New Heights.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 NEW HEIGHTS

On the Cover

There are few rules in the Canadian Aeronautics and Space of Manitoba squad set their sights much higher. After nearly Institute’s annual free-fl ight competition. Aspiring engineers 20 minutes in the air, the team watched their glider continue from universities across Canada must build a glider that can to climb, fi nally disappearing from view as it sailed through stay in the air with no engines or remote controls, but aside the clouds. from a short list of regulations, the student designers are From the library to the lab, in the community and on the limited only by their knowledge, creativity and imagination. runway, the University of Manitoba is aiming high. With The University of Manitoba team soared to a fi rst-place fi nish great minds working together, we’re reaching new heights. at the 2004 event, soundly defeating their competitors with a Cover image: Student members of the Canadian Aeronautics near-perfect score of 96.88 — more than 30 points ahead of and Space Institute demonstrate their award-winning glider on their closest rival. Teams earn a maximum time score if their the Duckworth Quadrangle. From left, Ding Chan, Jon Ferguson, aircraft can stay up for 75 seconds, but the University Anne Philip, Curtis Mah and Christopher Presto. Table of Contents

Capital Campaign Goal Reached 5

Message from the President 7

Message from the Chair of the Board of Governors 7

Teaching & Learning 8

Research 16

Community 24

Administration 32

Financial Report 36

Members of the Board of Governors 2003-04 41

Senior Administrative Offi cers 42

Deans and Directors 42

Awards and Honours 43

Credits

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September 2004

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 3 NEW HEIGHTS

Great achievements place extraordinary goals within reach.

237 MILLION REASONS TO CELEBRATE. 36,420 DONORS TO THANK.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 RENEWAL. REJUVENATION. PROGRESS. GROWTH.

The success of Building on Strengths: Campaign for the University The Province of Manitoba was the single largest contributor to of Manitoba is opening the door to a revitalized campus that the campaign with a $50-million commitment to infrastructure boasts leading-edge facilities and new levels of support for our renewal at the university. Lead support included $15.2 million researchers, students and the community. from University of Manitoba students, $13 million from the late Israel Asper, $7 million from the Richardson family and Building on Strengths raised $237,025,364 with the generous companies, a combined $5-million gift from Power Corporation, support of 36,420 donors. Surpassing the original goal of $200 Great-West Life and Investors Group, $5 million from the million, Building on Strengths became the most successful Canadian Credit Management Foundation and $4.3 million fundraising campaign in Manitoba history, and one of the from University of Manitoba academic and support staff. largest university campaigns in Canada. Donors were given the opportunity to allocate gifts toward specifi c The campaign attracted the support of government, business initiatives, and many chose to support human capital; as a result, and industry, foundations, students, alumni, faculty and staff, the campaign continues to raise funds for capital infrastructure. and the community. Capital Campaign Fundraising Achievements Construction of major capital projects is already underway, and the University of Manitoba is looking ahead to opening the Infrastructure $90.4M doors to new facilities such as the state-of-the-art Engineering University’s Endowment and Information Technology Complex, the Centre for Music, Funds $75.7M

Art and Design, the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Research Support $47.6M Nutraceuticals, and new facilities for the Faculty of Pharmacy on the Bannatyne Campus. Student Support $40.5M

Chairs and Professorships $11.7M

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 5 NEW HEIGHTS

“...we must show that this kind of support makes a difference.”

EMOKE‘‘ J. E. SZATHMÁRY, C.M., PH.D., PRESIDENT AND VICE-CHANCELLOR

ANNUALANNUAL REPORT REPORT 2003/04 2003/04 Message from the Message from the President and Vice-Chancellor Chair of the Board of Governors

The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote once that The past year has been particularly upbeat for the University the task of the university is the creation of the future. I would of Manitoba, especially evident in the culmination of efforts include among those who agree with him the 36,420 donors that brought many projects to fruition. who contributed to Building on Strengths, the University of Manitoba’s capital campaign, which ended this past spring. One particularly outstanding achievement that will have an Collectively they have directed more than $237 million for new impact on the university for decades is the unprecedented $237- buildings, upgrading of facilities, scholarships and bursaries, million result of the fi ve-year Building on Strengths: Campaign research and chairs and professorships. for the University of Manitoba. Perhaps the most visible impact of the campaign are the cranes and construction zones that The University of Manitoba is grateful for such generosity, signal a signifi cant infrastructure renewal, including the but it is not enough to be grateful. Now we must show that construction of the $52-million Engineering and Information this kind of support makes a difference — and for this, there Technology Complex. I acknowledge with gratitude the is a precedent. In 1877 some thought it a pipe-dream that Government of Manitoba’s $50-million commitment to a university without land, without buildings, and without the campaign. professors could amount to anything. But 100 years ago, the generosity of Lord Strathcona provided the funds that permitted Congress 2004, the congress of the Federation of Humanities the appointment of six natural scientists to the University and Social Sciences, was held here in May and June, and was of Manitoba, and to these the Faculty of Science traces its the result of years of planning. Over 6,000 academics from beginnings. Among the alumni of the department of physics across Canada, North America and throughout the world and astronomy who returned to anniversary celebrations this came together at the Fort Garry Campus for their annual spring were scientists of the stature of James Peebles, described deliberations, and by all accounts they were welcomed in as the world’s foremost theoretical cosmologist (Albert Einstein true Manitoba style, with warmth, grace and effi ciency. Professor Emeritus at Princeton University) and Erich Vogt Enrolment was at an all-time high of over 26,000 as a result of (University of British Columbia and past director of TRIUMF, many years of student recruitment both here and abroad, and Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics), also due to the success of University 1, the innovative fi rst-year described as having “put Canada’s subatomic physics program program. on the world map.” Other examples of outstanding alumni abound in other disciplines, such as those represented by the We remain among the top research institutions in Canada in Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which gathered garnering close to $100 million annually in research funding. here last spring for the fourth time in its history. We are immensely proud of our talented researchers who contribute to the understanding of our world in a vast variety The University of Manitoba’s funding from the three federal of disciplines. research councils alone is 72 per cent higher than it was fi ve years ago, and over that period student enrolment grew by The Board continues its commitment to working with the 26 per cent. The potential for achievement here that exceeds Council on Post-Secondary Education and the Government that of the last century is enormous. Students often attribute of Manitoba in maintaining the university as one of Canada’s their success to the belief that one or two people had in them. premier research-intensive universities. In the University of Manitoba’s case, 36,420 donors believe in it; they know that the best is yet to come. On behalf of the Board of Governors, I want to express our deep appreciation to the faculty and staff of the University of I thank the volunteers, the campaign cabinet and its Chair, Manitoba, and in particular the leadership of President Emoke˝ Mr. David Friesen. In particular I acknowledge the strategic Szathmáry and her senior administration. I also congratulate insights of Vice-President (External) Ms. Elaine Goldie, which our Chancellor, Dr. William Norrie, who has been re-elected made Building on Strengths such a success. As always, I am for a second term. grateful to the members of the Board of Governors, especially its Chair, Mr. Wayne Anderson, and our Chancellor, Dr. Bill Norrie, WAYNE ANDERSON for their unstinting support of the University of Manitoba. Chair

EMOKE‘‘ J. E. SZATHMÁRY, C.M., PH.D. President and Vice-Chancellor

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Jila Ghomeshi, linguistics To serve as an inspiration to others is its own success.

EARNING RECOGNITION: STUDENT AND FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Learning Together

“There’s a fi ne line between being tough and being intimidating,” Jila Ghomeshi says of her reputation as a tough-but-fair professor in the University of Manitoba’s linguistics department. Maybe that’s why Ghomeshi’s characteristically challenging lectures are always steeped with a strong dose of humour.

The winner of two students’ teacher recognition awards — not to mention an outreach award for her popular series on language for CBC Radio — Ghomeshi’s classes are described by her students as seldom easy but invariably engaging, fair, and even fun.

