NSAC E-Bulletin

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Marketing & Communications Website Highlights:
Web Standards Manual

NSAC’s Web Standards exist to facilitate consistency, usability and to promote standardized branding across our university's websites. University branding allows visitors to recognize a web page’s affiliation with NSAC, therefore it is essential in order to maintain a consistent image. The Web Standards Manual includes information on NSAC's web template, writing for the web and how to best present visual images. To download a copy of the manual, please visit nsac.ca/development/marketing/policies/web.asp. If you have any questions about the Web Standards Manual, please contact Mike Pauley at mpauley@nsac.ca or 893-6038.

For the next few E-Bulletin editions, you will find an article introducing different tools you can find on the new Marketing and Communications website. The next article will discuss NSAC’s Templates. If you have any questions about any of these new tools, please contact Sarah Morris at 893-6527 or Stephanie Rogers at 893-7247.

NSAC's Highway Signs

Mayor Bill Mills, the Honourable Brooke Taylor, Minister of Agriculture, and Christine Blair,
Chairwoman of the Village of Bible Hill, came together last Friday for a photo with NSAC's new highway signs.

In July 2006, NSAC entered into negotiations with the Town of Truro and the Village of Bible Hill to look into the possibility of signage on the Province's 100 Series Highways leading into Truro and Bible Hill. The signage would serve the dual purpose of promoting the two communities as well as the location of our university within them.

The Town of Truro, the Village of Bible Hill and NSAC made joint application to the Department for Community Identity Signs. The purpose of the joint application was to promote NSAC and show a true spirit of cooperation between the Town and the Village.

After much negotiation, design concepts were approved and three community identity signs were produced and erected in September. The sign pictured here is for northbound traffic on Hwy 102 and the other two signs will be for eastbound and westbound traffic on Hwy 104.

Healthy Workplace Week

To celebrate Healthy Workplace Week, the Deputy Minister has asked staff to nominate one or more coworkers for the Considerate Coworker Award.

Congratulations! We have had a great response, with 61staff being nominated. Winners will be notified by receipt of a "Considerate Coworker" certificate from Deputy Paul LaFleche. Also, on Monday we will randomly draw names (out of the coworkers that were nominated) to win a prize!

For more great tips on how to be a considerate coworker, please visit
http://lifescript.com/channels/healthy_living/life_tips/be_a_great_coworker.asp?page=1

Agricultural Ecosystems Class Tour

Students in the AGRI 1000, Agricultural Ecosystems, class visited the new NSAC Atlantic Poultry Research Centre during their lab last Wednesday afternoon. Students were touring the facility as a part of their studies on animal agriculture systems. They are becoming familiar with the life-cycles, production methods, feed resources and the overall energy flow associated with animal production systems in converting crops to nutritious human food. In order to accommodate the strict biosecurity measures for minimizing the potential transmission of disease, all 139 students had to complete a Visitor Biosecurity Questionnaire and don disposable overalls, gloves and boots before being allowed to enter the layer and broiler units. The meat processing area and the feed mill were also toured.

Course instructors Dr. Claude Caldwell and Shannon Kilyanek and all the students would like to thank Lana Crewe, Ron Mekers, Mike McConkey, Sarah MacPherson and Crystal Fullerton for all the work they put into preparing for the class and conducting the informative tours.

The class is looking forward to touring the Dairy, Sheep and Aquaculture units on Wednesday, October 31.

News from the Research Office

The latest Research & Graduate Studies newsletter is now online! Go to nsac.ca/research to read it.

United Way Campaign

Upcoming events include:
Monday - Friday: 50/50 draw
Pledge sheets passed out
Tuesday - Thursday: Book Sale in Harlow
Wednesday: Lunch at Riverview. Tickets must be bought in advance
Thursday: Silent auction, 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Harlow
Friday: Pledge sheet collected,
50/50 Draw
For more informaion, please click here.

