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The Bulletin

One University.Many Futures.

Searching for IceA trip through the Arctic Ocean shows the reality of global warming.

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High MarksThe university’s athletes aren’t just succeeding on the playing field.

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Fall ConvocationThe university recognizes some of Canada’s top citizens and its own valued staff.

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BY DALE BARBOURThe Bulletin

Vimy Ridge Memorial Park has a new piece of public art that does everything from looking pretty, to telling a story, to providing a place to eat.

Table of Contents, designed by Architecture professor Eduardo Aquino and U of M architecture graduate Karen Shanski, resembles more than anything else a giant table, easing across the lawn of Vimy Ridge Memorial Park and inscribed with comments, thoughts and views collected from people in neighbourhood in a variety of languages. It was

built under the auspices of the Winnipeg Art Council’s public art program and was unveiled on Wednesday, Oct. 3 with a community barbeque giving people the chance to not only see the latest addition to their park, but put it to use.

“We would like to use this moment to pass on the project. More than anything we want to see the community take ownership of the piece and to bring life to the piece,” Aquino said. “This is not my piece of art or Karen’s piece of art. It’s your sculpture: Eat on it, sit on it: throw a big party around it and enjoy it.”

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Photo by Dale Barbour

Architect Karen Shanski and Architecture professor Eduardo Aquino teamed with people in the Wolseley neighbourhood to create Table of Contents, a new piece of public art in Vimy Ridge Memorial Park.

Community designs art

Record year

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The University of Manitoba has never had more graduates than it has this year. Fall Convocation kicked off yesterday and continues today with a ceremony at 3:30 p.m. in the Investors Group Athletic Centre.

With 1,192 students graduating this week, the university will have seen a total of 4,777 students graduate in 2006 – up by nearly 100 graduates from 2005, the previous record.

The fall graduating numbers were actually down slightly from last year, but the deficit was more than made up for by spring Convocation.

While the focus of Convocation is on the students, the university is also taking advantage of the celebration to recognize a number of notable people in the community.

An honorary degree was conferred on Vivienne Poy, author, entrepreneur, historian, fashion designer and the first Canadian of Asian descent to be appointed to the Senate of Canada, on Oct. 18, and Olympic medallists Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen are set to receive their honorary degrees today, Oct. 19.

The Dr. John M. Bowman Memorial Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Medal was presented on Oct. 18 to Garry Martin, one of Canada’s most acclaimed psychologists, with an international reputation as a leading researcher in developmental disabilities and sport psychology.

John Foerster, who graduated in medicine in 1961, received the Dist inguished Alumni Award in recognition of his contribution to the university, to the medical profession and to advancing medical research in the Manitoba at the Oct. 18 session.

Natalie Denesovych, currently manager of University Centre Services and Special Functions, and the catalyst who has made many on-campus events truly special occasions, will be honoured with the President’s Award of Excellence at today’s session.

Finally at today’s session, emeritus appointments will recognize the scholarly careers of three people: Cameron Harvey, Faculty of Law, James C. Jamieson, Faculty of Science, and Alexander Rattray, Faculty of Architecture.

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From Page 1.Table of Contents was the winning entry in a public

art contest held last year. Heather Cram, chair of the public art committee for the Winnipeg Arts Council, said they liked the effort Shanski and Aquino made to work their art into the neighbourhood and to work the neighbourhood into their art.

Shanski said that process started from the very beginning when they turned down the proposed placement of the artwork – a small piece of land at the intersection of some paths for a larger area that would allow the artwork to stretch out and be used, rather than just looked at.

“We felt public art should add to the community, it should be more than just an object,” Shanski said. “We held a community workshop and asked people to donate text and poetic memories of life in Wolsely. And we sent out notices to people within a certain radius of the park asking them to send in their comments. We wanted as many languages as possible and we wanted it all to appear on the table.”

In that sense, the community designed its own public art.

Aquino said the community involvement made Table of Contents a fun project to put together.

“We started installation about two weeks ago and every day we had people stopping to ask us questions.

It’s been a very positive reaction,” Aquino said. “They liked seeing poetry and writing on the piece that was familiar to them.”

The work received a thumbs up from the people on hand, including Winnipeg city councilor Harvey Smith.

“Vimy Ridge is part of my ward and I’m really happy to have this installation here,” Smith said at the unveiling. One of the members of the Winnipeg Arts Council had noted to Smith that they’d rather live with a few potholes on the road if it meant being able to afford public art for the city. Smith agreed.

“Art lifts your spirit, potholes can always be filled,” Smith said.

Aquino and Shanski, a former sessional instructor at the university and now member of Smith Carter Architects and Engineers in Winnipeg, collaborate on art projects through spmb_projects an art/architecture partnership. Previous works include All the Signs of Pembina Highway, a billboard artwork for Plug In ICA, Winnipeg; Vous Êtes Ici, a reconfiguration of a cultural centre in Montreal that includes a long sculpture inscribed with a map of the neighbourhood’s mythologies; and Copan Projects, which recorded the everyday life of a mixed-use building in São Paulo, Brazil, aiming to produce new representations of the structure and its inhabitants.

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In The News Public art with public inputUniversity of Manitoba members are always

making news – demonstrating the university’s impact on the community. Here’s a look at the stories and headlines that show how U of M faculty and staff impact the world around them.

CJOB on CampusCJOB, October 12

CJOB did a live, three-hour broadcast on Thursday, Oct. 12, from the Fireplace Lounge of the University of Manitoba, featuring investigative journalist Richard Cloutier. He began with a class of political studies students with their professor, Kim Speers. They discussed Manitoba’s economy and whether they were planning on staying or leaving the province. Later, they had an opportunity to ask questions directly of mayoralty candidates: Mayor Sam Katz, Marianne Cerilli and Kaj Hasselriis in an open forum. Later, Cloutier brought on special U of M guests to address issues of the day. First was Jim Fergusson, a last-minute replacement for a guest who had cancelled, and who had graciously agreed to appear at the request of the public affairs department. He spoke about the current volatility in North Korea, a subject about which he had been quoted by other media that day. Next, president Emőke Szathmáry spoke to Cloutier about job creation in Manitoba, retaining graduates, improving infrastructure and the ongoing tuition freeze issue. She was followed by John Hanesiak as a promotion for his evening lecture in Smartpark on weather and storm forecasting.

On the BubbleA striking image of an enormous bubble blown

into the dusty gas disk of our own Milky Way galaxy has won first place in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s second annual Radio Astronomy Image Contest. Jayanne English of the University of Manitoba led the team that made the winning image using data from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia. The image can be viewed at: www.nrao.edu/pr/2006/imageprize/

Helping the HeartA story about the life of a child being saved

by an implanted defibrillator was carried in newspapers across North America on Oct. 13, syndicated from an earlier story in the Chicago Tribune. The researcher quoted in the article was Abhay Divekar, a pediatric heart specialist at the University of Manitoba. The surgery to implant the device carries some risk, but it is considered more effective in the long run than medication.

Watching BridgesThe Globe and Mail, CTV and CBC all carried

interviews with Walter Saltzberg, the international liaison officer for ISIS, about how implanting sensors within bridges and other structures is the only way to ensure adequate knowledge about stresses within materials.

In the News by Chris Rutkowski

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RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP 2007/2008Application Deadline: November 15, 2006

The Centre on Aging invites applications for a Research Fellowship for the 2007-2008 academic year from University of Manitoba faculty members. The Centre is a university-wide research centre with a mandate to conduct, encourage, integrate, and disseminate research on all aspects of aging.

The Research Fellowship is designed to support aging-related research in any discipline. The $10,000 stipend may be used for teaching release for up to 9 credit hours of teaching or equivalent, as a research grant for costs directly related to the proposed research project, or as a combination of teaching release and research grant funds.

For details on the application process and evaluation criteria, contact the Centre on Aging at 474-8754, or visit the web site at www.umanitoba.ca/centres/aging

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Susan Bethune’s head is filled with numbers, but her heart is in the archives.

At the Faculty of Medicine, Bethune wears the double title of office assistant-archives/ administration and for her it really is an example of wearing two different hats.

“On Monday and Thursday I work in the dean’s office managing all the academic contracts that come through and on Tuesday and Wednesday I work with the medical archives,” Bethune said.

On the administration side, Bethune has about 550 academics under her watchful eye. Clinical faculty members are typically employed jointly by the University of Manitoba and groups like the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. They juggle teaching, research and administrative obligations at the university with work in the medical field as doctors and psychologists. It’s Bethune’s job to ensure their contracts are in order and their wages – which can be drawn from different sources including the university, regional health authorities and government bodies – make it to human resources at Fort Garry and from there to their bank accounts.

