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January 27th, 2002 - Week 118

Varsity Results

NSAC Research Excellence Award
The Research Excellence Award is intended to recognize and encourage excellence in research among Faculty of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The award will be given for outstanding research contributions. Consideration will be given to originality, independence of thought, overall quality, and impact of the nominee's research program.

Eligibility
All Faculty members who are employees of the NSAC and who are conducting research are eligible to receive this award.

Nomination Procedures Who Can Make a Nomination?
1. NSAC Faculty Members*;
2. Researchers outside of NSAC;
3. Self nominations as well as nominations by administrators and professional associations are accepted.
* Members of the NSAC Faculty Council Research Committee may not make a nomination for this Award nor may they write a letter of support for a nominee of the Award.

What is the Nomination Procedure?
1. Complete a nomination form, which is available from the Research & Graduate Studies office. 2. Immediately following the deadline date, the nominee will be informed and asked if they wish for their name to stand.
3. If the nominee is interested, they will be asked to submit a maximum of three letters of support, and a completed Standard CV Form. (Forms available from the Research & Graduate Studies Office.)
4. The NSAC Research Committee will act as the Selection Committee to decide on the recipient of the award.

Nomination Deadline
All nominations must be submitted to the Research & Graduate Studies Office by Friday, March 7, 2003.

Notice of Award
The Research Excellence Award will be presented during Spring Convocation. The recipient of this Award must be willing to present a research seminar at the NSAC. Nominations and supporting documentation shall remain confidential! For further information, please contact the NSAC Research & Graduate Studies Office, Cumming Hall (893-6502; email: mlaw@nsac.ns.ca).

Seminar Sponsored by: Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (OACC) and NSAC

Canada As Trade Bully: Canada's position at the WTO agricultural trade negotiations

Canada's WTO negotiating position primarily serves the needs of Canadian farmers for new markets, and ignores the special needs of 2.5 billion farming people in developing countries. A level playing field is not necessarily a fair playing field.

Presenter: Dr. Andrew Kernohan

Dr. Kernohan is a beef and grain farmer from Parrsboro who is filling in this winter as Acting Canadian Programme Officer for Oxfam Canada in Halifax.

Room C 261, Cox Building, NSAC
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Thurs. Feb 6, 2003

For more information contact: Ralph Martin (902-893-6679) rmartin@nsac.ns.ca

All are Welcome!

International Student's Association

The International Students' Association proceeds this term in giving students, staff and the public an opportunity to learn about a country presented by a student (or students) from that particular
country. As before, we will be offering a presentation last Wednesday of each month this winter semester. This coming Wednesday, January 29th, the two Sudanese students on campus,
joined by Erin Bourgeois, the WUSC (World University Service of Canada) student representative on campus, will give a presentation on their country and the WUSC organization.

Again, Chartwell's will offer samples of some traditional dishes from Sudan and East Africa, selected by the students themselves. Students who live on campus have a selection of Canadian or a
traditional Sudanese dish, while off-campus students, staff and visitors may purchase the Sudanese dish for $9.00 (tax included) between the hours of 4:30 - 6:00 pm, at the day of the
presentation.

The presentation is free of charge and starts at 6.00 pm and will be held in Cox Institute, Room 257.

I encourage everyone to join us when Paul Manyok Chuol (current WUSC student) and James Wani (former WUSC student) talk about the largest country of the diverse Africa, it's history, culture
and nature. There is more to Sudan then the ongoing civil war!

Orri Páll Jóhannsson
President
The International Student's Association

Founder's Day - Klinck Lecture
The profession of agrology has realized great accomplishments over the past century and is currently facing a world of rapid change. Our organizations are being challenged to cope with radical shifts in direction. We have much to celebrate and an interesting future to consider. Where are we going and how do we prepare?

It is our pleasure to invite you to join us for a soup and sandwich lunch and a seminar by Dr. Ed Tyrchniewicz, President of AIC on Friday, February 14th, 12:00 - 2:00 P.M. in the Riverview Room, Jenkins Hall at NSAC. Dr. Tyrchniewicz will speak about "Agrology: Proud Past and Promising Future."