Ghomeshi puts a premium on establishing a meaningful connection with her students, something that requires a careful balance of fl exibility, refi nement and passion for helping others learn. The commitment to her students is one Ghomeshi takes seriously, and it’s indicative of the high standard of teaching excellence University of Manitoba professors strive to meet every day.

Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception

The annual Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception gives students from each faculty the opportunity to honour the teachers from kindergarten to university who most infl uenced them. The following University of Manitoba professors were recognized at the 2003 Students’ Teacher Recognition Awards:

Gary Johnson, Maggie Morris, natural resource and obstetrics and gynecology environmental economics David Norris, music Marcella Eaton, Elaine Mordoch, nursing landscape architecture Carla Shapiro, nursing Kirk Warren, graphic design Sheri Fandrey, pharmacy Jeffrey Pai, Greg Gannon, actuarial mathematics exercise physiology Glenn Ismond, Stéphane McLachlan, business administration environmental science Wayne Serebrin, Adele Perry, history language and literacy Judith Owens, English Brian Lewthwaite, science education Jila Ghomeshi, linguistics Witold Kinsner, Louise Renée, computer engineering French, Spanish and Italian Scott Ormiston, mechanical Norman Halden, geology and industrial engineering Robert Craigen, mathematics Harold Aukema, Eveline Milliken, social work human nutritional sciences

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she earned a number of awards, Wanda Martin, a graduate student in Student including the Leader of Tomorrow nursing, is the recent recipient of the Scholarship. Clinical Research Nurse Award from Achievements the U.S. Army Department of Defense “My time at the University of Manitoba Breast Cancer Research Program of INTERNATIONAL was very important to what I have been the Congressionally Directed Medical able to achieve so far,” she says. Research Programs. She received the funding for her project on: Perception Rhodes Scholar At the University of Manitoba, we’re of Risk and Surveillance Practices for working to provide our students the Eighty-four. That’s how many times Women with a Family History of Breast opportunity and challenge to meet their the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship has Cancer. The value of the award goals. We’re proud to watch top-fl ight been awarded to University of Manitoba is $63,433 (U.S.). students since 1904, and it’s more than students like Aleksandra reach new heights. any other university in Western Canada. Daniel Muller, arts, was a recipient of Engineering Students Our latest Rhodes Scholar, Aleksandra the 2003 Export Development Canada’s Get Nod for Design Leligdowicz, graduated from the (EDC) International Studies Scholarship. University of Manitoba with a Bachelor The awards are worth $14,000 each Greg Siemens, Mridula Oravakandy, of Science degree (with distinction) in and are awarded to top undergraduate Robert Fougere and Ankit Agrawal, 2002 and is presently studying medicine students in business and economics, electrical and computer engineering, and to MBA students based on their at McGill University. Leligdowicz won the best presentation award at the demonstrated interest in fi nance, emigrated from Poland with her family fourth annual Institute of Electrical in 1991 and learned both English international business or international and Electronic Engineers Student and French once she was in school in relations, as well as their leadership Design Contest held at the Rochester Canada. At the University of Manitoba, potential and academic achievement. School of Technology, in Rochester, New York. The award-winning design was of a low-cost radar system that detects human beings through walls.

Business School Takes Top Honours

Students at the I.H. Asper School of Business have established a remarkable track record in competition against their business-school counterparts from across Canada and the United States. The business students took the top prize for the fourth time at the Enterprise Creation Competition at Ball State University in Indiana. The students’ business plan to market a pioneering medical device used to evaluate burn injuries with infrared technology wowed the judges: the U of M team came in fi rst, topping teams from Purdue, Michigan and Carnegie Mellon Universities.

Rhodes Scholar Aleksandra Leligdowicz graduated from the University of Manitoba in 2002 and is presently studying medicine at McGill University.

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Twenty-fi ve-year-old Kris Frederickson is a master’s student in biosystems engineering and the 2004 youth recipient of the Aboriginal Achievement Award. He was recognized for the signifi cant contributions he has made to the Aboriginal community, the University of Manitoba and biosystems engineering. Frederickson’s area of study focuses on wastewater treatment in northern Manitoba Aboriginal communities.

Involved in a number of extracurricular activities, including a spot on the University of Manitoba’s Board of Governors, Frederickson has won numerous scholarships and awards. In 2003 he received the National Métis Youth Role Model Program Award for academic achievement.

Scott McCulloch, management, was one of ten students in Canada to receive the $5,000 Futures Fund Scholarship from the Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year award program. The scholarship was established to honour and mentor ten young Canadian university business students each year who have Already highly regarded for his community contributions, Kris Frederickson demonstrated exemplary leadership in their academic and extra-curricular was named the 2004 youth recipient of the Aboriginal Achievement Award. initiatives.

Ashley Jaworski, science, won a Pfi zer from $16,500 to $18,500 in recognition Darryl Friesen, Jonathan Bauch Summer Undergraduate Research of their academic achievements and to and Sean Taubner were all fi nalists Fellowship (SURF). The program assist them in furthering their studies. in the CBC Arts Encounters Young targets undergraduate science These awards are renewable for up to Artists competition in December majors in the areas of biochemistry, three years. 2003. Friesen was a winner in the biology, chemistry, molecular biology, competition in January 2004. pharmacy, synthetic organic chemistry Marta Cenkowski, science, was Sean Taubner was the principal cellist and computational chemistry. one of 19 national recipients of the of National Youth Orchestra, summer National Research Council’s Women 2003, and a fi nalist in the CBC Guillermo Bellido, food science, in Engineering and Science (WES) Arts Encounters Young Performers Leanne Evenson, plant science and Program for 2003-04. Recipients are competition. Catherine Abele, voice, Xiaowei Guo, plant science, were given summer research work at NRC won second prize at the National recipients of the 2003 Canadian labs and are paid at least $10,000 Music Festival fi nals in August 2003 Wheat Board Fellowship Awards. for these positions. Marta fi nished in Nova Scotia. Seven students from across the prairies University 1 with a perfect 4.5 GPA received awards in amounts ranging and has won other awards.

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medical microbiology, Distinguished of Abeokuta, Nigeria. He was one of six Faculty Professor and Canada Research Chair recipients of the 2003 Young African in Resistance and Susceptibility to Mathematician medal. Achievements Infections. Dr. Plummer has taken a lead role to identify and better understand George Grätzer, mathematics, and INTERNATIONAL the new illness. Distinguished Professor, was awarded the Béla Szokefalvi-Nagy˝ Medal for University of Manitoba experts played Abba B. Gumel, mathematics, and 2003 from the Bolyai Institute of a large role in the battle against SARS, Distinguished Professor, was honoured the University of Szeged, Hungary. including National Microbiology at the International Conference of The medal is awarded annually by Laboratory director Frank Plummer, Mathematical Sciences at the University the Bolyai Institute to honour a distinguished mathematician who has published signifi cant results in the Acta Scientiarium Mathematicarum.

Lori Wilkinson, sociology, was awarded a visiting research fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford — a competitive award open to senior practitioners, professional academics and policymakers in refugee studies.

Ken Standing, physics and astronomy, was selected by the American Chemical Society as the 2004 recipient of the Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for outstanding achievement in mass spectrometry. Dr. Standing was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in November 2003.

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Emoke˝ J.E. Szathmáry, president and vice-chancellor, was appointed to the Order of Canada. She was recognized for demonstrating exemplary leadership in post-secondary academic research and administration. Szathmáry has Naranjan Dhalla, professor of physiology, Distinguished Professor, and director promoted accessibility and respect for of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, a joint institute between the University students of diverse cultural backgrounds, of Manitoba and the St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre, was awarded particularly for the Aboriginal the Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation medal. The award recognizes research community. A respected scientist, she has been recognized for her infl uential accomplishments of senior faculty according to the quality of their research, the research in population genetics and impact of the research nationally and internationally, and the distinction brought physical anthropology. Szathmáry to the university by the research. also received an honourary Doctor of Science from the University of Western Six young investigators received the annual Rh Award for displaying exceptional innovation, Ontario at its 281st convocation. She leadership and promise in their respective fi elds. The Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation was recognized as an accomplished presented awards to: Timothy Schroeder, philosophy; Rene Van Acker, plant science; researcher in anthropology, as well as Yvonne Myal, pathology and physiology; Abba Gumel, mathematics; Samar Safi -Harb, an outstanding administrator. physics and astronomy and Yoshitaka Iwasaki, physical education and recreation studies.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Paul Thomas, political studies, and Duff Roblin Professor in Government, was the recipient of the Vanier Medal for Excellence in Public Administration for 2003.