But down the hall from the Faculty of Medicine dean office’s and tucked in the Neil John Maclean Library is Bethune’s second job with the university – the archivist for the Faculty of Medicine.

“Mainly I’m looking after the cataloguing for the incoming material that we want to put in the archive and entering it into data bases so we can find things later on,” Bethune said. It’s not unlike accounting work and indeed Bethune had an accounting background when she was hired part time in 1994 by the dean’s office under the direction of professor Audrey Kerr (who still comes in two days a week to work in the Archives) to put the archives back into a searchable order. Bethune’s second position, looking after contracts and documentation in the dean’s office, came in 1999.

When Bethune was initially hired, the archives were catalogued on paper and the system was quickly becoming unwieldy. Bethune and Kerr took the filing system onto computers and found inconsistent files along the way.

“We were finding anomalies all over the place after we got everything into the computer,” Bethune said. So while the first step was putting everything into order, the second step was ensuring that the material was catalogued in the right area.

While the Faculty of Medicine Archives falls under the university’s archives and special collections department, the medical archive remains a virtually independent stash of information.

“The medical archives contain biographical information on faculty members and alumni as well as the administrative and historical record of the faculty, the Manitoba Medical College, and a photographic collection” Bethune said. While the Faculty of Medicine didn’t become part of the university until 1919, its own history as a medical college dates back to 1883

and all of that information is contained in the archives. It includes everything from day to day records of the faculty to more exotic items such as glass eyes from the turn of the century to antique microscopes that were used by staff members.

Along with managing the archive, Bethune also fields calls from researchers interested in everything from searching for historical information of a disease such as tuberculosis, or administrative events in the life of the faculty to getting information on some of the faculty’s alumni.

In one case – the first successful brain operation in 1889 – researchers could even trace the treatment and commentary that surrounded it from the initial entry of a patient to the patient’s release.

The joy of working in the archives, and the reason why it steals Bethune’s heart as much as her head, is the vast number of stories that can be found within the files. While she was trained as an accountant, Bethune has added training in archival administration and maintenance and brings her own love of history to the job.

“You get quite a sense of the quality of the people,” Bethune said. And a sense of how relations between people were ordered in the period.

For example, the medical college was originally created as a private medical college by a group of doctors and as group they took care of each other and their staff members. When the college became part of the university each share holder received a payment for his interest in the college.

In a letter now filed in the archives, Dr. S. Willis Prowse, the dean at the time, wrote to the other members to request that each donate $25 from their shares, which were not large themselves, to give to the widow of one of the members who had died – to help her and out of recognition that her husband had been a vital participant in the faculty.

“The letter has a nice feeling to it,” Bethune said. “You can tell they looked after people.”

Later, the faculty members helped to pay for the medical education of Lennox (Buzz) Bell, the faculty’s first full-time dean (1949-1971), after his father, Gordon Bell, a member of the college, had died suddenly.

Bethune deals in numbers and history

Photo by Dale Barbour

Susan Bethune splits her time between working in the Faculty of Medicine dean’s office and the faculty’s archives.

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The University of Manitoba Senate discussed the cost of new academic programs at its meeting on Oct. 4. It’s a discussion that comes up regularly at Senate. In a memo to Senate, president Emőke Szathmáry noted that of 47 new programs created in the last nine years only eight of them have actually required new funding, with most of that funding being provided by the Council on Post-Secondary Education. In that sense, most new programs don’t draw money from existing programs at the university.

But as Senate planning and priorities committee chair Norman Hunter noted, they still do come with a price.

“We’ve just added a new co-op program and while we made the request with no cost attached I end up carrying the brunt of the cost of the program. It’s nothing you can put a number on and we couldn’t say we needed new faculty but the work does get added to the members of the department. So while there’s not a monetary cost, there’s a time cost,” Hunter said.

Hunter said typically the challenge is that units don’t want to say there’s a cost attached to a program because they’re concerned that it will lessen the chance the program will be accepted. But even knowing that leaves Senate in a tough position.

“When they come forward and say there’s no cost associated with the program can we say to them, ‘Oh, but there is.’,” Hunter said.

Faculty of Music interim dean Juliette (Archie) Cooper said the responsibility for acknowledging cost has to come at the department level. “We all know a new program has budget implications,” Cooper said. “I’ve heard people complain about programs that ask for new money. Really we should say, ‘What do you mean it doesn’t cost anything.’”

The stream doesn’t just run one way, of course. Vice provost (programs) Richard Lobdell noted that often new programs are replacing older programs that have fallen by the wayside with resources being redistributed accordingly.

Cost of new programs

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Bulletin Commentary October 5, 2006

Melting the mindset on climate changeA Russian icebreaker searches for ice in the Arctic Ocean

“We are now several hundred kilometres north of where we expected the sea ice and yet nothing but open water!”

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Viewpointwith David BarberCanada Research Chairin Arctic System Science

Update from the president

I wrote this article at the time of the Climate Change Convention COP11 meetings as I thought the unique partnership between Quebec and Manitoba was pertinent in light of the fact that the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec played a leadership role in the COP11 process. ArcticNet (A Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence) has now been funded by the Federal Government and the two principal nodes for ArcticNet are Laval and Manitoba. We are currently conducting climate change science aboard our Canadian Research Icebreaker (NGCC Amundsen) staff, students and technicians have been aboard the icebreaker since Aug. 22. Two rotations of six weeks each will allow our science teams to sample the majority of the Coastal Canadian Arctic.

I woke up to a dark room. As usual when I travel I was disoriented for a time, my body rocking in the tight quarters of my bed. I switched on my watch light to check the time; 0300 hrs. Slowly my current location and position came back to me. I was aboard the Kapitan Dranitsyn a conventional diesel-electric powered Russian icebreaker. We had just departed from Kirkness in Northern Norway. My colleague (Louis Fortier, Université Laval, Quebec City) and I, along with 40 graduate students and 25 international scientists, had joined the NOBOS science cruise which was on it’s way to the Laptev Sea in the Siberian Arctic. Both Louis and I have worked extensively in the North American Arctic but this was our first sojourn to other side of the pole.

The next day the first officer informed me that we were approaching the western edge of the Laptev Sea study are. This was also a chock point geographically and we could expect some hard going as we broke ice for the first time since leaving Norway. The fact that we had travelled to a point just north of Hong Kong in four days was, to me, remarkable. Wow what a cost benefit it would be for ships to traverse between Europe and Asia through this passage. We passed the point where we expected to find the edge of the ice and continued north seeking the edge of the pack ice. We stopped several times for open ocean sampling and serviced an ocean mooring, which had been deployed the year before, collecting some of the first ever data on the characteristics of the connection between North Atlantic waters and those of the Arctic ocean. Still no sea ice. We are now several hundred kilometres north of where we expected the sea ice and yet nothing but open water! I stay up that night anticipating that we would meet the edge of the retreating ice sometime around 2 a.m. I climbed the 11 decks up to the bride to get a better view. It is quite surreal to see the red glow of the instrument panels highlighted with Russian Red Stars

on several of the instrument panels. I felt like I was part of some cold war movie and a U.S. submarine is about to surface. Snapping back to reality I see a fog bank in the outer edge of the spot lights; out of the ghostly mist the first floes of the central pack start to emerge; we have arrived. I wake up my students and ask them to get our science instruments operating.

Later in the morning we find a location to fix the Dranitsyn into the floating floes. The idea is to have an ‘ice camp’ where science teams will distribute over the floes to collect samples on the physics and biology associated with the central pack ice. The chief scientist (Igor Dmitrenko) and I make the first foray onto the ice, checking the thickness. What appeared to be a large, old multiyear floe actually has several thaw holes through it, many of which are covered over with a thin ice and snow layer caused by refreezing in the late September weather.

We spend six hours working on our science, thinking that the type of ice we see here is much different than what we see on our side of the Arctic. It is much more decayed, full of thaw holes and after analysis we find it to be much older yet much thinner than what we would expect. Seems this ice has been melting for quite some time. We finish our sampling station and are treated to a Russian tradition; a celebration on the ice.

The cruise continued for another two weeks but we didn’t come across any more sea ice so my team’s activities were quite restricted. I was able to spend quite a bit of time talking with the ship crew and other members of the science teams. It seems that the evidence for global warming is really building in the minds of the Russians. Every year we come to the Arctic, regardless of which side of the pole we are on, we see strong evidence that the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet.

The science community continues to sound the alarm yet there are still those who say “well it is just part of a nature cycle; we have been here before and

will be here again. No sense risking our economic advantage to try to do something about it.” The reality of the situation is that climate change is very real and it is very evident right now, in the polar regions of our planet We have lost about 2 million square kilometres of multiyear sea ice in the past 30 years. This change is altering not only the Arctic but its effects will soon be felt in other regions of the planet.

