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Fifteen solar powered vehicles cruised to the conclusion of the 2008 North American Solar Challenge fuelled by sunshine and Calgary spirit as thousands of spectators lined the streets and gathered at the finish line at the University of Calgary today to greet cars including the U of C’s own Schulich I.
The final leg of the 2008 North American Solar Challenge (NASC) begins
this morning at 9 a.m. at Medicine Hat’s Family Leisure Centre as 15
cars will charge their batteries in the early morning light before
heading to the finish line in front of the Olympic Oval on the U of C
campus.
Alex
Obrejanu was only two years old when he was diagnosed with cancer. He was too
young to remember much about the disease itself. But he recalls quite vividly
what it was like to attend camps for children recovering from cancer: they made
him feel like a normal kid.
U of C employees now have preferred access to full- and part-time child care with guaranteed spots. A new partnership with Kids & Company is offering U of C employees a range of work-life solutions that also includes elder care, emergency child care and meal delivery.
Diana Barrientos is at the U of C as an exchange grad student. She’s exploring how Canada has responded to First Nations relations and how this could help the social divide between the non-indigenous and indigenous population in Chile.
The Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary earned top spot in Canada, out of 37 engineering programs surveyed, for integrating sustainability into its curriculum, according to the annual Corporate Knights ranking of business, engineering and law schools.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Donald Woods, PhD, of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, $1.7 million for research into vaccines against agents of bioterrorism.
Susan Skone from the Schulich School of Engineering is part of a team of experts who have joined forces for a massive project called the Understanding Severe Thunderstorms and Alberta Boundary Layers Experiment (UNSTABLE).
Campus Notes
Guaranteed child care for U of C employees ... what to do if you see a falcon on campus ... Haskayne and Schulich are at the top of the heap ... and more.
Chan Wirasinghe, civil engineering professor and former dean of the Schulich School of Engineering, has been appointed to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
U of C profs and grad students now have access to a $100,000 Open Access Authors Fund designed to increase the amount of publicly available research.
Charlotte Gill is the 2008-2009 Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence. During her residency, Gill will devote half her time to writing and half to community activities, including individual manuscript consultations with local writers, public readings, and workshops.