David Williams, English, was the winner of the 2003 Gabrielle Roy Prize of the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures, for his book Imagined Nations: Refl ections on Media in Canadian Fiction.

Kali Storm, director of the Aboriginal Student Centre, and Fred Shore, executive director, university accessibility, are co-chairs of NASSA (National Aboriginal Student Services Association) for 2003-04. NASSA is the newest offi cial division of CACUSS (Canadian Association of College and University Student Services), and is dedicated to assisting institutions of higher learning become more welcoming Film studies professor George Toles proved once again that those who environments for Aboriginal peoples to teach can also do by co-scripting, with noted director Guy Maddin, one of successfully pursue educational goals. this year’s most critically acclaimed fi lms, The Saddest Music in the World. Betty Havens, community health sciences, was honoured with the Canadian The longtime scriptwriting partners met when Maddin took a course with Health Services Research Advancement Toles in 1980. For Saddest Music (shot in Winnipeg on a $3.5-million budget Award. She has been a leader in health and starring Isabella Rossellini), Toles and Maddin reworked an original services research on the aging process in screenplay by famed author Kazuo Ishiguro, winning accolades from the Manitoba for over 30 years. New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Entertainment Weekly and Time. Digvir Jayas, biosystems engineering, Canada Research Chair in Stored-Grain Ecosystems and associate vice-president Anne Katz, nursing, was named George MacLean, political studies, (research) at the University of Manitoba, editor of the Association of Women’s was elected chair of a steering committee was awarded the Canadian Institute Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses working to raise the local profi le of the of Food Science and Technology’s (AWHONN) Lifelines, the offi cial UN and make Winnipeg a centre for the 2003 Institute Award. Jayas has been a clinical practice journal of AWHONN. study of global issues. The group’s goal member of the CIFST for 18 years, and AWHONN Lifelines is read by more is to establish a UN chair and resource has served terms as president of both the than 23,000 clinical and advanced centre to be shared by the University national association and the Manitoba practice nurses and other healthcare of Manitoba and the University of branch of the association. Jayas was professionals involved in providing Winnipeg. The committee includes also elected president of the Canadian optimum nursing care for women and representatives from the universities and Society for Agriculture, Food and their newborns. local UN organizations and supporters. Biological Systems. Richard Sparling, microbiology, was Ben Levin, educational administration, elected president of the Canadian Society foundations and psychology, received the of Microbiologists for a one-year term. 2003 Canadian Education Association (CEA) Witworth Award for Educational Research.

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University 1 students enjoy a fi rst-day welcome at the Investors Group Athletic Centre

U1 Improves Student Retention Students Perform with Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Ottawa and Winnipeg Since the inception of the University of Manitoba’s pioneering University 1 program in September 1998, the retention rate In October, students of the Opera Workshop had the rare (from fi rst year to second year) for both full-time and part-time opportunity to perform in conjunction with the Royal Winnipeg students has increased signifi cantly. Full-time student retention Ballet, providing the operatic portion of the RWB’s world rates increased from 82 per cent in 1997-98 to 86 per cent in premiere production of The Magic Flute. Students rehearsed 2001-02; for part-time students the numbers increased from with RWB music director and conductor Earl Stafford, and 51 per cent in 1997-98 to 61 per cent in 2001-02. performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Selected students performed with professional singers from the community in main roles. In January 2004, students More Academic All-Canadians than Ever Kayla Vandekraats, Andriana Chuchman, Tannis Penner and Ellen Wieser traveled with the RWB and School of Music Sixty-one University of Manitoba student-athletes were named professor Mel Braun to Ottawa to perform at the National to the 2003-04 list of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Theatre. Academic All-Canadians, up from 54 last season. With a total of 303 student athletes competing for Manitoba this past season in CIS competition, 61 Academic All-Canadians means that 20 per cent of Bison athletes maintained a 3.5 grade point average or better in their fi elds of study.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 BY THE N umBERS: 26,572: All-time high number of students enrolled for 2003-04.

1,000: Winning games coached by Garth Pischke, Bison Men’s Volleyball head coach. In 23 seasons with the Bisons, his team has qualified for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championships 22 times.

96: Students who took part in the Faculty of Architecture’s annual “ditchball” tournament. A sport unique to the University of Manitoba that unites students and faculty, ditchball has been played every winter at the U of M for the past 28 years.

All-time Enrolment High

Graduate students Undergraduates Total

3,540 3,257 3,084 23,032 2,978 21,724 2,970 20,534 19,000 18,154

24,981 26,572 23,618 Michael Munday, I.H. Asper School of Business, was one 21,124 21,978 of two Canadians selected as fl agbearers for the 2003 Number of Students Summer Universiade Opening Ceremonies in Daegu, Korea. The Universiade is the second-largest sporting event in 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 the world in number of participants after the Olympics. A Academic Year setter for the Bisons volleyball team, Munday has achieved Degrees, Diplomas and Certifi cates Conferred a number of successes in the past fi ve years, including 4,097 4,199 4,285 Canadian Interuniversity Sports Championship Tournament 4,015 3,889 MVP, a four-time First Team Conference All-Star, a three- time CIS First Team All-Canadian, and two-time winner of Bison Male Athlete of the Year. 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 Number of Students Academic Year

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 15 RESEARCH

Stephen Moses, medical microbiology, is working to control and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in India

Higher levels of understanding help us reach out to the world.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 RESEARCH THAT CURES; INNOVATION THAT SPARKS THE IMAGINATION

Research at the University of Manitoba is truly making a world The university is recognized for its pioneering work in reducing of difference. From launching innovative health interventions the spread of HIV/AIDS in Kenya. A $3.8-million grant from in India and Africa to transforming social services and systems the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) supports the in China, faculty and graduate students from the University Canada-Kenya International Collaboration on Infectious of Manitoba are improving the quality of life for thousands Diseases led by Frank Plummer, medical microbiology, of people. And they’re doing it with support from prominent Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair in private foundations, national and international government Resistance and Susceptibility to Infections, in collaboration agencies, and local organizations. with the University of Nairobi. The CFI grant is supporting the construction of a world-class infectious disease research facility The university is building on groundbreaking research to fi ght in Nairobi, including a Level 3 retrovirology laboratory for the spread of HIV/AIDS in the developing world with the help handling highly infectious materials. This will allow University of a $17-million (U.S.) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates of Manitoba researchers to expand their collaboration with Foundation. The grant supports James Blanchard, community other Canadian and international experts involved in HIV/ health sciences, and Stephen Moses, medical microbiology, AIDS prevention. Research opportunities presented by the (pictured at left) in the development and implementation of Canada-Kenya partnership have direct benefi t to global health. an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy for the south Indian state of At least three potential vaccines — two for HIV and one for Karnataka in collaboration with the Government of India. An chlamydia — have resulted directly from the collaboration, estimated 500,000 people living with HIV/AIDS has created a one of which has already proceeded to clinical trials and is the serious epidemic in this state of 55 million people. Blanchard is current best hope for an effective HIV vaccine. leading a series of projects to promote the use of effective health services for sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS, and increase knowledge about health risks and positive behaviour. Moses is a key project advisor.

