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the newsdesk at (news@nsac.ca).
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NSAC Sustainability Pledge
It's easy to start saving the planet.
Each one of us can play a role in addressing climate change by making the commitment to do small things on a daily basis, such as turning off lights or recycling regularly. Your small behaviour changes today will make the planet healthier.
Please sign on to the NSAC Sustainability Pledge. Those who complete the pledge are given the option to receive a beautiful personalized calendar with photos of NSAC and information on environmental activities. NSAC's Sustainability Committee hopes that the students, staff and faculty of NSAC are willing to commit to making changes to help our world. If you sign on today, the world gets better today. Sign up today!
Open Session with Co-Presidents
Faculty and staff are invited to attend an open session with Co-Presidents, Dr. Leslie MacLaren and Dr. Bernie MacDonald, on Tuesday, Feb.2 from 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. in Cox room 31.
Specific questions or concerns can be forwarded in advance to Theresa Blois at tblois@nsac.ca or 893-6720. We look forward to seeing you there and answering any questions you may have.
Important Changes to Payroll and Benefits Contact Information
As a result of the government’s review of its human resource functions, there will be changes to administering payroll and benefits as of Monday, Feb.8.
All employee payroll functions previously done by the HR CSUs will be centralized and managed by the Department of Finance. All benefits will be centralized and managed by the Public Service Commission.
What does this mean for you?
Payroll, Department of Finance
-- As of Feb.8, employees may contact the Payroll Client Relations Division for all payroll-related inquiries about pay, submission of time sheets and overtime.
-- Payroll consultants previously located with the HR CSUs will now be located within the Payroll Client Relations Division at the Department of Finance.
-- Telephone numbers for payroll consultants will remain the same. However, e-mail addresses may change. Please check the GroupWise address book for accuracy before sending an inquiry by e-mail.
-- The Payroll Client Relations Division will be located in the CIBC Building at 1809 Barrington Street, Suite 600, Halifax, NS, B3J 3K8. The division may be reached by fax at any of these numbers: 722-5047 and 428-2201.
-- Additional information about the change is being sent to time clerks.
-- Payroll consultants will no longer be the points of contact for resetting ESS passwords. Effective Feb.8, employees may e-mail ESS_PW_Reset@gov.ns.ca to request a password reset. Please include your name and employee ID number with your request.
Benefits, Public Service Commission
-- As of Feb.8, all group benefits inquiries (group life insurance, health and dental) may be directed to the Benefits Division at the Public Service Commission.
-- Inquiries may be made by e-mailing PSCBenefitInquiries@gov.ns.ca or by calling 424-7660.
-- Forms and detailed explanations of benefits are located on the PSC website at gov.ns.ca/psc
-- Completed forms and applications may be sent directly to the PSC at World Trade Centre, 5th fl., 1800 Argyle Street, Halifax, NS, B3J 3N8.
The Public Service Commission and the Department of Finance are making every effort to minimize the impact of this move on client service. These changes are being made to serve our employees better. If you have any questions about these changes, please contact Christine Adams at 424-3195 or ADAMSCF@gov.ns.ca.
Sincerely,
Kelliann Dean, Public Service Commissioner
Vicki Harnish, Deputy Minister of Finance
President’s List 2010
NSAC will honour its best and brightest on Wednesday, Feb.3 at 6:30 p.m. as 122 student names are added to NSAC's President's List. This annual event recognizes students for their outstanding academic achievements from the winter and fall semesters of 2009.
To be named to the President’s List, students must be within the top ten per cent of their program of study and have a term average of 80 per cent or higher. Students must also be enrolled in four or more courses per semester.
Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend this reception and help to congratulate our students while enjoying an address from NSAC alumnus and Masters student Corinna Taylor. Corinna attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December and will be speaking on her travels.
RSVP: Theresa Blois at 902-893-6720
Sustainability Procurement Training
Nova Scotia is the first province in Canada to adopt a Sustainable Procurement Policy. But what is sustainable procurement?
Click here for all the information about an online information course
Winter Carnival Week Closer
The Students' Union invites all staff, faculty, and students to celebrate the end of Winter Carnival week at "The Barn" (second floor of Jenkins) starting at 4 p.m. today. Come share a drink and good conversation with your colleagues.
