University of Alberta Folio

Volume 36 Number 20 Edmonton, Canada June 18, 1999

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$2.7 million for unique U of A diabetes research

These University of Alberta researchers received a $2.7 million funding boost June 9 to move their work one step closer to achieving an insulin-free treatment for Type 1 diabetics. The U of A is one of only two 1999 Juvenile Diabetes Foundation/Medical Research Council Diabetes Research Network Partnerships awarded in Canada. (Simon Fraser University's Dr. Diane Finegood received the second.)

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Setting the record straight
The language of any discipline is often so highly developed, the knowledge so complex and specialized, and the evolution of many fields so rapid, the public can be completely in the dark about what goes on in the lab or library.

Varsity track off limits
The outdoor Varsity track is closed due to growing irreparable damage to its surface. Despite barricades on the track, a running mishap prompted the closure of the six-lane track for good.

Diverse voices, common ground in Faculty of Arts
Dr. Ken Norrie is excited about his new appointment as dean of the Faculty of Arts "for the same reason it would be interesting to be prime minister - trying to forge national identity out of provinces like Newfoundland, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Forging ahead in pharmacy
Incoming Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is aware of the challenges ahead of him. "These aren't easy times to be deans, nor are they easy times to recruit deans," he says.

The University of Alberta's 1999 spring honorary degree recipients
A selection of excerpts from the six honorary degree recipients

Ceramics to move off-campus
The Faculty of Extension voted to suspend its on-campus ceramics program yesterday while agreeing to investigate continuing the program off campus. According to Dean Randy Garrison, the decision means the faculty will help to relocate the program along with interested community partners.

Convocation 1999
A selection of success stories from the graduating classes of 1999

Canadian history in Scotland
Dr. Patricia McCormack, an associate professor in the School of Native Studies, is researching the connection between Scotland and Canada during the fur trading years. And with its often meticulously recorded journals, the Hudson's Bay Company has provided the link between the present and the past.

Holy janitor's humble abode crumbles to dust
According to local legend, Brother Anthony Kowalczyk was found battered and covered in blood in his CollSge Saint-Jean room one day in 1945. The oblate brother later revealed he'd been fighting with the devil all night.

Irish memories
Pure exhilaration. For a few brief seconds, that was all my brain could register as I stood onstage with my fellow choristers before a roaring audience at the Cork Opera House on a warm evening in May.

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