published in 1996, has become a standard textbook, and he is finishing the second edition. It is being translated into Korean, Greek and French. More can be learned about these texts at http://photonics.usask.ca or at http://materials.usask.ca

  
  
  

• Colazo

  Dr. Marcos Colazo, a graduate student in the prestigious Reproductive Science & Medicine Group, won the Pfizer Graduate Studies Research Grant last fall. Here he receives the award from Dr. Rob Nixon of Pfizer. Colazo graduated graduated from Vet School in Argentina in 1990 and later taught there. His grad work is in treatment protocols for artificial insemination in cattle.

  
  
  

• Grogin

  Dr. Bob Grogin, Assoc. Prof. of History, has had his book Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, 1917-1991 published by Lexington Books, last month. Grogin says, "I try to rescue ideology in this book. Because of the Soviet view of the world, the Cold War was inevitable. It felt besieged." He deals with Wilsonianism and Leninism in the book. Grogin, whose earlier work has been on French intellectual history, wanted to broaden his scope by looking at U.S.-Soviet relations. He’s now working on a book called Insatiable Flame: Terrorism in Modern Times. Grogin has been on faculty since 1966 and is proud of the Master Teacher Award he won in 1995.