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Arctic Voyage

Canada’s coastal Arctic is getting warmer. Rising temperatures are becoming evident through observations of reduced ice cover on the Arctic Ocean and the degradation of permafrost. David Barber, environment and geography, and Canada Research Chair in Arctic System Science, is a theme leader in the ArcticNet Network Centre of Excellence, a diverse team of international specialists from 41 universities examining climate change in the Arctic. Recognized as an international sea ice expert, Barber is leading an investigation of the physical, ecological and economic impact of climate change in Hudson Bay. Over the winter months Barber led one of nine subgroups involved in the Natural Signifi cant grants from CFI and funds from the Manitoba government Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)-funded Canadian and private industry helped establish and equip a laboratory for materials Arctic Shelf Exchange Study. research led by Scott Kroeker, chemistry.

Aftab Mufti, civil engineering, and president of ISIS Canada Research Sociologist Jane Ursel, director of Network — Intelligent Sensing for New Infrastructure Supports Research and Education for Solutions Innovative Structures — was elected Innovative Research to Violence and Abuse (RESOLVE), is the fi rst founding president of the leading a community-university alliance Access to state-of-the-art equipment International Society for Health that is examining women’s shelters and and facilities are critical in supporting Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures. other social agencies across the Prairies. new and important areas of research and Terry Galloway, entomology, is now the Ursel’s team hopes to improve services the University of Manitoba continues namesake of Granulocheyletus gallowayi, offered to women who have been abused, to modernize its research infrastructure a tiny bug found in the nests of an and end cycles of repeated abuse and thanks to funding from government and endangered species of penguins studied fl ight. Researchers are also examining private sources. by Galloway in New Zealand. factors that help or hinder women in Last spring, the university celebrated the breaking free of domestic abuse — opening of the $2.1 million 600 MHz factors such as family and class structure, NATIONAL Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, ethnic values, and location. which was funded by CFI, the province Enhancing Services for the Deborah Stienstra, director of disability of Manitoba and Varian Inc. Under the Disabled and Victims of studies, is leading a team of researchers direction of Scott Kroeker, chemistry, Domestic Violence and community partners to assess how this facility will support research in technology can increase quality of life materials science with a longterm goal Researchers focused on enhancing and access to services for Canadians of using improved structural insight to services for victims of domestic violence with disabilities. The research team is design advanced materials with specifi c and disabled people received a total of focused on e-learning, services, and properties. A major component of this $2 million from the Social Sciences and e-government and its work includes research is the investigation of longterm Humanities Research Council of Canada creating a forum for industry and people nuclear waste storage. The lab will also (SSHRC). with disabilities to exchange ideas aimed contribute to research in fi elds as diverse at improving access to services. as biological and geological sciences.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Led by Michael Freund, chemistry, and earthquake analysis Professor and Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair in Conducting • $102,254 to Jiming Kong, human in Applied Electromagnetics, and his Polymers and Electronic Materials, a anatomy and cell science, to create a partners at InfoMagnetics Technologies team of materials science researchers at subcellular analysis centre Corporation (IMT), received a 2003 the university received $2.9 million from • $119,348 to Jitendra Paliwal, Synergy Award for Innovation from CFI to establish a regional materials biosystems engineering, for near- NSERC for their groundbreaking work characterization facility. Funds will be infrared (NIR) spectroscopy on the design and circuitry of satellite used to purchase instruments that will equipment for quality determination and wireless antennas. accelerate research and development in of cereal grains diverse areas ranging from aerospace • $160,938 to Frank Schweizer, The Synergy Award recognizes and electronics to biotechnology. chemistry, for a high throughput outstanding achievements in university- These instruments will help researchers autopurifi cation system that will industry collaboration and this is understand the elemental makeup and enable analysis and purifi cation of the sixth award for the University of structure of important materials such as large collections of compounds in a Manitoba in as many years — a record super alloys and conducting polymers. short time that ties the institution for second place This could lead to development of • $113,108 to Mark Tachie, mechanical among Canadian universities. materials and electronic devices with and industrial engineering, for the increased performance. establishment of a facility for the study Partnerships Blend Ideas of turbulent fl ows in a porous medium. Under the direction of John Wilkins, University researchers connect with internal medicine/immunology, a many different partners to create new Synergy Awards Count multi-disciplinary team of scientists in teams that can tackle an idea from systems biology research received over Climbs Higher different angles. Some examples include: $3 million in CFI funding. The funds are providing new research equipment, National recognition of University of • Jung Han, food science, received a plus the establishment of a 10,000 square Manitoba scientists keeps growing. total of $41,100 from the Canada/ foot laboratory at the John Buhler Lotfallah Shafai, electrical and Manitoba Agri-food Research and Research Centre in space provided by computer engineering, Distinguished Development Initiative (ARDI) and the Health Sciences Centre Foundation, which is also a funding partner. Systems biology involves learning how molecules interact within cells to produce life. This information could lead to custom- designing treatments for everything from HIV/AIDS to cancer to arthritis to transplant rejection.

Seven More Research Teams were Supported by CFI and these Funds were Matched by the Manitoba Research And Innovations Fund. They are:

• $116,764 to Mario Bieringer, chemistry, to support a powder X-ray diffraction facility • $101,670 to Nazim Cicek, biosystems engineering, to support development and evaluation of advanced Lotfallah Shafai, electrical and computer engineering (pictured at right), and membrane separation processes in wastewater treatment his partners, including Moe Barakat (pictured at left), at InfoMagnetics • $72,544 to Andrew Frederiksen, Technologies Corporation (IMT), received a 2003 Synergy Award from the geological sciences, to acquire a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) portable seismic array to image the for their groundbreaking work on the design and circuitry of satellite and deep structure of Manitoba through wireless antennas. RESEARCH

as Winnipeg’s Route 90 — where large commercial vehicles share the road with growing numbers of pedestrians and cyclists. Montufar’s destination is a society with better, safer designs for roadways and vehicles.

Cutting-edge Rapeseed Research

NSERC-Industrial research chair Peter McVetty and associate chair Genyi Li are developing new and better varieties of canola and high erucic acid rapeseed, known as HEAR. Their work is supported through a $2.5 million grant from NSERC, Bunge Canada and the Manitoba Canola Growers Association. The grant allows the University of Manitoba to provide opportunities for Industrial research chair Peter McVetty (pictured) and associate chair three scientists, six technicians and at least four graduate students to work Genyi Li are developing new and better varieties of canola and high in canola and HEAR research and erucic acid rapeseed, known as HEAR. development over the next fi ve years.

