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BECOMING #1

OR THE FIRST TIME,

G FACULTY have

received broad recog nition in recent months, including a Royal Society designation, a 3M Teach ing Fellowship, and unprecedented success in winning national research support. The University has also celebrated fund raising partnerships with government and business that modernized food sci ence facilities, and has honoured the diverse achievements of several distinguished alumni.

the University of Guelph has been named the top comprehensive university in the country by Maclean's magazine in its ann ual ranking of Canadian universities. High quality programs, outstanding fa culty who excel in both teaching and research and talented students were among the reasons cited for Guelph's first-place ranking. A three-page reprint from

Maclean's COMPARATIVE RESEARCH

VETE RINAR IANS CO NTRI BUTE TO IUMAN H EALTH Guelph scientists are practitioners of medical research that transcends species boundaries. by Gayle Anderson, Andrew Vowles, Alexander Wooley

FACULTY PROFI LE

A GE TLEMA N AN D A SCH OLAR Political Sci ence professor O.P. Dwivedi is tb e 19th Guelph professor to be named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. by Alexander Wooley

EXPAND I NG KNOWLEDGE

Maclean's shows how U of G re sults compare to 11 other u niversi ties in the comprehensive category.

EXT RAT ERRESTRIAL E COUN TERS

Prof. John Simpson and his colleagues in the Department of Physics are contributing to th e underground Sudbury Neutrino Observatory to find a nswers about the fate o f our universe.. by Andrew Vowles

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MORDECHAI ROZANSKI

s I'M SURE MANY OF YOU already know, the ni in faculty research and scholarly success. O ur delight wlth tillS recogn[tlon of our qu ality is vers ity of Guelph has just been named th e top com prehensive university in Ca nada by I'v[ac!can's maga zine temp ered by the knowledge that it may not be sustain abl e. In rece nt years, we have made some painful dec i in its 1999 ranki ng of universities. sions to protect the qualit y of oUl" teaching, research and High-qua lit)' programs, outstanding faculty who excel scholarly inquir y vVe have restructured depanments and in both teach ing and research, and talented students were among rh e reasons cited for Guelph's first-place rankin g. colleges, we have reallocated resources, we ha ve had to This is great news and welco me make substa ntial reductions in o ur fa c recognition of Guelph's distinctiveness ult y Jnd staff. we ha ve cut programs to as a high-quality, student-foc used, res foc us limited resources on are,lS of key id enti al uni ve rsit y that is comm itted stren gt h, and we have been forc ed to to innova tive programs, dyn amic stu in crease tuiti on. Simp ly pu t, in th e dent- fac ul ty intera ct ion, and an inte abse nce o f rein ves tm ent, we ha ve reac hed th e limit of wha t we call clo grati on of learnin g and research. More impo rtant, it is a tribute to our fa cul without seriousl)' Jeopardizing the future ty, staff, aca demic and adm ini strati ve quality of our institution. Ontar io universities face enormous leadership University-wide, and to our challenges ove r the next few years, includ students and alumni. The cred it for ing an increase in student del11and due our high standing rests wirh all mem to an ant icipated enrolment surge, ag ing bers of the University community, and infrast ru cture and internation I am imm ense ly proud to be al competition for faculty as part of it. HIGH-QUALITY PROGRAMS, Canadian facu lt y retire in largf I am especiall y delighted to numbers or are lured away to present this good news in the OUT STANDl G FACULTY AND better-supp orted jurisdictions. same iss ue of the C"e/ph Alum TALE N TED ST U D ENTS ARE THE O ur gove rnmen t has mad e nus that brings you the Univer sity of Guelph Donor Repon. an exp h cit co mmitm ent that RE AS ONS I'O R OUR SUCCESS. eve ry willing and qualified The ongoing fin ancial support

O ntario stud ent will be ab le to o f alumni and fr iend s is an

important factor in our success,

attend co llege or universit y, but and we th ank yo u for helping to make us number one.

we ca nn ot meet th at co mmitm ent witho ut sub stan tial increases in con:: fund in g to post-seconda ry education. Maclean's classifies 12 Ca nad ian uni ve rsi ties as co m prehensive in stitutions, de fin ed as those with a signi fi At Guelph, we are encouraged by the genero us finan can t amo unt of research activity and a wide range o f cia.! gifts of aluillni Jnd friends. Your donations have programs, including professional degrees. at the grad Illade it possible for us to offer more fil1<H1cial aid to st u uate and undergrad uate levels. Gue lph finished seco nd dents, to upgrade our multim edia fac iliti es and to COIll in this category in each of the las t two years. plete campus projects that sim ply co uld not be funded This year, U of G improved or maintained its perfolm through our operating bud get. ance in 75 per cent of th e 21 performance indicators lIsed To sustain quality and access ibili ty as we contem by lvlaclean's to measure overa ll qu ali ty. T he magazin e plate growth, we will work diligent ly to persuade uur cited the quality of Guelph studen ts - ranked number partncrs in governm ent to co ntinu e to build on their one in the proportion of enter ing stud ents with averages recent reinvcst!llents in pos t-secondary educat ion by of75 per cent or higher and number one in graduatio n supporting core operating needs with in creased, mul rates - and the quauty of Guelph faculty - number one ti -yea r funding. This we owe to th e Un ive rsit y lOnUHU in the proportion who hold PhD degrees. nity that has ea rn ed LI S recognition as Ca nada's top COIll Maclean's also cited th e quality of Guelph's resea rch prehensive uni versi ty - o ur aluillni and friends, o ur and scholarsh ip, and its move from 10th to third pl ace facu lty and staff, and o ur stud ents.

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UNIVERSITIES

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The M aclean's ranking takes a mea足 sure of the undergraduate experience at Canadian universities, comparing schools in three peer groupings. The Com prehensive universities are those with a significant amount of research activity and a wide range of progralTIS at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including prot ssional degrees.

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Maclean's surveyed high足 school guidance counsellors, university officials, CEOs and recruiters at corpora tions across the country.

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Waterloo Simon Fraser

1. Waterloo

Simon Fraser

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Waterloo Simon Fraser

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3. Guelph 4. Victoria 5. Yo rk

3. Guelph 4. York 5. Victoria

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Students Aviva Leber, left, and Laurie Ha lfp enn y·

Mitchell, pres id ent Mordechai Rozans ki and student Dominic Greg ori o: b ilding 0 11

tradit ional strengths.

Ilorticulturalist r-! ike Di xo n has a secret desire to grow rose, on th e moon. Don't Llugh - he may just [.lull it off. In th e past five yea rs, th~ Un iversity of Guel ph sci ent i~t has p:1 r iJ y~d J modest S:;O,OOO gr8 nt in to what is o n its way to hc:ing J $ IO-\lli llion annu al rese'lI'Ch [.lro gram, one of the Iarg..:s t of its kind in the world. This week, top sc ientists from th e Europea n, Canadian 8nd American space age nc ies are descendi ng on Guel[.lh, Onl. , to disc uss ho w to sustain cosmic crops during a long s[.lJce mission to the moo n or Mars. They wi ll tour th e uni ve rsity's h igh-tech life-s upp ort sys te m fo r plants, where th e light from th e microwave-powered lamps is so [.lhotosyn theticall y pure that even the sun hb nches with envy. This is the new Guelph. Buudi ng on its strengt hs as the country's oldest <lgricultu ra l college, preoccupied with the Sa fd)' Jnd quality of food, the new Guel[.lh is branchi ng out dramatically into th e la test biologlcJ I and environ mentJI tickl s. It wants to be on th e cu tting edge oi >Li enc(;' wit h ;l lOJlScit: IKC. Hedd in the clouds, li:ct on the ground : tha t's th e right prescription for universit y presidcnt i\ lordcchai RO/Jn s.ki. Guelph has one of the largest re search budgets for its size in the co un try, but it is also a tight -knit cOllll1lunity ofjust over 14,000 stud ents and 620 fac ult )" with 13 la rge residences encircli ng the grounds. Nc;.trly 4,600 people live on cam[.lus, ,1I1d an almost equal num ber of studen ts work there part time as well. This bal an cc betlNccn hi gh-tech research and und ergraduate inti Inac), - not to mention a vigorous thea tre and fin e-art program - is what has made Guelph th e winner in th e co mp rehens ive catego ry, overtaking Simo n Fraser, last

yedr's willller. It also expl<l ins how Guelph ca n boast both th e transgen ic pig, whose cu sto m-designed organs may be used in hUmJIl trallsp lants, and the two recent winners of the No rth Amnican Debati ng Championship. To strengthen its sen se of colllmunity, Gu elph has become one of the most ,lgs rc ss ive uni versities in en suring that studen ts succeed in that all-important first yea r. Ne w students are "cl ustered" in dor ms with those taking th e sarne courscs, creating partn ersh ips fo r new comers. A recent innovation : the Offi ce of First-Year Studies has identified the seven courses with the highe~t dropoLlt rate, and train ed seni or students to he lp turn the tide. Th ese third- ,wd fo urth-yeu stud ents ho ld weekl y seminars to tr y to dete rmine who is "ge tting" the mate rial. len years ago, on ly about 70 per ce nt of Guelph st udents went on to seco nd year, says Roz<1l1S ki "Now, our rete ntion rate is ove r 90 per cmt." O ne of th ose who will surely go o n is 19-year-old Av iva Leber ofOttJ"'a, a first-yea r stlldent in molecular biology. A top sc holar an d fi eld- hockey player, as we ll as a dedicated vo lunteer, Leber chose Guelph because of its resea rch stren gths - and because she wa nted a "univer sity tow n" to help fOClIS her goals. Says Leber: "[ ge t th e feeling they rea ll y wa nl us to succeed." Success is in the air. After a severe retrenchment in the eMly '90s - al most 70 prog ra ms were merged o r dropped - " It is time for eX[.l3ns ioll," Rozansk i insists. Rooted in the fertile farming co un try of so uthern Ontar io, th e sky is the limit. '\1aybe eve n th e moon. Robert Sheppard

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Food Science Building Opens THE NEWLY RENOVATED Food Science Build ing was opened Sept. 17 wit h a ribbon -cut ting ceremony and a special lunch that fea tured foods de veloped or improved by OAC scientists. Prof. Rick Yada, chair of the Department of Food Scie nce, said the modernt zat ion of research and teaching fac ilities brings all 36 food science facul ty und er one roof, where th ey can work more effecti vely with staff and students to continue the department's world class, leading-edge teaching and resea rch. In total, th e project spanned eight yea rs and represe nts more than $ 15 million in su pport from alumni, friends, industry and government. Ernie Hardem a n, O nta l' io minister of agr icult ure, food and rural affairs, and Guelph M P Brenda Chamberlain we re on hand to unveil a plaque recognizin g a $2 .8 million allocatio n from the federal and provincial gove rnmen ts' Canada / Ontario Infrastructure Works progra m. A special guest was lo-Anne Wolach, B.Comm. '8 1, a third- genera tion U of G graduate and a granddaughter of Ja mes Christen sen, BSA '2 1, who bequ ea th ed a $100,000 gift that initiated the renovation.

Food science chair Rick Yada, left, provides a lou r of the departme nt's new faci lities to Ron Zelonka of Du Pont Canada; Ernie Hard eman , Ontario minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs; and U of G president Mordechai Roz ansk i.

The Guelph Food Technolo gy Centre was an early su pporter of the renova tion project, and several of its industry partners contributed to a campaign led by food sci ence g rad uate Mo ni Eino, PhD '75, that raised more than $ 1. 25 million. Those part ners includ ed Pa rm alat Canad a, Du Pont Canada, Te tr a Pak, Wes ton Bakeri es, t he Da iry Farmers of Ontario, the Ontario

Dairy Counc il and Maple Lodge Farm s. Also markin g the opening was a special two-day conference that brought together key foo d resea rchers to disc uss iss ues criti cal to the future success of Canada's agri food industr y. In addition, the Uni versity was recognized fo r its careful restoration of the heritage building by the presentation of a Guelph Arts Coun cil awa rd.

METALS RESEARCH NETWORK GETS BOOST

IN FACT...

Resea rchers investiga ting the impact of metals on the envi ronment have received a 3.5- million boost from the lat mal Sciences and Engi neering Resea rch Council (NSERC). The funding was awarded to the Metals in the Environment (MITE) Resea rch Ne twork, a part nership of resea rch ers from

U of G professors have won more than 100 teaching awards, and hold more 3M Teaching Fellowships per 1,000 faculty members than at any other university in Ontario.

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12 universities, industry and three federal departments. Ba sed at Guelph, MITE brings scientists together to study how metals affect the environment, to assess th e risks posed by metals and to propose management strate gies to ensure that findin gs reach key po licy- makers in government.

The NSERC announce ment brings total support for MlTE to $6.4 million, includ ing $ 1.5 million from th e Mining Association of Cana da and Ontario Power Gen eration Inc. and about $1.4 million from Environm ent Ca nada, the Departm ent of Fish er ies and Oceans, and Natural Resources Canada.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS' CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS' UNIVERSITY NOTES

SCIENTISTS FOCUS ON FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY

Excellence in Research

Five U of G facul~ y have received Premier's

Li is developing new methods for estimat·

Re search Excellence Awards from the Min

ing non· and semi'parametric economic

istry of Energy, Science and Technology. The

models used in analysing financial and

awards are designed to help talented young

labour·market data and in creating and test

researchers build their research teams. The

ing economic policy. Working with the Hagan

recipients are Profs. John Dutcher. Physics;

Aqualab, Wright is continuing her studies of

Qi Li, Economics; Patricia Wright, Zoology ;

the early life stages or fish to help fish farm

John Gibso n, Animal and Poultry Science;

ers improve their operations. Gibson, a key

and Alejandro Marangoni, Food Science. With match ing contribution s, the value

researcher in U of G's Centre for the Genet ic Improvement of Livestock, is helping to

of these awards approaches $650,000 and

improve Canada's role in international live

wiH cover the costs of hiring new graduate

stock l inkage-mapping efforts. Marangoni's

students, post-doctoral fellows and research

research focuses on the physical properties

associates on each faculty member's inter

of fats and oils such as milk fat and cocoa

disciplinary research team .

butter, making a significant contribution to

Dutcher wi ll use the money to conduct

developments in fat-containing products

further studies in the growing field of poly

such as chocolate, confections, butter, mar

mer physics, specifically thin film polymers.

garine and spre ad s.

