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Happy New Year

NSAC Employees Honoured- Embracing Their World

Today's honouree is Mike Pauley, NSAC Web Specialist.

Nominated by Stephanie Rogers, Mike is a calming influence in an often very hectic office. No project is too big or too small for Mike to tackle and he does so with a positive attitude and a smile.

Mike will always drop whatever he is doing to help, whether it be with an internet or technology problem or anything else - and never complains.

He is always trying to find simpler solutions to our current methods of doing things and researching new and inexpensive technologies.

Mike's "can do" attitude is wonderful. Congratulations Mike!

Photo Caption: Mike Pauley with son Jack

If you would like to nominate a deserving employee to be recognized as Employee of the Week, please complete the short nomination form at http://www.nsac.ca/news/2006/eyw.cfm

Research Excellence Award 2007

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?

1. NSAC Faculty Members;
2. Researchers outside of NSAC;
3. Self nominations as well as nominations by administrators and professional associations are accepted.

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 2, 2007.

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.ca).

“Pollycom” - She’s a Friend Indeed

The MacRae Library, Departments of Plant and Animal Sciences and Environmental Sciences, Office of Distance Education, Office of Continuing Education, Office of Graduate Studies, Office of Research and NSAC Administration are pooling their resources for the joint purchase of a video conferencing system for the university. To be housed in the Cobequid Room (MacRae Library) with Library staff assuming responsibility for booking and collecting a modest user fee, the Polycom videoconferencing system will be available for the first time for a wide variety of uses: course delivery, virtual meetings, thesis defenses with external participants, seminars, distance course delivery, etc.

Dr. Norman Goodyear provided vision, leadership and coordination for this project, which grew from his experience in the North America Mobility Project.

Operation Christmas Child

A very big thank you to all those who took part in and contributed to Operation Christmas Child on Campus. A total 0f 118 shoe boxes were sent along with over $700.00 which surpassed our goal of 100 boxes. Your donations have contributed to the joy of a young child this Christmas season.

The largest number of boxes was submitted by staff of Environmental Sciences who submitted 44 boxes. The club with the highest number of boxes was ACCF with 16 and an honourable mention to graduate students who submitted 12

Thank you from ACCF

NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is offering the Innovation Challenge Award to graduate students who can identify potential products or services that could be generated through application of the research results of their thesis work. There are three awards in this national competition: one $10,000 main prize and two $5,000 runner-up prizes.

The Innovation Challenge Awards honour students pursuing graduate studies in the natural sciences, engineering or computer sciences who have demonstrated an entrepreneurial flair by thinking of ways to transform their research thesis results into products and processes that will potentially benefit Canadians. These awards recognize and reward the power of imagination and innovation within Canada’s brightest minds.

Complete details are available from the NSERC website (http://www.nserc.gc.ca/innovation). Note that the website will be updated in early January but the information will be substantially unchanged. The deadline for nominations at NSERC is May 15, 2007 and all NSAC nominations will be submitted by the Industry Liaison Office in Cumming Hall. The internal deadline for submissions to the Industry Liaison Office is April 13, 2007. For further information, contact David Fullerton at 896-2419 or at dfullerton@nsac.ca.

Fridays at 3:00

Dr. Alan Fredeen Professor Plant and Animal Sciences
Nova Scotia Agricultural College

“Our Cows, Our Air”

5th January 2007 3:00 to 4:00 pm
Cox Institute, Room 257

All are welcome to attend!
This seminar is sponsored by the NSAC Seminar Committee and the Graduate Communications Class of AGRI 5700