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NSAC E-Bulletin
Please forward your submissions to the NSAC E-Bulletin to
the newsdesk (news@nsac.ca)
by Friday at 2:00 p.m. for inclusion in the next week's edition.
EduNova Open House
EduNova will be holding a Holiday Open House on December
8th. Please feel free to circulate the
invitation and include your colleagues.
Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association Athlete of the Week
 Billy
McNutt a third year Bachelor of Science student from Oxford,
Nova Scotia is the November 28th Athlete of the Week.
Billy McNutt of the NSAC Rams Basketball team is the ACAA Male
Athlete of the week.
In defeating King’s (69-60)and splitting with UNBSJ (61-73,61-59)
Billy averaged 28 points, 20 rebounds and eight blocked shots.
He has also shown good leadership with the rookies and a very
positive attitude in re-building the program.
Congratulations Billy!
Christmas Shopping on Campus
Do some Christmas Shopping at the Langille Athletic Centre
on Thursday, Nov. 30 11 am to 1 pm and 5:30 to 8 pm and Friday,
Dec. 1 11 am to 1 pm
T-shirts, golf shirts, and more!
Agri-Education for Extension - Cambodia
....an international development project of NSAC
NSAC has been awarded a project from the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) to contribute to poverty reduction in
Cambodia. The project, titled Agri-Education for Extension, aims
to increase agricultural productivity of smallholder farmers by
developing appropriate training for the country’s agricultural
extension workers. NSAC will work with the Royal University of
Agriculture, the only agricultural university in Cambodia, to
implement this project over the next five years.
Full press release can be found here.
NSAC Students in The Gambia and Ethiopia
Two NSAC students, Carley Thomas and Tara MacLeod, who travelled to Ethiopia and The Gambia last summer through NSAC's international development projects, will give a presentation of their experiences this coming Friday.
The presentation is entitled: "Africa's Hidden Gems: Breaking the Stereotypes of The Gambia and Ethiopia".
Location: Cox 136
Time: 2-3 pm
Date: Friday, December 1st.
Information on opportunities for students this coming summer will also be available.
For more information contact Michele Elliott at melliott@nsac.ca
NSAC and Acadia University host Open House Today
The Department of Engineering at the NSAC and
the Department of Education at Acadia University would like to
invite you to an open house to explore their partnership in technical
education programming.
Tours, demonstrations and program information
will be provided.
Date: Thursday, Nov 30th, 2006
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Banting Building
NSAC Campus, Bible Hill, N.S.
RSVP: by Nov 28th to Heather Hughes
hhughes@nsac.ca (902) 896-2448
Learn more about the B. TECH program at
nsac.ca/appliedscience
Announcement
We are pleased to announce that Soil Foodweb Canada
East Ltd. is open for business. We are now receiving
soil, compost, and compost tea samples at our Halifax lab. We
are also available for consultations. For more information,
call Dr. Jason Hofman at (902) 421-5696 or email
info@sfce.ca.
Our website is under construction and should be up and running
soon. Visit us at www.sfce.ca.
Also, watch for seminars and workshops over the winter months.
We plan to hold several. You can watch our website or ask us
to put you on our email list to make sure that you don’t
miss these announcements.
For those of you who are not familiar with us, Soil Foodweb
Canada East Inc. is a Canadian-owned affiliate lab in the Soil
Foodweb Inc. (SFI) network started by Dr. Elaine Ingham of Corvallis,
Oregon. We test the microbial life in soils, compost, and compost
tea. The basic concept is that plants grow best when the ecology
of the soil in which they are growing is right for them. For
instance, a forest soil is fungal-dominated and much different
from a farmer's field, where the bacteria-fungus ratio favours
bacteria or is at best evenly balanced. Our testing allows growers
to alter the ecology of their soils to match the crop they are
growing, through the application of the right types of compost
and compost tea. The soil foodweb approach allows growers to
maximize yields and optimize plant health without the use of
commercial fertilizers and pesticides.
For more information, visit Dr. Ingham's website at www.soilfoodweb.com,
or call us at 421-2733.
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