Here in Manitoba we pride ourselves on being proactive about climate change. We have industries who are preparing to adapt to the changes that are on their way because of climate change. Our government is seeking solutions to problems such as winter road deterioration, permafrost melting and policies which will help Manitoba to exceed our Kyoto commitments for greenhouse gas redution. Manitoba also play a significant role in the scientific investigations of the evidence for climate change, how this change affects marine ecosystems, coastal-marine coupling and the peoples of the north (see www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca). Our new icebreaker (the CCGS Amundsen) will be on site in Montreal to reaffirm that Canada is doing it’s part to provide the scientific underpinning of arctic climate change, which is desperately needed to inform policy makers who implement strategies to mitigate and adapt to this change.

Manitoba and Quebec are showing leadership in the areas of climate change in Canada. The scientific evidence in the Arctic, has now emerged from the natural variability and is completely in line with model predictions made 10 to 15 years ago. If we stay on the expected trajectory we will no longer have sea ice in the summer in the northern hemisphere (something that has not happened in the last 1 million years!). This warming of the pole will also increase the meltwater from the northern glaciers which will increase the ocean levels causing storm surges and flooding of coastal areas around the planet. Climate change is upon us and it is important that as a nation, we become more proactive in addressing how our societies are going to adapt to these changes.

For those who cling to the notion that this is just a natural cycle you should recall that as recently at 18,000 years ago we were covered by about 3 km of glacial ice here in Winnipeg. The global temperatures were about 4°C lower than they are today. With projections in the order of 4° to 9° higher by the end of this century, our ability to adapt may in fact be one of survival. Climate change is about people and the reliance we have on a stable climate system. The solution is also about people, and our ability to adapt to these changing conditions. Lets focus on reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and begin serious development towards alternative ways to fuel our economies.

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The Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice at St. Paul’s College presents

Sol Kanee Lecture on Peace and Justice

a public lecture on

THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Ph.D., D.D.Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C.1:30 p.m.Wednesday, October 25, 2006Investors Group Athletic Centre, University of ManitobaCardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is one of the world’s leading advocates for the poor and for human rights. He serves on the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. He has traveled extensively in Eastern Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa as a human rights advocate and also to survey humanitarian needs. Cardinal McCarrick has

served on the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad and was named a member of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom. In December 2000, President Bill Clinton presented him with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.

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University of Manitoba president Emőke Szathmáry has added a new entry to her website, Updates from the President.

In her new piece the president provides a compelling argument on why the “G10/G13,” a group of 13 research intensive universities in Canada, should consider expanding their ranks to include the Uni-versity of Manitoba. To read the new update check out the president’s homepage at umanitoba.ca/admin/president/ or go to umanitoba.ca/admin/president/updates/g10_g13.html


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President Szathmáry honoured by National Arts Centre

A photographic portrait of president Emőke Szathmáry is one of 50 in the National Arts Centre’s photo exhibition honouring outstanding Hungarian-Canadians who survived the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

As Szathmáry told the Winnipeg Free Press in a Oct. 10 article she was surprised to be included because her family came to Canada in 1951. However, apart from being attuned to the war and post-war experience in Hungary, the exhibit ion recognizes Hungarian-Canadians who have made a difference.

Szathmáry has made her mark in number of areas. As an anthropologist, she has researched the genetics of North America’s Aboriginal people, particularly in Northern Canada. She has written more than 80 scientific articles, co-edited three books on anthropology and has served as editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (1987-91) and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1995-2001). In 1998, the American Anthropological Association named her distinguished lecturer, in recognition of a lifetime of scholarship. Szathmáry was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2003 and in 2004 the Women’s Executive Network and the Richard Ivey School of Business named her to the Top 100: Canada’s Most Powerful Women. Last year, she was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Szathmáry was named president of the University of Manitoba in 1996 and has overseen spectacular growth in student numbers, research spending and physical infrastructure. Under Szathmáry’s guidance, The Building on Strengths capital campaign raised over $237 million – the greatest amount ever raised by a capital campaign in Manitoba.

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United Way of Winnipeg representative Heather Grant-Jury held the ceremonial kick-off ball for Bison kicker Peter Scouras. The Fort Garry campus kicked off its United Way campaign on Oct. 4. Look for highlight events such as the Rainbow auction in the coming weeks.

The calm before the kick

The university’s food services contract is up for renewal next year. Vice-president (administration) Deborah McCallum told Senate on Oct. 4 the university has three submissions for the new contract.

While administration will look over the merits of the bids, McCallum said the university community will be able to have their say.

“We’re planning to have town hall meetings in the new year, allowing each bidder to make their presentation and for the university community to provide questions,” McCallum said.

BUDGET PROCESSThe 2007/08 budget process is underway. Vice-

president (administration) Deborah McCallum said the next step in the process will involve meeting with the Council on Post-Secondary Education to go over the university’s initial spending estimates.

PAYING RESPECTSSenate paid its respect to senior scholar Snehesh

Kumar (Sapan) Sinha, statistics, and professor emeritus Raymond Chant, mechanical engineering, at its meeting on Oct. 4.

Sinha joined the University of Manitoba in 1961 as an assistant professor in the department of actuarial mathematics and statistics within the School of Commerce and actively participated in the expansion of the department of statistics within the Faculty of Science.

Upon his retirement in 1997, he was appointed as senior scholar and remained active within the department and university in that capacity until moving to Toronto in 2003. He died in Toronto on Aug. 13, 2006 after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Chant had served in the air force before completing his education and joining the mechanical engineering department at the University of Manitoba. He was ahead of his time when it came to looking at alternative energy sources and was even named Solar Man of the Year for his efforts. Chant died on Aug. 30, 2006 at Victoria General Hospital.

GOLF TOURNAMENTVice-president (administration) Deborah McCallum

fielded a question from University of Manitoba Students’ Union president Garry Sran regarding the University of Manitoba Staff Golf Tournament, held Aug. 21 at the Southwood Golf and Country Club. Proceeds from the tournament totaling over $500 were donated to the University of Manitoba Food Bank. Sran queried whether the university had paid to run the tournament and if the food bank would have been further ahead by getting that money directly.

But, as McCallum pointed out, the staff tourney was paid for by fees from participating staff members not the university.

“The tournament was at no cost to the university and all the profits were directed towads the food bank,” McCallum said.

Senate briefs

Welcome to our new faculty membersThe Bulletin is proud to welcome the university’s new faculty members. The Bulletin is profiling the new professors, looking at where they come from and where their teaching and research projects will take the university in the future.

MARGARET F. DOCKERAssistant Professor

ZoologyFaculty of Science

Margaret Docker is an evolu-tionary biologist and molecular systematist, specializing in the phylogeny, biogeography, and con-servation genetics of fish and other aquatic organisms.

Since completing her PhD at the University of Guelph, she has worked as a postdoctoral research-er with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in British Columbia,

at the Univer-sity of New Hampshire, at the University of Northern British Colum-bia, and at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Wind-sor. She joined the department of zoology at the University of Mani-toba in July 2006.

Much of Docker’s current re-

search deals with the evolution and conservation genetics of lam-preys, an ancient group of eel-like vertebrates. Docker has received funding from the Great Lakes Fish-ery Commission, the Habitat Con-servation Trust Fund of British Co-lumbia, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to study the population genetics of several native lamprey species.

Docker teaches evolutionary biology and systematics and bioge-ography of fishes.


39th annual Fall Convocation – 2006The 39th annual Fall Convocation includes two sessions, Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 3:30 p.m. and Thursday, Oct. 19 at 3:30 p.m.The conferring of degrees, diplomas and certificates on those who have completed their academic programs is the main focus of each Convocation session. In addition, the university recognizes the contributions of students, staff, and members of the community through awards described in this issue of the Bulletin.

JOHN FOERSTERJohn Foerster, who graduated in medicine in 1961, is recognized for his contribution to the university, to the medical profession and to advancing medical research in Manitoba. The commitment he has demonstrated through professional and volunteer activities encompasses a broad scope of influence in all aspects of life. He is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine and a specialist in hematology and oncology. After graduate studies in Salt Lake City, New York City and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, he returned to the University of Manitoba in 1969 and, until 1975, worked at the Cancer Foundation and Children’s Hospital. He then joined St. Boniface as head of internal medicine in 1975 and was instrumental in the development of the St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre, becoming director in 1986, which has since grown into a $20.5 million research endeavour.In the medical community, Foerster has served on local, national and international committees, including: the Canada West Health Innovation Council and the Manitoba Task Force for Building a Health Research Strategy for Manitoba. He was one of two Canadian delegates to the Carnegie Expert Meeting on Bioethics in Tokyo, Japan, and was a Canadian delegate and contributor to the Advisory to G7 Ministers of Science. For his accomplishments, Foerster has received awards and honours including the Manitoba Order of the Buffalo Hunt in 1989, the Manitoba Medical Association Distinguished Service Award in 1997, the “Who is Who in Health Care” Annual Award by Canadian Healthcare Manager in 2000, and the St. Boniface General Hospital and Research Foundation International Award in 2004. Foerster has served as a board member of the North American Baptist Seminary and received the Providence College and Seminary Distinguished Christian Leadership Award in 2000.

