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trevor.kenney — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:56:22 +0000

Mary Dyck (Kinesiology and Physical Education) and Ard Biesheuvel (BEd '90, MEd '98) authored a book, Coaching Volleyball Champions: Principles and Practices of Successful Coaches. Each chapter in the book includes a biography of one of North America's outstanding volleyball coaches, followed by an in-depth interview and the coach's five favorite drills. Dyck also co-authored, Everybody Move: A multimedia package for daily physical activity, published by Human Kinetics in November 2009.

Denton Fredrickson (Art) and Catherine Ross (Art Technician) have been awarded the Public Art commission for the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Applications were received from around the world and the selection committee consisted of representatives from the Allied Arts Council and the SAAG, a community member, an artist and a technical expert. Ross and Fredrickson proposed to create a giant stringed instrument responsive to the day-to-day wind and light levels in Lethbridge. Visually, the installation reflects a flock of birds both at rest and in flight, appearing to move seamlessly from exterior to interior. The work should be installed by fall 2011.

Dr. Shelley Scott (Theatre & Dramatic Arts) has been elected by acclamation to a second two-year term as the president of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR).

Merle Fuller (MEd) has been accepted into the PhD in Management program at Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ, Halifax, N.S. Fuller's project, Living with a cop: A handbook for Police Officers and their Families (a training handbook for police officers addressing work/family issues) was a significant factor in his being accepted into the IO/Pscyh PhD stream of this excellent PhD program.

Dr. Ed Jurkowski (Music) was recently elected to a three-year term as English editor for the journal Intersections, the peer-review bilingual publication of the Canadian ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Music Society.

Bente Hansen (Music), Dale Ketcheson (Music), Nicole Higginson (BFA/BEd) and Jesse Plessis (music major) all performed at For the Love of Music: For the Love of Medicine concert to raise funds for a medical mission to El Salvador being undertaken by U of L pre-medical students.

Katherine Taylor (Psychology) is one of 12 winners of a 2010 NEADS Equity Through Education Student Award. Taylor was selected out of a field of 375 total applicants. Equity Through Education is a charitable initiative launched by BMO Capital Markets in 2005 to help people realize their educational ambitions by giving them the means to pursue those goals.

Ed Wasiak (Music Education) has been appointed to the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education (JHRME). Taking over the Canadian seat, Wasiak joins a body of 16 international scholars on the JHRME Committee.

Don Gill's (Art) exhibition Erratic Spaces/THE LAND is at THE LAND/Gallery in Albuquerque, N.M. from June 5 to 26. The exhibition is an installation based on Gill's February 2010 residency at THE LAND/an art site. www.landartsite.org/exhibitions/index.html

Nick Sullivan (Music) performed as a soloist with the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra during its season finale.

Catherine Ross (Art) has an exhibition of Stella Mere at the Glenbow Museum, Aug. 2. Stella Mere is a spectacular installation made up of 750 shimmering starfish, each individually cast in aluminum and mounted on thin threaded steel rods. Stella Mere took three years and the help of more than 20 people to complete.

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trevor.kenney — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:01:23 +0000

Tom Barchyn (MSc candidate), Department of Geography, recently won the Olav Slaymaker Award for best student oral presentation at the joint meeting of the Canadian Quaternary Association and the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group. Barchyn presented preliminary results on his master's research project involving the surface controls on Aeolian sand transport in a cold-climate dunefield. This is the first time a ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge student has won this national award.

Megan Butler (BA '09), a history major, won the Canadian Association of Slavists' 2008 Annual Essay Contest for Best Undergraduate Essay (in Slavic Studies in Canada). Her essay was entitled "The Prayers of the Soviets".

Lana Gabor (U of L Art Gallery) is off this fall to start a Master of Applied Arts at Emily Carr ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ.

Annie Martin (Art) is participating in the IN SITU residency at AXENÉO7 in Gatineau, Que., where she'll experiment in archiving the present using sound recordings and live audio networks. The resulting installation will present a unique visual, physical and aural experience for visitors to the exhibition.

Gail Hanrahan (Theatre & Dramatic Arts) directed a reading of Ex-Pats by two
U of L alumni (book by Col Cseke, BFA '07, music by Brent Podesky, BA '07) at the Lunchbox Theatre's Petro-Canada Stage One Festival in May. Hanrahan and Val Campbell (U of C) have also been invited to take their production of "Under the Parrot/Over Tennessee" to SummerWorks in Toronto in August. The largest juried festival in Canada, SummerWorks features predominantly New Canadian plays.

Dana Inkster (New Media) was the Canadian artist in the spotlight at the 16th annual Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, which draws crowds of 30,000 to screenings, artist talks, panel discussions, installations and socials. It highlights more than 275 films/videos from Canada and around the world.

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