This event is sponsored jointly by the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists to celebrate the 98th Anniversary of NSAC and as a Klinck professional enrichment for agrologists under the Klinck lecture program of the AIC Foundation. We look forward to having you with us.

Please RSVP to Theresa Blois at 893-6720 or by E-Mail at tblois@nsac.ns.ca

News from the Road
Dara and Brian were back on the road last week to revisit some schools and speak with some interested students on a more individual basis. Brian visited a number of High Schools in
Antigonish, Rural Cape Breton and Sydney while Dara visited some schools in Halifax County and the South Shore. Revisiting these schools allows prospective students to talk to the NSAC representatives on more of an individual basis and answer any specific questions that they may have. Jenna was in the office all week.

This coming week, we have Roger Hill, the Guidance Counsellor from Richmond Academy coming for a tour of the campus. Mr. Hill likes to be up to date with the programs that the college has to offer. We will be hosting him for lunch and have invited some Richmond Academy alumni to join us to speak on their NSAC experiences.

Dara will be heading for Fredricton to visit some high schools and will be attending the New Brunswick Agriculture Producers Association Meeting in Fredricton. Brian will be taking part in the Agricultural Awareness and Commodity Meetings in Halifax and will then be attending the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture Meeting in Charlottetown. Brian will also speak at a 4-H Conference in Truro about some possible agricultural careers and what programs NSAC has to offer. Jenna will remain in the office coordinating events that the recruitment staff will be participating in during the upcoming weeks.

Call for Nominations
It is time, once again, to call for nominations for our Honours and Awards Program, including Honourary Doctorate, Honourary Associate and Professor or Administrator Emeritus. On behalf of the Honours and Awards Committee, I now invite your nominations. The guidelines for these awards are available from Professor Jeff Hoyle, jhoyle@nsac.ns.ca or from Theresa Blois, tblois@nsac.ns.ca

There are deadlines associated with these nominations as follows:

Honourary Doctorate: February 10 for Autumn Assembly
October 1st for Convocation 2004

Honourary Associate: June 1st for Autumn Assembly
December 1st for Convocation 2004

Professor/Administrator Emeritus: May 15 for Autumn Assembly
January 1st for Convocation 2004

With the passing of Dr. Herb MacRae last June, we no longer have a Principal Emeritus. There is certainly no compulsion to appoint anyone to that position, but the opportunity is there.

The Honours and Awards Committee will be meeting around mid-February to consider nominations for the Honourary Doctorate, and to prepare recommendations on candidates, if there are any, to Faculty Council and then, potentially to the Dalhousie Senate.

International Development Week February 2-8th, 2003
NSAC International and the College community as a whole are pleased to announce the following activities in celebration of International Development Week 2003

IN101 Class - Date and time to be announced
International Students Association to give a presentation and open forum to first year students enrolled in IN101. All students and staff are welcome to attend.

Posters of ongoing International Projects to be on display at the CA Douglas Room in Cumming Hall from Tuesday, February 4th - Friday, February 7th.

Presentations on NSAC involved International projects
Tuesday, February 4th Alumni Hall, Cumming Hall 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Dr. Norman Goodyear, Project Director in the Development of a Training Program in Sustainable Agriculture project at Universidad Francisco De Paula Santander (UFPS), Colombia accepted an award on behalf of the NSAC community. On February 4th, there will be a formal presentation of this prestigious award to Dr. Bruce Gray, VP Academic. This will be followed by a presentation of this ongoing project by Dr. Norman Goodyear, Bonnie Waddell and Dr. Sam Asiedu

3:00 p.m. Nutrition Break - Typical Colombian

3:15p.m. Alian Joseph a former Graduate student who traveled to Cuba and joined Faculty and Staff from Colombia for training in Organic Agriculture

3:45pm Jeffrey Delorey a student who traveled to Finland sponsored by the Canada - EU Consortium for Internationalization of Curriculum in Agriculture, Horticulture and the Environment project will give a presentation entitled: New Finland Perspectives on International Exchange.

Nutrition Break at 3:00 p.m please RSVP to Natalie Cole 7539 or ncole@nsac.ns.ca