Protecting the Environment

BioEnvelop Technologies to investigate awareness of issues of violence and Co-existing with our natural surroundings the use of natural biopolymer coatings anti-homophobic education. Dean is means preserving the world for the future. for the production of biodegradable internationally recognized for research Researchers working on environmental mulching fi lms. These fi lms will be into the care of children with Type 2 issues include: made using paper and agri-food diabetes and endocrine problems. industry wastes like non-edible • Gordon Robinson, botany, who is starch and will release fertilizers and Henry Friesen, Distinguished Professor directing a $100,000 contract from pesticides on fi elds at a controlled rate. Emeritus, received a CIHR Distinguished Parks Canada to investigate the impact • Nariman Sepehri, mechanical and Leadership Award in the spring of 2004. of sewage lagoon effl uent in Riding industrial engineering, is working to Friesen is the visionary who conceived Mountain National Park. Currently improve safety and productivity levels the idea of the Canadian Institute of Ominnik Marsh has clear water, of cranes equipped with cable-driven Health Research and worked with the abundant aquatic and plant life, and claws by researching coordinated- health research community to transform waterfowl, but enhanced nutrient motion control and tip-over factors. the Medical Research Council into loading could put these conditions at The two-year, $42,715 NSERC grant a dynamic new organization that is risk and alter the delicate relationship is also being supported by Manitoba revitalizing the way health research is the marsh has with other surrounding Hydro, which uses cranes to remove conducted in Canada. water systems. log jams from its hydro stations. • Eric Bibeau, mechanical and industrial Karen Grant, vice-provost (academic Hydro is providing cash and in-kind engineering, who will receive $52,110 affairs), was appointed to the Executive support totaling $51,780. over three years from NSERC for the Committee of the Board of Directors development of practical alternative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Janice Ristock, women’s studies, and energies. Using computer modeling Research Council of Canada. Heather Dean, pediatrics, were each technology, Bibeau will explore the honored with YM-YWCA Women of Over the next fi ve years, Jeannette conversion of animal waste into Distinction awards for achievements Montufar, civil engineering, will electrical power and the use of high in their fi elds and contributions to receive $85,000 from NSERC to study kinetic turbines for run-of-river small the community. Ristock has raised safety on urban truck routes — such hydropower production.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Social Science Research Population and Public Health and the associated with cyclosporine, Creates Understanding Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network. such as high blood pressure. Over the next fi ve years the grant will • Robert Tate, community health Researchers at the University of support research into community sciences, who will receive $788,086 Manitoba are delving into a wide range acquired antimicrobial resistant over fi ve years from CIHR to of social issues supported by SSHRC organisms (AROs) in northern understand how and why an funding. These include: Canadian communities. Mulvey’s individual can age successfully in spite team will monitor prescription of illness and adversity. Since 1948, • Peter Kulchyski, native studies, who patterns, determine risk factors for the Manitoba Follow-up Study has will receive $144,125 over three years resistance, and educate health care documented the health and illness to examine the manner in which providers in an attempt to reduce the of 3,983 healthy men. Two-thirds of institutional change in Aboriginal prevalence of AROs. the 1,370 men remaining are aged communities intersects with the • Mohamed Moghadasian, human 80 to 85 years and are either enjoying growing involvement of Aboriginal nutritional sciences, who will receive healthy lives or are living with chronic communities in regional natural $167,790 over fi ve years from NSERC disease. In part, Tate will use this resource management. The study will to study fl axseed oil as a means to infrastructure to explore successful assess whether creative models of self- deliver cyclosporine, an important aging as a dynamic process, and will seek government which suit community drug used to treat organ rejection. to identify factors in early adulthood decision making needs are adequate This new delivery formulation aims that contribute to this success. to the complex demands placed on to reduce life threatening side effects handling of natural resources. • Dawn Wallin, education, who will receive $52,264 over three years to determine the educational needs and goals of rural Manitobans and use the results to assist policymakers at all levels, rural educators and communities to more fully understand the possibilities and constraints on education in Manitoba.

Keeping Us Healthy

Health researchers at the university are working hard to maintain and improve the health of Canadians by engaging their talents in labs, clinics and hospitals. Research teams include:

• Michelle Lobchuk, nursing, along with Jacquie Vorauer, psychology, and Lesley Degner, nursing, who received $30,000 from the Canadian Lung Association to support research into equipping caregivers with skills such as symptom assessment to optimize the quality of life of family Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) Discovery caregivers and patients living with Grants competition resulted in $1.9 million for 60 University of Manitoba lung cancer. researchers. Recipients include Jeannette Montufar, civil engineering, • Michael Mulvey, medical who received $85,000 to study safety on urban truck routes, such as microbiology, who received a New Emerging Team (NET) grant Winnipeg’s Route 90, where large commercial vehicles share the road with from CIHR worth $1.4 million, in growing numbers of pedestrians and cyclists. Montufar’s destination is a partnership with the CIHR Institute of society with better, safer designs for roadways and vehicles.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 21 RESEARCH

Research Chair Count Rises programs and methods for the varying cultures and societies of Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and rural Beijing. Thirty researchers at the University of Manitoba now hold prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRC). The CRC program With $3 million in funding from the Canadian International was developed by the federal government to retain and attract Development Agency (CIDA), the project is being carried out the best and brightest scientists to make Canada one of the in partnership with the National Women’s University and the world’s top fi ve countries for research and development. China Women’s Federation (CWF). The project will develop and deliver training for CWF cadres who provide social services for The newest chairholders are: women and families in rural areas of China. The six-year project • Tapash Chakraborty, physics, CRC in nanoscale physics employs a train-the-trainer approach so that women who are • Marc Del Bigio, pathology, CRC in developmental trained can train others and they, in turn, will train more. neuropathology This strategy promotes sustainability and greater reach beyond • Michael Freund, chemistry, CRC in conducting polymers the project sites. and electronic materials • Marek Los, biochemistry and medical genetics, CRC in new cancer therapy development University of Manitoba Contributes • Douglas Buchanan, electrical and computer engineering, to SARS Battle CRC in microelectronic materials In 2003, fear of a mystery illness swept the world. Severe • Adele Perry, history, CRC in Western Canadian social history Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) promoted rapid sales of • Hao Ding, biochemistry and medical genetics, CRC in protective masks and sent the travel industry into a downward genetic modeling spiral that hit close to home when Toronto became a SARS hot spot. University of Manitoba researchers joined the international Improving Life for Chinese Women fi ght to solve SARS before it could spread any farther. Their Rural Chinese women are often burdened with high rates of contributions ranged from Abba Gumel’s, mathematics, poverty, low literacy, poor health and few opportunities for work on mathematical models to predict disease transmission, training or advancement. Pioneering research led by Tuula to proteomics researchers Ken Standing and Wer ner Ens, Heinonen and Maria Cheung, social work, will examine physics and astronomy, perfecting equipment used to identify existing social-services in China to improve resources available targets for prevention or treatment of a rapidly spreading to women living in rural areas. The Manitoba researchers are disease. Hélène Perreault, chemistry, joined their team helping Chinese educators develop indigenous social work by helping to characterize some key components of the

Adele Perry, history, research chair, at the Manitoba Archives research room

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 SARS coronavirus. The researchers’ outstanding work complements the lead role played by Frank Plummer, medical microbiology, Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair in Resistance and Susceptibility to Infections.

New Lab Honours Founder

The University of Manitoba celebrated the opening of the new W.R. McQuade Laboratory in April, a 2,500-square-foot facility that will allow the testing of everything from grave markers to full-scale support beams that new equipment will be able to put under hundreds of thousands of pounds of pressure. Kent HayGlass, immunology, with graduate students in a Bannatyne Campus lab The $3-million facility retains the name of the lab’s founder, an engineer who made monumental contributions to the university throughout his life. BY THE Growing Opportunities N umBERS: The University of Manitoba is a leader in bringing the benefi ts $90.9 million in research income in 2003/04 of research to society. Our strong portfolio of patents spans the life sciences and engineering, and an aggressive licensing 41% increase in research funding from program yields more than $2 million annually from close to 80 federal and provincial governments and other partners over the past five years active licences. In addition to a dedicated team of technology commercialization specialists, the university offers unique 43 invention disclosures in 2003/04 programs to assist start-up companies with business training 4": The length of giant Brazilian cockroaches and opening doors to investment capital. — the world’s largest cockroach species — living in the entomology department

Issued Patents Include: 2,000 bales of straw employed to construct new 4,200 square foot research building for • Dan Sitar, internal medicine/pharmacology and therapeutics, Agricultural and Food Sciences and Alvaro Bras, who were granted a U.S. patent for the 1909: The year the University of Manitoba development of a urine test to detect the presence of cancer. started recording earthquake activity from • Michelle Alfa, medical microbiology, who was granted around the world an Australian patent for a product that tests sterilization 800 cultivated acres of land used for procedures for medical devices like endoscopes. agricultural research

New funds from granting agencies also enable researchers to focus on their work rather than raising investment money. Medicine faculty members received Canadian Institutes for Number of Invention Disclosures Health Research (CIHR) Proof of Principle (POP) grants that are designed to advance research and attract investment.

Janice Richman-Eisenstat, internal medicine/pharmacology and therapeutics, and a member of the Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, received $100,000 towards reagent research that may lead to a new treatment strategy for asthma.

A $100,000 POP grant for Judy Anderson, human anatomy 9 16 21 35 43 and cell science, and Frank Burczynski, pharmacy, could lead to improved treatments for neuromuscular diseases or 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 muscle atrophy.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 23 COMMUNITY

Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin

Pride in our community translates into tremendous achievements.

SUPPORTING COMMUNITY EXCELLENCE — SHARING IT WITH THE WORLD.