October 18 Session

VIVIENNE POY Born in Hong Kong, Vivienne Poy is known for her business acumen and volunteer efforts in cultural and philanthropic causes. She is an author, entrepreneur, historian, fashion designer and the first Canadian of Asian descent to be appointed to the Senate of Canada. She founded Vivienne Poy Mode in 1981, a firm that became a success in fashion design, manufacturing and retail. She is currently president of Vivienne Poy Enterprises, Calyan Publishing and chair of Lee Tak Wai Holdings Ltd. Since being appointed to Senate in 1998, Poy has focused on gender issues, multiculturalism, and human rights. She was also instrumental in establishing the month of May as Asian Heritage Month across Canada. Poy holds a diploma in fashion arts from Seneca College, an honours degree in Arts from McGill University and master’s and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Toronto where her studies focused on the history of Chinese women immigrants in Canada during the past century. Poy completed her doctoral thesis, Calling Canada Home: Canadian Law and Immigrant Chinese Women from South China and Hong Kong, 1860-1990, in 2003 and in a unique coincidence received her degree at the same convocation that saw her installed as Chancellor of the University of Toronto.Poy is author of three books that explore the history of the Chinese in Hong Kong and Canada – Citizenship and Immigration: The Chinese-Canadian Experience (2002), Building Bridges: The Life and Times of Richard Charles Lee, Hong Kong 1905-83 (1998) and A River Named Lee (1995). Poy has a long record of community service that includes terms on the boards of community, cultural, research and health boards. She has established scholarships and awards at McGill University, the University of Toronto, and Seneca College. Poy has been especially supportive and helpful to the Chinese-Canadian community in Manitoba and Canada. This past June she completed her three-year term as chancellor of the University of Toronto.

October 18 Session

CLARA HUGHESClara Hughes was born in Winnipeg and played a variety of sports before settling on speed skating at age 16. In her first year of competition she earned a silver medal at the national championships. Two years later, Hughes took up cycling, which led to her first Olympic competition. After more than 100 victories, including two Olympic bronze medals, she resumed competitive speed skating six years ago. She has since become one of the world’s leading long-distance skaters. As a dual sport Olympic athlete her achievements are unsurpassed: two bronze medals in cycling in 1996; a bronze medal in speed skating in 2002 and gold and silver medals in speed skating in 2006. She is the only Canadian and only the fourth Olympian in the world to win medals at both the summer and winter Olympic games.In addition, Hughes is a goodwill ambassador and humanitarian who has a longstanding involvement with Right to Play, a not-for-profit international organization that uses the positive power of sport and play as a tool for healthy development of children and youth in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world. Following her gold medal performance this past winter, Hughes personally donated $10,000 to Right to Play and issued a challenge to other Canadians to support this cause – to date her challenge has raised more than $424,000. Hughes is also working with the Nature Conservancy of Canada as a spokesperson to raise funds for the protection and long term management of the Sutton Mountain Range.

October 19 Session

CINDY KLASSENCindy Klassen was born and raised in Winnipeg and while she was interested in many sports during her youth, her main interest was ice hockey. She excelled at this sport. For example, she was on Team Manitoba at the Canada Winter Games in 1995, and was a member of the Junior National Team at Lake Placid in 1996. She continued playing hockey while attending the University of Manitoba, but felt she needed another sport to supplement her training. She chose speed skating eight years ago and soon qualified for international and Olympic competition.Klassen emerged as the most decorated skater at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy, where she won five medals, the most ever earned by a Canadian in a single games. These medals combined with the bronze medal from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City establish her as the Canadian athlete holding the most Olympic medals (exceeding the previous record of three medals). She was named “The Woman of the 2006 Games” by the International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge. At the 2006 World All-Round Speed Skating Championships, she achieved a gold medal for the total points achieved, set a new world record, and took four gold medals in individual races including a world record in the 3000 metres. She was the first Canadian in 27 years to win the overall title at the World Speed Skating Championships in 2003. Finally, she was named the Canadian Female Athlete of the Year in 2005.

October 19 Session

Honorary Degree – recipientsHonorary degrees are awarded for distinguished achievement in scholarship, the arts, or public service. Candidates for honorary degrees are nominated by members of the University and the public.

Distinguished Alumni AwardThe Distinguished Alumni Award is an honour presented annually to a graduate who demonstrates outstanding professional achievement and community service, and who also maintains links with the University of Manitoba.


ALEXANDER RATTRAYProfessor Emeritus

Alexander Rattray joined the Faculty of Architecture in 1969 to establish Canada’s first master’s program

in landscape architecture. He served as its head for 25 years and was involved in numerous campus committees at all levels of governance. His research included the study of urban and rural settlement patterns in Australia, Canada, and China; resource analysis and landscape planning, and a focused study and exhibit of Pietro Porcinai, and Italian landscape architect. Outside the university, he has

served as president of the Canadian and Manitoba associations of landscape architects, chaired the National Capitol Commission in Ottawa, and was an advisor to the International Federation of Landscape Architects.

October 19 Session

GARRY L. MARTINDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Garry Martin is one of Canada’s most acclaimed psychologists, and he has earned an international reputation as a leading researcher in developmental disabilities and sport psychology. He was instrumental in establishing the applied behaviour analysis program in the Department of Psychology, as well as the research and training programs at St. Amant Centre, where his work has had a profound, positive impact on the well-being of Manitobans with developmental disabilities.Martin was one of the first applied psychologists to show that persons with severe developmental disabilities are capable of learning functional skills if provided with positive learning environments. His work formed much of the foundation of the community living movement in Canada, and today, thanks to his pioneering research, many people with developmental disabilities lead productive lives in the community. Martin’s expertise in behaviour analysis has also significantly influenced sport psychology, and his research produced new strategies for improving the skills of athletes, motivating athletes to get the most out of practice time, improving the performance of coaches, and helping athletes mentally prepare to perform at their full potential. Martin has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and books, including Behavior Modification, widely considered to be the single best textbook in the field.; now in its 7th edition it is a primary text at over 200 universities in 12 countries. He has supervised 59 graduate research theses, and has supervised or co-supervised 31 honours students.Over the course of his career, he has received many prestigious awards for his research contributions. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. A graduate of Colorado College and Arizona State University, Martin joined the University of Manitoba in 1966. He received the title of university distinguished professor in 2006.

October 18 Session

NATALIE DENESOVYCHNatalie Denesovych, currently manager of University Centre services and special functions, is the catalyst who has made many on-campus events truly special occasions. Denesovych joined the university in 1967. Since then her personal energy, organizational ability, willingness to solve problems, and commitment to the university combined to bring her to her current role. The management of University Centre is a unique challenge because the building is a shared space between the university and the Students’ Union; Denesovych handles this aspect of her job with tact and firmness such that University Centre is an effective and efficiently run multi-purpose and multi-tenant complex. To individuals and organizations who arrange events and conferences at the university, Denesovych is the “face of the university,” the point of contact through which they organize their function.Densovych’s unique abilities were amply demonstrated during the 1999 Pan American Games when she organized the facilities and services for the Athletes’ Village, and during the 2004 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences when 7,000 delegates attended meetings on campus over a nine-day period. Both events required last minute adjustments to plans while still operating within policies, rules and guidelines. Denesovych rose to the challenge such that the national organizers of the 2004 congress declared it one of the best ever.In addition to her work at the university, Denesovych serves as the honorary consul for Norway in Manitoba and is well-known for her efforts at promoting Norwegian community and culture. She was instrumental in arranging the first-ever exhibition of Norwegian artifacts at the Manitoba Museum last year.

October 19 Session

The President’s Award celebrates the exceptional contributions of support staff. The recipient is someone who has achieved distinction during their career at the university, serves as an example to other employees, demonstrates a high level of professionalism, consistently goes beyond the requirements of their position, demonstrates leadership and creativity, and promotes a respectful and positive work environment. The award consists of a certificate of recognition and a financial prize, presented at Convocation.

President’s Award for Excellence

Winnipeg RH Institute Foundation AwardThe Dr. John M. Bowman Memorial Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Award recognizes research accomplishments of senior faculty according to the quality of their research, the impact of the research nationally and internationally, and the distinction brought to the university by the research. The award is named after the late Dr. Bowman who was a Winnipeg pediatrician, a leading researcher into Rh Disease, and founder of the Winnipeg Rh Institute.

