NSAC E-Bulletin

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Wellness Committee - Tips for the Holidays

Please find attached some excellent tips that George Carmichael kindly forwarded to the Wellness Committee from Sobey's. The newsletter contains recipes, healthy eating advice, shopping tips, and "On the 12 days of Christmas, My Dietician said to Me..."
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Faculty/Staff File Server Outage

The staff file server (Earth) will be upgraded on Tuesday morning, January 2, 2006. This server hosts all faculty/staff data files and departmental shared files for faculty and staff access. The files will be unavailable from 0800 to 1200.

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Library Cancels Christmas and New Years

Reminder

Pepsi Cola Bottling have a contract with NSAC for full service vending. In that contract , and because of obvious safety issues, it is clear that the machines cannot be tampered with, moved , adjusted or otherwise altered by anyone other than qualified Pepsi Technicians. If you have any questions or concerns , the campus contact for the Pepsi Representatives is Judy Smith (6661 or 7915). If the machines are "out of order" there is a 1 - 800 number posted on all machines for service. Thanks.

Recruitment Update

Hello and Happy Holidays from Recruitment!

Over the past few weeks we’ve been preparing for the new year and happily assessing the past. Since last January, we’ve seen an increase in campus involvement in recruiting activity and Nick, Craig, Brian and I would like to thank the registry, teaching staff, graduate students, laboratory technicians and administration for their help in all of our efforts. Since last January, we’ve hosted over 1200 grade 10, 11 and 12 students and with your help, gave them memorable experiences.

As a reminder, we begin our new year with our third follow-up to new prospective students by inviting them to University Day – being held this year on March 2nd. Last year we had over 150 high school students attend, with 45 student volunteers helping throughout the day. We hope to have as many student ambassadors again this year!

To re-cap this year’s recruitment travels, we attended the AARAO fairs from Mid September to just last week, visiting all of the high schools in the Maritime Provinces. This schedule has no breaks and Nick and Craig covered a lot of territory from the South Shore NS to the West Coast of NFLD. Both commented that there is a definite spike in interest from prospective students. Registry is reporting that more applicants are being entered in the system than compared to this time last year. Bermuda, New England, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico and Korea were covered as well, with a prospective database from each country resulting.

We’ve already taken independent visits to a few schools in Halifax, PEI and Cape Breton. This is significant as the independent visits usually take place beginning in January.

Local communities saw us at 24 events over the past year and we were happy to host guidance counselors from both Boston and Bermuda, in addition to those from Nova Scotia.

In all, Recruitment has definitely gained momentum and I’d like to congratulate my team on a job well done!

All the best and see you in January!

Monica

Updated AC Phone List

Early Stage Commercialization Fund 2006-2007

The Industry Liaison Office, in partnership with InnovaCorp, is offering an opportunity to researchers, students and staff of NSAC to compete for financial support for early-stage research projects with commercial potential. Awards are project-specific and activities may include product identification and development, field studies, prototype testing and market assessment. Eligible expenses will typically include: part-time and summer student research assistance; materials and supplies; marketing research, etc.

The total amount of the fund for Nova Scotia universities and colleges for this year is $150,000 with an anticipated average award of $10,000. Up to twelve (12) awards are available in the 2006/2007 competition. The application deadline is 4:00 PM, January 30, 2007 with a notification of decision on February 28, 2007. Projects may commence immediately thereafter.

Detailed guidelines and application forms are found at the InnovaCorp website at http://www.innovacorp.ca/ESCF/ Note that all applications must be submitted through the Industry Liaison Office.

Questions on this fund can be directed to David Fullerton, Industry Liaison Officer. He can be reached at 896-2419 or email at dfullerton@nsac.ca

Operation Clean Sweep

Information is being widely distributed, and the big issue now is getting the word out! Any questions, contact Brian MacCulloch in Kentville. macculbc@gov.ns.ca

Brian MacCulloch
Agricultural Resource Coordinator
Resource Stewardship Branch
Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Centre, Kentville, N.S., B4N 1J5

(902)679-6006 fax (902)679-6062

Thanks for your consideration of this important initiative and best wishes for the upcoming holiday season.

E-Bulletin

Happy Holidays from the Newsdesk at NSAC. The NSAC E-Bulletin will resume on Tuesday, January 2.

See you in the New Year!