Around the Bowl

Dr. John Weil, Prof. Emeritus of Chemical Physics, was notified last month he has been awarded a research grant of $35,000 each year for three years to conduct basic research into chemicals that may be useful for treating Alzheimers and other disorders. The grant is from the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation, the funding arm of the Masonic Order, administered through the Toronto-based Roeher Institute, Pharmacology grad student Monika Lafond will assist Weil in the study.

Dr. Judith Rice Henderson, Prof. of English, has been appointed Associate Dean (Humanities & Fine Arts) in the College of Arts and Science. The appointment is for the term Sept. 1, 2000-June 30, 2005. Henderson is in her 30th year at the U of S.

Dr. Kunio Komiyama, Prof. in the College of Dentistry, has been appointed Head of the Dept. of Biological, Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences for the period Oct. 1, 2000-Sept. 30, 2003.

Dr. Brent Moulding, Prof. in the College of Dentistry, has been appointed Head of the Dept. of Community and Clinical Dentistry for the period Oct. 1, 2000-Sept. 30, 2003.

Dr. J. Ken Sutherland, Prof. in the College of Dentistry, has been appointed Assistant Dean of the College for the period July 1, 2000-June 30, 2005.

Dr. P.M. Huang, Professor of Soil Science, was presented with the Soil Science Research Award at the recent 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Nov. 5-9 in Minneapolis. The Societies state Huang’s research, in more than 350 refereed publications, nine of which appeared in the journal Nature, "are fundamental to the development of innovative strategies for managing land and water resources." Huang received the U of S’s Distinguished Researcher Award in 1997.

Allan Blakeney, lecturer in the College of Law, was presented with the Saskatchewan Order of Merit by Lieutenant Governor Lynda Haverstock at a ceremony in Regina Oct. 26. Blakeney, born in Nova Scotia has a law degree from Dalhousie University and was a Rhodes Scholar. He was elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1960 and served until 1988. He served as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1971-82. He has taught law at York University and the U of S. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, and is president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

Dr. John W. Foster, Sallows Chair in the College of Law from 1997-99, has accepted an invitation to become Principal Researcher with the North-South Institute in Ottawa. Foster recently published Whose World is it Anyway? Civil Society, the United National and the Multilateral Future (Ottawa, UNAC, 1999). He will specialize in research on international civil society.

Dr. Dennis Hunt, Prof. Emeritus of Educational Psychology, has authored a play, Choices, which will have its world premiere at Saskatoon’s Persephone Theatre Nov. 11. The play, directed by Mark von Eschen, will run until Nov. 22. Hunt taught in the College of Education from 1971-89.

Dr. Gregg Adams, Prof. of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Assoc. Member of the Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, delivered the Year 2000 State-of-the-Art Lecture at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society in St. John’s, Nfld. in mid-September. He spoke on A Comparative Approach to Ovarian Folliculogenesis. His lecture was considered an example of the integrated, multidisciplinary approach to medical research currently encouraged by the new Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. Roger Pierson, Prof. of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Director of the Reproductive Biology Research Unit, presented a talk on a highly publicized study on the effectiveness of the new Evra Contraceptive Patch to a meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, in San Diego, Calif., Oct. 25. Pierson, lead author of the study, explained that the patch is more effective than birth control pills. It is still in the testing phase. The research was funded by the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, an arm of Johnson & Johnson.