INNOVATIVE TEACHER WINS 3M AWAR D

Land sca pe architecture pro fes sor Ron Stoltz ha s received a pres ti giou s 3M Teaching Fel lowship from 3M Canada and th e So ciety fo r Tea chin g and Lea rnin g in Highe r Edu catio n. The annual fe ll owships recog nize 10 sc holars across Canada who excel in teac hin g, lea der ship and the deve lopment o f academic programs. Stoltz is kn own for his inno va tive approac hes to tea chin g land scape arch itec tural design and engineering. In 25 yea rs of teaching at Guelph, he has worked with va rio Lis U of G departments and alumni to

provide hand s-on work experi ences for students in the actual d es ign and cons tru ct io n of ca mpu s and com munity land scape projects. Stoltz has also been active in curriculum and in stru ction al development, and so me of his designs are used in profession al programs at other universi ties. In addition, he pbyed a sig nifica nt role in develop ing materials to in clud e tea chin g eva lu at ion in U of G's promo tion, merit and tenure process. He served as director of Teach ing Support Services from 1992 to 1997.

U of G sc ientists wi ll accelerate studies in food safety, functi oll al foods and industrial applica ti o ns for soft materials as the res ult of a $6-milliol1 allocation from the Ca nad a Fo undati oll for Innovation's (CF!) Institu tio nal Innova tio n Fund. Thi s gra nt brin gs U of G's total cn award s to $1 3.2 mil lio n, whi ch triggers a IOO-per cent match by th e Ontario Research and Developme nt Challenge Fund and requ ires a 50-per-cent ma tch from private sec tor fu nd 1I1g. U of G will es tablish a Cana dian Research Institute in Fo od SaFety th at will bring toget he r top resea rchers fro m across cam pus, Health Canad a and Agri culture and Agr i-Food 3llada. "This gro up is uniqu e becau se it can <lddrt'ss food-safety iss ues at all levels of the food chai n," says Prof Mansel Griffiths, Food Sc ien ce , who holds a Gue lpll research chair in dJ ir y microbi ology and will co -direct the new institute with Prof. Scott McEwe n, Populati on Medicine. A Centre for Foo d and Soft Mat eri als will be direc ted by Prof. Rick Yada, chair of the Department of Foo d Sc ien ce, and Prof John Dutcher, Phys ics. The goa l of this new ce ntre will "U be to assernble () tea rn of scien- 5 b tists to explore the stru cture and ~ fun ction of va rious foods and <:> ~ soft materials. Their wo rk will :z le<ld to alte rnative uses fo r (011 - j; ~ ventional soft malc:riais. '"

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MATHEMATICS

NETWORK LINKS WITH INDUSTRY PROFS. ANNA Lawniczak and

Bill Langford, Mathematics

and Statistics, have pla yed integral roles in the first fed

erally funded resea rch net

work of academic and cor

porate mathematicians. The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems involves researchers

Convocation Speakers

Inspire Graduates hen Canadian author Jane Urquhart

received an honorary degree at spring

convocation June 8, she reminisced about

her own student days at U of G, her 1971 graduation and her life as a person lucky enough to be able to pursue her life's voca tion as a full-time job. Urquhart spoke from th e heart, but her words were often echoed by other honourees during the four days of ceremonies: U.s. criminologist William Chambliss, Canadian medical researcher Michel Chretien, former Swedish president Ola Ullsten and Stanley Falkow, a pioneer in molecular genetics.

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from 22 Canadian universi ties and will receive $14.5 m illion in federal funding

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Ottawa will then review the project before providing another $10.5 million. This research cen tre of excellence will focus on forg ing links between universities and industry and on training yo ung researchers. Universi ty researchers will work with applied mathematicians from private and public institutions on everything from designing drug therapy and telephone networks to understandi ng complex new materials. A pri mary goal of the network is to shor ten the lead time between discovery and appli cation of research knowledge.

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accepted by his grandson, James Zavitz, in recognition of OAC's 125th anniversary.

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Family Stress Under Study U OF G's CENTRE for Families, Work and Well-B eing wi ll investigate the stresses that face wo rking families across Cana da, tha nks to a recent $185,000 award from the J,W. McCo nnell Famil y Foundation , one of Canada's largest private char i table organizations. The mon ey will fund an eight-month researcll project examining best work practices in

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small and medium-sized compa nies with fewer than 500 employ ees. Researchers will use nation wide focu s groups to id entify practices that help reduce fumil y stress and 'will di sse minate rec ommenda tions to business and goverrullent. The project may elisa lead to an award s system for Ca nadian businesses exemplify ing the integration of work and family for healthy li ving.

The principal in vestigator will be Prof. Kerry Daly, Fami ly Relations and Applied Nutri tion, who is co-di rector of the centre. He says the project fits well with th e cen tre's aim to co nduct research thal exp lores the work- famil y ba lance, allows faculty to establish connections wit!'l business organizations and involves students in th e process of social change.

U of G is one of Canada's premier research institutions.

Guelph faculty have attracted the second-largest per-capita share of research funding under the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

B OF G WElCOMES NEW CHAIR SIMON COOPER, p res ident of Marriott Hotels of Canada in Etobicoke, Ont., is the new chair of U of G's BO,lld of Governors. He succeeds Doug Dodds, chair and CEO of Schneide r Co rpo ra tion in Kitchener, who has served as chair since 1995. Cooper, who Join ed the board in 1995, was vice -chair in 1998/99 and was instrumental in raising more than $1 50,000 with in th e 110spi tali ty indu stry to ben efit U of G's ACCESS campaign for stud ent fInancial assistance. The board also welcom es new members Mary-Eli7abeth Flynn , CEO of KM2 Holdings Ltd.; Hank Va n der Pol., president of Rol-Land Farms Ltd.; Prof. Chris McKen na , chair of th e Department of Eco nomics; food science gradu ate student Susa n Abraham; and undergradua te stude nts Juli e Cugalj and Jeff Ramlogan.

ROYAL SOCIETY FELLOWS WELCOME DWIVEDI POLITICA L SC IENCE professor O.P. Dwivedi has been named a Fellow of th e Royal Society of Ca nada , the high es t scho larl y recog niti on a Canadian academ ic can receive. He joins 18 other U of G facult y (current and retired ) who have earned tbe title: Herbert Armstrong (deceased) ; Te rry Beveridge, Microbiology; Derek Bewley, Botany; Peter Egel staff, Physics; Chris Gray, Physics; Paul Hebert, 7.00 10g y; Gabri el Karl, Physics; Ke n Ka sha, Plant Agriculture; John Leslie, Philos oph)'; Donald Masters, History; Larry IVlilligan, vice-president (research); Jay New man, Philos op hy; Bernhard Nickel, Ph ysics; Ann Oaks, Botany; Larry Pe ter so n, Botany; Michael Rus e, Phi losoph y; Bruce Sells , Molecular Biology & Genetics; an d Joh n Simpson, Physics.

NEW WEB SITE SAVES TIME COMPUTER USERS turnin g to the World Wide We b for informa tion about U of G will fi nd it eas ier and faster to ge t a nswers the y need when they click on to the University's new Web site. Visitors at www.uoguelph. ca wiil fi nd a new horne pa ge de sign and a qui ck-link toolb a r that fea tures a direct link to alumni inform a tion and immediate acc ess to campu s news a nd coming events. Other new fea tures includ e a ca mpu s "news" page and a three-dime nsio nal map that a ll ows us ers to dick directly on a building or to search by either department or building name. U of G 's Web Steering Committee includ ed a us er feedba ck functi o n and hopes visitors will use it to com ment on the site and to seek more in forma tion abo ut Guelph programs and se rvices.

APPOINTMENTS PROF. ALASTAIR Summerlee has been named associate vice-president (acad em ic), following the departure of Prof. Co nstance Rooke, who left U of G to become presi dent of the University of Winnipeg. Summerlee was formerly dean of graduate studies. In his new position, he will oversee the qu ality and development of under graduate programs at U of G. PATRICK CASE, form er equity adviser for the Toron to District School Board, has been appointed director ofU of G's Human Rights and Equity Office. A 1986 grad uat e of Osgoode Hall Law School, Case practised fam il y, human rights and immi gration law before joining the Toronto sc hool board in 1991 and is now completing a master's degree in consti tutionallaw.

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• Philosop hy professor Michael Ruse is one of seven sc holars - and the only Canadian - to recei ve a special writing grant from the John Templeton Foun dation and Philade lphia Centre for Religion and Science . He will use the $100,000 US award to writ e a book about science and religion. • A.M. "Mac" Cuddy, BSA '42, was inducted into the Ontario Agri-

cultural Hall of Fame in June as a North American leader in the production, processing and ma r keting of turkey and chicken. Cuddy received an hono rary degree from U of G in 1994. • Don Zira ldo, B.Sc.(Agr.) '71, co founder of In niskillin Wines Inc. of Niagara-on-the ·Lake, Ont., captu red a gold meda l from Vine xpo '99 in Bordeaux, France, for the co mpany's 1997

ice wine . Inniskillin also recei ve d the CIVART Award for Excellence for Out standing Selection of the Best Wines of the World. • Prof. Da niel Fischlin, Literatures and Performance Studies in English , has won three teac h ing awa rds in the last year from the Ontario Co nfederation o f University Facu lty Associa tions, the University of Guelph

Faculty Asso ciation and the Col lege of Arts. • Sonya Go ld berg, an MA st udent in the Depa rtmen t of His to ry, has won th e prestigious Sir lohn A. Macdonald Grad uate Fellowsh ip in Canadian History. • U of G's School of Engineering is the first in Canada to be rec ognized by the Canadian Engi neering Memorial Foundation with an award for providing a women ·friendly environment. Cre ate d to mark the 10th anniversary of the fatal shoot ing of 14 women at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, th e award recog nizes U of G's collegial atmosphere an d the school's 4o-per-cent femal e enrolment, which is twice the nation al average.

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SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY· SCHOLARSHIp· SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

ENVIROPIGS AN

ENVIRONMENTAL

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U OF G R ES E A RC HERS have ge netically engineered pigs that sho uld help solve th e biggest environmental problem facing hog farmers. The "E nvi roplgs" developed by Pcof. Cecil forsbe cg, M icro biol og y, Prof. Jo hn Philli ps, Molec ular Biology and Ge ne t ics , and micro biology graduate stud ent Serguei Gol ova n pro duce manure containin g 50 per cent less phosphorus. Pho s phorus is a wdter pollutant th at promote s the growth o f a lgae in rivers, lakes and strea ms, ulti mately de pletin g oxygen in the wa ter and affect ing fi sh stocks. Enviropigs shou ld help solve the pro blem. Norm all y, pigs cannot digest phyta tr, a form of phos phoru s. WI th direc t su p port from O ntario pork pro duce rs, the Guelph sc ientists took an E. coli gene tha t makes the enzy me phytase and spliced it wi th a fragm ent of a mo use gene th at cont ro ls the produc tion of a protein secreted in the sa livar y gland s. The cOlllposite gene was then inse rted into th e nucl eus of a on e-celle d pig

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embr)To via a tiny needle. Th e tran sgene will allow the Envirop ig to make ph ytase in th e saliva ry glan d and secrete it into the saliva, where it is swa l lowed with food. Th e p hy ta se releases orga nic pho spho rus so it can be abs or bed by the blood str eam ins tead o f bein g excreted in manu re. Th ree transgenic pigs have been born and are bein g mon itoced by the resea rchers, but it will likely be st'veraJ yea rs befo re Envirop igs are ready to be com merciali zed.

COMPUTER

SIMULATIONS

BENEFIT MEDICAL

RESEARCH

Two U OJ:' G SC IENTJ STS are using com puter simulati ons to h elp medica l and ve terinar y researchers deve lop treatme n ts for diseases caused by iOll chan nels gone awr y. Profs. Saul Go ldman , Ch emi stry and Biochemistry, and Chri s Gray, P hys ics, are using computer p ro gra ms to simulate the workings of tin y passages in cell membranes that serve as ga tekee pers, pas sin g ions such as sodium and potas-

IN FACT...

Scientists build on knowledge that m.lY lead to the ability to repair DNA.

sium into and out of cell s. Sc ien ti sts have un covere d dozen s of hum an ion channel mutations tha t underlie diseases in heart, brai n, muscle and oth er tissues. The Guelph researchers mod el the Aow of ions through chan nels an d stu dy the microscop ic workings of iOll channel proteins. Th ey hope to ga in informat ion useful to ph armace utical com panies an d ge ne docto rs. The U of G co mputer mod el is curre ntl y the only way to simu late the wo rkings o f ion ch;l1lnel proteins and the effects of alteri ng th eir stru ctu re dnd function. T he rese a rchers say that over th e long term, lear n ing mo re about th e ge neti c un de rpi n nin gs of io n channel dis eases such as cyst ic fib rosis might allow sCIe nti sts to rep air DNA itself.

LITERARY RESEARCH CLICKS WITH TECHNOLOGY U DF G E N GLI S H PR OFESSO R Susan Brow n is helping to cli ck o n a new way to pub lish and stud y sc holarship in the humanit ies. Brown is one of six co-inves tigators on th e Orl and o Project, which involves p ro fe sso rs and students trom the universities of Guelph and Alb erta who are develo ping th e first full sch olar ly history of wo men's writings in the Britisb Isles . Th ey will pub Lsh it in an electronic format t.h at wi ll allow users to search va st volumes ofbiog r<lphical infor

matio n, critical disc ussion and contextual mate ri al in seconds. The pI'oject will prov ide an account or wo me n's wri ting across the cen turies that address es issu es raised by recent fe mi nist tbinkers and sch o lars of wom en's wr iting. Brown and other in ves ti gators are not mere ly col lectin g primary mater ial , but are also encodin g literalY his tory as they wr ite it , lllcluding references to literary reviews and analysis of write rs' work. Com puters will store and manipulate

basic rt'sea rch material. Named for the Virgin ia Woolf fictiona l character who begins to write as an Elizabeth an man and emerges as a full y developed fema le writer, the Orlando Pro jec t has been fund ed by a $1.6 million gran t fro m the Social Sci ences and Hu ma n it ies Resea rch Counci l and by th e uni ve rsities of Albe rta and Guelph.

CANADIANS VALUE

TH EIR PETS

VIE A LL KNO W TJ-Ji\T Ca nadians love their dogs and cats, but did you know th at keeping Fido and Fluffy happ)' and healthy is worth billions to the nation's economy' A fi rst -ever stu d y by LJ of G

economics professo r John Liv ernois reveals that Canad ian pet ow ners spend nearly $3 billion annually on food, veterin ar y care and supplies for their com pani o n animals - almost $1

veterinary practices depend on people's attachment to their pets. Of the],] 06 veterinary practices in Ontar io , 726 are exclu sively companion-animal practices. Even mixed-animal practices derive about half th eir income from companion animal services.

