NSAC E-Bulletin

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Mar 29, 2004 --- Week 172

Upcoming events

Successful CFI Celebration Event

The celebration of CFI funding held March 24th was a great success. Check out http://www.nsac.ns.ca/news/2004/cfi_awards.htm for details and pictures if you missed it.

International Award Nomination Reminder

NSAC International is soliciting nominations for this year's Internationalization Award, which is presented annually at Convocation. The Terms of Reference and Nomination Form have been posted.

Please submit your nominations to Mary Breen, NSAC International by March 31st, 2004

Fall Timetable

The fall timetable has been generated and is located at:

http://www.nsac.ns.ca/reg/course_timetable.htm

We have made numerous changes in response to your feedback to the draft timetable. Please review this again when you have a chance to ensure that courses are scheduled as required. As with all other timetables, we were not always able to accommodate special requests due to various conflicts. There are also a few outstanding scheduling issues that we are still working to resolve but which we couldn't hold up the release of the timetable for. I will be sure to inform students that they need to recheck the timetable before they register for classes starting June 14, 2004 with our new Web Registration Module.

Thanks again for your assistance with this important endeavour in what will be a very challenging year of transition for our institution. If you have any questions please contact the Registry Office at 893-6722.

Poetry Train Update

For those who have not been following the travels of the Poetry Train and our own Deborah Stiles, you should check out the website at http://www.logonlog.ca/poetrytrain.htm. Deborah reports that she's had a great time and the poetry was wonderful. Some of the best are on the website at http://www.logonlog.ca/poems.htm. There is also a nice notice on the CBC website at http://www.cbc.ca/arts/stories/quickhits180304. about halfway down the page.

Dean of Internationalization Announced

It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. Dian Patterson as NSAC's next Dean, Internationalization. The committee was faced with a very difficult decision as all of the candidates were very well qualified. After lengthy discussion and careful examination of the interview responses and based as well on the public presentations, a decision was reached to recommend Dian as the successful candidate. I wish personally to thank all who applied, for their excellent showings. We have a great cohort of experienced people and tremendous depth on this campus. Let's all wish Dian every success and I encourage everyone to lend her their support. Good luck in your new challenge, Dian.

Philip Hicks
President

Halifax Street Closures

The Halifax office of NSDAF has forwarded the following information for those who may be traveling to the city. Starting on or about March 29th, 2004 there will be street closures and traffic restrictions to be expected in the downtown core, specifically Lower Water Street, Hollis Street, Sackville Street, and Salter Street.

On or about March 29th, 2004 construction of an underground structure on Lower Water Street in front of Maritime Museum of Atlantic will cause the closure of Lower Water Street to vehicular traffic between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. This closure will run for a period of approximately 3 weeks, followed by a return to normal service for 7 weeks after which the closure will again be in affect for another 2 week period.

Also, starting on or about April 5th, 2004, Hollis Street between Sackville Street and Morris Street will be restricted to a single lane of traffic with expected delays for a period of 3 months due to the construction of a new sewer interceptor. Truck traffic servicing the south end of Halifax, the Port, etc. are asked to use alternative truck routes (note HRM BY-LAW No. T-40) and not Hollis or Lower Water Street for the construction period.

Centennial Logo Ready to Use

The NSAC Centennial Logo is now available at: http://www.nsac.ns.ca/marketing/Graphic%20Standards.htm

At the site there are links to the following:

• NSAC Centennial Logo Graphic Standards Manual
  • NSAC Centennial Logo Colour - Electronic Version (not print quality)
  • NSAC Centennial Logo Black & White - Electronic Version (not print quality)
  • NSAC Centennial Logo Colour - Print Quality Version
  • NSAC Centennial Logo Black & White - Print Quality Version

Many thanks to Tim Delaney for his assistance with the graphic files. Please consider the use of the logo to help celebrate the centennial.

NSERC Celebration Success

A good time was had by all who attended the event celebrating NSERC's 25th anniversary and NSAC's longest standing NSERC grant holder and recent retiree Dr. Phil Warman. Presentations were made by Dr. Hicks. President NSAC, Dr. Tim Nau, Senior Advisor to the President, NSERC. Dr. Phil Warman looked back over his career. Hopefully the discussion will help NSAC get even more NSERC grants.

Dr. Tim Nau, Dr. Phil Warman and Dr. Philip Hicks

Partnership Established with World Vegetable Centre, Taiwan

The President of NSAC, Dr. Hicks, and, Director General, AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, Dr. Lumpkin have signed an MOU to embark on collaborative research, development and educational programmes in various disciplines relevant to vegetable research and production. Dr. Lada is managing the relationship on behalf of NSAC. Further details are available on a related release.

Final 5 from the Name Change Committee

The following is a list of five (in no particular order) names provided by the Name Change Committee on March 26th. The committee will be ranking the list before submitting it to the President by the middle of April.

• Riverside University
• Atlantic Canada University
• Atlantic University of Agriculture
• Cobequid University
• Eastern University

You can send your suggested priority to your rep on the Committee or directly to the chair, Randy Olson.