Congress Returns to University of Manitoba

Thousands of academics from across Canada and beyond of Manitoba graduate Marshall McLuhan, and a lecture by descended on the University of Manitoba from May 29 to Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin. June 5, 2004, to attend the annual Canadian Congress of the Summer Session classes were suspended to accommodate the Humanities and Social Sciences. Nearly 6,000 delegates took event, and virtually every university service, from catering to in hundreds of lectures, workshops and panels over nine audio/visual to grounds keeping, was involved in making the days. Congress 2004 marks the fourth time the University event a success. One hundred and fi fty meeting rooms were of Manitoba has played host to the prestigious conference. booked for the conference, some 1,600 requests for audio/visual services were submitted and 400 catering orders were placed. Congress offered a series of public events that included Globe During the course of the week, 1,155 delegates stayed in and Mail journalist Stephanie Nolen’s account of reporting on campus residences. HIV/AIDS in Africa, a forum on media guru and University

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Events Celebrate 100 Years Grand Opening of the Henry Enns of Teaching and Research Disability Studies Centre

The University of Manitoba celebrated the 1904 appointments The new facility, opened in the Education Building, houses of its fi rst six professors — the scientists Matthew Parker, the Offi ce of University Accessibility and the Interdisciplinary Gordon Bell, Reginald Buller, Frank Allen, Swale Vincent Masters Program in Disability Studies. The centre is named for and R.R. Cochrane — with a number of events held this year. University of Manitoba alumnus Henry Enns, the internationally The centennial marked the beginning of teaching and research at recognized disability rights advocate who passed away in 2002. the university, which had previously served only as an examining and a degree-granting body for the colleges. State-of-the-art Dental Centre • Chemistry students unveiled a Centennial Periodic Table, Opens in Norway House featuring original artwork on ceramic tiles corresponding to each element, from hydrogen to darmstadtium. More than On October 14, 2003, the University of Manitoba, Faculty of 150 volunteers were involved in the project, among them Dentistry and the Norway House Cree Nation offi cially opened faculty, staff and graduate, undergraduate and high school the Kinosao Sipi Dental Centre. Located in Norway House, students. about 800 km north of Winnipeg, this modern facility includes • The Faculty of Science held an anniversary banquet on a full-service dental clinic equipped with seven operatories April 3, 2004. National archivist Ian Wilson was on hand and the latest digital X-ray and intra-oral camera technology. to formally announce the transfer of the papers of 1904 The Kinosao Sipi Dental Centre is the result of an agreement appointee Reginald Buller to the university from the national between the University of Manitoba and the Norway House Cree Library and Archives Canada. Nation to provide a community based and controlled oral health • Other centennial events included a chemistry symposium, care program. This partnership, which began in late 2002, is the a national physics conference and a botany conference. fi rst agreement of its kind in Canada. The centre is fi nanced by Norway House, with the Faculty of Dentistry providing dentists and dental hygienists. Building a Community of Innovators at Smartpark

The University of Manitoba’s Smartpark research and technology park continues its aggressive growth, and completed a second multi-tenant facility. Opened in December 2003, this $3-million facility is home to RTDS Technologies, IDERS Inc. and Transgrid Solutions. They join numerous innovative companies that are already Smartpark tenants, including Cangene Corporation, one of Canada’s largest biotechnology companies. In October 2003, Cangene completed a $16-million expansion of its Smartpark headquarters.

Smartpark Building a community of innovators means more than just research. Smartpark has launched a successful series of new initiatives, including its unique interactive jazz series, a joint effort with the university’s School of Music.

University Community Marks 15th Sneaker Day

Hundreds of University of Manitoba faculty, staff and students from both campuses donned running shoes and t-shirts or creative costumes on June 16, 2004 to take part in the university’s 15th Sneaker Day. The annual affair is scheduled each spring as a kick-off to a summer of active living, and funds raised this year are designated toward a proposed “wellness walk” originating from the Fort Garry campus. Sneaker Day

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 25 COMMUNITY

Steve Kirby, School of Music, with students New Jazz Director Has Winnipeg Cookin’

Can a city be transformed overnight? Since arriving in Winnipeg in the summer of 2003, the University of Manitoba’s new jazz program director has taken the city by storm, making Winnipeg a destination for some of the fi nest sounds in Canadian jazz. A fi rst-call New York bassist with 25 years’ experience, Steve Kirby is working with colleagues from the School of Music and some of the best jazz musicians in western Canada to establish a truly innovative program of jazz instruction. Having already attracted jazz giants like Wycliffe Gordon, Regina Carter and Clark Terry, the University of Manitoba’s very own jazz luminary is putting the University of Manitoba at the very centre of the musical map.

Students Send Books to Kabul Medical Library

A volunteer effort led by medicine students, the Kabul Medical Library Project has collected and shipped over 1,700 modern medical textbooks to Kabul Medical College in Afghanistan, whose library was nearly destroyed in confl icts under the Taliban regime. The project attracted national media attention and generated donations of books from medical students across Canada.

Howard Schultz Receives Prestigious IDEA

Howard Schultz, chairman and chief global strategist of Starbucks Coffee Company, was the recipient of the 2004 International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award (IDEA).

Established in 1983 and presented by the I.H. Asper School of Business, supported by its Associates, the IDEA honours business executives who have achieved international stature and outstanding entrepreneurial success and made an exemplary contribution to the economic life of Canada and the world at large.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Howard Schultz, CEO, Starbucks with students EEmokemo”ke JJ.E..E. SSzathmáryzathmáry rreceiveseceives OOrderrder ooff CCanadaanada Dr. Khalida Hai-Santiago, dentistry, at the Health Action Centre on Elgin

Faculty Members Appointed to Order Dental Student Outreach of Canada and Order of Manitoba Ten Winnipeg schools now participate in the faculty Emoke˝ Szathmáry, C.M., president and vice-chancellor, of dentistry’s award-winning School Busing Program, was appointed member of the Order of Canada and Lloyd which provides free dental care to children in inner-city McGinnis, O.C., CEO of ISIS Canada, was appointed offi cer neighbourhoods. In the last school year, the faculty screened of the Order of Canada. Harvey M. Chochinov, O.M., over 1,200 children and provided close to 270 treatments. psychiatry, Charles Curtis, O.M., executive in residence, I.H. Asper School of Business, Henry G. Friesen, C.C., O.M., Record Attendance at Mini U medicine, June M. James, O.M., medicine, and Arnold Naimark, O.C., O.M., medicine and physiology, were appointed A record number of young people attended the 24th annual to the Order of Manitoba. Mini University in 2003. A total of 7,100 participants between the ages of fi ve and 16 took part in a wide range of physical Hon. Lloyd Axworthy Delivers Second Annual activity and educational programs. Sol Kanee Lecture on Peace and Justice Staff Contribute to Community Lloyd Axworthy delivered the second annual Sol Kanee lecture, entitled “Global Citizenship,” in October 2003 to more than Twenty University of Manitoba staff members were recognized 1,500 people at the Investors Group Athletic Centre. The Sol for their exemplary contributions to the broader community Kanee Lecture is presented by the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for though the university’s annual Outreach Awards: Peace and Justice at St. Paul’s College. Mel Braun, music Gary Martens, agricultural Rosanna Caruso, education and food sciences Donation of Margaret Laurence Robert Craigen, science Ted Mclachlan, architecture Materials to Archives Tom Dembinski, medicine David Mymin, medicine The University of Manitoba archives and special collections Tania Gottschalk, libraries Barry Prentice, management received a unique collection of pictures and writings on famed Joannie Halas, Janice Ristock, arts Canadian writer and University of Manitoba graduate Margaret physical education and Pat Van Ryssel, dentistry Laurence. The material was donated by Lyall Powers, a classmate recreation studies and lifelong friend of Laurence, and author of Alien Heart Dean Syverson, architecture — The Life and Work of Margaret Laurence, published in 2003 Grant Hatch, medicine Donald Trim, science by the University of Manitoba Press. Lorna Jakobson, arts Lois Ward, student affairs William Korytowski, science Arlene Young, arts Sally Lauzé, dentistry

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 27 COMMUNITY

ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS

John W.H. Wong, BSc/57, MD/95, was named 2002 Physician of the Year by the National Republican Congressional Committee Physicians’ Advisory Board. Dr. Wong was formerly the chief medical offi cer of Project Concern International, an international medical relief organization for the medically underprivileged of the world, and medical director of Tulare County General Hospital. He was also an assistant professor of clinical medicine at University of California, Davis, as well as a member of the Mental Health Advisory Board for Tulare County, California.