NEW CANCER TEST

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billion in Ontario alone. Th e pet industry also supports near ly 40,000 jobs nati onally. The study, commissioned by the Ontario Veterinary College, revea ls that pets are an impor tant family budget item across all income classes and aU provinces. Nearl y half of Canadia n house holds have a companion animal, and the average family spends a few hundred dollars a year on pets, an amou nt that rises with in come le vels. "The magni tud e of pet expenditures is an indicator of the value o f companion ani mals in society," says Live rnois. The study also identified the intangible benefits of pets, includin g emotional suppo rt, companionship, improved socializa ti on skills in children and th erapeutic effects . "Animals are comp anions and confidants:' says OVC pro fessor Cindy Adams, a speciaJist in the human- animal bond . "We are very much a buying-ori ented society, but the relationship with our pets is still very pure." People are also becomi ng more sensit ive to their pers' needs, she says. "The y are demanding the same type of care and service from their ve t erinarians as they do from their docto rs." The study notes that most

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researchers have helped devel op a new blood test th at detects ovar ian cancer at a stage when it is still treatable by surgery and chemotherapy. Senior research associate Dong Gaudette and Prof. Bruce Ho lub, Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences, collaborat ed with doctors from Texas and Ohio on the patented blood test. [t will be devel oped by Atairgin Technologies Inc. in Irvine, Calif. Clinical trials begin tbis yea r. " Diagnosis of ovarian can cer during tbe ea dy stages could mea n dramatically higher SLlr vival rates:' says Ga ud ette. The blood test detected 75 per cen t

IN FACT...

A new blood test detected 75 per cent of early-stage ovarian cancer.

of the ea rly-stage ovaria n can cer samples. Currently, diagn os is in abo ut 70 per cen t of women occ urs during the m ore advanced stages of the disease. Each yea r, ovarian cance r kill s ],500 women in Ca nada and 14,500 in the United States. T I e two researchers discov ered a fat called lyso phosphatidic acid that is prese nt in higher

quantities in ca ncerous tissue. It is also detected in the blood.

DEVELOPING A NEW VACCINE FOR CATTLE KIND ER, GEN TLER CATTLE vac c ines may become a reality, thanks to the development of an oral cattle vacci ne by a U of G research tea m. Profs. Reggi e Lo, M icrobi ol ogy; Patricia Shewen, Pathobiol ogy; and Judith Strommer, Plant

Agri cultu re , are tryi ng to pro duce a transgenic lin e of alfalfa that calTies a bacterial ge ne. The alfalfa is designed to p roduce a natural antigen to help boost bovine immun e response to a type of pneumonia in ca ttle. "Traditional vaccina tion b)' needl e injection requires rounding up and restra ining the cattle and is costly and stressful to animals," says Lo. " If we ca n create an o ral deli very system using transgenic alfalfa, we can simply add th e alfalfa to tbe regul ar feed." The team is creating the oral vacci ne system using a gene from a well-kn own bacterium and is transferring tbe bacteri al D;--1\ into the recip ient alfal fa plant s. Once tb e transgenic alfalfa lin e is es tabli shed, and the ge ne is producing the bac teri al ant igens as planned , th ey will feed the transgenic alfalfa to th e cattle to see whether an immun e response occurs. If the o ral vaccine works, it will mea n healthier cattle with less use of antibiotics in livestock being fed for hum an con sul11ption.

GENETIC TEST COULD BOOST SOYBEAN EXPORTS F OR THE FIRST TIME IN Canada , testing is available to detect the presence of ge neticall ), modified orga nisms (CMOs) in soybea n products. Th e testin g wi ll be overseen by U of G's Laborato r)' Serv ices. Th e ,u el ph Mole cular Supercentre will offer the GMO-check Soya 'Iest Kit. "There is a stron g need for such a commercial test in Ca na da, especially with the increase in produc tion of Givl so)' beans," says rcsc;lrciler Shu Chen . It's esti mated that 10 to 20 pe r cent of the 2.1 111i.llion acres of soybeans planted in the province this year were gendi(all y modified. The test deteels the protein expressed In Monsanto's Roundup Read y v;1["ia nt of soy beans. The most popular GM soy bean secds on th e ma rket a re res is tant to Roundup , a com l11only used herbicide. The test has been va lidated for aCCll rac y by 37 laborator ies in th e Eu ropean Union (EU ). The te st is poi sed to be a boon for soybean exp orte rs. Currently, food produ cts co n tainin g CIvIC), that are export ed to the EU mu st be clearly labell ed, and many consumers are now dem anding the option to choose between genetically modified and non -gen eticall y l110dified foods. Previously, th e sampl es had to be se nt to th e United Sta te s for testi ng, a process that was both cos uy and ti me-consu m ing.

IN FACT... Up to 20 per cent of the soybeans grown in Ontario this year were genetically modified.

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Gayle Anderson, Andrew Vowles, Alexander Wooley

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Guelph scientists strengthen the role ofveterinary medicine in solving human health problems Pre- eclampsia in pregnant women. Organ

human and animal health. "The healers made

transplants. Human colorectal cancer. Bacter

no distinction between whether they were look

ial resistan ce to antibiotics. They're all topics

ing after th e owner of the ca ttle or the cattle,"

you might expect to hear discussed in a human

says Meek. " It was the notion of one medicine."

medical lab or teaching hospital , but in the cor

Of course, there's no denying that animal

ner office of the Ontario Veterinary College? OVC dean Alan Meek smiles and acknowl

researcher an d practitioner. "As ve terinarians,

edges the apparent paradox of discussing the

we have a mandate to understand animals and

effects on human medicine of resea rch con

things that affect their health so we can pre

ducted in his corner of the University of Guelph

vent problem s and care for th em," says Meek.

campus. But you don't need too powerful a

"I suspect that when most people think about

microscope to reveal the research connections

veterinary medicine, that's th e first piece they

among dogs, cats, horses and, well, humans.

think about."

Referring to his hefty copy of Veterinary

But animal heal th is only one of the four pil

Medicine and Hum an Health, written by his Uni 15 co versity of California coll eague Calvin Schwabe,

lars of the veterinary profession -

~ Meek says the distinction between animal and '"

medical sciences -

human is rather misleading. Go back far enough

~z - before the Judeo-Christian concept of human ~ uniqueness and superiority - and you'll find o

~ no clear line se pa ra t ing the practitioners of

health rem a ins the domain of the veterinary

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th e others

are public health, environmental health and bio whose research and teach

ing rest on the base of comparative medicine. "We are the only medical profession that looks at medicine across species," he says. "That's one of the great strengths of veterinary medicine."

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Public health con cern s range from food to zoonotic diseases (diseases that can be traLl smi tted from anim als to humans) and antibiotic resistance amon g disease ca usin g bacteria. It was this pillar that occu pied many veterinarians during the earlier decades of this century, o ften as health inspectors. \!\Iith the ad vent of antibiotics and var ious advances in technology, seemingly more stimulating research avenues beck oned for vete rin ary scientists. But at this end of the 20 th cen tury, says Meek, we find ourselves again confronting many of those "earlier" problems such as tuberculosis, and medical professionals are refocllsing on the importance of public health issues. Veterinarians have also played a signifi cant role in th e evolution and application of ecosystem healt h practices because of their expe rtise in co mp arative medicine, toxicology, ep idemiology and wildlife dis ease. Changes in wildlife health are the first res ults and so metimes the first signs of envi ronmental problems. We don't live in a box reserved for one species, says Meek. "\/>,le live in the same env ironment. We interact in very intimate ways with other an imals in the environment, so it's not surp rising there are all kinds of crossovers and that you can learn J lot tbat can improve the heal th and lovell-bein g of peo ple and other animals." That trutl, is becoming more ev ident as biomedical science uses new and more spe ci fic technologic,. "As yo u start looking at the cellular and subcellular levels and the chromosomes and the genes, it do esn't real ly mat ter that much whether you're look in g at a ge ne, chromosome or cell that came ou t of a person or a dog," says Meek. "'vVhen YOLi get do wn to that level, the fundamen tal building blocks are the same - nucleic acids dnd b,lse units. I think we as a profes si on have a tremendou s amount to offer there becJuse of our mand ate, wl,ich is so broad. Vete rin ar ian s look after all animals excep t for people in th e sen se of providing handS-Oil care. We can learn a lot from these othe r sp ecies . There are diseases in other animals that have analogies to hum an dis eases, so we can learn from th at and use th em as n,1tural models." He expec ts to see mor e collaboration ,IIlJ information sharing alllong human medi cal and veteri nary resea rchers. " It's not SJfft)'

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so amazing to understand that we would ha ve folks working on things that have a human application. It co mes from our man date, our resp onsibilities and histo ry, and the comparative approach." The fourth pillar of veterinary medicine offers many impressive examples of co m parative medicine. In the next few pages, we present a small sample of current OVC research initiat ives that are providing imme diate and di.rect benefit to human medicine and health.

Reproductive

technologies

Prof. Anne Croy, Biomedical Sci ences, is intent on discovering why pregnant women develop pre-eclampsia, a serious illn ess that typically occurs during th e seco nd half of pregnancy. High blood pressure is the major symptom. If pre- eclampsia occurs, th e baby must be delivered immediatel y or the moth er may experience convulsions or even die. To better understand the i\lness, Croy is exam ining lymphocytes in the uterus, par ticularlya group of specialized lymphocyte cells that multiply during early pregnancy. These NK cells or "natural killers" regu late gene expression and attack foreign invaders such as cancerous tumours. Their main r01 e during pregnancy is to dilate blood vessels as the uterus grows. prevent ing blood press ure from rising to danger ous levels. Croy and her research team have discovered that lack of NK ceUs in the uterus may cause reproductive problems and lea d to smaller infants whose growth is retard ed into adulthood. Working with mice. Croy found th at removing NK cells before mating led to a

disease similar to pre-eclampsia. In mice lacking these lymphocy te cells, she grafted bone marrow containing gra ft s with NK cells and found that the implantation sites returned to a no rmal state. Croy's research has gained worldwid e recognition for its considerable applicabil ity to human fetal development and because it provides a useful animal model for this gestational disease. Her work may eventu all)' show scientists how to eliminate pre eclampsia during human pregna ncy. It will also help vets and farmers understand how

uterine lymphoc ytes work in lives to ck, which is why her studies are funded by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs as well as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. How much can mice teU us about human repro ductive immunology? Croy says the importance of the mouse as a tool for study ing disease progression or therapy was brought home to her in the 1960s when she was an OVC student of Prof. Tom Hulland, then chair of pathology and an ea rly enthu siast of using mice as resea rch models. She says the two reproductive system s are remarkably similar. Because mice reach adulthood after six to seven weeks and pro duce about 10 offspring every three weeks, researchers can monitor successive genera tions of mice over a short period to dis cov er the long-term ramifi ca tion s of health problems. And she is able to study an indi vidu al tissue section of an entire fetu s under the microscope. For these reasons, mice play a central role in another of Croy's research projects, one that's found mothers pass along to their child ren more of themselves than was previously th o ught.

Until recently, the placenta was thought

receive marrow transplants from a parent,

to be impenetrable. Then some U.s.

but if the moth er's cells are alread y present,

researchers discovered that cells travelled from the fetus to the mother. In research

they can reject th at transplant. Under standing the nature of those cells is critical.

cal Studies, is to breed and suppl y a sma ll

funded by the Hospital for Sick Childr en Foundation in Toronto, Croy recently found

As in Croy's work with uterine lymp ho cytes, this research is receiving worldwide

group of tran sge nic pigs for research trials at partner institution s in the project - the

that the flow is two-way: unidentified cells

recogn ition, although the Guelph researcher down plays that accla im . "This is so me of

University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. ove was also instru

We are the only medical profession that looks at medicine across species. That's one of the great strengths of veterinary medicine.

OVC's role in this leading-edge research, being co-led by Prof. Danny Butler, Clini

the most interesting work of my career," she

mental in ensur in g that the pig li tte rs were

says, "but I'm a relatively small player in the

of "defined health status" or pathoge n-free

bi gger sc hem e of things." Croy has repeatedly crossed boundaries

- an integral aspect of this proJect. These transgenic pigs re semble an y other pig on

in her pursuit of knowledge and has been reco gnize d by a variety of scientific disci

the outside, but on the inside, Lhe y diff ' r in one smaJl but very important way.

plines. She recent ly com pleted a term as a

Ordinarily, when a blood vessel ruptures, the body's natural reaction is to clot and

permanent study sec tion member of the National Institutes of Health (N1H) in th e

patch the leak. During this pro cess, some

United States, one of the few Canadians

times called a "cascade:' the body produces

appointed since the N1H opened perma nent membership to non -citizens in 1995.

chemicals sequentially to form the c lot. But clotting is a delicate Fl"Ocess. Until now,

She teaches a summer course on reproduc tion, mostly to medical doctors, at the

orga n transplants betwee n species have pro voked "hyper-acut e" rejection, caus ing a clotting-like cascade to continue until, wit h

Wo od's Hole Marine Biological Laborato ry in Massachusetts. This June, she recei ved

in min ute s or hours, th e patient rejec ts the

the J.CB. Grant Senior Scientist Award from the Canadian Society of Anatomy, Cell Biol

animal organ. Blood entering the newly

ogy an d Neurobiology - an unusual hon our for a vet. And she recently prese nted reproductive immunology findings to meet

eign and immediately begins the clotting process, quickly shutting down the o rg3 1l. By contrast, the ce ll s of lmutran pigs con

ings of obstetricians and gynecologists.

tain a human gen e that produces a prote in that stops the clotting casca d e. In a trans

Organ

transplants

received organ recognizes that tissue as for

planted pig organ c3tTying this gene, the protein fool s the pat ient's blood into tre;lt

"A silent crisis" is what one member of Par

ing the organ as though it's from the same

liament has called Canada's organ donor rate, now among the lowest in the indu s

species, thus preve nting clotti ng. Butler beli eves oves expertise in surgi

trialized world. More than 3,000 Canadian s wait for organ transp lants each year, and

cally deriving and raising germ-free littet·s was a key reason the college was approached

143 of them die awaiting a transplant.

are also transferred from the mother to the

clinical (non-human) trials.

to undertake this re sea rch. Fro m 1958 to

One potential so lution being examined

1989,OVC took th e sc ientific lead with the

at OVC is xenotransplantation or trans

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Fo od and Ruralf\ffairs in supplying speci[Jc-pathogen

bone marrow of the fetus. Unlike most earlier stu di es, Croy's

plan ting of organs from one sp ecies to anot h er specifica ll y, from pigs to humans. It's not as far-fetched as it sounds.

focused on the bone marrow, where the

For more than 10 years, people hav e

body's blood and autoimmune disea ses de velop. She found that 90 per cent of the

received living pig tissue, including porcine

free animal s to the province's pig farms. Prof. Paul Miniat of the Departmcnt of C linical Studies and, later, th e Depa rtm e nt of Pop ulation Medicine led that pr ojec t. "Tl1is current research is cutting-ed ge,"

mouse fetuses contained the mother's cells

pancrea tic islet cells for diabetes and pig skin for burns.

in their marrow. Because maternal cel ls

Because of its faculty expertise, its out

remain in offspring into adu lthood (a nal ogous to humans), it suggests the cells may

standing record in animal ca re and welfare, and its 30-year history o f research in

vated immune system, any path oge n th ,lt

affect the chi ld's response to a bone mar row transp lant during cancer treatment or

pathogen-free swine for breeding and food purposes, OVC was a pproached by Imutran

comes into play would be fatal to thesc pigs." Butler notes that the re sea rch is stil l at

to treatment for HIV, ma laria or burns. For example, immune-deficient children often

Ltd. of the United Kingdom, a xe notran s

the pre-clinical (non-human) trial stage,

plantation research leader, to assis t in pre-

and it will likely be years before trials ca n

says Butler, "and you have to be absolutely meticulous about everything you do. Becau se these animals don't ha ve dn acti

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take place in hum ans. And other forms of transplant rejec ti on besides the hyper-a cute va ri ety will requ ire furth er research . Along the way, Butler and fello w OVC researchers - Prof. Bonni e Mall ard and Byram Bridle, Path obioJ ogy, who are stud y dire ctor and projec t m ana ger, re spec tivel y; Jud y Bell, Clinical Studies, a projec t mana ge r; and Prof. Bob Fri endship, Popul ati on Medicine - hope to gain new insight into breeding pigs of exemplary health status for both ani mal breeding and food sa fe ty.

