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NSAC E-Bulletin
Please forward your submissions to the NSAC E-Bulletin to Stephanie
Rogers (news@nsac.ca)
by Friday at 3:00 p.m. for inclusion in the next week's edition.
Jan 26, 2004 --- Week 163
Research Excellence Award 2004
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 Procedure
Who Can Make a Nomination?
- NSAC
Faculty Members;
- Researchers outside of NSAC;
- Self nominations as well as nominations
by administrators and professional associations are accepted.
What is the Nomination Procedure?
- Complete a nomination form, which is available from the
Research & Graduate
Studies office.
- Immediately following the deadline date, the nominee will
be informed and asked if they wish for their name to stand.
- 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.)
- 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 5, 2004.
Notice of Award
The Research Excellence Award will be presented during May 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).
CIBC Student Entrepreneur of the Year
Congratulations to Jilian Eisnor, who is the last Nova Scotian student to
be in the running for the CIBC Student Entrepreneur of the Year. This is
a national award, recognizing entrepreneurial spirit among Canadian students.
Jil is a student at Acadia University and runs an online graphic design company
iFresh Design Studio. In her work as a Co-op Student at the Centre
for Continuing and Distance Education in 2002, Jil worked with faculty and staff to upgrade
the look of Continuing Education course materials.
Jil will be presenting her business ideas to a panel of judges on Feb 13.
We wish her luck!
News from the Road
For those of you who couldn't’t make it to the meeting, we wanted to
keep you up to date on what is being planned for University Day. Friday
February 27th is shaping up to be a day jam-packed with informative
and interesting sessions for students and their supporters. The following is
a tentative schedule:
10:00 - Registration in Cumming Hall
10:30 - 12:00 - Welcomes in Alumni Theatre. Student testimonials, Information
session (application process, scholarships, student loans), University 101
- Transition to University to follow
12:00 - Lunch
12:45 - Program tours
1:30-3:30 - Information EXPO
3:00 - Campus Tours
An on-line registration form will be available on our website at www.nsac.ns.ca/choosingnsac/universityday to help students register more quickly and easily. We expect that between 800
and 1000 students will receive personal invitations either through the mail
or by email. Many more students will be reached through guidance services in
their high schools. So if you know of someone who may be interested in attending,
help us by passing along this information, or ask the student to get in touch
with us.
Thanks to all of you who have already contacted us about your interest in
helping out. Recruitment is done by everyone on campus, and an event like University
Day really allows everyone to get involved in showing off what a great university
we have. So if you haven’t touched base with us about University Day,
it’s not too late to get involved! Remember, we can’t do it without
your support!
Don't forget --- Alumni Name Change
Forum, Jan 31st
The Alumni Association are holding their Name Change Forum at the Riverview
Room (Jenkins Hall) at NSAC at noon this coming Saturday, January 31, 2004. ALL alumni
are invited to attend. Written invitations have been mailed to most alumni
in the Truro and Valley
areas and an invitation
has been posted to the alumni website. Those alumni that can't
attend the forum are invited to submit written comments to the
Association using the web response form or by regular mail. See
the Alumni website for details. Support
this effort of the Association to be involved in the future of
NSAC.
MIB (Men in Black) make Winter Carnival appearance
The "Men in Black" were just one of the many acts that made up the entertainment
at the NSAC Winter Carnival variety show last friday evening. Protecting your
back from Aliens is just one of the jobs of the MIB. A good time was had by
all. Click the photo for a larger view.
E-bulletin a great way to advertise a campus event
This is just a reminder that the NSAC E-bulletin is a great way to advertise
a campus event, report on an important happening or show off a significant
achievement. It is mailed out every monday, usually by noon and our statistics
show that by 5:00 pm that day it has been read by about 200 people. Unlike
other direct broadcast e-mail announcements, e-bulletins are kept in the archive
and can
be viewed again at a later date and many people do go back over them.
Just send the information, along with any pictures, to Jim
Goit for inclusion in the E-bulletin. It's your e-newsletter for NSAC.
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