Around the Bowl

• Dr. David Palmer, Assist. Prof. of Chemistry, has received a $53,000 Research Innovation Award from the Research Corporation, a U.S. funding agency, for the project, "Characterizing enzymes of unknown function from the rhizopine biosynthetic pathway." These awards are "to encourage risk-taking and unusual, innovative research holding promise for significant scientific discoveries." Grant applications by Palmer in the first year of his appointment have resulted in three research operating grants and one equipment grant. He is an associate member of the Dept. of Biochemistry.





• Dr. Marie Battiste, Prof. of Educational Foundations in the College of Education, has been invited to be a guest of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria as part of that university’s Visiting Lansdowne Scholar Program. Every year UVic invites noted scholars to make presentations to the public and members of its community. This year, the Faculty of Education has made Indigenous education one of its priorities for faculty and staff development.





• Hans S. Dommasch, Prof. Emeritus of Art & Art History, has been invited to present a slide lecture at the Medicine Hat Museum & Art Gallery, in conjunction with inclusion of seven of his nature photograhs in a Feb. 9-April 30 exhibition at the gallery. Dommasch, whose photos have been loaned by U of S Archives, is well-known for combining an artist’s visualization and superior technical quality. He has also been invited to speak about "Canada, North of 60" during April and June in Germany and Switzerland.





• Dr. Michael Mehta, Assoc. Prof. of Sociology, has been awarded a grant of approximately $28,000 over three years from the University of Calgary’s Chair Program in Risk Communication and Public Policy. He will study how best to communicate the human health risks of exposure to endocrine modulators. This will include work on EM-com, a website devoted to building an on-line community to discuss issues related to endocrine modulators. It will bring the public, scientists, and others from around the world together to explore and explain these complex biomedical issues. It is located at: www.em-com.net





• The co-directors of the University of Saskatchewan Process Philosophy Research Unit (USPPRU) – From left: Professors Howard Woodhouse (Ed’l. Foundations), Mark Flynn (Ed’l. Psychology), Ed Thompson (USPPRU), and Bob Regnier (Ed’l. Foundations) – have had the proceedings of an international conference they organized in June 1998 published in the most recent edition of Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 31 (2/3), 2000. The conference, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the death of philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, was held at the University of Exeter, England. In his introduction to the volume, the editor calls the proceedings "one of the most remarkable collections Interchange has ever published", containing articles by French, American, British, Belgian, and Canadian scholars – including Flynn and Woodhouse. USSPRU plans a second international conference, at the U of S, in 2002. Building on the previous theme, "Education, Ecology and Science", the conference will be titled "Knowledge, Value and Process".