Genetic

diseases

Pro f. Mark Baker, Path obi ology, hopes to enh ance gen e th erap y used in treating hum an and animal ge net ic d ise ases by impro ving th e effi ciency of gene targeting. Using thi s procedure and the tools of bi otec hnology, researchers hope to ze ro in on spec ific points in an o rg ani sm's DNA and insert or repair genes invol ved in sll ch diseases as can cer, AID S, mu sc ular dystro phy, cys ti c fibrosis and sickl e-cell anemia . "Ge ne targeting is a very important tech nology for gene modifi ca ti on in all species - plants, anim als and micro-organisms," says Baker, who began tbi s work in the 1980s. "The nice thing abo ut thi s tecbn ol ogy is th at yo u can make changes in the ge ne right in its norm al positi on in the chromosom e." He hopes to make gene targe ting more effi cient by studying the underl yi ng process of homologo us reco mbi nation , in whi ch DNA sequences exchange inform ation. Nor mall y, this process helps ce lls repai r DNA da mage and gove rn s mixing of gen es dur in g cell di vision, including th e p rocess of meios is, whi ch produ ces egg and sperm cells. But homologous recombinati on can also lead to can cer durin g th e exchange of inform ati o n bet wee n a mutan t ch romo so me and its no rm al co unt erp art. Bes ides stud ying what goes wrong durin g recom bin at ion , sc ientists are in te rested in usin g th e pr ocess to co rr ect d efe cts. Baker 's research , for exa mple , has shown th at gene targe ting th ro ugh h omolo gous reco mbina tion can correc t a mu ta ti on to resto re pro ducti o n of an immun oglobulin found in an tibodies. " We want to und ers tand the mec ha nisms of recombination in mammalian cells

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and how ho mologo us reco mbin ati on ca n be used to shape and manipu late th e gen ome," he says, ex plaining that ge ne tar getin g all ows researchers to make animal model s of hum a n gene ti c diseases, study hum an ge ne th erapy and modify plant and an imal ge nomes to benefit agri culture, biotechnology and medi cine.

Cancer

research

Ca ncer reaches into the lives of many Ca na dian s. "A number of researchers are wo rk ing in this are a, and th eir researc h spans the spectrum from ba sic mol ecul ar bi o tech nology to applied therapy," says Pro f. Wayne

improve our und ersta ndin g of how to mod ify the level of damage done by co litis" He ex plains th at by detoxify ing dieta ry mu tagen s and ca rcin ogen s, CST enzy m es provi de protection again st va ri ous " insul ts" inflicted on th e stom ach. Th at's an imp or tant role, gJven th e kno wn link be tween so me chemical s co nsumed by human s and the dama ge to DNA and tis sues th at ma y lea d to cancer. " Hi gh levels of the em ymes are good because th ey pro tect ," says Ki rby. In pre vious studi es conducted with th e Je wish Ge neral Hospital in Montl'C al, Ki r by discove red th at man y peo pl e with col o rec tal ca ncer lack th e ge neti c codes fo r GSTs. He is now in vestigatin g th e role of the

At the cellular and subcellular levels, it doesn't really matter whether you're looking at a gene, chromosome or cell that came out of a person or an animal.

Mc Donnell, OVC ass istant dean (resea rch). Although OVC research usually fo cus es on can cer in anim als, incl udin g using animal m odels , th e res ult s also to uch th e human realm of oncology research. Colorec tal ca nce l' is th e third most com mon can cer in humans; th e Canadi an Ca n cer Society estim ates th at more than 16,000 new cases will be d iag nosed in 1999 and more th an 6,000 deaths will occur. Key fa c tors in its development are d ie tary carc ino ge ns and colitis, a bowe l inflammatio n. In Guel ph's De partm ent of Bio medi cal Sci ences, Prof. Gordon Kirby is studyin g glu tathi one S-transferase (GST) emy mes th at are fo und in th e hea lthy human intestin al tra ct but are abse nt in colorec tal ca ncer pati ents. "This research co uld help im ple ment pre ve nti ve st ra teg ies for peopl e who might be at high risk for ca nce r or it may help in co unselling people in prop er di etary habits," he says . " In addi tio n, we may

enzy mes and how th eir level alte rs as th e disease develops. B), und erst andin g how th ese enz)' l11 es wor k and how th ey change dur ing the pro gressi on fr om co liti s to can cer, Kirb y ulti mately ho pes to lea rn ho w to co ntro l th e leve l of th e enzymes. "Understandin g how th e enzym es wo rk ca n lead LI S to wa ys to prevent cancer," he S'l yS .

Radiation

treatment

Veterll1ar ians using the techniqu e o f half body ra dia tion may cut th e time needed to treat lymph o ma in do gs , acco rd in g to th e re sul ts of a st ud y by OVC re sea rchers, in cludin g Prof. To n)' Abr,1Jl1s-0gg , Pro f. Stephen Kruth, Paul Woods, Geri Ottewe ll and Kim Stewa rt - aUo f th e Department of Clini cal Studi es - and Al Norris of th e Veterinary Refe rral Cli nic. And although the group's recent six-year tr ial was directed at

ed at one time, enough hea lth y bone mar ro w remain s to negate a tra nsp lan t. By the time th e seco nd hal f o f th e body is irradi ated 30 da ys late r, th e pa tien t has h,ld eno ur.h li, n e to recover fro m the first trea t ment. He's also found that dogs receivi ng half-bod)' radiation generally avoid the side effects of tull-body trea tment. Abra ms-Ogg says ha lf- body radi atio n has been used on humans to alleviate pain in advanced cancer cases, but not to treat lymphoma. "The results of this tri al do have hUl )la n health implication s," he SJ),'. "H alt~ hody radi,lti o n may be use d to treat the sa me types of cancers in people."

Resistance

to antibiotics

do gs, the resu lts of thi s veterinary resea rch may have implica tions for trea tin g cance r in hum ans. Trea tin g lym ph oma traditionally I'equires up to two yea rs of chemoth erap)'. An alternative to prolonged chemotherapy is tota l-body ra diat io n and bone m ar row transplantation. The procedul"<' lI SL'S the patien t's own marrow, extracted before the trea tment. One dra wback is the possi bilit y of tran spb nt ing "s ick" malTOw co ntaining lymp homa (ells back in to the patien t. A sec o nd drawbac k is th e ex tcnsive ca re and Icngthy recover y time required. By co ntrast, ha lf-b ody radiation takes onl y three mon ths. Ab rams- Ogg explain s that became onl y half of th e body is treat

Ensurin g the hea lth of farm animals is an im po rtant fac tor in ensuring th e health of our food supply. T hrough col labo ratio ns wi th the Un iversity of Guelph's Department of Food Science an d l1calth Canada, a ded icated group of ove resea rch ers is improv ing public health thr oug h [ood -sa fe ty research. OnL' of those sc ienti sts is Prof. Sco tt McEwen, Population Med icine, who studies fo od-an imal prod uct io n and on -fa rm issues by investigati ng mic rob ial resistance to antib i otics and ways to co ntrol pathoge ns such as E. coli du ring food-animal production. "We're try ing to red uce the level of expo sure or people to these pathogen s an d, in tu rn, red uce the level of food-borne illn ess," says .I\ IcEwe n. "Our goal is to im prove human health and improve the health of th e animal indu str ),." Microbia l resista nce, in pa rticular, is a co mpelli ng issue for agri culture rigbt no w because of a number of eve nts occurring wor ldwide that have focus ed attenti on o n the use of antibi otics in foo d-a ni mal pro du ct ion and the po tential impa ct on h um ans through meat con,u mption. McEwen and h is st ud ents are looking at what types of animals are being exposed to va l'l o us drugs and for how long to better measure bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Because th e ag ricu ltu ra l indu stry acco unts [or half of to tal antib io ti c lls e, he says it's important to look for new ways to improve on-farm manage ment of livestock that wIll red uce disease J nd the need for treatme nt with antibiotics. ga

Veterinary medicine contributes to human health sector The Ontario Veteri nar y Co llege (OVC) is at th e centre of Ontario's $4.4 billion knowledge-based eco nomic secto r foc using on animal health and related food quality/safe ty and biomedical/biotechn ology activities. Although ve terinal")' medicine is the main focus of studies at OVC, the biomedical science o ption has the bjgh est enrolment among Guelph's 30 B.Se. degree programs. Employers in Can ada's $I -billion biotechnology indust ry sa y a degree in ve ter inary med icine will be an impor tant first step in fil.ling new positions created by the prac tical application of current reve la tions in molecular biology and cloning technology. OVC is a founding college of the Universit y of Guelph , which receive s m o re rese a rch funding from the Medica l Research Co un cil than any other Ca nadi an uni versit y with o ut a medica l school. More than ISO studies have been condu cted using fund s donated throug h OVe's Pet Tr ust by ve t erinarians and pet ow ners who rec ognize the th erapeutic value of the bond betwee n people and com pa nion animal s. 100 per cent of OVC gradu ates find em ploymen t withi n six months of gradu ation. 50 per cen t of veterinary patholo gists in North America are employed directly or indirectly by the pharmaceutical indu str y.

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a The Royal Society of Canada recognizes an acndelnic career by Alexander Wooley

Funny hOW a

single pi ece of paper can summariz.e a lifet ime of stud y and aCJ demic work that has alrea dy fi ll ed 29 books and 85 book chapters an d Journal articles. In jun e, U of G polit ica l science profes~ sor Onkar P Dwivedi received a letter invit~ ing hi m to become a Fello w of th e Royal Society of Can ada . It's an invitation reserved for Canada's <lCJde!11i c elite, an an noun ce men t thM brou ght congratul atio ns tinged 'with envy fi'om colleagues across Ca nada and left th is U of G professor answeri ng quips from Guelph collcgues such as: "Are we still allowed to sh are the elevator wi th such an illuSlrious scholar?" Dwivedi is in deed an ill ustriou s scholar - th e FRSC is th e hi ghest scholJriy rec og~ nition;1 Canad ian ~ c ad emi c ca n recei ve but he is also a person able man who has a de er concern fo r o thers and a sense of humour that allows h illl to ceremo ni ously wave oth er facult ), and students on to the elevator as it rises to his s ix1:h~f1oor offi ce ill the JvlacKi nn on Bu ilding, Known acro ss camp us simply as "O.P. ," he says it's o nl y natural that hlS collea gues wo ul d be a bi t envi ous of th e Ro yal Society designation; he ha s felt th at envy him self when congratul;:tting previou s recip ien ts.

20 GUELPH ALUMN US

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Dwivedi S:I)"' he is d~ ep l )' honoured to bL: one of 19 U of C; lilC ul ty wh o hold thl: tilk (see page II ). "T he entire U o f C; cJm pl!' co mmunit y shOlI'cs in Prof. l)",ivecii's dd igh t at bei ng l1amed a fel low," "I)', pruv()';t !.tin Campbe ll. " It is a we ll~d l'sencd mark of recognition for his distin guished caree r Jnd vJ lua ble sl'r vice to i II I l' 1'Ila Iional dl:\Tlop Ill en t an d the en viron men t." Being n~m cd ,I Fello\\' of the Rnl',11 \oci 101)' of C:\I1a d ~ is testimony 10 tile prnrc;,snr '~ beli e-I" Lhat if you wor k hard eno ugh, you L.11l achieve an ythi ng. " T h ~I's \\'11)' hi, colilltr) is so great :' he says o f his adopted C~n,IJ,1. Born in India, Dwi ved i came 1(\ ( anad,l in th e early [960, as a gruduatc <tuden!. Hl' co mpl ete d a mdst '1"5 de grec al Carl etull University ~n d a Ph D at QUl'l:n', l · ni\\~r .. i ty ~l1 d jo incd the U o f C tJLlti lyin 1967. He hJS advan ccd Ih e Call,ldi,lI1 view of political eth ics ,111d public scn'icc, Wl11p,\I'(,:d pol icy ~m ak in g ;:t nd administralioll hetwl'cn natio ns and l11aint,lined ., wo rld, iew of enl'i~ ronll1ental pol iei san d pl1blie alti ludes toward pollu tion . An d <Ill the wh ile ,haring his in sight wilh the l h (l u~.llld, nf , tlllkilts who hal't' vied for se;1ts ill his classroom . Alt houg h C;1I1 3d.! is now hi~ IWll1l" Dwivedi main tai ns ~ Irong lies with his lill mer homeland. He has mon itored dCI'dol'

mt'nh .Ind eh,tnge~ ill Indi,l'S pol lulion <111U <.:o IN: rl' ation pol i ~ic' ror ,lll1lo~t .'\0 ),C<lrs, and su\'cd 'h J . <'nio r ad" iser 1(1 Ih ", (OUlllr )", "lin i'lr) of rl1l'imnl11t:llt dnd F<lr~' I S. I Ii, lIl"'l rc~c nl hook, publi,1 'd in I';)')7. i ntro ~ Jl1C~' r~.ld.:r, t<1 Ih.: cnVil 0 l1nlCnl,11 p(lli~y m.ll-ing and man"f.~ml'l1t prelL':', n Ind i.1 b) cxamining v,lri()u~ Jill1cl1\iol15 of lh<: t:l1Iironrncn lal ch"II<:'I1&es faced h)'lhe nali()n. Farber th is )"L'ar, hc \'\1\ in Ind i.! JS par t ora hll1,lli(\I\a l l'roICL\ looking at reg ulal · ing cmironmcnlal ri,\.:., there, with ,I Spc, eiJI fO LlI' on h,trlil lll i hmlsehr.llJ producls and th.:iJ ill1 t"I~1 Oil \\ (Imen <lnd ,hiidre n. Tht' resC;lreh p rQ.i n t i, locatt'd ill K,ll1 pur, <1 cil )' of Ih rec million. ,HId IS funded b)' the Sha tri In do CJn.ldi,111 Im ti lutc . [)wi l'l'di\ mother and othl'!" lamily mt'lllhL'I" sl illl i\'C in In d i.!. li e pcrsollally 'Uf'porh 'eh o<)I, Ih ne, and \\'hell he retire, in tl\\1 Icars, hl' plan, to SCI up ,I L~c n tre fo r drug ,HldiLliOl I ,1I11.lI11L'lll,11 healt h, Fn'n in C lllJd,I , hl' is working to help olher, Indiall illll.:,lry bui ld bella lives , I lc offen, hi, serl'icc,.I~ ,I parl -timc Hindu pries t lIith U ofe,\ CGl11pUS minislry and .I~ .1 spir iluJ I , ou l1,,'1I0 [' Jor inm ,lles ,It Ihe Cudl' h Corrl'dinn,d (\'ntrc. The Ro\'al Soc ielY Litdtion d~ ) Lribe s [)w i"l'dl cI~ .1 ,cho br who " h,IS ,1 1I.lined

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an honour for me and also a wonderful recog nition for our new coll ege (U of G's College of Social and Al'l'lied Human Scienc es )." A for mer chair of Guel l'h's Department of Political Science , Dwivedi is pres id ent of the Ca nadian Asia n Stud ies Associa tion and past l'resident of the Canadian Po litica l Sci ence Association . He also chairs th e resea rch committee of the Intern ational Poli tical Sci ence Associatio n.

