University of Alberta

29 November 1996

University opens southern Alberta liaison office in ...Calgary

Re-examination of IB marks reveals a perfect score for Engineering student Tim Poon
"Could do better" is what Gord Cameron must have thought when student Tim Poon scored 44 out of a possible 45 on his high school International Baccalaureate program. Cameron, IB coordinator at Old Scona Academic High School in Edmonton, played his hunch and asked IB scrutineers to take another look at Poon's marks. The final result: a rare and perfect 45.

Internal fund-raising capaign nearing its goal
We're close. That's the message from officials involved in the internal fund-raising campaign. About $1,543,403 has been raised from faculty and staff. The goal is $1,800,000. Close to 30 percent have given; the goal is 35 percent.

Vice-President Martha Piper to be University of British Columbia's next president
Martha Piper, Vice-President (Research and External Affairs), has been appointed the University of British Columbia's next president. Dr Piper succeeds David Strangway, who completes his second six-year term on June 30, 1997. She will take up her new duties as president in July 1997.

Senate supports proactive marketing campaign to combat Maclean's ranking and to demonstrate U of A's accomplishments
Number eight last year, and number eight this year. That's where the recent Maclean's Magazine survey of Canadian universities has ranked the University of Alberta. But according to a number of senior administrators and Senate members on campus, this is not where the University should be.

Team of University researchers invents switching/sensing device that may have commercial uses
It started out - like all good ideas - as a curiosity driven exploration. In the end, a team of University of Alberta Electrical engineering and mathematics students and professors and industrial partners has successfully designed a micro-machined cantilever device that could have a multitude of optical switching and sensing uses.

Education developers awarded North American Web award
Craig Montgomerie figures if you're going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk. In internet language, it means that if you're going to teach a course about using the internet, you have to teach the course completely on the internet. The result is the development and delivery by Dr Montgomerie and PhD student Dwayne Harapnuik of a three-credit course: The Internet: Communicating, Accessing and providing Information, delivered completely over the internet.

Students must learn how to deal with other cultures, says Alberta Chamber of Commerce president
The President of the Alberta Chamber of Commerce says the University of Alberta is doing an excellent job of preparing its graduates for the world of work, but the education system has to start incorporating and teaching entrepreneurial skills earlier on in its programs.

Teaching the teachers: New Edmonton Public teachers doing a good job
The Edmonton Public School Board expects its new teachers to have all the skills the Conference Board of Canada has elaborated for employees, to have a sound knowledge of the curriculum, have all the methodologies necessary to teach that curriculum and understand and be able to work with the age level they're teaching.