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Fiscal Year Deposits Deadlines
Just a reminder to those offices that handle cash, deposits for March 31, 2010 must be received by Financial Services no later than 1 p.m. on March 31, 2010. Funds received after this time will be dated April 1, 2010 for the 2010/2011 fiscal year.
Also, please re-set your cash report numbers back to 001 to begin the 2010/2011 year deposits.
If you have any questions, please contact Financial Services at 893-6602.
Autopact Vehicle Insurance for Employees
For current members of the plan, all 2008/2009 collision and comprehensive assessments are due on March 31. A late payment fee of $5 per vehicle, per month, for both collision and comprehensive will be levied for all payments received after this date. If you have already forwarded your payment, thanks so much.
If you're not a member yet, Autopact provides collision and comprehensive automobile insurance to present and retired employees of NSAC, NSDA and NSDF. Founded in 1963, we provide low-cost, no-frills insurance coverage to our members. Autopact members enjoy lower-than-average deductibles and rates don't increase based on age, gender, or whether a young dependent is living at home using a member's vehicle. We now have about 350 members, covering 550 vehicles.
Contact Jim Houghton at houghtjl@gov.ns.ca for more information.
Community Garden Meeting
The first NSAC Community Garden meeting for 2010 will be held next week!
Date: Monday, March 29
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Location:
Cox room 154
Topics to discuss include:
*overview of the garden and how it works
*membership for 2010 - opportunity to sign up
*potential projects for this upcoming season
*positions available in the garden for 2010: subcommittee leaders and organizing chairs
*important dates
Oil Sands Reclamation Seminar Today
Thursday, March 25
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Cox 24
Reclamation in the Alberta Oil Sands:
Big holes, big challenges, big myths.
DS Chanasyk, PhD, PAg, PEng
Renewable Resources
University of Alberta
Oil sands excavation and extraction have been conducted in the Alberta Oil Sands for over 40 years, and continue to expand. The excavation process is conducted on a mammoth scale, with huge tracts of lands disturbed. Post reclamation, areas that were originally dominantly wetlands have been turned into upland, largely forested as an end land use. Recently the oil sands operations have garnered much negative press. Key issues center on huge tailings ponds, large water withdrawals from an already low flow Athabasca River, few signs of reclamation success and unparalleled greenhouse gas emissions. Each will be discussed. The challenges of oil sands extraction and reclamation will also be discussed, and several myths that have arisen re the oil sands will be debunked.
Contact Andy Hammermeister at 893-8037 or ahammermeister@nsac.ca for information about the seminar.
Fridays @ 3
Speaker: Dr. Balakrishnan Prithiviraj
Topic: "Seaweeds as plant growth stimulants"
Date: March 26
Time:
3 p.m.
Location: Cox rm 136
Everyone welcome!
Refreshments provided.
Chemistry Guest Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Yanwen Wang
Research Officer, National Research Council Canada
Institute for Nutrisciences and Health
Speaker: "Cholesterol Metabolism and Regulation"
Date: Wednesday, March 31
Time: noon
Place: Cox 257
All are welcome!
Upcoming International Seminar
International is holding a seminar next week titled Ethiopia: Environmental Aspects and Challenges.
Click here for seminar poster
First Aid Courses
First Aid courses have been scheduled for April as follows:
Emergency (one day) First Aid courses
Monday, April 26 and Thursday, April 29
Standard (two day) First Aid course
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 27 and 28.
Click here for more information
Colchester Regional Hospital Fundraiser
Colchester Regional Hospital is bringing Canadian band, Faber Drive, back to Truro on April 24. They will be playing at Cobequid Educational Centre.
Tickets are $25 and are available at MacQuarries Pharmasave or ticketpro.ca
For more information contact 893-5541.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Library Hours
The Library will be observing the following schedule of service from March 29 - April 19.
Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Cutler on being named the first recipient of Agricultural Institute of Canada's Sustainable Futures Award.
The award recognizes imminent leaders who are advancing and applying innovative scientific knowledge on the sustainable use of agricultural resources. The award includes $1,000 to further advance the development and application of the winner's research and a complimentary five‐year membership in the Agricultural Institute of Canada.
Kent Loughead Retirement Event
As some of you may be aware, Kent Loughead is retiring May 31 after 32 years at NSAC. Athletics is hosting an event May 28 from 2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the foyer of the Langille Athletic Centre.
There will be "entertainment", snacks and a refreshment stand!
Hope to see many of you there to celebrate Kent's outstanding contribution to Athletics, campus life and NSAC.
W.A.T.E.R. Symposium this Friday and Saturday
Are you concerned with water resource management in Atlantic Canada?
On March 26 and March 27, the inaugural Atlantic Canada W.A.T.E.R.* Symposium & Planning Forum (*Watershed, Assessment, Technology, Education & Research) will be held at NSAC. This symposium is being supported by NSAC, NSAC Department of Engineering, NSAC Research and Graduate Studies, NS Environment and NSERC.
The purposes of the symposium and forum are to bring together some of the leading scholars and practitioners of watershed management from across Atlantic Canada for the first, in what is hoped to be, a series of ongoing annual meetings. The symposium and forum will provide an opportunity for invited regional participants to share ideas, develop collaborative research partnerships with industry, establish a framework for enabling graduate students to present their research and to plan networks for acquiring strategic funding for future workshops.
Guest keynote speaker will be Timothy Ford, VP Research and Dean Graduate Studies, University of New England, Maine.
Other special guest speakers will include:
John Brazner, NS Environment
Rob Jamieson, Dalhousie University
Shawn Dalton, University of New Brunswick
Darren Bardati, University of PEI
For more details about this year's meeting and how you can register, go to nsac.ca/water
Click here for the event poster
Solar Home Design Course
Department of Engineering is offering a solar home design course in April. Click the poster for all the details.
Varsity Results
Equestrian
NSAC's Competition was held on Sunday, March 21 at Reaching Strides Equestrian Centre in Antigonish. NSAC A Team finished first in the competition.
The last competition of the year will be hosted March 27 at Creekside (Antigonish).
Sam Haley
Rebecca Clayton-Miller
Janice Cameron - 1st in Intermediate Flat Class
Mariah Fisher - 1st in Novice Flat Class
Scholarship Spotlight
G.G. Smeltzer Memorial Bursary Awarded
Mr. Gary Smeltzer, son of the late G.G. Smeltzer, is shown with the 2009 recipient of the $1,000 G.G. Smeltzer Memorial Bursary – Jason Grant, Truro, NS, a fourth year B.Sc.(Agr.) Plant Science student. The bursary is awarded to a third- or fourth-year student from Atlantic Canada studying in the B.Sc.(Agr.) program majoring in Plant Science (Agronomy specialization). Selection criteria include a genuine interest in the area of field crops reflected through course and project work and summer employment and financial need.
Photo of the Day
Signs of Spring on-campus! Photo taken March 2010. Courtesy of Varvara Satanina.
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