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W H A T ’ S N E W A T T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F R E G I N A Family Campaign exceeds $1.5 million The University's internal fundraising effort, the Family Campaign, wrapped up in spectacular fashion on November 3, 2003 as organizers announced campaign contributions reaching $1,511,518. The total, which continues to grow, is more than twice the goal set when the campaign was launched last April. The Family Campaign is part of the Building Dreams and Futures Campaign, a major fundraising effort that will provide student support, faculty research, and funding for the new Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport currently in the final stages of construction on the U of R campus. Additional revenue from the There was plenty to cheer about at the Nov. 3 finale of the Family Campaign as organizers announced more than $1.5 million in contributions. campaign will be allocated to the University's emerging priorities and a portion fulfils the University's commitment as a partner in the 2005 Canada Summer Games. The Family Campaign is directed to those most closely associated with the University: faculty, staff, Board of Governors, Senate, Alumni Association 2 THE THIRD DEGREE Spring 2004 Board and retirees. Members of the 2005 Canada Games family also donated to the campaign. Co-chairs Bonnie Jackson, a staff member of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, and Mark Brigham, a faculty member of the Department of Biology, characterized the fundraising effort as an overwhelming success. The pair also expressed their gratitude to all contributors and reiterated that the fundraising milestone could not have been achieved without the efforts of the more than 100 volunteers who helped out with the campaign. The Princess Royal to receive honorary degree The University of Regina will confer an honorary doctor of laws degree on Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal in a special convocation ceremony June 6. The honorary degree – the first ever conferred on a member of the Royal Family by a Saskatchewan university, and the first received by The Princess Royal in Canada – recognizes her distinguished charitable work around the world. The Princess Royal, known as Princess Anne until she received her title from The Queen in June 1987, is the only daughter of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh. She is well known in her role as the working president of the Save the Children Fund since 1970, and has developed great insight into the needs of children worldwide. This has led her to develop a wide range of charitable appointments, to which she devotes a large part of her working life. Honorary degrees are conferred by the University, on approval by Senate and faculty Council of a recommendation from a joint committee. Artwork to adorn new buildings (L to R) Artists Jennifer Hamilton, Tammi Campbell and Lorne Beug will create permanent art installations in the University's new student residence building and the Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport. The artwork of Lorne Beug BA’69, Tammi Campbell and Jennifer Hamilton, will be a permanent part of two new buildings on the University of Regina campus. The three Saskatchewan artists have been commissioned to create art installations as permanent features in the new student residence building and the Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport (CKHS). Beug, whose work is featured in the Dr. William Riddell Centre, will install three terrazzo lenses in the concourse floor of the new residence building. Each lens has a diameter of about three metres. The lenses are titled Sunflower and Bee, Snowflake, and Turning Leaf. Two will be placed in the north concourse, with the third in the south concourse. Campbell's glass etchings of running figures will be installed in the second floor glass balustrade around the inside of the running track in the CKHS, giving the impression of a slow moving picture. The work of Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer
photographer of the moving image, influenced the concept. Hamilton's original ceramic floor design will be installed in the main concourse area of the CKHS. The design embodies the spirit of the facility, representing a game plan or strategy that could be applied to any number of the athletic events that will take place in the building. Work on the new buildings will be completed this August. The artistic installations will be unveiled at the official opening of the buildings following the completion of construction. Visualization software wins second annual Award of Innovation University of Regina engineering professor Luigi Benedicenti and Jeffrey Mahovsky BASc’99, CCSc’99, MASc’01, a former U of R student who is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary, are the recipients of the second annual Award of Innovation presented at the Regina Chamber of Commerce's Paragon Awards banquet on April 1. Benedicenti and Mahovsky won the award for their Distributed Visualization System (DVS) software which converts data into visual forms. The software was first developed while Mahovsky was a master's student in engineering. Benedicenti, who leads the project to develop DVS's commercial potential, says it can be applied to a wide variety of applications from simulating and modeling of geological sites (for petroleum reservoir simulation, for example), to medical imaging, to electronic games. The project is co-sponsored by TRLabs (Regina), a pre-competitive research venture funded by industrial and government sponsors. TRLabs is an information technology research consortium of universities, government and industry in Canada that supports graduate students and information technology, and new media research at the U of R. The Award of Innovation, administered through the University-Industry Liaison Office, and sponsored by the Regina Research Park, rewards and promotes the efforts of researchers involved in the commercialization of their research. Luigi Benedicenti (L) and former U of R student Jeffrey Mahovsky accept the second annual Award of Innovation at an April 1 ceremony. President’s Message On April 8 the University and the Francophone community celebrated the culmination of years of effort with the official opening of the Institut français, a unique French post-secondary education centre that offers language, cultural, and social programs at the University of Regina. I am particularly proud of the excellent relationship established between the University and the Francophone community of Saskatchewan as the Institut français has developed. Together we have met major challenges and, in doing so, have strengthened the connections between the University and community. The University is strongly committed to supporting and expanding the effective use of Canada's two official languages. In addition to the Institut français, this commitment is evident in the work of the French Department in the Faculty of Arts, as well as in the Faculty of Education's Baccaulauréat en éducation program which is tailored to meet the needs of students wishing to teach in Francophone and French immersion schools. Canada's two official languages are important to Canadians. The establishment of the Institut français and the ongoing work of our colleagues in the Department of French and Faculty of Education demonstrate that supporting both official languages is, and will continue to be, important to the University of Regina. The Centre for Research and Information on Canada (CRIC) has just published Bilingualism: Part of Our Past or Part of Our Future?, a report on Canadian attitudes on bilingualism. The study's findings bode well for narrowing the gap between Canadians' support for official bilingualism and their desire to learn the other official language, on one hand, and the actual extent of English-French bilingualism on the other. The CRIC survey also reports that those whose first language is not French or English are overwhelmingly supportive of learning both official languages. Recently I attended an Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages' symposium, Vision and Challenges for the 21st Century. The symposium brought together stakeholders from various sectors of Canadian society to discuss issues and propose solutions to one of the objectives of the federal government's Action Plan for Official Languages, namely, doubling the number of young Canadians with a working knowledge of both official languages in the next 10 years. It is indeed exciting to be part of the group providing counsel on these matters. Language is a remarkable aspect of our human experience. Learning a language gives access to the culture of the speakers of that language – what they think, and how they express their thoughts – and can also provide larger prospects and opportunities for employment and service. The establishment of the Institut français is a positive reflection of the linguistic duality of this country. At the same time, the Institut français provides an exciting new venue to explore Francophone culture and positions the U of R as a focal point for French-language education in Saskatchewan. David T. Barnard PRESIDENT Spring 2004 THE THIRD DEGREE 3
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