January 29, 1999
Submit talks to Tamie Heisler by 9 a.m. one week prior to publication.
Fax (780)492-2997 or e-mail at public.affairs@ualberta.ca.

Biological Sciences

Departmental Seminar Series
January 29, 3:00 pm
Stanley B Kater, "The Other Half of the Brain: Glial Contributions to Nervous System Function." 3-27 Earth Sciences Building.

Ecology Seminar Series (part of the Biology 631 series)
January 29, noon
Christoph Rohner, "Predator-prey Cycles in the Boreal Forest: Behavioural and Population-level Consequences in Owls." G-116 Biological Sciences Building.

February 5, noon
J Brad Stelfox, Forem Consulting Ltd; Shawn Wasel, Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Inc; and Jack O'Neill, Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Inc, "Alberta's Boreal Forest: A Landscape in Transition. Implications for Sustainable Land Use." G-116 Biological Sciences Building.

Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Group (part of the Genetics 605 series)
February 5, 3:30 pm
Bill Brook, "Cell Interactions Controlling Axis Formation in Limb Development." G-116 Biological Sciences Building.

February 12, 3:30 pm
Richard Britten, "Importance of Non-conservative Double Strand Break Repair as a Determinant of Radiation Sensitivity." G-116 Biological Sciences Building.

Physiology and Cell Developmental Biology Seminar Series (part of the Biology 642 series)
February 3, noon
Amy Tse, "Multiple Signaling Mechanisms Control ACTH Secretion from the Anterior Pituitary." G-114 Biological Sciences Building.

February 10, noon
Susan Jacobs-Kaufman, "The Control of Blood Volume During Septic Shock." G-114 Biological Sciences Building.

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

February 8, 3:30 pm
Brian Cherwick, "The Vinyl Community: Commercial Sound Recordings and Ukrainian Consciousness." 352 Athabasca Hall.

Canadian Federation of University Women (Edmonton)

February 8, 12:00
Mary Kostash, "Everything I Learned about Art Appreciation I Learned From My Grade 2 Class." Edmonton Art Gallery.

Computing Science

February 8, 3:30 pm
John Daigle, University of Mississippi, "Designing Wireless Cellular Access Systems for Future Internet Services." 112 V-Wing.

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

January 29, 3 pm
Karen Smoyer, "Health in the Greenhouse: Climate Change and Human Health." 3-36 Tory Building.

English

February 12, 3:30 pm
Peter Oliva, Alberto Manguel and Thomas Wharton, "An Afternoon of Reading, Writing and Travelling About." L-3 Humanities Centre.

Finance and Management Science

February 1, 10 am
Rajesh Chakrabarti, UCLA (Finance recruit), "Just Another Day in the Inter-Bank Foreign Exchange Market." 4-16 Business Building.

February 5, 3:30 pm
Andrey Pavlov, UCLA (Finance recruit), "Mortgage Prepayments: Who Refinances and Who Moves?" 4-16 Business Building.

February 8, 10 am
Stephen Sapp, Northwestern University (Finance recruit), "New Insights into the Exchange Rate Determination Process: Empirical Perspectives." 4-16 Business Building.

February 9, 3:30 pm
Timothy Chue, Harvard University (Finance recruit), "Home Bias, Partially Segmented Markets, and the Correlation of International Stock Returns." 4-16 Business Building.

February 12, 3:30 pm
Harry Turtle, Professor of Finance, Washington State University, "A Failure Risk Explanation of the Equity Premium Puzzle" (joint with Paul Brockman, Hong Kong Polytechnic University). 4-16 Business Building.

Linguistics

February 8, 4 pm
Fritz Newmeyer, "Formal Linguistics and Functional Explanation - Bridging the Gap." TBW-2 Tory Breezeway.

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

January 29, noon
Zhuolin Han, "Plasmodia 0157." Classroom F, 2J4.02 Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

Nursing

February 4, noon
Louise Jensen, "Advanced Nursing Practice: What it is/isn't-Changing Role." 6-102 Clinical Sciences Building.

Philosophy

January 29, 3:30 pm
Patricia Ireland, "Mary Wollstonecraft's Conceptual Revolution." 4-29 Humanities Centre.

February 5, 3:30 pm
Chris Westbury, "Between Compulsion and Comprehension: Wittgenstein and the Sub-Symbolic Form of Language." 4-29 Humanities Centre.

Physiology

January 29, 3:30 pm
Sandra T. Davidge, "Estrogen and Vascular Function." 207 Heritage Medical Research Centre.

February 5, 3:30 pm
Quentin Pittman, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Calgary, "Back Talk in Neurons; Retrograde Transmission in the Magnocellular System." 207 Heritage Medical Research Centre.

Public Health Sciences

February 3, noon
Francis Lau, "Fostering an Internet Based Collaborative Work Group Through Action Research." Classroom D, 2F1.04 Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

Religious Studies

February 11, 3:30 pm
Andrew Gow, "Luther Reads Lyra and Rashi: Prolegomena to a Study of Christian Appropriations of Hebrew Scripture." 326 Arts Building.

Renewable Resources

February 4, 12:30 pm
Tom Brierley, Pedologist, Land Resource Sciences Section, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Edmonton, "Alberta Soil Resource Information: Past, Present and Future." 2-36 Earth Sciences Building.

February 11, 12:30 pm
Peter Lee, Executive Director, World Wildlife Fund, Edmonton, "Alberta's Special Places 2000: An Extraordinary Public Policy Failure." 2-36 Earth Sciences Building.

University Teaching Services

February 1, 3 pm
Robert de Frece, "Creating a Positive Classroom Climate." 281 CAB.

February 2, 4:30 pm
Brad Hestbak, "Make Your Poster Session Work for You." 3-5 Business Building.

February 3, 5 pm
Katy Campbell, "Making a Presentation I: Supporting Instruction with Electronic Presentations." 1-9 Business Building.

February 4, 3:30 pm
Olive Yonge, "Boundary Crossings in Student-Teacher Relationships." 281 CAB.

February 8, 5 pm
Wenran Jiang, "Teaching Political Science with WebCT." 1-9 Business Building.

February 9, 3 pm
Larry McKill, "Tips for Marking Written Assignments." 281 CAB.

February 10, 2 pm
Janice Picard and Stanley Varnhagen, "Evaluating Videoconferencing." 205 Administration and 2-34 University Extension Centre (please come to either room).

February 11, 2 pm
Sonja Arntzen and Janice Brown, "Creative Projects in Teaching." 281 CAB.

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