April 3, 1998

ALBERTA CENTRE FOR WELL-BEING

April 16, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Wojtek J. Chodzko-Zajko, Associate Professor, Kent State University, and Founding Editor of the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, "Promoting Physical Activity Among Older Persons: The WHO Guidelines-Implications for Canadian Society." Tickets are $15. Information and registration: 497-5000. Grant MacEwan Community College.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

April 8, 11 a.m.

Julian Davies, President and CEO, TerraGen Diversity Inc., "How Bacteria Become Resistant to Antibiotics." Sponsored by Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Bernard Snell Hall, Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

April 17, 3 p.m.

Walter Neupert, Institute for Physiologische Chemie, University of Munich, "The Making of a Mitochondrion." Sponsored by Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and the Faculty of Science. 1-60 Chemistry East Building.

Ecology Seminar Series

April 3, noon

Samantha Song, "Edge in the Boreal Forest: Boon or Bane for Birds." M-229 Biological Sciences Centre.

Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Group

April 3, 4 p.m.

Richard Wozniak, "Bridging the Gap Between the Nuclear Pore Complex and Soluble Transport Factors." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.

April 9, 4 p.m.

William Brook, Medical Biochemistry, University of Calgary, "Mechanisms Controlling Axis Formation in Drosophila Limb Development." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.

CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (EDMONTON)

April 20, 7 p.m.

Joan Snyder, Grande Prairie Regional College, "Sustainable Development in Forestry." Information: 430-5383. All women University graduates are welcome. Faculty Club.

CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTION STUDIES

April 21, 7:30 p.m.

Albie Sachs, Jude of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, "Equality Jurisprudence in the South African Constitutional Court." McLennan Ross Hall (Room 231/237), Law Building.

COMPUTING SCIENCE

April 6, 3:30 p.m.

Johnny W. Wong, Professor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, "Information Delivery Using Multicast." 112 V-Wing.

ECO-RESEARCH CHAIR IN ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT

April 17, 3 p.m.

Don Bursill, Director, Australian Cooperative Research Centre on Water Quality and Treatment, "Water Down Under: Is It Safe to Drink?" 2F1.04 (Classroom D), Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

HISTORY AND CLASSICS

April 3, 3 p.m.

William Weber, Professor of History, CalState Long Beach, "Musical Life and the Beau Monde in Eighteenth-Century London." 2-58 Tory Building.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY

April 20 to 22

Data Analysis Workshop. Instructors: Lyn Richards & Jan Morse

April 23 to 24

NUD*IST Trainer's Workshop. Instructor: Lyn Richards. Information: 492-8778 or visit the website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm

PHILOSOPHY

April 17, 3:30 p.m.

Paul Bartha, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, "No One Knows the Date or the Hour: An Unorthodox Application of Rev. Bayes Theorem." 4-29 Humanities Centre.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION

April 16, 6:30 p.m.

Wendy Rodgers and Diane Britton, "Lifestyle Changes vs. Dieting for Health and Well-Being." E-120 Van Vliet Centre.

PHYSICS

April 9, 2 p.m.

Paul Davis, UCLA, "Teleseismic Tomography of Continental Rifts." V-129 V-Wing.

PHYSIOLOGY

April 3, 3:30 p.m.

Loren Kline, "Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide and Gall Bladder Motility." 207 Heritage Medical Research Centre.

RENEWABLE RESOURCES

April 9, 12:30 p.m.

Uldis Silins, "Temperature Dependence of Whole-Tree Bending Characteristics and Sapwood Damage During Static Bending of Lodgepole Pine." 2-36 Earth Sciences Building.

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