During hi s 32-year career at Guell'h, he ha s ser ved on the Enviro nm ental Assess )]lent Boa rd of Ontario; as a co nsultan t to the Ca nadian gove rnm ent; as an adviser to th e Wo rl d Health Or'gani za ti o n an d the Wo rld Bank in In dia, Papua New Guinea and Mau ritiu s; an d as a sc ientific pan el member with UNESCO. In J 99 8, h e received an honorary degree fro m the Uni ve rsity of Leth bridge. ga

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ANDREvV VOWLES

m Tiny flashes of blue light caught by U of G

physicists in an undergro und observatory may

runch?

tell us the fate of our universe.

"First tighf' wasn't long in coming, even in a mine shaft some two kilo metres beneath the Earth's surface. Within days of turning on a multi million-dollar li ght detector near the bottom of a Sudbury nickel mine, scientists from Canada, the

nited States and the United Kingdom record

ed their first "even t." That's physicists' lingo for a collision between a tiny extraterrestrial particle called a neutrino and a molecule of heavy water. Actually, what they witnessed last spring was not the encounter itself -

marked by a tell tale fl ash of blue light -

but data trickling in qui

etly from the detector's elaborate instruments sometime after the fact. Still, t hat was enou h to set a few hearts pounding among the collab orators in the Sudb u r y

eutrin o Observatory, particularly among

Guelp h physicists John Sim pson, Robin Ollerhead and Jimmy Law, who appJaud e 1 those early results not just for what they might reveal about the universe but also as a validation of their painstaking care in con structing and pre paring the detector.

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Scientists hope to [J "This is without a doubt the climax of my

tion. Beca use its molecules contain one more

career," says Simpso n, who's been invo lved

n e utron than in ordinary water, it's more

with the Sudbury N eu trin o Observa to ry

likely to in tercept a phantom neutrino. That

(SNO) project since it wa s fir s t m oo ted by

co llis ion will be marked by faint but telltale

Canadian physicis ts in th e early 1980s. He's

fla s hes of light -

been studying neutrino s for almost two

Cerenko v radia ti o n , th e characteris tic blu e

decades, beginning with ex perim ents in a 'Windsor-area sa lt min e.

glow emitted in a nuclear r eac tor -

" It 's th e las t unkn ow n low-ene rgy area

forma lly kno wn as to be

pi cked up by a few of th e 10,000 detectors studding the panels on th e sphere's s urface.

left ," he says. "N e utrin os are s till th e least

Per haps more impo rtan t, SNO resea rchers

understood eleme nta ry particle of a ll."

anticipate that the wa ter will "catch " all three

That's not for lac k of th em. T hey' re co n sidered to be th e most co mm o n particles in the uni verse and th e fund amenta l building blocks of matter. Eac h seco nd, bi lli ons of

types o f neut rinos, no t just the o ne captured

by other detec tors around the wor ld. N eutr in os com e in three species or

neutrinos generated during fusion reactions in the sun and in sou rces far beyond our galaxy bombard every square ce ntim etre of the Earth's surface und etected. But just try to catch one. So ephemeral a re I'h ey th at they pass without a mmmur through most objects, including solid rock, ni cke l, ni cke l miners -

even throu gh the SNO sc ienti s ts

monitoring their giant acry li c ball s us pended in a 22-metre-wide cavern two kil o metres down the mine shaft. The $70-million o bse r va to r y s it s nea r the bottom of Inco Ltd .'s C re ight o n ni cke l mine , the de e pes t wo rkin g min e in North America and one tha t ha s ope ra ted co ntin uou s ly for the last ce ntury. Today, the only eAtra terreslrial o bjects hit ting the site through it -

or more co rrect ly, passi ng

are neutrinos. Seemingly against

astronomical odds, those scientists hope to use that ball as a kind of cosmic-si zed catch er's mitt to stop or deflect enough of thes e particles to learn more about them and about the big, wide universe that spawned th em. Inside that 12-foot ball are 1,000 tonn es of heavy water, which is also used as coolant inside nuclear reactors. Tn fact, th e water all $300 million worth -

is on loan from

Atomic E nergy of Canada Ltd. (AECL). Heavy water ho ld s th e ke y to SNO's ope ra-

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agiant acrylic ball as a kind of cosmic-sized catcher's mitt. "flav ou rs," based on th e kind s of subatom ic particl es tlley're dssociated with: electro n neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neu tri no s. Referring to earlier experiments that have detected far fewer neutrino s than ex pected based on our understanding of how the universe works, Simpso n says most scientists believe that neutrinos have mass and th e)' change type as th ey leave the sun, "and that's why 'Ne ha ven't see n enough of them." Being able to detect the other two flavour s at SNO might allow sc ientis ts to account for the so -called missing neutrin os. Proving that neutrinos can change their

stripes might als o tell us more about the likely fate of th e universe itself by solving another mystery: the question of the "miss ing mass." Referring to basic laws of physics, Law says: "If neutrinos convert, th at means th ey must have mass." Why is that impor ta nt ? Explai ns Ollerhead: "Th e amount of mass that's accounted fo r by the sta rs that you can see is only about one-tenth of the total mass the re mu st be in the universe in order to cause th e interactions and motions you see. W he n peopl e talk about mis si n g ma ss, that's what th ey' re talking about." So th e question is, where is it l Because

every star produces billions of neut rin os every second, the universe is full of neutri nos. These van ishingl y small particles co uld collectively exert a gravitational pull out of all proportion to th eir size - enough to eventually slow the expa nsion of the universe. " If n eutrin os have ma ss, it means the universe may be heavier than we think," says Simpso n. "The universe will eventually stop expanding in a few billion years and collapse back in on itself. Thi s is known as th e Big Crunch." Finding evide nce of the "smoking gun" to either prove or di sprove that theo ry is the purpose of th e observatory, he says.

SNO research bombards other areas of science

Adapting physics tools to build SNO

An expert in X-ray back-sca ttering, Guelph physicist Innes Mackenzie helped the SNO team about six years ago by adap ting his back-scattering technique to determine the thickness of a plastic liner that su rrounds th e entire obse rvatory cavity. Made of a substance called urylon (produced by a Guelph company), the liner was sp rayed on to the cavity's concrete surface to screen ou t radon, a radioactive gas that diffu ses even through soLd rock. In a project where an extra millimetre could skew results, sci entists needed to ensure that the material was the same thickness all the way arou nd. Mackenzie used X-ray back-scattering, a techni q ue he has developed that might be llsed to determi ne, say, the thickness of paint applied in an auto assembly plant or ice buildup on aircraft wings. Laurentian University physicist Doug Hallman says his research group has worked with Mackenzie "to set up a unique hand- held monitor and data-recording system, which found the actual thickness of the eight millimetre-dlick polyurethane material to an accuracy of abo ut 10 per cent. Building new tools from SNO physics

During his graduate studies in physics at Guelph, Tom Andersen helped hi s PhD

s upervi sor, Prof. John Simp son, design device s used to detect background radioactivity of the heavy wa ter in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and worked on software that simulates th e movement of high -energy muons, particles created when cos mic rays encounter the Earth's atmosphere. All th e while, he had his eye on a not-unrelated topic that became his full-time job after graduating in 1998. " It', a de sk top planetarium," says Andersen of his astro nomy software, which allows users to view the simulated night sky - including comets, asteroid s, satellites a nd stars - on a computer screen. "With it, yo u can observe the sky as it appears from your backyard tonight o r from Jupiter 100 years ago or from Egypt 3,000 years ago." He and his partners a t Toronto-based Sienna Software Inc. have so ld about 10,000 copies of Sta rry Night software dming the past 18 months. The y began by selling software that users could down load fro m the Internet, but now make two CD-ROM versions of the package : Star ry Night Deluxe and Starry Night Pro. The first allows users to look at more than 19 million objects from anywh ere in the solar system and to examin e deta iled

graphics of such things as constellations. Seriou s astronomy afic ionados use the pro version to track as teroids, learn more about star motions or create their own planets to study orbital mechanics. "Ge nerally, anyone who owns an as tronomical telesco pe owns a piece of astronomy software," says Andersen. "You can take your telescope to your backyard and connect it to your laptop and then point to something with Starry Night and have the telescope steer to it." Applying SNO tools to business

Former ph ys ics graduate student Myung Chol C hon now works in the Royal Bank's corporate and investmen t banking offices in Toronto. Modelling the behaviour of financial assets and pricing derivative secu rities might appear removed from the task of capturing neutrinos, but Chon says the Guelph SNO group gave him an oppor tunity to learn various quantitative ana ly sis tools, including Monte Carlo simula tion and artificial neural networks. "I also gained understanding and experience in software production via working with the SNO Monte Carlo Analysis (SNO MAN ) software deve lopment team - tools applicable not only in physical science but in other areas as well."

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In two years, we may,{I Simpson says ea rl y detection of SNO's first neutrino this summer reflects the high qUJI ity of th e obselva tory itself incl uding th t' con tribution of the Guelph scientists involved in designi ng its sophi st icated instrum ents . "Th at's why there's a lot of noise abo ut the fi rst measurem en ts," he sa ys. "So me o ther detectors have to work harder to get the back ground radi oactivity down. We' ve shown that we constructed a very clea n detector." Alo ng with several PhD studen ts and resea rch associates, he and his coUeagues buiJt inst ruments used to monitor and ensure an acceptable level of background radi oacti vi ty in SNO 's innards, fi'om th e hea l,), watcr to all th e components orth e detector itse lf. "The Guelph group developed a very sen sitive technique for th e measurement of ultra low levels of ra dioacti vit y in water, whi ch is essential for th e SNO detector to reach its goals," says SNO project director Art McDon ald, a ph ys icist at Queen's Unive rsit y. "Meas uring radi oact ivity is our ga me," says resea rch ass oc iate Pillalamarr Jaga m durin g a tour of Sim pson's lab in th e base ment of th e MacNaughton Build in g, home to whJt Jaga m calls "the only ul tra-low back ground radi ati on research and development group in Ca nada." Po inting to a det ector resemblin g a stainless-steel salad bow l with a m atchin g lid , he says the Guelph - made de vice, JS w ith its co usins on perm anent du ty at SN O, picks lip infinitesim ally small amounts of ra dioacti vit y emitted naturall y by the observa tory's compo nents. Ja ga m helps run th ose dev ices at SNO, fo llowin g up on his role as superv iso r of a cl ea nin g crew d urin g SNO's constru ction "SNO is the larges t clean-room ever olltside of the electr on ics industr y," he says. "It's cleaner th an yo ur avera ge dinner plate."