Enrollment Management Newsletter
To follow suit to the sustainability initiative on-campus we are sending January's issue of our Enrollment Management Office Update electronically. In this issue you will learn about:
- what's new in the awards office
- where our students come from
- upcoming international recruitment initiatives
- orientation
- enrollment planning
- IFB program
- University Day update
- and more
If you have any questions about something you have read in the newslettter please feel free to contact any of us in Enrollment Management.
Bookstore Hours
Please note the different Bookstore hours for Feb.1-5.
Monday, Feb.1: regular hours (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
Tuesday, Feb.2: 9 a.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb.3: regular hours (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
Thursday, Feb.4: 9 a.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Friday, Feb.5: 9 a.m. - 1:50 p.m.
If any changes occur they will be posted on the door.
International Development Week Presentations at NSAC
International Development Week this year is February 9-13. Watch for NSAC International's display in Cox to learn more about NSAC's involvement in international development activities. There will be two presentations for IDW this year:
Speaker: Kendra Mellish, former NSAC student, intern in Ghana
Thursday, Feb.4 from 11 a.m. - noon, Haley 116
Kendra will speak about her experience as an intern in Ghana with NSAC's Developing Rural Entrepreneurs Project. Hear tales of fire festivals, thieving monkeys and goats that want to learn. Her placement was funded by the Government of Canada through CIDA's Student's for Development Program.
Speaker: Jean McCardle, Senior Analyst for the Afghanistan Pakistan Task Force, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Tuesday, Feb.9 from 2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m., Cox 209
Jean recently returned from a six month assignment with Task Force Kandahar, based at Kandahar Airfield. She will speak about Canada's development role in Afghanistan as well as specific projects that she was involved with on the ground.
Network Outages
Date: Sunday, Jan.31
Time: 8 a.m. - noon
Location: NSAC campus, AgriTECH Park
Full Description: All network services should be considered unavailable. Such services include:
- Internet / Intranet
- Library systems access via internet
- Student information system access (Registry)
- Web based services
- Distance education systems
- GroupWise and web based NSAC e-mail (staff, student, EFL)
- Network printing services
- Network file server access
*** Residence network (RAMnet) will NOT be affected.
Date: Thursday, Feb.4,
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - outages will be sporadic within the time-frame
Location: NSAC campus
Full Description: A complete all-day wireless network outage will occur during the upcoming maintenance window. Access to any services currently obtained through the wireless access points distributed around campus will be interrupted.
*** This outage does NOT affect the wireless connection to AgriTECH Park.
Valentine's Flowers and Candy
RESPECT will be accepting donations for the Haitian Relief fund and in return you will receive a candy bag, or flower and candy bag, depending on the donation.
RESPECT members will be accepting donations as follows:
Tuesday, Feb.2
Jenkins Hall: 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Cox Institute: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb.3
Cox Institute: 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Jenkins Hall: 11 a.m. - noon
Thursday, Feb.4
Haley Institute: 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Valentine’s flowers will be delivered on Feb.11, either to residence or Students' Union (depending on the location of the recipient). Flowers will be sold on a first come, first served basis as there is a limited amount.
With a minimum donation of $2 you will receive a candy bag, while quantities last, and with a minimum donation of $3 you will receive a flower and candy bag.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Jili Li and Di Fan on winning the Paper Presentation Award and Poster Award at the Fifth Atlantic Agronomy Workshop. The workshop was held in Charlottetown on Jan.19 and Jan.20.
Paper Presentation Award
Winner: Jili Li, MSc candidate, NSAC
Title: Evaluation of downy mildew resistance of 11 camelina genotypes and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations of downy mildew infection.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Claude Caldwell and Dr A. Bruce Gray.
Poster Award
Winner: Di Fan
Title: Commercial extract of the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum enhances phenolic antioxidant content of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) that also imparts protective effects in the nematode model, Caenorhabditis elegans against oxidative and thermal stress.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Balakrishnan Prithiviraj
Surplus Furniture
Due to the reconstruction of the Career Services office we have a bit of surplus furniture. If you are interested in any of the items listed below please come to the Career Services Office, lower level of the Dairy Building ASAP. They have to be out by tomorrow.