Professor Emeritus appointmentsThe title Professor Emeritus is an honour that is conferred by the Board of Governors after retirement on individuals who have rendered distinguished service to the university and who have significant records in teaching, research, and scholarship.

CAMERON HARVEYProfessor Emeritus

Over three decades Cameron Harvey has taught generations of Manitoba lawyers and published

articles on such diverse topics as agency, conflicts, personal property, wills and estates, real estate law, and Manitoba’s legal heritage. His name carries authority as an academic lawyer who masters the law’s minutiae and respects the consequences of legal decisions. Outside the university, he is esteemed for fairness and thoroughness, having written and chaired

more than 240 judgments for the Manitoba Land Value Appraisal Commission, served as a member of the Local Boundaries Commission and the Civic Service Board of Manitoba, and chair of several Canadian Bar Association sections. He was recently appointed president of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission.

October 19 Session

JAMES C. JAMIESONProfessor Emeritus

James Jamieson has had a distinguished career at the university since his appointment to the

department of chemistry in 1968. He has served as head of the department, dean of the Faculty of Science, and as a member of the university Board of Governors and Senate. He is a researcher in biochemistry and cell biology where his studies on the structure and biosynthesis of mammalian glycoproteins have led to more than 75 papers in peer reviewed journals. His ability

to apply basic research to medicine and industrial biotechnology was demonstrated by the role he played with the Winnipeg Rh Fractionation Laboratory (now Cangene Ltd.) in immune globulin fractionation for the treatment of erythoblastosis fetalis. He was appointed dean emeritus of Science in 2005.

October 19 Session

39th annual Fall Convocation – 2006


Fort Garry Campus

Events ListingUniversity of Manitoba

Show features four in OneFootball

Oct. 21 – Regina at Manitoba, University Stadium, 1 p.m.

Men’s BasketballOct. 20-21 – Midway Chrysler Tournament, Winnipeg, Time TBA. Non-conference game.Oct. 27-28 – Applebee’s Invitational, Manitoba, Time TBA. Non-conference game.Nov. 2 – Manitoba at Winnipeg, University of Winnipeg, 8 p.m.Nov. 4 – Winnipeg at Manitoba, Investors Group Athletic Centre, 8 p.m.

Women’s BasketballNov. 2 – Manitoba at Winnipeg, University of Winnipeg, 6:15 p.m.Nov. 4 – Winnipeg at Manitoba, Investors Group Athletic Centre, 6:15 p.m.

Men’s HockeyOct. 20 – Saskatchewan at Manitoba, Max Bell, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 – Saskatchewan at Manitoba, Max Bell, 7 p.m.

Women’s HockeyOct. 27 – Saskatchewan at Manitoba, 7 p.m., Max Bell Centre.Oct. 28 – Saskatchewan at Manitoba, 7 p.m., Max Bell Centre.Nov 3 – Alberta at Manitoba, 7 p.m., Max Bell Centre.Nov 4 – Alberta at Manitoba, 7 p.m., Max Bell Centre.

Men’s VolleyballOct. 19 - 21 – Bison Invitational, non-conference game, Time TBA, Investors Group Athletic Centre.Nov. 3 – Winnipeg at Manitoba, Investors Group Athletic Centre, 8 p.m.

Women’s VolleyballNov. 3 – Winnipeg at Manitoba, Investors Group Athletic Centre, 6 p.m.

Women’s SoccerOct. 28 – Regina at Manitoba, 12 p.m., soccer pitch, east of University Stadium.Oct. 29 – Alberta at Manitoba, 12 p.m., soccer pitch, east of University Stadium.

Cross-Country ScheduleOct. 21 – Manitoba Championship, Time TBA, Winnipeg.

Ticket informationSingle Game

Adults: $8Students: $5

12 and under: free

Season passesAdult: $55

Student: $30

Tickets available at all Bison home games, Frank Kennedy, Max Bell Equipment Desk.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19Plant Science, Development of Molecular Markers for Blackleg Disease Resistance in Brassica napus by Zining Wang, PhD student, plant science, Carolyn Sifton Lecture Theatre, 130 Agriculture, 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19.

M i c r o b i o l o g y, S o u t h - S e e k i n g Magnetotactic Bacteria in the Northern Hemisphere Science by Michael Bilyj, 306 Buller Building, 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19.

Architecture, SAFE: Design Takes on Risks by Patricia Juncosa, architect, has collaborated with curator Paulo Antonelli on the exhibitions Humble Masterpieces and SAFE:Design Takes on Risk at MoMA, Centre Space, John A. Russell Building, 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20Institute for the Humanities Research Cluster Presentation: Post-Colonial South Asian and African Studies Group will present a public roundtable panel discussion entitled “Fanon? Rethinking his Postcolonial Legacy” 409 Tier Building, 12 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20. All students and faculty members are welcome to attend and participate.

This Lunch Hour has 33 Minutes, Caging the Devil: Some Environmental Aspects of Nuclear Waste Disposal by Frank Hawthorne, distinguished professor and Canada Research Chair in crystallography and mineralogy, The University Club, Pembina Hall, 12 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20. To reserve your seat contact Kim Stefaniuk at [email protected] or phone 474 9020.

Mathematics, Diffusion as Random Walks by Stephanie Richards, 415 Machray Hall, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20.

14th Annual J . B . Rudnyckyj Distinguished Lecture, Chornobyl -- Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuri Scherbak, director of the Centre for Global and Area Studies of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, former Ukrainian Minister of Environmental Protection, and former Ambassador to Canada, the United States, and Israel, The Moot Court in Robson Hall (Faculty of Law), 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20.

Chemistry, Conjugated Polymers for Corrosion Control: Scanning Probe Investigations of Polypyrrole-Al Alloy Interactions by Dr. D.E. Tallman, North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D., 539 Parker Building, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct 20.

Anthropology, Using genetic data to infer population history in North America by Ripan Malhi, 402 Tier Building, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20.

Mathematics Graduate Student seminar, Diffusion as Random Walks by Stephanie Richards, 415 Machray Hall, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20.

Economics, Bias in Measuring the Persistence of Nonlinear PPP Deviations by Ming Chien Lo, St. Cloud State University, 307 Tier Building, 2:40 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24Smartpark INTERACTIVE Breakfast Speaker Series, ‘The Power 30’ with Arni Thorsteinson, president, Shelter Canadian Properties. Moderated by Geoff Kirbyson of the Winnipeg Free Press. Smartpark Lobby Boardroom, 135 Innovation Drive, 7:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24. Free event. Free parking. Seating is limited. Please email [email protected] or call 480-1434 to reserve your seat.

E n t o m o l o g y, Z o o b e n t h o s i n Lake Winnipeg: consequences of environmental stressors by Brenda Hann, department of zoology, 220 Animal Science/Entomology Building, 10 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24.

Institute for the Humanities Food for Thought, Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century London by J.M.Beattie, professor emeritus, University of Toronto, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park Mall, 1120 Grant Ave., 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25Institute for the Humanities Research Cluster Presentation: Law and Society, Policing London in the Eighteenth Century: the Work of the Bow Street Runners by J.M.Beattie, professor emeritus, University of Toronto, 409 Tier Building, 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25.

Historical Materialist Research Network’s Fall Lecture Series, From Nation Builder to Nation Wrecker: The Changing Imperatives of US Hegemony by Radhika Desai, head, department of political studies, Private Dining Room, University College, 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25.

Native Studies, Aboriginal Stewardship and Sustainable Development - A Community Development Process for a Better Future with Skownan First Nation by Karen Stock, 307 Tier Building, 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25.

Sol Kanee Lecture on Peace and Justice, The Dignity of the Human Person by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C., Investors Group Athletic Centre, University of Manitoba, 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25. Agricultural and Food Sciences, Killing bugs, not the ozone layer: New methods to control stored product insects by Paul Fields, adjunct professor, department of entomology, Carolyn Sifton Lecture Theatre, 130 Agriculture Building, 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25.

Education, First Nations Aspirations and the Place of Education by Grand Chief Sydney Garrioch, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, and Southern Grand Chief Chris Henderson, 224 Education Building, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25.

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Gallery One One One latest exhibition, set to open on Thursday, Oct. 26, is putting the focus on some of Winnipeg’s top artists: Eleanor Bond, Aganetha Dyck, Wanda Koop and Diana Thorneycroft.

The exhibition feature key works drawn from the collec-tion of Gallery One One One and recently acquired through the efforts of the Gallery One One One’s collections committee co-chairs professor Oliver Botar and gallerist Robert Epp.

While Winnipeg’s art scene continues to expand, Bond, Dyck, Koop, Thorneycroft still play key roles in the commu-nity.