Unlike th eir fell ow labourers in the m in e, who normall y hit the sbowers aft er a lo ng da y on th e ore face, th e scie ntists monitor ing th e o bse rvatory mu st shower bef ore enterin g their facility. Simil ar standa rds are m,lintained tor the heavy water in th e ac rylic vessel, which is fil tered dail y J nd tested for ambient rad ioactivit y. "It's th e purcst water in th e wo rld ," says Jian Wang, for merly J research associate in Simpso n's lab and now a consultant wi th U of G's GUA RD In c. The Guelph-d c-signed instruments h ave prove n lIseful in rela ted but more fa r-flung applications. JagaJl1 says scientists building

Above: Muon neutrinos produced from cosmic rays which strike Earth's abnosphere are detect ed by the SNO light sensors, producing a cone shaped pattern of energy. Right : An artist's sketch of the SNO detector shows the central acrytic vessel now filled with 1,000 tons of heavy water and surrounded by

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ly know if the universe will eventually collapse. ye t an oth er neutrino obs ervatory in Italy consulted with U of G physicists on radia ti on measurement. Closer to home, he has helped Prof. Richard Protz, Land Reso urce Science, quantify minute amounts of radioac tive cesium in so il samples taken from the Ecuadorean Andes an d from the Chernobyl site in Ukrain e. Law, a particle physicist, [las been involved since 1991 in writin g and test ing simulation software used by the project col laborators to model the workings of th e SNO detecto r. With the detector now oper ating, the package - dubbed SNOMAN will be used to analyse the data it generates . OUerhead, who first encountered SNO while chair of the Department of Physics, has long worked in expe rim en tal nuclear physics using accelerators such as th e one run by AECL in Cbalk River, Ont. Today's investi gations at SNO draw on at least one aspect of his ea rlier resea rch in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he developed neutral current detectors of the sort expec ted to help SNO sn iff out all three neutrino flavo urs. Sim pson's graduate student Nathaniel Tagg is studying cosmic ray particles called muons, which are detected as a byproduct in the obse rvatory. Unlike neutrinos, muons come from cosmic rays - or ionized nuclei - which begin Jife far beyond the sol ar sys tem, perhaps generated by stars exploding into supernovas or by shock waves emanating from coll.apsing black holes . When these cosmic rays hit the Earth's atmosp here, th ey create extremely high-energy particles that can be detected by SNO, some alon e or in pairs like bullets, others in a shower like shotgun pel lets. Comparing the ratio of single bullets to shotgun blas ts may tell Tagg something about how the particles originated. "When yo u build a detector, you get a lot of things for free," he says. "Muons are considered background to most of the collaboration, but there are some interes ting physics you ca n do with them." Beyond Guelph, the SNO collaboration brings together almost 100 scientists from II universities and labs in Canada, the United Sta tes and the United Kin gdom. Can ad ian participants includ e university resea rchers from Queen's, Car leton, Laurentian, Britisll

Columbia and Guelph. Wby Ca nad a? "Cana da ha s a lot of heavy water becau se of its nuclear power reactor development, the CAN DU reactor;' says OUerhead. "Basically, Cana da is tbe only country that can do the exper iment using heavy water, which is what gives this its unique flavour. The other thing is the undergro und aspect. All the neutrino exper imen ts are done undergro und for shielding from cosm ic rays and other sources of back ground radiation. The nickel mine in Sudbury is the deepest site in North America." It's al so important that Creighton mine is a working facility, says Si mpson. "[t has

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Physics is one of five dep art ments and schools in the College of Phys ical and Engin eeri ng Science ( CPES). Physics has more Roya l Society fellows than any other department on campus. Since 1993, ten CPES students, including two in physics, have received Nati onal Research Coun cil awards under the agen cy's Women in Engin eering and Sci ence Program. In 1999, CPES laun ched an inte grated four-year degree program in technology with Sen eca College in Toronto: majors in physics and technology or applied pharmace u tical chemistry. CPES plans to launch a new under graduate degree in computing sci ence next year to promote U of G strengths in bioinfomatics, neural networks, genetic algo rithm s and embedded systems. CPES offers a unique program called MPC2 that provides enriched studies in math ematics, physics, chemistry and computing science.

to be active becaus e it's the only way you can maintain the safety of th e mine." SNO's control room occupies a drift (miners' talk for a corridor) 6,800 fee t below the surface, deep eno ugh to accommodate a stack of about five CN Towers. Dw-ing the observatory's construction, a regular "express ca ge " whisked visitors directly down No.9 shaft to the detector as fast as a car travelling on a cit)' street. The shaft also served as the delivery conduit for the SNO components. Site manager Dun can Hepburn recall s es pecially the three months that it took to ship the [,000 tonnes of heavy water underground. "Th e ele va tor could take six tonnes at a time," he says, "so we had an elaborate schedule involving six tanker cars fill ed overnight and sent down early in th e morning on a speciall y sched uled cage." Adds mine man age r John Gill: " J don't think we spilled a drop." Now using regularly scheduled cages, sci entists crowd shoulder to sho ulder in the elevator with up to 40 miners during the 20-minute ride along the sloping ore seam. "Everyon e in the collaboration is expected to spend a certain number of shifts actual ly operating the detec tor," says O llerhead. "This is partly to save money, but also par t ly because th e physicists are the ones with the vested interes t and should be involved." Collaborators might spend seve ral weeks in Sudbury at a time, for up to six weeks a year. SN O scien tists expect to learn definitive ly within two years whether or not neutri nos have mass. T hey also anticipate that the observatory will yield information about the sun and about other structures far beyond our galaA),. "The missing mass question is a way of studying supnnovas," notes Oller head. "Th ere are many applications of this detector beyond just neutrinos from the sun." Why should anyone ca re about what these infinitesimally small particles teU us about cos mic-sized questions? "If you're going to be an ad vance d and civilized country, then you should be thinking about fundamental qu es tions and not just about where your next meal is coming from," says Simpson. "That's the dif ference, I think, between a civili7...ed society and a society that just lives from day to day." ga

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OAC DEA N Rick Richards, BSA '38, was recogn ized for his lifelong commi tme nt to excellence in admini stration, teach ing, research and ex tension wh en he \vas named 1999 AlumLlus of Honour by th e Un ive rsity o f Guelph Alumn i Associat ion. Th e pre sen tation was made durin g Alumni Weekend in lun e. Ri chard s bega n hi s ca ree r in soil sc ien ce: and pion ee red the process of soil classifi ca ti o n and map pin f', for Ontario. As head of th e Un iversit y's Depa rtm ent of Land Resou rce Science, he spear headed the constr uct ion o f new fa cili ties, provid ed lea dership in the deve lopment of broader, m ore sc ientifi c program s and th e ex pansioLl o f fa culty, and obta in ed more lan d areas for depart mental resea rch . He was app ointed th e first dea n of OAC in 1962 and was one o r the fou r prin cipal academi c leade rs \"ho shared in es tab lishin g the Uni ve rsit y of Guelph. After co mpletin g two terms as dean, he return ed to teac hing and retired in [98 1. As a professiona l agrologist, Richards impleme nted pl ans ror the Canadian Ag ri cultural Researc h Co un ci l as it s fi rst presi dent and was pres id ent o f the Ca nadian Soc iety of Su il Science, th e Ontari o In stitute of Ag rologists and tht: Agr icu ltural In stitu te of Can ada. He was also the Canadian representa ti ve to th e Un ited Nations Food and Agricu lture O rga niz<Jtion. ORMER

ALUMNI VO LU NTEER AWARD Av ID ADA MS, BSA '49. has always made his alma mater a pri

ori t)', and in 1999, th e Uni ve rsit y of Guelp h Alumni Associa

tion app lauded th at loya lty by presentin g him with its 1999 Alulll

ni Volu nteer Awa rd .

Adams has demo nstrated a devot ion to volun teer excellence through his com mitment to the Universit y, OAC and hi s alumni class, OAC '49. He was UGAA pres id ent in 1968/69, president of the OAC Alu Jllni Associatio n in 1965/66 and a member of th e Uni versi ty Senate and Boa rd of Govern ors fro m 1970 to 1973. In add i tion , he has Jllad e mu ltiple contr ibu tions to OAC '49 ac tivities. He was instrumenta l in orga ni zin g 50th -anniversar y class celebration s for Alumni ·Weekend '99, which included th e ded ication of th e Yea r '49 OAC po nd ga rden at th e Arbo retum Cent re and the res tora ti on of the Johnston Hall portico. Adams's giving sp irit car ri es over into his pro(ess iona lli fc . He has had a distingu ished career in the ag ri -food indust ry and wa s general manage r of the Canadi an Meat Co uncil whe n hL reti red in 1993. He cont inues to share hi s expertise with the co unc il and as a volu ntee r for th e Royal Ag ri cultural '''''inter Fair and th e Ca na dian Nat ional Exhibition FARlv'!.

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R.. AD RIAN P ARK'S WO RK in th e area o f minimally invasive surge ry has earned him internati onal recogniti on as a leadin g surgeo n and educa tor in his fi eld . His advancements in the use of laparoscop ic tec hniques have improved treatm ent for an ex tensive range of m ed ica l disorders that in the past could only be handled thro ugh trad itional sur ge ry. [n 1997, he was rec ruited to establish a new program at th e Uni ve rsity of Kentucky. Pa rk was honoured th is sprin g wit h the Unive rsit y of G uelph f\l.umni Associati on's Alumni Medal of Achievem ent. He received a bachelor of science fro m Gu elph in 1985 and a doctor o f med i cine from McMa ster Uni versity in 1987. He completed his training at St. Joseph's Hos pital and r'ilcMas ter Uni ve rsity Affiliated Hosp ital s in Hamilto n, O nt. , and at the Uni versit), of Montrea l before Jo ining St. Jose ph's as a ge neral sur geo n in 1994. The Guelph meda l recogni zes th e professional lea dership and achie ve ments demons trated in Park's still- yo un g career and his compassionate ca re of pati ents. He and his wife, Jennifer, 8A '84, have three children, Hilary, Meredith and Evan.

ove DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS UNCAN SINC LAIR'S CONTR IB UTIO NS to career an d soc iety have prove n bis leade rsh ip and expe rtise in hea lth sciences. He grad uated fro m OVC in 1958 and received a ma ster of sc ience fro m OAC in 1960, sp ecializing in nutriti on. He the n ea rn ed a PhD in physiology at Queen's University in 1963 and bega n a ca reer focused primaril y on human health. Sincl air was <l consultant to th e Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs on the Animals for Researc h Act ilnd bega n his academic career at Q uee n's as dean of arts and science in 1974. He we nt on to serve as vice-principal, institutional relati ons, ser vices an d hea lth sciences, before ass um ing the role of dea n of med icine. He ret ired from Queen's in 1996. He has heJd other presti gious positi ons, includin g directo r general of the Medical Resea rch Co un cil , and was tile recipient of OVe's Schofield ]V[edal in 1983. Sinclair is now deeply in vo lved in advising the Ontari o minis ter of hea ltil on ways to rein vest and restructure th e delivery of healt h services in the province. He chairs th e Hea lth Services Restr ucturin g Co mmission, an independ ent body of health experts and professionals appoi nted to red esign tbe provincial health system.

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U of G Can1pus Welcoill.es Alumni

LUMNI WEEKEND J999 brought mor e th a n 1,300 visitors to campus Jun e 18 to 20. In addition to th e tr aditi o nal awards luncheo n hosted by U of G president Mordech ai Roza n ski , there we re man y spec ial events and cla ss reunions. The new Order of OAC was pre sented to Mary a nd Rick Richards, BSA '38, at th e Go ld en Anniversary Dinner, and the Class of J 974 hosted a reuni o n dinner with Calgary Flames Hockey Club CEO Ron Brem ner, BA '7 J, as guest speaker. Bill Laidlaw, BA '74, chaired the

orga ni zing co mmittee and says proceeds will be used to help the class establi s h a mille nnium scho larship to co mmemorate its 25 th anni ve rsar)1of graduation. Th e Uni vers it y of Guelph Alumni Associat ion held its ann ual meeting d uring Alumni Wee kend and elected a new slate

of offi cers for 1999 /2000: Scott

va nEnge n, B.Sc.(Ag r.) '88, pres

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ORDER OF OAC ESTABLISHED MAR Y AND RlCK RICHARDS,

BSA '38, are th e first inductees into the Order of OAC, estab lished ea rli er thi s year by the OAC Alumni Fo und a ti o n to recognize significant contribu tions to its end ow ment fund . Ri ck served as dean of OAC [Tom 1964 to 1972 (see sto ry on page 28) . Mary also worked in the college and has been a

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Ginty jocius, B.Sc.(Agr.) '70, left, chair of the OAC Alumni Foundation, presents the Order of OAC to Mary and Rick Richards, BSA '38.

President Mordechai Rozanski and representatives of the alumni

classes and individuals who supported U of G's six new themati c

gardens cut the ribbon to officially open them duri ng Alumni Week

end. From left are Bill Gregg, BSA '53 and DVM '61: Don Gri eve,

BSA '55 and MSA ' 57; Harold Shield, BSA '51; Sandra Hannam ;

Cla y Switze r, BSA '51 and MSA '53; Rozans ki; Marilyn Robinson Murray, B.H.5c. '55; Ted McNinch , BSA '49 ; Bruce Stone, BSA '53 and MSA '54; Harold Bentley, BSA '64 and M.Sc. '66; Craig Hunter, B.5c.(AgL) '74 and M.Sc. '77 ; and Les Laking, BSA '39 and HDSC '71. The conservatory greenhouse was un ve iled moments later by Don Rutherford, BSA ' 51, who gave the leadership gift ensuring it s res toration on behalf of his famil y.

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GRYPHON SW IMMER S Peter Koli snyk, B.Sc.(H.K.) '83, and Denise (FarndaJe) 'vVatso n, B.A.Se. '85, were recog ni zed at the ann ual Homecoming sw im mee t for having attended more often th an any other alumni. Other participants includ ed 1999 graduates Nico le Weber, B.Se. CEng. ), Greg Steinberg, B.Sc.(H.K.), and Nancy Sweetnam, B.Comm. , who has been a mem ber of two Canadian Ol ympic teams ( 1992 and 1996). The alumni team defeated the stud ent team s with the help of Leo n ORMER

Form er Guelph mayor and sports broadcaster Norm la ry received the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame Merit Award Sept. 24 at the annual induction c re mony that also honoured five former Gryphon athletes. From left are Paul Willi ams , a cross-country and track athlete and three-time Canadian Olympian; Bob Pronk, B.Comm. '82 , Ontario and Canadian cham pionship wrestler; Dave Guest, B.Comm. '87, a former all·star soccer and vo lleyba ll player; Gladys Williams, BA '69, MVP in both wo men'S fi eld ho ckey and ice hockey; lary; and Mark Brown, B.Comm . '81, Wi ld man Trophy winner and foo tball capta in. The Gryphon Club also recognized the 19 74 men's rugby OUAA championship team .

Garsteck.i, Gryphon diving coach in the mid I970s, and retired botany professo r Hugh

Dale, a longtime Gryp hon supporter and a national record-b olding masters swimmer.

•49 VETS MEET AT TRAlEE The OVC Cla ss of 1949 produced a la sting memory of its 50th anni versary by filming the lune 18 gathering held at Tralee Farms, the home of class member Ray Cormack. Classmates travelled from across Canada and the United States to attend th e reunion, which included a lun cheon, a visit from U of G president Mordechai Rozan w Q)

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ski and a tour of Cormack's farm and antique carriage collection. The organizing committee of Dave House, Bill Mitchell, Ken Fisk and lim Arch ibald succeeded in producing a golden-anniversary memento that captu res the day's events and everyone in attendance as they comm ent on their lives since graduating from OVe.