Kenneth O. Wylie, MD/52, a recipient of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, was recently awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for his life’s work and dedication to improving the health of children and youth.

Michael R. Brown, BA/76, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in October to raise Albert Friesen (BSc/69, MSc/71, PhD/82) was chosen the 2003 funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award. Friesen is a scientist Robert Silver, BSc/70, was awarded with a talent for business and a strong sense of loyalty to Manitoba, the B’nai Brith Canada Award of Merit, where he was born and raised. He is one of Canada’s most recognizable the Canadian Jewish organization’s names in biotechnology. highest honour.

Madhav Sinha, PhD/74, chief of Friesen is president and CEO of Medicure Inc., a cardiovascular drug engineering and quality programs at discovery and development company that spun out of Naranjan Dhalla’s the Manitoba government department research at the University of Manitoba. Friesen has maintained strong ties of labour and immigration, became the with the university, where he is an adjunct professor. fi rst Canadian to receive the American Society for Quality’s Distinguished Service Gold Medal in 2003, recognizing his work in quality control and total David Hildebrand, BEd/88, BA/95, Doug Corbett, BES/74, March/78, quality management. and Amanda Tetrault (nee Freedman), and partners at Corbett Cibinel BPE /95, were honoured by the prime Architects received the Best Overall Dale Dodge, BScPharm/74, and Dan minister of Canada. Each received a Project award for their Red River College Friesen, BScPharm/75, were awarded Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Princess Street campus. The award was the Canadian Pharmacists Association’s Excellence. given at the Canadian Urban Institute’s Patient Care Achievement Award for Brownfi elds Conference in Kitchener, Innovative Practice for 2003. Ontario in October 2003.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Graduates Receive Order Two in the Top 40 Prabhat Jha, MD/88, is an acclaimed of Canada and Order of Toronto-based medical researcher, Two University of Manitoba graduates Manitoba Appointments Canada Research Chair in Health and were feted at a prestigious awards Development, and director of the ceremony in recognition of their Centre for Global Health Research at Offi cers of the Order of Canada: inclusion among the Top 40 Under 40, the University of Toronto/St. Michael’s the exclusive list of Canada’s emerging Arthur A. DeFehr, O.C., Hospital. Jamie Brown, BSc/88, movers and shakers compiled annually BComm/64, LLD/98 is the CEO and executive producer by Caldwell Partners International. Dr. of Winnipeg-based Frantic Films. Raymond A Price, O.C., BScHons/55

Members of the Order of Canada: Stella Jo Anne Dean (Kozak), C.M., BA/43 A. Rolph Huband, C.M., BComm/51, LLB/55 Leonard P. Ratzlaff, C.M., CertEd/72 Tannis M. Richardson, C.M., BScHEc/48 Perry Rosemond, C.M., BA/58 Betty Jane Wylie, C.M., BA (Hons)/51, MA/52, DLitt/03

Companion of the Order of Canada: Lois M. Wilson, C.C., BA/47

Order of Manitoba: Leonard Bateman, O.M., BScEE/42, MSc/48 Sister Therese Champagne, O.M., BEsA/77 Phil Fontaine, O.M., BA/81 Wally Fox-Decent, C.M., C.D., O.M., BAHons/59, MA/71 Benjamin Hewak, O.M., BA/56, LLB/60, LLD/03 Samuel M. Katz, O.M., BA/73 Thermophysiology professor and University of Manitoba graduate Arthur V. Mauro, O.C., O.M., Q.C., Gordon Giesbrecht, physical education and recreation studies, made a BA/49, LLB/53, LLM/56, LLD/87 big splash on the Late Show with David Letterman in February 2004.

The affable researcher, better known as “Professor Popsicle,” saw his media profi le jump in January when he completed a 450-km trek across Lake Winnipeg in temperatures that often plummeted well below minus 30. But nothing compared to the February evening that Giesbrecht immersed himself in a giant tank of frigid water outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre.

He bantered with Letterman, shared a warm drink with actress Sarah Jessica Parker and delighted the New York studio audience, not to mention his University of Manitoba students and colleagues paying close attention at home. COMMUNITY Capital Campaign Highlights

Building on Strengths: Campaign for the University of Manitoba raised more than $237 million for projects across the university. Launched publicly on November 21, 2001, the campaign wrapped up on February 12, 2004 with the university’s announcement of its historic fundraising achievement. (See story on page 5 for more information.) Here are some of the campaign highlights from 2003-04:

Faculty of Law to Become Expert George Bear performs a hoop dance on Aboriginal Day in Family-Owned Businesses

The university is establishing the Marcel A. Desautels Centre Aboriginal Community Events for Private Enterprise and the Law with a lead gift of $5 million and Academic Programs from the Canadian Credit Management Foundation headed by law graduate and national fi nancial services industry The university continued its strong support for Aboriginal leader Marcel Desautels, president and CEO, Canadian Credit students and community events this year, including the 14th Management Foundation. A unique program among Canadian annual Traditional Graduation Powwow on May 3, 2003, law schools, the centre will build expertise and develop an and campus events on June 23, 2003, celebrating National integrated approach to educate students about the legal aspects Aboriginal Day. of family-owned businesses. The University of Manitoba hosted the Aboriginal Summer Humanities Institute during the 2003 Summer Session. Building an Inner-city Facility In addition to offering an array of courses in literature, fi lmmaking and art, the institute included panel discussions, The Moffat Fund at the Winnipeg Foundation provided poetry readings and a series of public forums, fi lms and exhibits. $1 million to support the creation of an inner-city facility for the University of Manitoba. Set to open in 2005, the Selkirk Elders and traditional teachers from First Nations and Métis Avenue building will house two programs that promote communities joined hundreds of participants for the third annual accessibility, the University of Manitoba’s Inner-city Social Elders and Traditional Peoples Gathering. Titled Manidoobaa: Work Program and the University of Winnipeg’s Education Where Creator Sits, the event was hosted by the Aboriginal Student Program for inner-city students. Centre and the department of native studies, and focused on Aboriginal spirituality, knowledge, wisdom and culture. Elders shared their knowledge and experience through storytelling, Graduate Students Pledge $1 Million workshops and ceremonies. Twenty Elders were invited to the The university’s graduate students voted in 2003 to give gathering, representing every tribal heritage in Manitoba. $1 million over four years to create a new fellowship and bursary program. Jim Burns, O.C., L.L.D., director emeritus, Monument Honours Contributors Power Corporation of Canada, gave $500,000 to support the to Medical Research fellowships. The Manitoba Scholarship and Bursary Initiative will match the contributions from Dr. Burns and the graduate The university unveiled a memorial monument at Winnipeg’s students, bringing the initial value of the fund to $1.5 million. Brookside Cemetery in June 2003 to honour those who donated their bodies to the university for the advancement of medical education and research. The monument was unveiled following the annual burial and committal service, fi rst held in 1952.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Asper School Celebrates

On June 11, 2003, the Asper School celebrated reaching the $20-million mark in its $30-million endowment campaign. The event was hosted by the late Israel Asper, O.C., L.L.D., at his Winnipeg home.