The exhibition is curated by Cliff Eyland and runs from Oct. 26 to Jan. 5 with an opening reception on Oct. 26 from 3 to 5 p.m. It includes large-scale paintings by Koop and Bond, an installation by Dyck based on her collaboration with bees, and charcoal drawings by Thorneycroft.

The image, at right, is a detail from Aganetha Dyck’s piece, titled, Inter Species Communication Attempt, 1992-2005, mixed media (collection of bee related work on two tables). The image shows a pair of red, women’s size 7 high heeled shoes covered by beeswax and honeycomb.


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• The deadline for the Nov. 2 Bulletin is Oct. 25 at 4:30 p.m. EntertainmentArts&Gallery One One One Gallery One One One is located on the main floor of the FitzGerald Building. It is open Monday to Friday, noon to 4 p.m.

Bond, Dyck, Koop, ThorneycroftCurated by Cliff EylandOctober 26 to January 5

This exhibition features key works by four senior Winnipeg artists from the collection of Gallery One One One, recently acquired through the efforts of the Co-chairs of Gallery One One One’s collections committee, professor Oliver Botar and gallerist Robert Epp. Included are large-scale paintings by Wanda Koop and Eleanor Bond, an installation by Aganetha Dyck based on her collaboration with bees, and charcoal drawings by Diana Thorneycroft.There will be an opening reception from 3 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26.

Dr. Paul H.T. Thorlakson Gallery The Dr. Paul H.T. Thorlakson Gallery is located in The Icelandic Collection, 3rd Floor, Elizabeth Dafoe Library. It is open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Zone: 1994-2005October 2 to October 20

Photographs from Chornobyl, by Professor David McMillan. Walk through with the artist 11:30 a.m., Oct. 20.

The Black Hole TheatreThe Black Hole Theatre is located in the lower level of University College. For tickets call 474 6880.

Beyond Therapyby Christopher Durang

November 14 to 18 and 21 to 25Showtime 8 p.m. Special showtime 7 p.m. on November 21

The Black Hole opens its 06/07 evening “mainstage” season Tuesday, Nov. 14, with Christopher Durang’s outrageous and brilliant farce, Beyond Therapy The comedy is an extremely funny expose of contemporary self-centeredness, angst, and neurosis. The piece directs a good many barbs at pseudo-psychoanalysis, and has a good deal of fun with “psycho-babble”, self-realization, and love, or its modern equivalent. Can anyone find true love when everyone, including your analyst, is apparently as crazy as you are? Or finds it fashionable to think so? Durang, whose other plays include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All to You, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Baby with the Bathwater, and The History of American Film, is certainly among the wittiest playwrights of the contemporary American theatre. Beyond Therapy will be directed by Alexis Martin, whom Black Hole audiences last saw as (appropriately) Mrs. Martin in last year’s The Bald Soprano.

Lunchbahagg SeriesThe University College Lunchbhagg Series:October 17 to 19, Rubbers.Performance times: Tuesday and Thursday at 12 p.m., Wednesday, 12:30 & again at 7:30 p.m. Admission is Free with the exception of the Wed evening show which has a $1 admission charge.

Faculty of MusicThe Faculty of Music hosts recitals and performances at Eva Clare Hall, located within the Faculty of Music building on Dafoe Road. Recitals and events are free unless otherwise noted.

Faculty of Music at the Daily Bread CafeThursdays, 6 to 9 p.m.

St. John’s CollegeSt. John’s College is partnering with the Faculty of Music to establish a series of weekly musical performances live in the Daily Bread Cafe. The performances kicked off on Oct. 5 and will run every Thursday throughout the academic year from 6 to 9 p.m.The performances will cover a wide range of tastes. Jazz, Opera, Classical, and New Music will all be featured, and performed by the aspiring musicians of the Faculty of Music.Every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month will feature Jazz.Every 2nd Thursday of the month will feature Opera or Musical Theatre. Every 4th Thursday of the month will feature Chamber and New Music.

Faculty of Arts

Russian Film Series: Russia on Reels: From Joys and Woes to Friends and Foes

6:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 1.501 Tier Building

The Wedding (2000) by Pavel Lungin (114 min.)Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. After a three-month delay, the miners finally receive their salary, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift. Mishka’s family all help to put on a fine wedding.

Medical rounds are typically targeted at university staff and professionals directly involved in the medical field.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, Negative regulation of hormone signalling by nuclear receptor interacting proteins by Vincent Cavailles, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology of Cancer, Montepellier, France, Cancer Care Manitoba Lecture Theatre, ON2134 - 675 McDermot Ave., 11 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 19.

Pediatric Research Rounds, Maternal stress in early life and the development of childhood asthma by Anita Kozyrskyj, assistant professor, community health science, 500 John Buhler Research Centre, 12 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20Health, Funct ional Foods and Nutraceuticals of The Future: Role Of The Richardson Centre by Peter Jones, professor, Richardson Centre for Functional, Foods and Nutraceuticals, Pharmacology Library A229 Chown Building, 9 a.m., Friday, Oct. 20.

Community Health Sciences, Migration and HIV transmission in rural South India: An ethnographic study by Shiva S. Halli, community health sciences, Dr. Betty Havens Seminar Room R060 Medical Rehabilitation Building, 12 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24Internal Medicine, Non-Invasive Assessment of the Severity of Liver Diseases Emerging Techniques by Beat Muellhaupt, professor of medicine and head of hepatology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, Theatre A Basic Medical Sciences Building, linked to NG002 at St. Boniface Hospital, 8 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25Health Care Ethics Quarterly Grand Rounds, presentation on Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) (an international emergency medical relief organization active in over 70 countries worldwide), DG030 St. Boniface General Hospital Auditorium, 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25. For further information call Health Care Ethics Service at 235-3619.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26Immunology, Signal transduction regulations induced by hepatitis B genes by Runtao He, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 604/605 Basic Medical Sciences Building, 12 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26.

Pediatric Research Rounds, Factors associated with mothers’ protection of their children from environmental tobacco smoke by Bev Temple, Faculty of Nursing, St. Amant Centre, 500 John Buhler Research Centre, 12 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27Pharmacology, Hyaluronidases: What can we learn from animal models of their deficiency? by Barbara Triggs-Raine, professor, department of biochemistry and medical genetics, A229, Chown Building, 9 a.m., Friday, Oct. 27.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30The Dr. Jacob Hollenberg Lectureship in Biomedical Science, Mechanisms of endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer by C. Kent Osborne, professor of medicine and molecular and cellular biology, director of the Breast Center, director of the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Tina and Dudley Sharp Chair in Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Theatre A Basic Medical Sciences Building, 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 30.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31Internal Medicine, Iatrogenic Disability by Hillel Sommer, associate professor, University of Manitoba, Associated Sport & Spine Physicians, Theatre A Basic Medical Sciences Building, linked to NG002 at St. Boniface Hospital, 8 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2St. Boniface Research Centre Lecture, Conversations Between Glia, Neurons and Blood Vessels in the Retina by Eric Newman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, department of neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Samuel Cohen Auditorium, St. Boniface Research Centre, 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 2.

Pediatric Research Rounds, c-Ret, GDNF and Pax2--renal development and hypoplasia- towards a mechanism by Patrick Brophy, University of Michigan, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, 500 John Buhler Research Centre, 12 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 2.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9Immunology, Innate immunity related dysregulation pathways in oral precancer by Abhijit Banerjee, department of oral biology, University of Manitoba, 604/605 Basic Medical Sciences Building, 12 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 9.

The University of Manitoba has declared its Bannatyne campus a smoke-free zone. The policy, passed earlier this year, extends the university’s no-smoking restriction to cover the entire Bannatyne campus – including all buildings, grounds and parking areas.

The policy achieves the university’s goal of fostering a healthy environment for all members of its community and is consistent a similar policy enacted by the

Health Sciences Centre on its property.Signs throughout the Bannatyne

campus will alert people to the new policy and ask for their help in making it work. For information on the Clean Air Procedure see: umanitoba.ca/admin/governance/governing_documents/staff/688.htm. For assistance with smoking cessation: umanitoba.ca/admin/human_resources/ehso/media/Bulletinsmoking.pdf.

Bannatyne campus is smoke-free


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FACULTY OF ARTSDepartment of EnglishPosition: Assistant professor in the area of contemporary American literature (1945 onward).Start date: July 1, 2007Salary: Starting salary will reflect the qualifications and experience of the chosen candidate, but this is an entry-level positionApplication deadline: Dec. 1Position number: 04998For information: Professor Judith Owens, chair, English (American) search committee, department of English, 626 Fletcher Argue Building, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V5.