Seven tables (that will seat eight people each), 20 plastic chairs, five soft seat chairs, projection screen, two overhead projectors, black board and white board are available.
Contact rchapman@nsac.ca if you are interested, or drop in to the Career Services office.
New Library Database - Environment Complete™
The MacRae Library has recently subscribed to a new database called Environment Complete™.
Environment Complete™ offers deep coverage in areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Environment Complete™ contains over 2 million records from more than 1,900 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s. The database contains full text for many journals such as Environment, Ecologist, Conservation Biology and many more. Full text for more than 130 monographs (books) is also available. A link to the complete list of titles included can be found here.
The Environment Complete™ database can be accessed through the Article & Research Database list nsac.ca/library/FindInformation/articles on the MacRae Library website.
New Database on Trial – Scopus
The MacRae Library is currently offering, on trial, a new database called Scopus. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources. It has several important tools available to help you track, analyze and visualize research including Citation tracker, Author Identifier, Journal Analyzer, Affiliation Identifier and much more.
Scopus is updated daily and indexes nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. This coverage includes peer-review journals (including Open Access journals), 600 trade publications, 350 book series and extensive conference coverage. In total, it covers 38 million records, of which 19 million go back to 1996 and 19 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823. Scopus also offers full integration of the scientific web in its search results including:
- 435 million scientific web pages
- 23 million patents from 5 patent offices
- “Articles-in-Press” from over 3,000 journals
- Other selected sources including institutional repositories, digital archives and special subject collections.
A link to the complete list of titles included can be found here. http://info.scopus.com/documents/files/scopus-training/resourcelibrary/xls/title_list.xls
The Scopus database can be accessed through the Article & Research Database nsac.ca/library/FindInformation/articles page on the MacRae Library website and by selected Scopus from the list.
The trial is available for 30 days until February 27, 2010.
Comments and questions regarding the trial can be directed by e-mail to the Library at by phone at 893-6669.
Upcoming Seminar Series - University Governance
NSAC's Seminar Committee is presenting its next seminar on Monday, Feb.1.
Speaker: Dr. David Cameron, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
Dalhousie University
Topic: The Evolving World of University Governance and Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Date: Monday, Feb.1
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location:
Cox Institute, room 257
Click here for the event poster
Fridays @ 3
Speakers: Dr. Steven Russell and Dr. Dian Patterson
Topic: "NSAC's International Food Business Program - Dealing with the Bologna Process"
Date: Jan.29
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Cox rm 257
Everyone welcome!
Refreshments provided.
Varsity Results
Volleyball
Wednesday, Jan.20
MSVU at NSAC
3 - 1
NSAC Player of the Match: Cassandra Smardenka
Saturday, Jan.23
NSAC at MTA
0 - 3
NSAC Player of the Match: Becky McDonald
Sunday, Jan.24
MTA at NSAC
3 - 0
NSAC Player of the Match: Becky McDonald 
Codi Cole in service reception for the Rams
Basketball
Thursday, Jan.21
MSVU at NSAC
(w) 82-49
NSAC Player of the Game: Jessica Blandin
(m) 97 -28
Sunday, Jan.24
UNBSJ at NSAC
(w) 43 - 59
Top scorers for NSAC: Rebecca Poole-12 pts, Jessica Blandin-11 pts
(m) 76 - 61
Top scorers for NSAC: Chance Simmonds-13 pts, Luke Wiseman-11 pts
Jessica Blandin scoring 2 of her 11 points on Sunday against UNBSJ
Jon Kennedy drives the middle against UNBSJ
Scholarship Spotlight
Randy & Gladys Keddy Memorial Bursary
Robert Schicht, Goshen, NS, a first year B.Sc.(Agr.) Pre Vet student was selected as the 2009 recipient of a $1,000 Randy & Gladys Keddy Memorial Bursary. The bursary is awarded to a second-year technical or third-year degree student whose background, program of study, course and project work, and summer employment show a genuine interest in working in the agricultural industry following graduation. Selection criteria include career goals, solid academic performance, and financial need. Jim Goit, Executive Director, Development & External Relations, NSAC, is shown with Robert at NSAC's Scholarship Banquet.
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