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May 5	Forestry Insiders Turn to Students for New Ideas (Thunder Bay) Student research will be the focus of the Eastern Section of the Canadian Forest Products Society's Annual General Meeting and Conference, taking place Wednesday, May 6, 2009. The conference is hosted at Lakehead University, with several sites across eastern Canada where those interested may attend by videoconference.
May 4	Lakehead Presents Lecture at First International Telehealth Palliative Care Symposium (Thunder Bay)
May 1	Environmental Education Congress Takes Place May 10 – 14: Lakehead University Prof Co-Chairs Conference (Thunder Bay) From Sunday, May 10 to Thursday, May 14, the 5th World Environmental Education Congress takes place at Montral's Palais des Congrs (http://www.5weec.uqam.ca/). Sponsored in part by Lakehead University, the Congress is for educators, researchers, university students, community leaders, journalists, artists, and all other participants in environmental education to work together to strengthen education. In 2007, the Congress was held in Durban, South Africa, with more than 1000 participants. This year, close to 2000 registrants are expected.
Apr 29	Geology Students Win Place in Industry Workshops This Summer (Thunder Bay) Four Lakehead University Geology students have recently won their place in national and international industry-related geology events. Gabe Sweet, Corey Wendland, Seamus Magnus, and Lindsay Moore will be heading to Nevada, Wyoming, Sudbury, and Calgary, respectively.
Apr 28	Research Advances Knowledge of Individuals, Groups, & Societies (Thunder Bay) Research in the social sciences and humanities advances knowledge about individuals, groups, and societies--it helps to tell us how we live, what we think, and how we interact with each other and the world around us. With the help of support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Lakehead University researchers will be doing just that.
Apr 22	Popular Ancient DNA Training Program Runs May 11-29: Still Time to Register (Thunder Bay) The Paleo-DNA Laboratory's 2009 Ancient DNA Training Program runs from May 11 to May 29, 2009. Lakehead's Paleo-DNA Laboratory is the only facility in the world that offers a training program in extraction, amplification, sequencing, and analysis of ancient nucleic acids (aDNA). Students will learn to isolate and analyze DNA, and can then apply this knowledge to further their studies in the field of DNA analysis. The program is an intensive 18 days of lectures and laboratory work, culminating in student presentations. Since 1999, 156 students from many scientific disciplines from around the world have completed this program. There are no pre-requisites required.
Apr 21	“Teaching as Activism” Subject at Annual Symposium: Renowned Scholars to Present (Thunder Bay)
Apr 20	Lakehead University Social Science and Humanities Researchers Receive Significant Research Grants (Thunder Bay) Lakehead University Social Sciences & Humanities researchers are ecstatic! The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently granted Lakehead's most substantial grants to date, totalling $2,456,394. This figure is almost triple funding announced in previous years.
Apr 17	Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Opera - Fun Course Offered at Orillia Campus This Spring (Thunder Bay) This spring, Lakehead University - Orillia Campus is offering a unique learning experience. Dr. Dean Jobin-Bevans, Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Lakehead University will be on site at the Orillia Campus to teach Opera: From Production to Performance. Those interested are encouraged to register for the course, which begins May 4, and runs until May 25.
Apr 15	The aig+c Promotes Appreciation of NorthWestern Ontario's Uniqueness (Thunder Bay) The Advanced Institute for Globalization + Culture (aig+c) proudly presents independent writer, curator, and art historian, Dr. Elizabeth McLuhan, on, "The Shaman's Garden: Anishnaabe Traditions and the Roots of Morrisseau's Global Vision." Everyone is invited to this, the second public lecture of the aig+c in 2009-10, which takes place April 17.
Apr 14	Speaker Presents on Ethics, Disease: April 15 & 16 (Thunder Bay) What is the role of human values in health care? Is health care ethics based on genuine human values? These are some of the questions that Dr. Tom Koch, Adjunct Professor of Medical Geography at the University of British Columbia, will address at his upcoming talks hosted by Lakehead University. Koch will present Is Health Care Ethics Really Based on Genuine Human Values? on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital, Conference Room 3, as part of Lakehead's Centre for Health Care Ethics' Encounters in Bioethics session.