Department of AnthropologyPosition: Assistant professor in sociocultural anthropologyStart date: July 1, 2007Salary: Commensurate with experience and qualificationsApplication deadline: Dec. 1Position number: 04999For information: Dr. Brian Schwimmer, head, department of anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2.

Department of Native StudiesPosition: Department headStart date: January 1, 2007Application deadline: Nov. 20Position number: CD948For information: Dr. Richard Sigurdson, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba, 310 Fletcher Argue Building, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V5.

FACULTY OF ENGINEERINGDepartment of Civil EngineeringPosition: Assistant professor in water resources engineeringStart date: July 1, 2007Application deadline: Dec. 15Position number: HV693For information: Dr. P. Rasmussen, head, department of civil engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V6, [email protected].

FACULTY OF HUMAN ECOLOGYDepartment of Textile SciencesPosition: Assistant professor in medical textilesStart date: April 1, 2007Application deadline: Jan. 5, 2007Position number: KZ340For information: Dr. Gustaaf Sevenhuysen, chair of search committee, 209 Human Ecology Building, 35 Chancellor’s Circle, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, phone 474 9704, fax 474 7592.

FACULTY OF MEDICINEDepartment of Family Medicineand the Winnipeg Regional Health AuthorityPosition: Academic family physicianStart date: March 1S a l a r y : C o m m e n s u r a t e w i t h qualifications and experienceApplication deadline: Dec. 15Position number: 05175For information: Department head, department of family medicine, E6003-409 Tache Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2H 2A6, phone 235 3655, fax 231 0302, or e-mail [email protected].

Department of PathologyCancerCare ManitobaPosition: Immunologist at the rank of assistant professor with an interest in blood and bone marrow transplantationStart date: Dec. 1Salary: Commensurate with experience and qualificationsApplication deadline: Nov. 19Position number: 05322For information: John Gartner, medical director, pathology, Diagnostic Services of Manitoba, professor and head, department of pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 401 Brodie Centre, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P5, phone 789 3382, fax 789 3931, e-mail [email protected].

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26On the Body Interdisciplinary Research Group, Anatomical Dissection and Anxiety of Interiority in Early Modern Spain by Enrique Fernandez, French, Spanish and Italian, University College Boardroom, 203 University College, 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26.

Microbiology, A LysR-Type Regulator, CidR, Is Required for Induction of the Staphylococcus aureus cidABC Operon by Jerrylynn Brucal, 306 Buller Building, 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26.

Advanced Plant Science Seminar Series, Applications of biotechnology for plant disease management by Zamir K. Punja, department of biological sciences, Simon Fraser University, Carolyn Sifton Lecture Theatre 130 Agriculture Building, 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, Lebanon and Iraq: a challenge to the rules of war by Emily Muller, doctoral candidate, Cornell University, Private Dining Room, University College, 12:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27.

Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism: Global Intimacies Colloquia, The Civilized Homosexual: Travel Talk and The Project of Gay Identity by David Murray, department of anthropology, York University, Fluid Exchanges: Commodification of Intimacy in a Transnational Tourist Town by Susan Frohlick, department of anthropology, University of Manitoba, and I Love You Because We are ‘Asian’: Fantasy and Desire of Japanese Women in the Tourist Spaces of Nepal by Chisono Yamaga, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Concourse Lounge, University College, 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27.

Chemistry, Detecting nerve agents spectroscopically: Vibrational Overtone Transitions in Sarin by Dr. M.W.P. Petryk, Research Centre Suffield, 539 Parker Building, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27.

Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, The History of Van der Waerden conjecture for permanents by Laurentiu Troanca, 415 Machray Hall, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27.

Economics, Educational Disparity and Racial Earnings Inequality: Insights from South Africa and the U.S. by Melanie O’Gorman, University of Winnipeg, 307 Tier Building, 2:40 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27.

Psychology, Can infant locomotor development be influenced by season of birth? by Warren Eaton, department of psychology, University of Manitoba, P412 Duff Roblin Building, 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31C h a n g i n g d y n a m i c s i n t h e management of the honey bee parasite, Varroa destructor by Rob Currie, department of entomology, 220 Animal Science/Entomology Building, 10 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1Native Studies, The 50-Day Expert: Oral History, the Courts, and Alexander Von Gernet by R. Jarvis Brownlie, history, 307 Tier Building, 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 1.

Soil Science, Building research capacity for the study of alternative pig rearing systems in Manitoba by Katherine Buckley, AAFC, Brandon, 245 Ellis Building, 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 1.

Chemistry, Chemical and Microchemical Characterization of Tribologically Generated Films using X-ray Spectroscopy and Spectromicroscopy (XPEEM) by Dr. G.M. Bancroft, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 539 Parker Building, 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 1.

Anthropology MA Thesis Defense, Japanese Girl Meets Nepali Boy: Mutual Fantasy and Desire in “Asian” Vacationscapes in Nepal by Chisono Yamaga, 305 Tier Building, 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 1.

Institute for the Humanities Research Cluster Presentation: Representations of War, a public roundtable with James Chlup, classics, Michael Stack, philosophy, and Andrew Woolford, sociology. Elena Baraban, German and Slavic studies, Russian, will serve as moderator while Stephan Jaeger (German and Slavic studies, German, will act as respondent. An open discussion will follow the presentations and response, 409 Tier Building, 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 1.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2Advanced Plant Science, The whest leaf-rust pathosystem: what have we learned from Lr1? by Sylvie Cloutier, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Carolyn Sifton Lecture Theatre, 130 Agriculture Building, 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 2.

Microbiology, The Ornibact in Biosynthesis and Transport Genes of Burkholderia cenocepacia Are Regulated by and Extracytoplasmic Function sigma Factor Which Is a Part of the Fur Regulon by Jason Hamlin, 306 Buller Building, 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 2

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3Philosophy, Title TBA Ryan Wasserman, Philosophy, Western Washington University, 386 University College, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3.

Chemistry, Zintl Phases Among the Post-Transition Elements and the Remarkable Chemistry that Evolves for Earlier p-Elements by Prof. J.D. Corbett, department of chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, I.A., U.S.A., 539 Parker Building, 2:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3.

Economics, Tax Noncompliance and Corporate Governance by Lindsay Tedds, University of Manitoba, 307 Tier Building, 2:40 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3.

Psychology, Why do preschoolers fail executive function tasks? The roles of inhibition and disinhibition by Ulrich Mueller, department of psychology, University of Victoria, P412 Duff Roblin Building, 3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3.

Bison are on a rollBison SportsBY CHRIS ZUK

Bison Sports Information OfficerThe Manitoba Bisons football

team currently holds a 6-0 record and stands in first place in the Canada West conference with 12 points. Even before last weekend’s 63-8 win over the Simon Fraser Clan, the Bisons were ranked number two in the CIS Top 10 poll.

It is the highest ranking the team has held since the end of the 2002 campaign, when the Herd went 8-0 in the regular season.

Bison football head coach Brian Dobie commented, “We are happy by the recognition across the country. There is still plenty of football to play this season and we look forward to hard games for the rest of the season but appreciate that our efforts have been respected and noticed.”

As if the ranking wasn’t enough good news, the Bisons team was recognized with clean sweep of all three Canada West Football honours last week. Second year defensive end Justin Cooper was

named as Canada West Defense Football Athlete of the Week, rookie Matt Henry was Canada West Offense Football Athlete of the Week while kick specialist/linebacker Jim Jeavons was selected Canada West Special Teams Football Athlete of the Week.

Justin Cooper was a force in leading the Bisons defense by holding the Saskatchewan Huskies to 101 passing yards and leading Canada West rusher to 34 yards in the 35-16 road victory over the Saskatchewan Huskies on Oct. 7. Matt Henry earned his first CIS 100 yard rushing game in his young career. He led all rushers in the game with 140 yards on 21 carries. Jim Jeavons made arguably the turning point play of the game as the Huskies lined up for a punt early in the second quarter. Jeavons stormed up the middle and wrapped up punter Braden Suchan and blocked his attempted punt.


Research News

Bringing Research To LifeResearch News is Publishedby the Office of the Vice-President (Research)Comments, submissions and event listings to:[email protected]: (204) 474-9020 Fax (204) 261-0325

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BY FRANK NOLANResearch Promotion

In the last few days, you’ve probably experienced some kind of memory lapse. Maybe you forgot where you left your keys, or perhaps you couldn’t remember a phone number you’ve known for years. For most of us, these episodes are a minor frustration, and they pale in comparison to the daily hardships faced by people with severe memory deficits.

“Memory deficits are involved in a number of different diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, epilepsy and cerebral palsy, as well as things like stroke and head trauma,” said Benedict Albensi, pharmacology and therapeutics. “It has a huge impact on society at a number of different ages, including neonatal, middle-aged and aged populations.”

