Board of Governors' response
"What are people thinking when they continue to put this burden on students - it's counterproductive. I continue to maintain that it hurts the university to increase tuition more than it helps."
-Sheamus Murphy, SU president
Professor of the year, Andy Liu
Last summer, Dr Andy Liu spent 144 days travelling in Asia volunteering his time visiting students in his native China and Taiwan, while thinking up questions for the International Mathematics Olympiad.
SU involved in Travel Cuts lawsuit
A vindictive agenda against a rival national student lobbying group, or an effort to right the wrongful transfer of assets? Ultimately it will be up to Ontario courts to decide.
Grad school: no life like it
"What has traditionally been expected for faculty is now being expected for graduate students," said Kim
Speers, president of the Graduate Students' Association (GSA) and a third-year PhD candidate in political
science. A graduate student looking for an academic job is expected to have a publishing record and teaching
experience, she pointed out.
A father's story
Nov. 21, 1998 was the blackest day of my life. The Canadian embassy in Ottawa called to say our son, Danny, was involved in a collision with a truck just outside Bogotá, Colombia. He had a broken leg and head injuries; the prognosis was not good. Eleanor, my wife, and I wandered around home like zombies while trying to keep busy until we heard further news.
Fabulous prairie novel makes a stylish comeback
Arguably the most fantastic of Kroetsch's works, What the Crow Said is set in the town of Big River, situated somewhere on the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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A tribute for Mikey
In a split second, Ryan DeCoursey's life changed forever on Apr. 11, 1998. Just days before his final exams, the University of Alberta English student was heading home from Leduc with his fiancée, Jennifer Semotiuk, and their four-year-old son, Michael Semotiuk.
The human side of accounting
Dr. Michael Gibbins is not your ordinary bean counter. The U of A accounting professor has camped by man-eating crocodiles in the Australian outback, climbed a volcano in New Zealand and will dip his toe in the Arctic Ocean later this year.
New faculty profile: Ryan Dunch
The prospect of emerging opportunities in foreign trade with China prompted Aussie Ryan Dunch to take his first degree in Chinese languages at the Australian National University. But as he pursued his master's degree studies at UBC (1989-91), a fascination with history took hold and his doctoral studies at Yale (1991-96) focused on modern Chinese history.
New faculty profile: Selma Guigard
Edmonton has been a pleasant surprise for Selma Guigard. The river valley and ravine walking trails remind her of her native Ottawa. And having taken her undergraduate degree in Grenoble, France, she is especially delighted with our city's vibrant francophone milieu.
New faculty profile: Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa emanates enthusiasm as he talks about the department's brand new Earth Observation Systems Laboratory. The EOSL is instrumental in Sanchez-Azofeifa's research focusing on changes in land cover, and biodiversity. The laboratory also enables geological remote sensing, under the direction of Dr. Benoit Rivard.
The big white bear is on a diet
"I was originally interested in polar bears 25 years ago as predators of seals, and it was not long before I got interested in them in their own right," says Dr. Ian Stirling. "The thing that interested me most about polar bears is how they have evolved to live in a very harsh and variable and often unpredictable environment so successfully and apparently so comfortably. You never see a polar bear looking like someone waiting for a bus when it's 25 below."
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