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Erin Keough, director of Memorial’s
Open Learning and Information Network (OLIN), has received this year’s
Instructional Telecommunications Council (ITC) Award for Outstanding Canadian
Distance Educator. Dr. Carl Robbins, chair of Memorial’s Telehealth
and Educational Technology Resources Agency (TETRA), said this award recognizes
Ms. Keough’s exceptional work in the field of distance education
and is particularly significant considering the record number of nominations
the ITC received this year. Ms. Keough has worked at Memorial in the field
of distance education since 1983. From 1987-95 she was director of Telemedicine
and co-director of TETRA; and continues in a part-time role as director
of TETRA. Since 1995 she has been executive director of OLIN, responsible
for a provincial agency which facilitates partnerships among the many
public agencies involved in development and delivery of telehealth and
telelearning services. Ms. Keough has a substantial number of publication
and presentation to her credit and has served as an active member of numerous
review committees. She has experience in all aspects of international
work in regions as diverse as Africa, the Caribbean and Japan. She has
participated in a range of boards and task forces, frequently at the executive
level. Of particular interest in this instance is her work on the executive
a well as the health and education committees of CANARIE, the Canadian
Association of Distance Education (CADE), and the Advisory Committee of
Experts fro the Office of Learning Technologies (HRDC).
Dr. Christopher Kovacs, Faculty of Medicine,
is the 2003 recipient of the Royal College Gold Medal Award in Medicine
for his paper PTH regulates fetal blood calcium and skeletal mineralization
independently of PTHrP. The paper was originally published in Endocrinology
2001.The medal ceremony will take place at the annual meeting of the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada on Sept. 12, 2003, in Halifax.
Dr. Kovacs will present the award-winning paper at the annual meeting
of the Canadian Society for Endocrinology and Metabolism in Ottawa in
October. The award comes with a cash prize of $5,000, a gold medal emblazoned
with the crest of the Royal College, plus the opportunity to participate
in the Visiting Medalist Program to visit and speak at other faculties
of medicine in the country.
Dr. Fereidoon Shahidi, University Research
Professor, Biochemistry, has been appointed to the editorial board of
the Journal of Food Science (JFS) and the editorial advisory board
of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (JAFC). The JFS
is the scientific journal of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
which is the largest of its kind in the world. The JAFC is a publication
of the American Chemical Society (ACS) with a membership of over 163,000.
Dr. Shahidi has also been appointed to the editorial board of Nutraceuticals
and Food journal.
Dr. Harold (Hank) Williams, Earth Sciences,
could not attend the Jan. 23 meeting of the Canadian Society of Petroleum
Geologists in Calgary, but many of his former students and colleagues
were there as the citation for his Special Service Award was read out.
This is Dr. Williams’ second CSPG award – he was the first recipient
of the prestigious R. J. W. Douglas Medal in 1981. The latest award was
accepted on his behalf by his former student and CSPG past president,
John Maher.