Albensi’s lab at the St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre is looking at how memory works at the molecular, cellular and whole-animal levels, and his program is the only comprehensive, multi-disciplinary memory deficits research program in Manitoba.

One aspect of his research is aimed at understanding the “plastic mechanisms” that control memory encoding, including the role of calcium in memory and seizure disorders.

“Calcium plays a very important role in normal memory, but when calcium regulation is disrupted, and there is too much intracellular calcium present for prolonged periods, it can cause serious problems,” he said.

Albensi is studying is the role of a transcription factor, called NF-KB, which may be involved in memory formation. Like calcium, NF-KB activation might be necessary for normal memory formation, and Albensi’s team is investigating whether or not this transcription factor is also abnormally activated in memory impairments like Alzheimer’s dementia.

“It’s known that when intra-cellular calcium increases, NF-KB increases,” he said. “We also know that in the central nervous system and in memory regions of the brain, NF-KB is increased after acute brain injury, and it’s also increased

in chronic conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Our goal is to pin down whether or not NF-KB is as involved in memory as we hypothesize it might be.”

Ultimately, this line of Albensi’s research is aimed at developing new therapeutic strategies for combating memory deficits.

“We want to figure out which targets would be best for pharmacological intervention, and if we can identify a good target in the text five or ten years, then we’ll really have accomplished something.”

Over the last 18 months, Albensi has been awarded a number of significant research grants, including $100,000 from the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada awarded in October 2006. He has also received a $100,000 operating grant and a $100,000 establishment grant from the Manitoba Health Research Council.

One of the things that makes Albensi’s program unique is the

high level of collaboration involved. For example, he has developed an innovative collaboration focused on the use of electrical stimulation to alleviate seizures. This project includes researchers from the department of electrical and computer engineering, as well those with expertise in MRI physics, neuropathology and neurosurgery.

“We’re also doing behavioural research to see how memory is affected in the living animal, and in the next couple of years we’re planning to look at neonatal stroke and its effect on memory,” he said. “In this day and age, you really have to have a wide range of collaborators and consultants. We’re building a program aimed at understanding memory from every angle, and that requires a lot of different technical and clinical expertise. We’ve been very fortunate to develop such good, collaborative relationships in a relatively short time.”

New studies on pulse crops BY FRANK NOLAN

Research PromotionOn October 12, Pulse Canada

announced $1.25 million in new funding for human clinical trials studying the health benefits of eating pulse crops, including peas, beans and lentils. Part of the Pulse Innovation Project, the funding supports five major studies, including two at the University of Manitoba that have been awarded a total of close to $500,000.

Peter Jones, director of the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, and Canada Research Chair in nutrition and functional foods, leads one study

that has been awarded $250,000. This clinical trial will examine the effects of consuming pulse crops on blood cholesterol levels and other parameters related to diabetes, obesity and cancer.

The project also involves Trust Beta, food science, Curtis Rempel from the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, and Linda Malcolmson from the Canadian International Grains Institute.

The second clinical trial is led by Peter Zahradka, physiology, director of the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine at the St. Boniface General Hospital Research

Centre. This study has received $246,000 to look at the effects of daily pulse consumption on cardiovascular health, with a particular focus on blood vessel function and the prevention of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.

This study includes collaborators Carla Taylor, human nutritional sciences, and Randy Guzman, surgery.

Pulse Canada is a national industry association that represents provincial pulse grower groups from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, and members of the pulse trade from across Canada.

Mechanisms of memory

Photo by Frank Nolan Benedict Albensi, pharmacology and therapeutics, is leading a number of research collaborations focused on understanding memory deficits.

Smartpark Interactive Breakfast

Speaker Series Thursday, October 24

Smartpark Lobby Boardroom‘The Power 30’ with

Mr. Arni Thorsteinson President

Shelter Canadian Properties

Seating is limited. Please email [email protected] or call 480-1434 to reserve your seat today.

Business of Science Symposium October 25 & 26

The Fairmont Winnipeg“From Idea to Execution:

Understanding Critical Succes s Fac tor s and Realizing Opportunities”

T h e B u s i n e s s o f S c i e n c e Symposium provides a forum to learn new strategies, hear the latest developments and create important industry relationships.

For more information visit their website: www.businessofscience.org

New Faculty Orientation

Animal Care and Use

Presented byDr. Nora Lewis

Director, Animal Care and Use Program

November 2, 12:00 - 1:00 pmS211 Medical Services Bldg.

Bannatyne CampusThis session will address:

protocol submissions

veterinary and facility services

contact information

All NEW faculty are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Denise Borowski at 789-3960 or email: [email protected]

Get to know Research at your University

Speaker Series November 15, 7:00 pm

Smartpark Lobby Boardroomwith

Dr. Cyrus Shafai Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nanotechnology: Impacting Our Day-to-Day LivesFor more information, please

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In an ideal world, this would have been an article about a book written by a University of Manitoba staff member. But for philosophy professor Neil McArthur life took a different turn.

McArthur’s new film Out of the Way premiered Sept. 30 at the Calgary International Film Festival. The feature-length film kicks off with a writer discovering that his computer has crashed and he had forgotten to make a back up of his novel in progress.

In this case for McArthur, art really did reflect life.“It’s autobiographical because I was working on a

fiction novel and had my computer crash,” McArthur said. “I’m really embarrassed to admit it because it was my own damn fault.”

It wasn’t a minor project, McArthur was working on either. He had received the W.O. Mitchell Award from the Canadian Women’s Press Club in recognition of his promising future as a writer. But after 30,000 words of the unpublished manuscript went up in smoke, McArthur said he lost the psychological impetus needed to keep working on the book.

“I needed a new project,” McArthur said. “And I definitely felt I had a story to tell.” But instead of writing, this time he turned to film.

“Film was something I was interested in experimenting with,” McArthur, who was working in Ottawa at the time, said. “And once I had the idea it’s amazing how much untapped energy you can find to make it happen. I put up posters all over town asking if anyone wanted to be involved.”

He ended up with 11 cast members, five extras and 14 crew members, including Calgary musician Nathan

Krentz, Nena Toth as cinematographer, and Chan Park as executive producer.

For McArthur, who was officially the screen play writer and director, but was really the glue that held the entire production together, the experience quickly turned into a trial by fire.

“It’s not like writing a novel where you can have a bad day and they just get up the next day and redo your work,” McArthur said. “You really have to get it right because you’re working with a group of people who have their own schedules to keep.”

But that group experience was also the most exciting part of the process.

“It’s more intense then writing because you get to see people performing your lines.”

The story itself is a romantic comedy that focuses on Arthur, the unlucky writer at the heart of the story, Victoria, his partner in a small independent publishing house, and Lisa, a potential love interest. Apart from looking at the characters the story also gives a behind the scenes look at the publishing industry in Canada – an industry that McArthur knows well given that his mother has spent years on the board of directors at Coteau Books in Saskatchewan and he grew up around writers and people in the industry.

Reviews of the movie at the Calgary Film Festival were positive, but that screening was really only the first step. From there, McArthur says he’ll be plying it at other festivals hoping to get more air time and eventually a contract with a distributor. The price tag for Out of the Way was $15,000. As a first film, McArthur said he’s not expecting to turn a huge profit on it – or perhaps any profit.

But it does get his foot in the door and along with shopping Out of the Way around he’s already thinking about his next project – one that will ideally, based on the performance of Out of the Way, be able to garner a little more funding.

“I do want to do something in Manitoba,” McArthur said. “I’m very interested in the idea of Arctic sovereignty and how that could be the basis for a spy thriller.”

McArthur’s joined the U of M this year as a philosophy professor and his area of particular interest is in the history of political philosophers – he has a book, David Hume’s Political Theory, set to come out next year. To a fair degree, McArthur says he keeps the creative side of his writing separate from the academic side. But he’d probably be kidding himself if he said there was no cross pollination.

“I can’t really sit down and say I’m going to produce a philosophically inspired screen play,” McArthur said. But at the same time, he’s had enough feedback from people who’ve read his work and noticed the influence of the philosopher within it to know the two fields aren’t completely separate.

Crash turns McArthur in new direction

Photo by Michael Marshall

We’re kidding in this picture. But when philosophy professor Neil McArthur’s computer went up in smoke it set him on the path to making Out of the Way.

The University of Manitoba extends congratulations to the following students who have been recognized by Canadian Interuniversity Sports as RBC Royal Bank Academic All-Canadians for the academic year 2005-2006. This honour is given to varsity athletes who have successfully completed a minimum of 18 credit hour and maintained a GPA of 3.5 or better. President Szathmáry hosted a luncheon for the athletes on Oct. 3, at which time certificates recognizing their achievements were presented to those in attendance.

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