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Careers Night host ed by Mac-FACS Alumni Asso ciation. For informatio", call Laurie MalleaLi at Ext. 2102. Jan. 28 - Careers Night host ed by HAFA Alumni Associa tion. For information, call Lau rie Malleau at Ext. 2102. Jan. 28 - Aggie Good Tim es Banquet. Call the OAC Studwl Federation at Ext. 8321 for tick et information. Feb. 3 - Job hir at Bingeman Park in Kitchener; compli mentary bus service from Uni versity Centre for students and alumni . For directions and a list of employers, call U of G Career Services at Ext. 22 13. Feb. 11 - Deadline for nom ina tions for U of G Alumni Association Alumnus of Hon our, Alumni Medal of Achieve ment and Alumni Volunteer Award , and the OVC Distin guish ed Alumnu s. Call Carla Bradshaw at Ext. 6657 for details. March 1 - Annual alumni Florida reunion at Maple Leaf Estates, Port C harlotte, Flori da. For information, call alum ni programs at 519-824 -4120, Ext. 6657, send e-mail to alum ni@uoguelph.ca or call Jack Hanna in Florida after Jan. 1 at 813-645-0905. March 18 & 19 - College Ro yal. March 31 & April 1 - OAC Alumni Association annu al bonspiel at the Guelph Curl ing Club and Guelph Country Club. Call Carla Bradshaw at t;xt. 6657 to register. • For more information on any alumni event, call the U of G extension listed at 519- 824 4120 or send e-mail to al11111 niC!vzlOguelph.ca. Jan. 26 -

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The Human Kinetics/Human Biology Alumni Association presented a sketch of the John T. Powell Buildin g to U of C's new H ealth and Perfor mance Centre at a June 19 reunion of alumni and former staff. Artist Joan Harper, B.Se.(HK) '82, left, and retired professor John Powell, right, witnessed a presentati o n by asso ciation pres ident Janet Leonhard, B.Se.(HK) '82, to Prof. Terry Graham.

A silent auction held Sept. 14 to 16 a t the Ou tdoo r Farm Show in Woods tock, Ont., ge n erated a lot of excitement and goodwill in OACs 125th anniversary year and raise d $5 1,000 th at wi ll support stu dent recruitm ent programs in the college. T he auction was organi zed by Cinty Jociu s, B.Sc.(Agr.) '70 , president of Ginty Jocius & Associates of Guelph, on behalf of the OAC Alumni Foundation. Auction items d onated by friends and exhibitors at th e farm show included everylhing from farm equipment and sup plies to a seven -month-old lla ma named (-;i nty. Lorie Jocius, B.A.Se. '72, purchased her hus band's namesake and gave it to OAC as an anniversary presen t at th e Sept. 25 Heritage Ban quet and Ball.

FUN D-RAISI NG PARTNERSHIPS GROW

U ofG introduced a new approacll to fund-raising that centres on academic priorities identified by the ,ix colleges. Now the Uni ve rsit y expa nd s this initiative through the formation of a new Annual Fund Cou ncil that will recruit volunteers to proactive ly help meet tll0se funding goals. "By enlarging the partner ship between academics and fund-raisers, we arc focusing our efforts more clearly on the Un i versi ty's overall stra tegic objec tives," says Rudy Putns, executive director of campaign progra ms. "We are calling on coUege deans to help ensure that our annual giving programs are providing the grea test possible benefit to students. Our volunteer and proA RLIER THIS YEAR,

fessional fund -raisl'l's wiJl spend more of th ei r time making per so nal requ es ts for gifts to the University and less time on in house administra tion." Members of the Annual Fund Council will invite donations Crom alumni , members of the campu~ community, th e paren ts of current students, graduating classes, members of the various gift clu bs (President's Council, etc.) and selected corporations, foundations and associations. Development and Public Affairs staff w ill help target vol unteer efforts where they wi ll have the stronges t impact on gro win g don or particip ation and fund razsing results. Annual giving is on e of the most crucial parts of an institu

tion 's developmen t agenda. says Putn s. "Annu al donors help maintain the quali ty of estab lished academic programs, espe cially in times of redu ced pub lic fundin g:' he says. "They also provide a foundation for special fun cl-rai sing cam paigns campaigns that enable the Uni ve rsity to grow by providi ng fun ds for major projects that do not ha ve a traditional so urce of support." Tbe ACCESS endow ment for student financial assist ance and the rece nt campaign to upgrade th e Food Science Building are notable examples. For more illjormation aboLit the An17ual FUlld Co ullcil, call Al1/11.tal Fund 17l1lnager Tara George at 519-824-4 120, Ex t. 390 1, or Putl7S at ext. 6384.

GRAD NEWS

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U of G Degrees ADA = Associate diploma in agriculture BA = Bachelor of arts BASe. = Bachelor of applied science B.Comm. = Bachelor of commerce B.H.Se. .. Bachelor of house hold science BLA = Bachelor of landscape architecture BSA = Bachelor of science in agriculture (pre-196s) B.Se.(Agr.) .. Bachelor of science in agriculture

BoSe. = Bachelor of science

B.Se.(Eng.) = Bachelor of

science in engineering

B.Sc.(Env.) = Bachelor of

science in environmental sciences B.Se.(H.K.) :: Bachelor of science in human kinetics B.Sc.(p.E.) = Bachelor

of science in physical

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DHE = Diploma in home economics D.V.Sc. = Doctor of veterinary science DVM = Doctor of veterinary medicine

GO = Graduate diploma

MA = Master of arts

M.Agr. = Master of agriculture

MBA = Master of business

admininstration M.Eng. = Master of engineering

MFA = Master of fine art MLA .. Master of landscape architecture MMS = Master of management studies M.Sc. = Master of science M.Sc.(Aqua) = Master of science in aquaculture ODA = Ontario diploma in agriculture ODH = Ontario diploma in horticulture OdR = Ontario Diploma in recreation PhD = Doctor of philosophy

and Redfern at its Kitchener office . The Guelph lineage aCl ually bega n in the Morton fami ly wit h Greg'.. great grantimoliln, Anne Pringle Morton , DH E 1914.

larges t who lesale fruit, pro duce and flower market in Canada and one of the largest in orrh America. He was for merly director and vice-cha ir of the board. • Gary Powell, ADA '58, stopped at a remote motel in western klahoma last Janu ary and stanee! a conver sation with th e only other cus tomer at breakfa st the next morning. Turn s out they were both U of G grads. Powell and Joe Deli, B.Sc. (Agr. ) '64, had a great time reminiscing abo Llt ca mpus perso nalities they both knew. " I guess one is never really very far from home," says Powell. • Dave Valentine, BSA '59, has retired as (o unty engineer for the County of Brant in Ontario. He previously spent 23 years with Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough and has served 8S engineer for the coun ties of Haliburton and Victoria. He and his wife, Carole, are now Jiving near Carlisle. Send e-mail to valc ntin@wo rldchat. com.

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• The Macdonald Institute Class of 1941 met each other for the firsl lime in 19 39 and th ey've been gelling logelher r\vice a year siIlce gradual ion. Celebrating 60 yea rs of fri end ship this year are Mary (Hcx imer) MacLe,ln, Beth (jackson) Ca rdifF, Mo lly (Patt'rson) Ni.x, Frances (Pellet) Smith, Dorolh y (Pond) Dunn, Jeanne (Taylor ) Hamel, Phyllis (Weren) Sobel and Evelyn (Eatun ) Pond. • Jim Morton, BSA '47, posed with his son , Robert, SA '70, and grandso ns Jeff Bell, 13A '9 1, and Greg Mo rton , S.Sc.( Eng.) '99, at Greg's U of G convocation in Jun e. Retired from a career in the lumber bu siness , Jim is an OAC 'llu m · ni volunteer al Guclph an d is aClive in cOm11lUnil'y work in Burlington, Onto Rob ert is CEO of the Community Care Access Centre in Simcoe Coullly. Jeff lcaches in Elm valc for the Simcoe County Dislricl School Board , and Greg is working Wil h the COnSl.liling engineering firm of Proclor

Greg Morton, Jeff Bell and Jim and Ro bert Morton.

19505

• Harold Baker, BSA '50, writes to w rrect the e-mail ad dress publi shed in the last iss lle of the C/le/pll Alun/nl/s. Friends (;111 conlact the retired Un iversity of Saskatchewan professo r and Il is wife, Phyllis, at ha kc r h @duke.L1 sa~k .ca. • Barney Goodwin-Wilson, BSA '50, is serving a two-year krm as chair of th e hoard of lhe Onta rio Foocllerm inal. The 'Iomnlo facility is the

• Manuel Garcia, PhD '67, was recognized by th e government of the Ph ilippines in December 1998 with one of the highest honours given to Filipinos Jiv ing outside the cou ntr y. Garcia is a senior consulting mi crobi ologist with lAS Bio Diagnostic and a former research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa. He is inter nationally recognized for his work in veterinary med icin e and public health on th e early detection of ca mpylobacter, salmonella and other food borne pathogens. He is a mem ber of several learned profes sional societies and has been in vol ved in a number of inter national developm ent projects. He is also a community volun teer and a pioneer in establish ing the National Council of Canadian Filipino Associations as the official voice of Filipino Canadians nationwide. • Tom Hutchison, DVM '65, is a veteri nary pathologist with the Nova Scotia provincial diagnostic lab. In 1998, he passed the board cer tifi catio n exa ms for the American College of Poultry Veterinarians in Baltimore, but the year's highlights came in late summer - a first grand child for Tom and his wife, Eileen, in August and the birth of their own son, Scott, in September. • Brian Little, ADA '67, B.Sc.(Agr.) '72 and M.Sc. '78, was elected president of the Canadian 4-H Foundation in May. He was previously presi dent of the Ca nadian 4-H Co uncil and a co uD cil repre sentative for his employe r, the Royal Bank of Canada. He has been a fou nd ation trustee for

f all/Winter 1999 33

several years and has a strong

in g in training, facilitation and

He also teaches at the

19805

4-H background as a member and a club leader.

consulting. She now lives on a

University of Waterloo, pri-

• Bruce Brown, B.Se.(Agr.)

cash-crop farm in Ohio.

vately and at the National Music Ca mp of Canada, where

'85, and his wife, Claudia (Liebscher), BA '84, have three

19705

he sometimes offers an infor-

children who are beginning to

• Doug Franklin, SA '72 , was

display their dad's musical

recen tly a ppoin led execu tive

mal course on in sect identification. "There are always a few

director of the Multiple

kids who really dig that," he

Sclerosis Association of America; its hea d office is in

says. U of G music lovers

years of dairy farming, Bruce want back to school to earn an

enjoyed his saxophone music

education degree and is now

Cherry Hill, N.J. H e was for

at a noon-hour concert in October. • Peter Vaughan, SA '77 and

teaching science with the Durham District School

merly with the Intern ational Youth Foundation in

Board. • Tom Burns, BA '89 and MA

Baltimore, Md. • Cathie Leimbach,

• Willem Moolenbeek, B.Se. '77 and M.Se. '8 1, studied biol

tar y general and CEO of the

'91, is a member o f the

S.Sc.(Agr.) '78 and M.Agr. '88,

ogy and entomology at U of G

Canadian Medical Association

Victoria Police in Melbourne,

visi ted U of G thi s fa ll as

at the sa m e time he was learn

in June. A fa culty member in

Australia. Last summer, he

agrologist-in-residence. It was th e sixth year of the program

in g to play the saxo phone with

two departments at John s

welcomed visitors from the

the Royal Conservatory of Mu sic. He says he still loves

Hopkins University and in th e Department of Family

RCMP, including Kevin Durie, BA '93. They quickly estab-

science, but music has become

Medicine at the University of Ottawa , he is a fo rm er presi-

lished a U of G connection,

dent of th e medical staff at

co-sponsored by OAC and the Ontario Institute of Agrologists (OlA ). Rai sed on

MA '77, was appointed secre-

prowess on the kazoo. After 14

an Ontario dairy and swine

his career. A recitalist, soloist and clinician, he ha s been a

farm , Leimbach is past presi

saxophon e instructor at

Guelph General Hospital and a

employment at Dcr Keller, which was Burns's favourite

dent of the OI A and a partner in STRIVE!, a team specializ

McMaster Univer sity in H a milton, Ont., fo r 15 years.

former fli ght surgeon with the Ca nadian Ai r Force.

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in Southfield, Mich., with their

time, "we spent most of our

twins, Nathalie and Nathan,

time talking about the great times we had at U of G." In

born in October 1998. She is a health-care consultant with

still another coincidence, Durie is married to Christine Blake-Durie, BA '91 and MA

Computer Sciences Corporation. Send e-mail to milleroh@sprint.ca .

'93, who was a member of Burns's MA group. Burns says

• Vijay Singh, M.Se. '70, has been awarded the Arthur K.

other U of G grads travelling to Melbourne are more than

Barton Endowed Professorship at Louisiana State University.

welcome to drop in.

He also recently received an

• Stuart Jackson, ADA '87, is distribution manager for

honorary degree and a Fulbright Award for his work

Burnbrae Farms Ltd. in Delta,

in the area of entropy.

Onto He sends greetings to all OAC friends, including the

• Gayle (Barton) Tapper, B.Se. '81 (biological science) and '83

diploma classes of 1979 and 1980.

(computing science) has been employed at Memorial

• Laurel (Murdoch) Koumarelas, B.Comm. '84, is

University in St. John's, Nfld., for 14 years in the Department

an ESL teacher with the Toronto School Board. She and her husband, Gus, live in

of Computing and Communications. She is com

Mississauga with their sons, Robert and Evan.

losophy and humanities at Memorial and is the principal

pleting graduate work in phi

• Trish Looman , BA '87, works for Royal LePage Vantage in Guelph. She spe

harpist with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra. Last year, she

cializes in residential multi unit real estate.

released a CD of Latin/world

• Laima (Karosas) Laffitte, B.Se.(Agr) '85 and M.Agr. '91,

traditional music on the South American harp. Visit her Web

AIRBORNE ALUMNUS Olive Thompson, DHE '35, celebrated her 85th birthday with her head in the clouds. She made her first parachute jump with instructor Scott Borghese in Simcoe, Ont., in June and says it was the most exciting thing she's done in her life. Thompson lives in Dunnville and has four children and three grandchildren. When she asked them about the paracbute jump, they told her to "go for it." She's considering a repeat jump next year and hopes her adventure will be a good example for other seniors. A dedicated member of the class of Mac '35, Thompson was president of the University of Guelph Alumni Association in 1977/78 and keeps busy now with volunteer work for the Salvation Army.

cal -gay!.

living in Calgary and welcome

• Carolyn Riddell , BA '85, is running an active arts educa

contact with western grads and friends from Guelph. Send e-mail to m_e_bacon@hot

and Vincent is an account

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• Laura Wilkinson, B.Se. '85 and M.Se. '87, is a coroner in

• Deborah (Panton) Bodden, B.A.Sc. '93, and her husband,

department at Novopharm Limited in Toronto. • Angela Dodd, BA '93, and Christopher Kemp, B.Se.(H.K.) '94, were married

tion and painting/printmaking studio in Fergus, Ont.

British Columbia and lives on

Lyndhurst, were married in

a cattle ranch near 70 Mile House.

1998 and live in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands,

patico.ca. They also want to let OAC '85 grads know that the

199 05

schoo!.