Apr 9	Lakehead University - Orillia Campus Offers Workshops in Conjunction with Folk Festival, July 2 & 3 (Thunder Bay) The Mariposa Folk Foundation and Lakehead University - Orillia Campus have partnered to offer two days of creative arts workshops on July 2 and 3, 2009, just prior to the Mariposa Folk Festival. Registration for the workshops opened April 1, and those who sign up early may take advantage of a substantial EarlyBird discount.
Apr 8	Computer "Nerds" Show Off Skills: High School Students Rewarded for Software Inventions (Thunder Bay) Lakehead University has rewarded high school students who have shown inventive use of software skills. In a move to identify and recruit local talent, the Department of Software Engineering "invented" an annual contest open to high school students, called Software Innovate. The call for submissions went out to high school students in the region last February, and the judging took place recently.
Apr 7	Graduate Student’s Research Good as Gold: Canadian & Australian Researchers Follow Up (Thunder Bay) Researchers in Canada and Australia have responded positively to graduate student Carissa Isaac's MSc thesis entitled, Stable isotope (N, O, H) geochemistry, petrology and compositions of biotite of the Musselwhite Mine, Ontario: implications for mineralisation. Not only will they be pursuing the project, which involves gold mineralisation at Musselwhite Mine located on the southern shore of Lake Opapimiskan, in northern Ontario, but they will be doing so with $15,000 in funding provided by Musselwhite.
Apr 6	Math Gives Competitive Edge to Industry: Hundreds Participate in Annual High School Competition April 23 (Thunder Bay) The 7th Annual TD Canada Trust Northwestern Ontario High School Mathematics Competition takes place Thursday, April 23, at 9:00 a.m., in the Ryan Building at Lakehead University. The contest has two parts: an individual contest which takes place in the morning, and a team competition taking place in the afternoon. Many high school students from the region have signed up to participate.
Apr 2	Lakehead University and Confederation College Celebrate 7th Annual Nursing Forum: New Student Award Presented (Thunder Bay) Lakehead University and Confederation College will hold their 7th Annual Nursing Scholarship Forum 2009: Our Future is Your Future on April 2 & April 3. The forum takes place at the third floor Auditorium of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, the Thunder Bay District Health Unit, and the Agora at Lakehead University. The attached forum brochure outlines specific times and locations.
Apr 1	Engineering Students Place First, Move to U.S. Finals in Bridge-Building Competition (Thunder Bay) Lakehead University Civil Engineering students have come out victorious at the Annual Student Steel Bridge Competition, held at the ASCE Mid-West Regional Conference at North Dakota State University in Fargo. As first place winners, the team will head to the U.S. National Finals for the tenth time in twelve years.
Mar 26	Professors Awarded Lakehead’s Highest Distinction for Research (Thunder Bay) Dr. Abdelhamid Tayebi, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Dr. S.S. Islam, Professor of the Department of Political Science, are the winners of the 2009 Distinguished Researcher Award. The Distinguished Researcher Award is the highest honor conferred by Lakehead University for research and scholarly activity.
Mar 23	Lakehead Students Win Big in TD CanadaTrust $100,000 Go Green Challenge (Thunder Bay) Lakehead University students Colleen Bator, Alesha Brekenridge and Fino Steet of the Faculty of Education have won $25,000 from TD CanadaTrust for their submission to the Go Green Challenge. The students' Guided Eco Tours Toronto (GETT) proposal was sponsored by Sue Hamel, also of the faculty of Education.
Mar 23	High School Students Rewarded for Ingenuity at Software Innovate 2009 (Thunder Bay) The Department of Software Engineering at Lakehead University is holding its first annual Software Innovate contest. The call for submissions went out last February, and judging takes place on March 27, 2009. The contest, targeted to high school students of Thunder Bay and surrounding regions, asked students to develop software-related projects such as websites, software game simulators, database applications, spreadsheet applications, Internet applications, and multimedia applications. Students with the best projects will receive prizes after the judging ceremony, which takes place in ATAC 2001 at 4:00 pm.

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