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March 8, 1999
John Kearney, a social anthropologist, is giving the 1999 W.C. DesmondPacey Memorial Lecture in Saint John and Fredericton. The lecture is titledCommunity-based Management as an Alternative to Privatization: From MaritimeFishing Communities to a New Globalization. The lecture will take placein Saint John on Wednesday, March 17, at 5 p.m. in K.C. Irving Hall, Room107. In Fredericton the lecture will take place on Thursday, March 18,at 8 p.m. in the J. Harper Kent Auditorium of the Wu Conference Centre.
The Certificate in Family Violence Research at UNB has been granteddegree credit approval by the Arts Faculty Council, the Fredericton Senateand the Board of Governors. The program, which started in September, offerstwo courses per term, including intersession. It is designed for transitionhouse workers, social workers, police, clergy, health care workers, lawyers,teachers and military personnel. Courses are offered on Friday nights andSaturdays. A distance education format is currently being developed. Most of the first 20 participants are part-time students who encounterfamily violence through their work. A number of them are traveling to UNBF-- one from as far away as Nova Scotia -- to take the certificate courses.The first graduates of the program are expected in the winter of 2000.
One of the world's leading researchers in biomedical engineering willdeliver the 1999 Dineen Memorial Lecture on both UNB campuses.
James C. Otis of the Hospital for Special Surgery and the Cornell UniversityMedical College in New York will talk about Knee Replacement FollowingTumor Resection as an Alternative to Amputation: Design, Treatment andEvaluation. He will speak in Fredericton on Wednesday, March 17, at 8 p.m.in Head Hall's Dineen Auditorium and in Saint John on Thursday, March 18,at 8 p.m. in the Hazen Hall Lecture Theatre.
In both locations, the lecture and the receptions which follow arefree of charge and open to the public. On the afternoon of March 17, Dr. Otis will give a technical lectureat UNBF to faculty, staff, students and interested members of the public.Entitled Assessment of External and Internal Knee Devices: An EnhancedGait Analysis Approach, this lecture will take place at 2:30 p.m. in theDineen Auditorium.
For more information, call the department of mechanical engineering(F) at 453-4513 or check out the UNB news release at www.unb.ca/postings/.
The spirit of giving is alive and well among grad classes on both UNBcampuses.
This year the UNBF grad class project will raise $10,000 to increasethe size of the elevator that is to be installed in the Student Union Building.The main funding for the elevator is being provided by the SUB expansionproject. This project will provide greater access for individuals withdisabilities. Fund-raising is set to begin soon.
A similar program at UNBSJ will replace the weathered sign on the AlumniGate.
Grad class projects are a way for graduating students to show theirappreciation for the university and to leave a lasting impression on theinstitution.
Monique Bégin, former federal Minister of Health and Welfare,will deliver the keynote lecture at the10th annual student competitionnamed in her honour. The national Monique Bégin Nursing AdvancementAward Competition will take place at UNBF on March 19 and 20. Dr. Béginwill give her address on Friday, March 19, at 8 p.m. in the J. Harper KentAuditorium at the Wu Conference Centre.
The student competition will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 20,at the Wu Conference Centre. UNB will be represented by Saint John campusnursing student Beverly White. Ms White won the in-house competition heldin Fredericton on Jan. 22. She will present her paper titled Nursing inthe New Millennium: A Primary Health Care Heaven.
The author of a new Doubleday book on life in Bhutan will give a publictalk on the Fredericton campus March 18. Jamie Zeppa will speak about teachingEnglish in Bhutan at 4 p.m. in Marshall d'Avray Hall, Room 261. Many willrecall Ms Zeppa from her humorous letters to CBC's Morningside whichdetailed her experiences as a kindergarten teacher in the remote Himalayankingdom. For more informaton, contact Lissa Paul in the faculty of educationat 453-4539.