Plant Science Poster Session

Students, staff and faculty are invited to attend the RESM4009 poster session on Wednesday, October 31 from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Students and their posters will be available for discussion and viewing, respectively, in the plant science hallway on the main floor of Cox Institute. Please come and learn more about undergraduate plant science research. Marking sheets will be available until Tuesday, November 6. For more information, please contact Nancy McLean at 893-7821or nmclean@nsac.ca.

Teacher Conference Success

Over 150 teachers, primarily from Technology Education, enjoyed a beautiful day on our Campus this past Friday.

The Department of Engineering would like to thank the campus community in helping us host this event, including: ITS for set-up and helping for glitches, Chartwells for a wonderful buffet, Nancy Pitts and Jeff Hoyle for rearranging their class schedules, Monica Sani in Recruitment for her time and promotion materials to give the teachers and members of the Woodsmen team for helping with parking.

Five members of the Engineering Department also presented Workshops for the teachers; Daryl Hayes on GPS, Gordon Price on Alternative Energy, Alex Martynenko on Electronics, Scott Read on Welding and Heather Hughes on lab sensors.

Varsity Results

NSAC was the host for the 2007 ACAA Men's and Women's Soccer Championships - Saturday Oct. 27 - Sunday 28.

Soccer
Women - ACAA Championship
Semi-Final NSAC vs. Kings
1 - 3
Scoring for NSAC - Emma Hayes

ACAA All-Conference Soccer Players from NSAC
Women
Leah MacNeill, Erin Durkee (First Team)
Trina Bennett, Jaclyn Mosher (Second Team)

Men
Scott Brown (First Team)
Ben Roy (Second Team)

ACAA Rookie of the Year in the Women's league - Erin Durkee , NSAC

Erin Durkee fights for the ball with a Kings player, while Jaclyn Mosher is supporting.

Loyal Fans support the Rams in the semi-final of the ACAA Women's Soccer Championships.


Rugby
Sunday Oct. 28
NSAC at KINGS
(w) 19 - 19
(m) Not Played

ACAA Womens Basketball Tipoff Tournie
Mt. A 68 - NSAC 47
King's 68. - NSAC 49
NSAC 66 - UNBSJ. 52

Hello from Recruitment!

Craig and Brian represented NSAC at the Future Farmers of America National Conference last week. As the only Canadian school invited, NSAC had a great opportunity to meet with students already fitting our typical student profile (50,000). Thanks to Sarah Morris, Brian and Craig were able to host a uniquely Nova Scotian event! I’m anticipating great results from this trip!

Ashley concluded her visits to Cape Breton and Craig and I wrapped up the schools in the Halifax area. So far, our prospective student interest is quite marked and we are happy to keep up with the momentum built over the past few years. As we’ve been entering information into our prospective student database, I’ve been following up with the students via e-mail and have personally invited them to on-campus events, the first being HSIP. Our formal invitations are being mailed this week.

I’d like to extend a huge thank you to Mark Schooten, a fourth year student in Plant Science for his volunteer work. Because of Mark, we’ve been able to keep up with hundreds of mail-outs. Colette Wyllie (second year Environmental Sciences) came to CEC to talk about her experience as a local NSAC student and impressed upon the two classes the value of staying in Truro for university.

I am most pleased to report a very successful meeting with the Recruitment Promotions committee held last week. The table was full with representatives from each department, including Julia Lindsay from Continuing and Distance Education, Erin MacPherson from Research and Graduate Studies and Sarah Morris from Marketing. The meeting focused on joint efforts in recruiting and promotional materials.

This week Ashley is off to PEI and I’m heading to Dalhousie for a Research and Graduate Career Fair. Craig will be in the office following up with his contacts made at the FFA convention.

For now,
Monica Sani
Student Recruitment Coordinator, NSAC

Fridays @ 3

Christmas Card Contest

The Natural Products Marketing Council, located on NSAC's campus is looking for help in creating their annual Christmas Card. For more information, please click here.

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