• Kristi Adamo, B.Sc.(H.K.) '96 and M.Sc. '98, and Rob

• Elizabeth Cardno, M .Se. '99, is working with the Rural

McMullin, B.Se. '95, were

Health Research Consortium

Physiotherapy as a kinesiolo

married in May 1999 and Jive in Ottawa.

at the University of Saskatchewan developing

directory. f\ IS-year reunion is being planned for Dec. 2

• Michelle (Pilon) Bacon, BA '90, has been living in London, England, with her husband ,

research projects on rural health issues in relation to the Canadian Institute for Health

gist. She is employed at Manulife Financial in Waterloo.

and 3,2000.

Tim, and children, Juliette and

Research.

and part-time nutrition con

• Cheryl Miller-Oh, B.A.Se. '91, and her husband, Tae, live

Lu cien, but they are planning a return to Canada. They will be

• Jeannine Cote, BA '9 J, lives in Hamilton, Ont., and works

sultant in Cannington, Onto

ing e-mail) to add to the

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home-support worker. • Jeremy Debling, B.Se. '94, is a formulation chemist in the pharmaceutical development

manager at the St. Isidore

oac85 and needs updated names and addresses (includ

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as a health -care aide and

branch of Scotiabank. They'd like to hear from classmates via e-mail at Iaffitte.on@sym

class executive is building a Web page at www.rkde.com/

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her husband, Vincent, M.Agr. '91, and their children, Yohan and Marina. Laima is the

Canadian Veterinary Journal,

:;;

site at http://www.ucs.mun.

lives in Wendover, Ont., with

advertising manager for The

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where she teaches primary

Aug. 14. They've bought a new home in Etobicoke, Ont., where he works for Canada 3000 Airlines and at Kingsway

• Sheryl Harding Friedrich, B.A.Se. '85, is a full-time mom

She and her husband, Cal, Fa ll/Winter 1999 35

have three child ren, Jonathan, Daniel and Anna. • Anne Marie (Henwood) Harman, BA '95, is enjoying her time at home with one I

year-old Jenna. She and he r husband , Murray, can be reached bye-mail at 3har mans@storm.ca.

starred as Mump the Clown in

• Andrew Nicholls, MA '90 and PhD '97, is an assistant

the Canadian Stage Company production of Mump & Smoo t

professor of history at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, N .Y.

in Something Else With Zug last winte r at tbe Canadian Stage

He recen tly published the book The Jacobean Union: A

Theatre in Toronto. • Sharon McConnell, B.Se. '90

Reconsideration of British Civil Policies Under th e Early Stuarts, which offers a new

and M.Se. '93, went on from U of G to ea rn a diploma in business management from

perspective on the role of mul -

nications in Cambridge. • Christine (Rogers) Patten, BA '9 1, lives in Toronto and has been working as a sales representative and industry training facilitator since graduation . She and her husband, Vincent, celebrated the birth of their first child, Ga reth , in March 1999.

• Rosaleen Heffernan, BA '96, and Barry Liboiron, B.Se. '97,

Wilfrid Laurier University.

tiple monarchy in the early

were married in August. They're both studying at the

Since 199 5, she has worked in Toronto as a project director at

modern British kingd om s.

University of British Co lumb ia, where Liboiron is

Burak Ja co bso n Market Resea rch Partners Ine.

doing a PhD in chemistry and

• Michael McKay-Fleming, BA

He ffe rnan is completing a degree in educati on.

'92, has launched two daily comic strips via the Internet.

wi th special needs.

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• Krista Hilton, B.A.Se. '95, lives in Halifax with her hlls

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• Sarah Perkins, B.Se.(Agr.) '92, joined Pfizer Anima l

• Tammy Tipler Priolo, B.A.Se. '90, lives in her hom e

band, Michael Galloway. She is

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town of No rth Bay, Ont., with

a priest in the Anglica n Church of Canada and serves as curate

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her husband, Clark, and their two-year-old daug hter, Erica.

• Jennifer (Pope) Parney, B.A.Sc. '94, works at ChathamKent Integrated Children's

physical therapy at the University of To ronto. He

Service - Heritage Campus - with chi ldren and famili es

1999 and lives in Oakv ille. His e-mail address is

a t the Ca thedral Church of All

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back to Ontario in 1997 to work for AgLine Commu-

• Michael Kennard , BA '86,

• Guiseppe Peritore, B.Se.(H.K.) '96, is studying

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OBITUARIES

W illi a m Ba rn es, DVM '59 , died Se pt. 7,

Rud y Brown , BSA ' 59 , Jun e 29, 1999

George Pl a kidas, MA '93, date unkn own

1999. He grew up in th e N iaga ra area,

Walter Bunn , BSA ' 52 , Sept. 2, 1999

Virgini a Ree d , OD H '66, \ 1arch 1, 1999

but spent hi s professio nal ca ree r in a

Marga ret Byrnes, DH E '40, Apr il 22, 1999

Rose Re ynol d s, D HE ' 28, Apri l 17, 1999

ve terina ry prac ti ce in Ill inois. H e was a

Joa n Ca meron, D H E ' 36, Ap ril 10, 1999

Ern es t Ro berts o n, BSA '37 , Aug. 6, 1999

dr ivi ng force in th e Ame rican Ve ter in ary

Wil liam C ap e ll, BSA '54 , Aprd 25, 1999

Ja m es Ro ss, BSA ' 34, Au g. 23, 1999

Me dica l Asso oatio n and in bo th the

T homas Ca rd, BSA ' 47,Ju ne 20, 1999

G ra nt Savage, D VM '48, Ma rch 2, 1999

C hicago and IlJin o is assoc iati o ns. He

Jean

wa s also a fo un ding mem ber o f the

Loi C lipsham, D H E ' 27, Ju ne 23, 1999

a rter, DH E '38, Jun e 28, 1999

Earl Shuh , BSA '36, Jul y 5, 1999 Eu ge ne Smit h , BSA '3 1. Ja n. 27, 1999

Ch icago-based Friend s of Unicerslty of

Bruce Cohoe, BSA '3 3, Feb. 2, 1999

Will ia m Smyth , MA '90, Oc tober 1997

G uelph , a ch ar itable o rga ni zat ion

Geoffrey Collins, BSA '28, Ma y 21, 1999

Ch er y l Ann Somerville, B.Se( Agr.) '96,

fo und ed in 1975 to serve Guelph a lu mni

Al exa nder C o nnell, ADA ' 60, Ju ly 26 ,

living in the United Sta tes.

Sept. IS , 1999 C a rl Steven son, BSA '46, Aug. 26, 1999

1999 John Currie, BA '74 , Sep t. 18, 1999

Robert Tennant, BSA ' 49, May 5, 1999

George Dickson , BSA '38, di ed O ct. 9,

Willi a m C u rrie, BSA '5 9 , Nov. 27, 1998

G regory To stevin, BA '93 , Feb. 10, 1999

1999 . H e spen t h is entire caree r w ith

C a rma n Da vey, DVM '39 , Apr il 15, 1999

Gerald Trant, BSA ' 51, Se pt. 1, 1999

Ca n ada Pac kers, m oving up f["Om mai l

D ou g Doerkse n , ADA '84 , Ju ne 5, 1999

Bennie Urquhart, DV M '54, Ap ril 4, 1999

cle rk to exec lltive vice-pres id ent a nd

Jo a nn e DU ll can -Robin son , BA '81 a nd

G a il Wamsl ey, BA '70 , July 24 , 1998

d irector. After retirin g in 1976, he

MA '86, July 22, 1999

G ladys Ward , D IlE '27, Ap ri l 8, 1999

devoted ma ny vo lu ntee r hou rs to U of

Robert Erskin e, BSA ' 41 , May 2, 1999

Catherine Welch , BSA '2 2, Ma rch 3, 1998

a memb er of Boa rd o f Gove rn o rs

Will ia m Fisher, BSA '48, Au g. 5, 1999

M abel ( McCa rthy) Zi e gler, DH E '26 ,

a nd the OAC Alumni Associatio n.

Norm Freeman, BSA '49, Jul y 2, 1999

Apr il 29 , 19 99

Al exa n d er Gc ncr, BSA '32, Dee 27, 1998 Ja m es Pi n.kn ey, DVM '3 7 , died July 3,

Rudy G oltz, BSA ' 33, Jul y 28 ,1 999

Facu lty & Staff

1999 . A respe cted ve ter in aria n in hi s

To m Grah am , BS

Pro f. Sid Gilbe rt, Sociolog)' and An thro

'50 , Dee 3, 1998

h om e t o~\'ll o f Cooksv il le, O nt. , he was

Ed na H as tin gs, D H E '32 , July 11 , 1999

als o recog ni zed as a p remier swi ne

Jack H ea therin gto n, DVM '54, April 18 ,

breeder, showman a nd ju dge. He was

polog)', Se pt. 8, 1999 Rev. C a non Ritchi e McM urray, eCllm eni ca l ch ap lain 1968 to 198 3,

1999

active in m a ny ag ricultural o rga niza

Pa tric ia Hill, B.Sc. '96, MMch 9, 1999

tio ns a nd in bot h the Ontario a nd

Ral p h Hills, BSA '54, June 14, 1999

Ca nadian Vete rin ary Med ical assoc ia

Murray H o ltby, ADA '47, O ct. 29, 1998

Fri e nds

tio ns. He was a lo ngti m e supp orte r o f

Shawn H owden , B

Yvonne Al exan de r, M~y 15, 1999

th e Unive rsity, especially th e OVC

james j ackson, BSA '34 , April 29, 1999

jerry lkirn es, Se pt. 2, 1999

mu seum, and was n amed OVC

Ka re n ( Re ic hardt ) Kister, B. H .Se ' 7 0 ,

Marga ret C urran , Dec. 28, 1998

Di stinguish ed Alumnus in 19 87.

'9 1,J uly8,1 999

Ap rilll , 1999 Alb ert Kristjanson, BSA '50, Dec. 7, 1998

Aug. 19, 19 99

John G od win , in 1999 !'viark G renville, Nov. 6, 1998

Audrey Yea n d le, DHE '25, di ed March

Jo hn Laffert )', BSA '5 1, Aug. II , 1999

Peter Hallm a n , Ju ne 22, 1999

17, 1999, in St ratford , O nto A profes

Ron Lawren ce, DV M '43, Mel), 4, 1999

Elsi e Mae john sto n, Sept. 12, 1999

sio nal di et it ia n , she wo rked to two ho s

Ann e Legate, B.Se '89 , March 1999

C lover H ele na La dou ce ur , Sept. 4, 1999

p itals a nd tau ght home eco no m ics at

Tsu- Pe n g " Stephen " i iu, M ,Sc. '65, Ma )'

Ed it h Pa tterson , in 1993

the Jo hn Fi, he r Sc ho ol In Toro nto .

Hl, 1998 Rob er t Luckha m , ADA '58, Jan. IS, 1999 Ja m es Lyon s, BSA ' 59, Au g. 2"~ , 1999 Willi a m M ack, B.Sc.(Eng. ) ' 84 , Ju ne 7,

Andrew Peterson , Aug. 26, 1999

Active In com munity orga nizatio ns a nd her chu rc h , she was a lo n g time U of G suppo rter a nd left a n es ta te gift of ove r $475,000 to p rov ide bursaries for future

1999

Ed ga r St rin ge r, March 1999 Gerry Van de rgri ft, Sep t. 28, 1999 Fra nk Watson , March 23, 1999 Barr y Wood s, Jul y 30, 1999

Gu elph students.

T helm a M a rtin , D HE ' 41 , Jul y 13,1999 Helen M cBratney, D lI E '34 , in 1998

"Me m orial fun ds h ave bee n se t up to

Alumni

All an "Bud " McCardle, BSA '52, May 10,

esta bli sh a U o f G sc ho larshi p in 1))CJ)lO r)'

Jo hn Andrews, DVM '38, June 27, 1999 Harri s Baker, BSA '33, Fe bru ary 1998 Hu gh Balkwill, BSA '53, Jun e 27, 1999

1999 Ri chard M cD onald, O AC C la ss of ' 47 , lV1a rch 24, 1999

of Jea n Caner and ~ Jack a nd Ge rr y Van derg l'ift: m emoria l lec t u rc series in th e Sc h oo l o f La ndscap e A rc hitec ture. Fo r

John Bowles, BA '72, Sept. 23, 1999

john M eeuse, ADA '58, Jul y 19, 1999

more info rm ati o n abo ut mem o ria l do na

Edwa rd Bow ness, DVM '32, May 13, 1999

Ra ym o nd Parr, D VM '3 7, Ap ril 7, \ 999

tions, c81 15 19- 82·1- 4 120, Ext. 6196.

Fa ll / Winter 1999 39

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

the CWay CWe CWere

FROM THE ARCHIVES

ISTORIANS CAN'T PINPOINT

the date that th e Uni

versity o f Gu elph's landmark portico wa s carved

from Ontario lim es to ne, but its familiar columns pre

Because the ravages of time and weather had weak ened the limes to ne structure to a dan gerous point , it was di smantled earli er this fall and und erwent much

date the 1874 fo und ing o f the Ontario Agr icu ltural Col

needed repairs to the stonewo rk, ceiling and roof. The

lege by several yea rs.

OAC C lass of 1949 raised $75,000 to fund the p roject

Originally fronting a fa rmh o use on Moret on Lodge Farm, the orna te front porch stoo d at the entran ce of

as a 50th- anniversa ry gift to the ca mpu s and a way to

the main co ll ege building until the "O ld Res idence" was demolished in 1929 to make way for the co nstruction

Now completely resto red, th e portico is back in place o n Johnston Green, whe re it co ntinues to se rve as an

of Johnston Hall. It's believed the portico was erected

elegant reminder of ca mpus histor y and a favour ite

on Johnston Green in 1934 .

pla ce fo r convocation and wedding photographs.

GUELPH A LU MNUS

commemo ra te the 125th anniversa ry of OAC.

Alumni Collection Clothing

Rugger Shirt, as shown, S-XXXL ................................ 79.95

Golf Shirt, white or tan, S-XXL .................................. 49.95

Quarter-Zip Cotton Fleece, red, S-XXL...................... .59.95

Conon Tee, grey, S-XXL ........... .................................. 24.95

Sherpa V-Neck, cream or navy, S-XL .........................69.95

Ladies Tee, white, S-M-L. .......................................... 22.95

Adjustable Cap, as shown ......................................... 19.95

Nylon Hooded Jacket, navy, S-XXL ........................... 75.00

Alumni Collection Gifts

Marble Mug with Portico Design ..............................6.98

TIe silk face, as shown ..............................................59.95

Portico Design Decanter...........................................49.95

Matching Old-Fashioned Glass..................................10.00

Cedar Card Box ........................................................19.95

Piece-of-the-Cannon Paperweight .............................29.95

Wooden Alumni Pen Set ...........................................49.95

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