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Kim Pate (LLB '84) has been a tireless and courageous advocate on behalf of Aboriginal women, women with disabilities, young women, visible minority and immigrant women. She is known as a person of high integrity, combining a spirited sense of humour with a keen intelligence and "a heart of pure gold."
Pate graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1984 with honours in the Clinical Law Program. Since 1992, she has been the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, a volunteer organization devoted to supporting and advocating on behalf of women in prison. Prior to her work with the Elizabeth Fry Society, she worked with young people in conflict with the law through the John Howard Society in Calgary.
She is also an educator and law reformer. Her extensive list of publications, national and international speaking engagements, and her strategic intervention and lobbying for changes in the legal system and the law, testify to her commitment to broader social change.
Pate currently lives in Ottawa.
Mechanical Engineering professor Alexander Kalamkarov was recently named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Among the criteria considered for nomination are the individual's significant engineering achievements, as well as contributions to the Society and to engineering, writing technical publications and developing patents and inventions. As the President of the ASME, Susan Skemp, said, "Mr. Kalamkarov's recognition truly places him in a distinguished and a very small segment of ASME's membership."
The College of Pharmacy, represented by two students and a faculty member, recently won a national award from the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CHSP).
Charmaine Cooke, MSc candidate, research associate Chole Campbell, CIHR Summer Research Studentship, and Ingrid Sketris, CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Health Services Research (co-sponsored by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation), received the award on behalf of the College. The team won the Glaxo SmithKline Award in Pharmacy Administration for the project "Effect of Changes in Drug Benefit Status of Combination Topical Corticosteroid/Antibiotic Products".
Cooke, Campbell and Sketric received their award at the CSHP's conference in Toronto, held on Feb. 1 to 3.
MacGregor wins athletic honour
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The Dalhousie A.J. "Sandy" Young Award for great contribution to Nova Scotia sports was conceived by the late Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Young, Professor of Sport History in the School aof Health and Human Performance.
MacGregor is currently an associate professor in Dalhousie's School of Health and Human Performance. She played for the Tigers in the 1960s and she coached the team to the national title in 1982, the only Atlantic team to ever win a national university title in men's or women's volleyball. In total, MacGregor coached the team for 11 years, in that time winning five conference titles and being named Dalhousie Coach of the Year twice. She was elected to the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 1998, and again this past fall as a member of the 1982 Tigers team. She has been active in local volleyball for the past 27 years, holding such posts as President of Volleyball Nova Scotia.
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Fourteen Engineering students represented Dal at the national Canadian Engineering Competition, held in St. John's, Nfld. from Feb. 27 to March 2. The students returned from the competition with three national awards.
Andrew MacDonald, Industrial Engineering, took first place in the Editorial Communications competition. This category challenges competitors to present a viewpoint on the sociological impact of a current technological issue and defend it with a well-supported argument. Entries were judged on research quality, delivery of the viewpoint, presentation and interest generated. MacDonald's winning entry was entitled "Up In Smoke: A look at the potential economic benefits of the Kyoto Protocol".
First place in Extemporaneous Debate went to Christopher Blight and Christian West. The Senior Design Team, Blair Porter, Cordell Grant, Matthew Swinkels and Jason Goodenough took second place in the Senior Design Project. The task was to build a barge that would go to an oil platform, unloaded oil from the platform and return to base.
At another national competition at the University of Windsor, Dalhousie Industrial Engineering Students won the Design Competition at 2003 Canadian Society for Industrial Engineering (CSIE) Student Conference.
Senior year students Gareth Gill, Kimberly Hamilton, Andrew MacDonald and Nick Malone were challenged to look at a particular work cell in Quality Safety Systems, a company that manufactures automotive seat belts. (Quality Safety Systems, a real company with over 700 employees in Tecumseh, Ont. , sponsored the competition.)
The team had to redesign the cell to reduce production cycle times, decrease the variability of production cycle times and increase flexibility of the products it can manufacture. The students had a limited time to visit the site, study the problem, and develop and present their solutions.
The University of Toronto team placed second in the competition. Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal came third.
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This award is given in recognition of "lifetime creative endeavors in areas of global importance".
The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences opened branches in Germany and the United States seven years ago. Since then, there have been four Medal recipients in North America. This is the first time a Canadian was both nominated and approved by the Executive Council in Russia.
Another recipient of the Einstein Medal this year was George Olah, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
Islam is developing the world's first Energy, Environment and Communication Institute (EEC). Through the EEC, engineering breakthroughs will be made that are "technically innovative, environmentally appealing, economically attractive, and socially responsible."
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