Around The Bowl

• Jim Spinney, has been appointed Director of Budget Management in the Financial Services Division.  Jim has worked in the Division since Jan. 1, 2001 and has been Acting Director since June.  He graduated from the U of S College of Commerce in 1975, is a chartered accountant, has his Fellowship CA designation, and worked from 1975-92 with Deloitte & Touche in Saskatoon.  Since 1992 he has worked for a range of organizations in financial and administrative capacities.





• Heather Kuttai, director of disability services for students, is the first recipient of the Excellence in Service to Students with Disabilities Award from the Canadian Association of Disability Service Providers to Post-Secondary Education.  The award recognizes her work, including the establishment of a campus-wide Disability Awareness Week and the development of publications and video materials for students and instructors.





• Sandra Friesen has been appointed to the new position of floor receptionist and clerk/stenographer on the second floor of the Administration Building.  While working in support of the University Secretariat and other administration units, Friesen will greet visitors in the top floor's new central waiting room.   For the past year Sandra worked in the College of Law, and for a brief period before that worked in the College of Nursing.  She has also worked for Child Welfare Services in Red Deer, Alta., and at the Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatoon.





• Dr. Bryan Harvey, University co-ordinator of agricultural research, has spent the past seven years as part of Canada’s delegation negotiating the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.  The treaty was finally approved in Rome Nov. 3 by the Conference of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization with 116 votes in favor and two abstensions.  The aim of the treaty is to ensure better use of plant genetic diversity as efforts to eradicate world hunger continue.





• Dr. Caroline Davis, research analyst in the University Studies Group, has been re-appointed to the Systematic Program Review process as its Academic Director. This part-time secondment to the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost will run from January to June 2002. As Academic Director of SPR, Caroline will be responsible for management and reporting, coordination of reviewer selection, liaison with reviewers and program heads, and assistance with the outcomes process.





• James Irvine, Prof. in the Dept. of Family Medicine, Associate Member of the Dept. of Community Health & Epidemiology, and Medical Health Officer for several predominantly Aboriginal health districts in northern Saskatchewan, is the recipient of the Ron Draper Health Promotion Award.  It is presented annually by the Canadian Public Health Assn. to an individual or group “engaged in community work who has made a significant contribution to health promotion by working in the community to build healthy public policy, create environments that support health, enable community action, enhance personal skills, and/or reorient health services.”  James has worked in public health in New Guinea, was on the Provincial Health Council, and has been a member of the Health Services Utilization & Research Commission (HSURC).

Michael Atkinson, Vice-President Academic and Provost, has announced the following appointments:

• Jeremy Bailey, acting Associate Dean (Academic), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, will continue in the position until June 30, 2003.





• Barb Smith’s appointment as Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Programs), College of Nursing has been extended until June 30, 2003.





• Mary MacDonald will continue as Assistant Dean (Academic Affairs), College of Nursing until June 30, 2003.





• Bob Faulkner has been named Associate Dean, College of Kinesiology for a two-year term effective July 1, 2002.





• Lillian Dyck will assume the role of half-time Acting Associate Dean (Programs), College of Graduate Studies and Research effective Jan.1-June 30, 2002.

• Rob Norris, Communications & Program Development Co-ordinator for U of S International, has been named one of 10 special advisors appointed from across Canada to the 2002 Ad Hoc Committee Concerning Financial Support for International Simulations. It was established by the Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade to contribute to policy review aimed at enhancing post-secondary student opportunities for engaging in, and learning from, international simulations – including the Model United Nations (upcoming in New York) and the Model Organization of American States (MOAS). Norris has organized U of S delegations to MOAS in Edmonton and Argentina. The review should be completed this spring.





• Dr. Howard Woodhouse, Prof. of Educational Foundations, recently published a chapter in Les Eaux Écoformatrices (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2001, eds. René Barbier & Gaston Pineau) entitled "L’écoulement de l’eau comme métaphore de l’écoformation chez Whitehead".  The chapter grew out of a presentation he made on Alfred North Whitehead’s ecosophy to the Groupe de Recherche sur l’Écoformation at the Université François Rabelais de Tours, France.  Woodhouse was also invited to contribute an article to a special issue of the journal Inquiry (U.S.A. edition) Vol XX, No. 2, 2001 on "Bertrand Russell and Critical Thinking".  His article was "In Praise of Idleness: Bertrand Russell’s Critical Thinking about the Global Market".





• Colleen MacPherson recently joined the Office of Communications as a half-time Communications Officer.  A former daily newspaper reporter in Prince Albert and long-time Saskatoon freelance writer, MacPherson will work mainly on producing On Campus News.
  
  
  
• Shannon Wiens has moved into the position of administrative assistant to Danielle Fortosky, director of the Division of Media and Technology.  She joins DMT from the Dept. of Anthropology and Archaeology.