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(November 2, 2000, Gazette)
The times
they are a’blowing
Two faces of the university’s clock tower were damaged by
recent high wind storms, and the arms are now loose and not telling
time. The northwest and southwest sides of the clock tower are
damaged, but the east side clock still tells the correct time.
Cliff Chaytor, Facilities Management, said the internal mechanisms
of the clock tower have been checked out, and the problem is
not there but in the clock hands themselves. Facilities Management
staff are checking shop drawings to see if the work will be covered
by warranty. It won’t be an easy problem to correct, since
the clock arms will have to be fixed from the outside.
New money
from Nortel for WISE women
Nortel Networks and WISE Newfoundland and Labrador have joined
forces to support female undergraduate engineering and computer
science students at Memorial University. The Nortel Networks/Women
in Science and Engineering Scholarships will provide support
in the amount of $5,000 over two years to the successful applicants
— female full-time students at Memorial in either third-year
Computer Science or Term 6 Electrical or Computer Engineering
with a background of academic excellence, leadership qualities,
involvement in student affairs and community activities, and
an interest in science and engineering promotion. Applications
are available at the Office of the Associate Dean of Engineering
and Applied Science, EN 4007, or the Office of the Head of the
Department of Computer Science, EN 2021, and must be returned
before Nov. 10, 2000. Winners will be announced on
Nov. 24, 2000.
NECEC 2000
The 10th annual Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conference – NECEC 2000 – will be held on Wednesday,
Nov. 15 in the Engineering Building. Special guests will include
keynote speaker Dr. Tom Lefeuvre, director general of the Institute
for Marine Dynamics (IMD) and luncheon speaker Dr. Peter Simpkin
of IKB Technologies.
Hosted annually by the Newfoundland and Labrador section of IEEE
– the world’s largest technical professional society
— this one-day forum provides an opportunity for professionals
in electrical, electronic, computer engineering and information
technologies to present their work to the growing technical community
within the province, focusing on technical concepts, innovations,
and implementations in the region.
Registration is $45 for students, $70 for IEEE members, and $80
for non-members, and includes lunch, the conference record, and
a wine and cheese reception. To register online, please visit
http://www.ieee.nfld.net/NECEC00.
For more information, please contact Yvonne Raymond at 737-7467
or
737-3271.
Pharmacy
students tops in national exams
Pharmacy students at Memorial University continue to perform
exceptionally well on the national Pharmacy Examining Board of
Canada qualifying exams. Official results for the Class of 2000
show a 100 per cent success rate for Memorial students, tying
them with two other pharmacy schools for top spot. The MUN graduates
also met or exceeded the national average in more than half of
practice areas tested. This isn’t the first time Memorial’s
pharmacy students have done so well. Since the first class of
graduates 11 years ago, MUN students have finished number one
in the country six times.
“I think these results reflect two things — the quality
of the students enrolled in the program and the calibre of the
education and training they receive,” said Dr. Chris Loomis,
director of the School of Pharmacy. “The small size of the
school also gives our students the opportunity to develop close
working relationships with faculty, staff and each other, and
allows them to better perfect their skills and abilities.”
He said an added element in the success of the pharmacy program
is support received from the pharmacy community, both community
pharmacies and hospital sites, where students gain their practical
experience.
Beginning next spring, the national pharmacy licensing exam will
include the use of simulated patients in interactive test stations.
The addition of an objective structured clinical examination
is designed to assess the new educational outcomes that pharmacy
graduates are now expected to achieve. One of the outcomes of
this change is a significant increase in the fee for sitting
the exam, from $285 to $1,650 per candidate.
Alumni perform
at gala concert
Several alumni, students and faculty of the School of Music took
the stage for the final in a series of concerts celebrating the
Festival of Anniversaries and the 25th anniversary of the founding
of the School of Music. The concert took place Oct. 25 in the
D.F. Cook Recital Hall, and featured the premiere of Newfoundland:
A Rhapsodic Cantata for Concert Band and Choir, a composition
by Memorial alumnus Michael C. Snelgrove. Other performers included
alumni Thomas Yee and Craig Woodland; faculty members Thomas
Loewenheim, Caroline Schiller and Timothy Steeves; and the director
of the School of Music, Dr. Tom Gordon. Lieutenant Governor the
Honourable A.M. House and Mrs. Mary House, and the acting minister
of education, Lloyd Matthews, were in attendance.