Alumni E-News

Alumni E-News strives to keep alumni up-to-date with news from the university including important announcements, student and alumni achievements, athletic news and upcoming events. You will still receive your alumni magazine, the Agricola News, by mail, free-of-charge.

In this monthly, E-newsletter you'll find brief news items and for most, a link to our alumni website for more detailed information.

Its that time of year again. Staff as well as students are encouraged to consider nominating a technical or faculty instructor who exemplifies the tradition of excellence that has been NSAC’s hallmark for the past century. Don’t let the hard work of someone whose teaching you admire to go unrecognized. Deadline for 2006 nominations is Friday, February 24th. For more information on the nomination procedure, follow this link to the Instructional Development Committee teaching award page:

http://www.nsac.ca/academics/idc/teaching.asp

2006 Award for Best Paper

The Canadian Society for Horticultural Science has bestowed a "2006 Award for Best Paper Published in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science in 2005" award to Rob Gordon, Ali Madani and their co-authors. The publication citation is:

Gordon, R., Elmi, A. A., Madani, A., Hauser, T., Rodd, V. and Leblanc, P. 2005. Nitrate and pesticide leaching from a processing carrot production system in Nova Scotia. Can J. Plant Sci. 85: 205-211.

As part of this award,they will receive a $500 cash prize in August from the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science.

Halifax 2006 - A venue to share scientific discovery

“Halifax 2006” is the joint meeting of the Canadian Societies of Agronomy, Animal and Horticultural Sciences. The conference is taking place at the Westin Hotel in Halifax from August 1st to 4th 2006. This meeting will serve as a forum to gather vital information for the future of soil, plant and animal agriculture and to provide a venue to share scientific discovery. The Plenary Session theme is "Reinventing Agricultural Research".

A wide variety of symposia have been planned, including: 1) Agriculture: Consumer or Producer of Energy?; 2) Teaching Agricultural Science at Universities; and 3) Multi functionality of Grasslands in Agro-Ecosystems. Several concurrent sessions have been reserved for volunteer paper presentations and posters.

For more information about this conference, please visit the conference web site at: http://www.nsac.ca/pas/conferences/default.asp

Mazda CCAA Women's Volleyball National Championships

The NSAC is honoured to be hosting the Mazda CCAA Women's Volleyball National Championship for 2006. Events such as this provide great exposure for the university as well as our home community. More so this year as Eastlink has agreed to broadcast the Bronze and Gold games on national television. NSAC extends a warm invitation to all alumni to come back to campus to watch this exciting high level competition. For complete information, schedules, photos and more, please visit nsac.ca/nationals

University Day - Friday March 3rd
University Day - an open house for prospective students will be held on Friday, March 3rd, 2006. It's a day long introduction and orientation to NSAC in which students participate in an expo highlighting NSAC programs, athletics and services NSAC has to offer. Students can also meet with future classmates and take part in program activities.