Loraine Fowlow
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The Calgary Herald
U of C faculty cultivates talent
May 29
A search for the new dean of the faculty of environmental design (EVDS) is underway and the selection committee has selected three finalists who are now making public presentations. But interim dean Loraine Fowlow is not letting up in the pace of work she has kept since she took over the position two years ago from Brian Sinclair, even though her term is up next month.
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Bob Thirsk
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Calgary Herald
Students, Thirsk's friends turn out to marvel at launch
May 28, 2009Calgary astronaut Bob Thirsk rocketed into space on a Russian spacecraft Wednesday morning to begin a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
It will be the longest a Canadian has spent in space.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts blasted off from Kazakhstan for a mission that will increase the International Space Station crew to six for the first time.
Thirsk, Belgian Frank de Winne and Russian Roman Romanenko lifted off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome as planned, an official at Russian Mission Control outside Moscow said.
University of Calgary alumnus Thirsk, 55, will stay onboard the station for six months, breaking Canada's and his own mission-length record of 17 days. A physician and mechanical engineer, he is the mission's crew medical officer, robotics specialist and specialist for Kibo, the Japanese experimental facility. |
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The Calgary Herald
Preparing for an honourable profession
May 18The establishment of a first-class academic centre on the
University of Calgary campus, the School of Public Policy, is a tremendous
accolade for the university and the city, and a boon to the country. That it is
also the direct result of a prominent Calgarian's advocacy is further reason for
Calgarians in particular to celebrate it. In Canada, it fills a need long
neglected.
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Federal Environment Minister Jim
Prentice, Calgary Montrose MLA Manmeet Bhullar and U of C
President Harvey Weingarten
Read the Calgary Sun story
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Calgary Sun
Green power for U of C
May 16, 2009
The University of Calgary is powering up with a $113 million gift from the province and feds.
With just over half of those funds, a 44-year-old power plant will be converted to a green-minded co-generation unit that will heat campus using excess energy from producing electricity.
The rest of the money will go towards outfitting the Taylor Family Digital Library and its high- density counterpart campus at Spy Hill.
Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice called the grant a vote of confidence in the university's commitment to a greener world.
"We'll ensure the university continues to be a leader in environmental sustainability," said Prentice, adding it also bodes well for leading-edge information.
"It will put this university at the very vanguard of library science and digital learning."
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