Around The Bowl

• Gordon Barnhart, University Secretary, has been appointed as a trustee of the Saskatchewan Government House Foundation which will oversee renovations to Government House in Regina.  He has also be named a member of the board of the Estey Centre for Law and Economics in International Trade.
  
  
  
• Ron Sutherland, professor in the Department of Chemistry, was a participant in a recent meeting entitled Government Consultations with Civil Society on Issues Relating to Nuclear and other Weapons of Mass Destruction set up by the federal Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.  He chaired a session on chemical and biological weapons.
  
  
  
• Dr. Lingyun Wu, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, has received a New Investigator Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.  Sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology, she was one of 10 recipients in Canada to receive $250,000 over five years to support her independent research on the pathogenic role of PPAR gamma on vascular tissues in genetic hypertension.
  
  
  
• Karsten Liber, director of the Toxicology Centre and the Northern Ecosystems Toxicology Initiative, was recently appointed by federal Health Minister Anne McLellan to a two-year term on the Pest Management Advisory Council.  Set up in 1998, the council is responsible for advising the minister of health on policies and issues related to the federal pest management regulatory agency, which regulates pesticide use in Canada.
  
  
  
• Don Cochrane has been reappointed head of the Department of Educational Foundations in the College of Education.  The appointment covers the period from July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2005.
  
  
  
• Bob Tyler from the Department of Applied Microbiology and Food Science has been appointed to the position of Associate Dean (Academic) in the College of Agriculture.   The five-year appointment begins July 1 and was announced by Michael Atkinson, Vice-President Academic and Provost.
  
  
  
• Dr. Femi Olatunbosun, head of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, will chair a working group set up by 1995 UN-sponsored International Conference on Population and Development to discuss ways the basic medical curriculum can be reformed to accommodate the concept of sexual and reproductive health.  He will serve as a consultant to the initial pilot study that will be carried out at three medical schools and will head an international steering group set up to promote the introduction of changes recommended by the working group into the curricula of other medical schools.
  
  
  
• Erin Taman began working May 1 in a term position as a Communications Officer trainee in the Office of Communications.  A former Editor of The Sheaf, she took two years of pre-Journalism coursework at the U of S in 1998-2000 and has just completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Regina.