New Facility to be Built for Pharmacy

The Faculty of Pharmacy received a $1-million gift from Procurity Pharmacy Services (formerly United Pharmacists Ltd.) Hartley Richardson, Building on Strengths vice-chair (left) and in support of the faculty’s new teaching and research facility that campaign chair David Friesen (right) join President Szathmáry will be built on the Bannatyne campus. in celebrating the successful completion of the campaign

New Digs at Delta Marsh BY THE A new residence opened in 2003 at the Delta Marsh Field Station to provide a resting place for students and researchers, N umBERS: and attract more visitors to the environmental research base 72,520: Number of University of Manitoba on the shores of Lake Manitoba. The $500,000 project was alumni residing in Manitoba. Some other supported by the Thomas Sill Foundation, the Winnipeg Rh neat facts: Approximately the same number Institute Foundation and the Community Foundation of of graduates make their home in Trinidad and Tobago as in the Northwest Territories. Portage and District. More alumni live in England than in Florida, although California is home to four times the number of graduates than England. Prehistoric Creatures Given a Home 600: Number of University of Manitoba The Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie, a permanent fossil exhibit, alumni and friends who convened in opened in September 2003 in the Wallace Building. Funding for downtown Toronto for a special alumni gathering in November 2003. the $425,000 project was provided by gifts from more than 200 donors as well as support from the department of geological 36,420: Number of donors to the University sciences, the Faculty of Science and the university. The exhibit of Manitoba’s historic Building on Strengths capital campaign. is named in honour of Ed Leith, a longtime geological sciences professor remembered for his enthusiasm is teaching young 2004: The year the University of Manitoba people about geology. renamed University Centre’s Beausejour room McLuhan Hall.

Number of Children Attending Mini-University Children’s Camps

4,500 5,400 6,100 6,400 7,100

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 31 ADMINISTRATION

Confi dence in our strengths lets us set our sights higher.

BUILDING ON A STRONG FOUNDATION FOR A STRONGER FUTURE.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Opening New Doors

Kitchenettes, private bathrooms, high-speed Internet and plenty of space for both catching up with friends and hitting the books — and all of it just steps away from the classroom. Named in recognition of the University of Manitoba’s 11th chancellor, the new 310-bed Arthur V. Mauro Student Residence combines the independence and privacy of living in an apartment with the convenience of having an array of campus resources always near at hand. Today, University of Manitoba students are stepping into a fi rst-class residence that has set a new standard for campus living. Soon, our students will be opening the door to a world-class engineering and technology complex, a cutting-edge centre for music, art and design, and the $25-million Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals. The University of Manitoba is changing. Watch us grow.

Student lounge in Arthur Mauro residence

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 33 ADMINISTRATION

Campus Beautifi cation Day

Campus Beautifi cation Day Kinley, offi ce of the vice-president (administration), Anne Percival, Continuing Education Division and Bryan Magwood, A record-setting crowd gathered to take part in the 2003 pediatrics. Jerry Gray, dean, I.H. Asper School of Business, Campus Beautifi cation Day. Nearly 1,200 staff, students, served as the United Way universities division chair. faculty and community volunteers grabbed gardening gloves and rakes to give both the Fort Garry and Bannatyne campuses University Acquires First-in-Canada a thorough spring cleaning. The annual event unites the Destruction Unit university community in brightening both campuses with thousands of fl owers. The Environmental Health and Safety Offi ce acquired a Mobile Thermal Destruction Unit to deal with potentially unstable chemicals, such as old ethers and dry picric acid. High-performance Supercomputer Upgraded The new unit, the fi rst in Canada, is essentially a heavy-duty The university’s leading role among Canadian academic portable incinerator on wheels, manufactured specifi cally institutions in the use of supercomputers took a further leap for the disposal of unstable chemicals, fi reworks, fl ares and forward with upgrades to its high-performance computing ammunition. research facility, called Polaris, made possible through in-kind contributions from Sun Microsystems of Canada. The largest Symmetrical Multi-Processor computer in Manitoba, Polaris Student-driven Recycling Efforts Recognized allows researchers in physics, chemistry, psychology, engineering, The University of Manitoba Recycling and Environmental computer science and other disciplines to work on very large or Group (UMREG) was recognized by the Canadian Association diffi cult calculations. of University Business Offi cers for its work as the only student- operated, student-funded recycling program among Canadian 2003 United Way Campaign universities. The success of the university’s recycling program, which is orchestrated jointly between UMREG and the Waste The 2003 University of Manitoba United Way Campaign Prevention Offi ce, is evidenced by a 300 per cent increase in raised a total of $389,076, representing an 8.3 per cent increase materials capture since 1999. over the 2002 total. Co-chairs for the campaign were Randall

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Fort Garry Shuttle Proves Popular

The University of Manitoba and the University of Manitoba Students’ Union joined hands in October 2003 to launch the Bison Patrol, a shuttle service to deliver students and staff safely across campus during poor weather and in the evening. The shuttle is offered free-of-charge and ferries riders along a well-marked route Monday to Friday from early morning until late evening.

Parking Services Adopts Centralized Parking-management System

The Parking Services department has replaced decades-old technology and manual data entry with a new centralized system UMSU president Shawn Alwis and university vice-president called PowerPark. Tickets are now electronically generated in the (administration) Debbie McCallum with the popular Bison fi eld using handheld devices, and administrative staff are able to Patrol shuttle. more effi ciently manage the university’s more than 7,000 parking spaces. Web-based parking permit sales are slated to be introduced in 2005. BY THE N BERS: University, UMFA Reach New Agreement um 1,200,000,000: Number of dollars in value- With a new bargaining protocol in place, the University of added economic activity generated for the Manitoba successfully negotiated a longterm collective agreement province by the university. with the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA). 6,700: Number of full- and part-time jobs the The duration of the agreement is from April 1, 2004 to March 31, university is directly responsible for sustaining. 2007. The protocol was the fi rst ever to preclude the possibility of a work stoppage. 70,000: Plant specimens contained in the University of Manitoba’s herbarium. Founded in 1907, the facility recently acquired a compactor, ensuring there is ample space for the 2,000 new Campus Security Augmented specimens added to the herbarium every year. at Bannatyne Campus

Campus Security has augmented their patrol strength at the Historical Comparisons of Bannatyne Campus with the addition of four constables assigned Academic and Support Staff Positions on a permanent basis. All constables were given additional fi rst responder training in the use of respirators and oxygen equipment 1900 Academic in order to provide fi rst aid until Emergency Services respond. 1800 Support 1700 Partnership Yields Emergency Back-up 1600

The university partnered with Manitoba Hydro to install a pilot- 1500 project standby generator. Installed in the central energy centre, the new two-megawatt generator can supply electricity in emergency 1400 and overload situations. 1300

1200 Lecture Halls Upgraded 1997 1999 2001 2003 Theatre A in the Basic Medical Sciences building was entirely Notes: refurbished. On the Fort Garry campus, the Fletcher Argue and 1. Staff positions are FTE operating budget positions (excl. ancillary services). Drake Centre theatres received substantial upgrades. 2. Academic Librarians included in support staff. 3. Strategic Initiatives Process FTEs included starting in 2001/02.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 35 FINANCIAL REPORT

With the release of the new strategic academic plan, Building Table 1: Total Revenue — All Funds (512.8M) for a Bright Future, in July 2003 all members of the University of Manitoba community have been challenged to move the (General Operating $351.3M Restricted $151.6M; university forward in achieving fi ve institutional priorities. Endowment $9.9M) In the following report, the 2003-04 fi nancial results are March 31, 2004 (Expressed in millions of dollars) highlighted, together with progress made towards the achievement of these institutional priorities.

Investing in the University of Manitoba

For fi scal year 2003-04, total university revenues in all of its funds were $512.8 million, an increase of 3.1% over the prior year’s revenue of $497.4 million (Table 1, Total Revenue — All Funds). Highlights of the major revenue sources are as follows:

• Council on Post Secondary Education (COPSE) grants to the University of Manitoba increased by $10.5 million to a total of $218.8 million, accounting for most of the overall increase in COPSE $ 218.8 revenues and for 42.7% of the university’s total revenue from Tuition Fees $ 83.5 all Funds. Contributions, Donations • Tuition fees totaled $83.5 million or 16.3% of total revenue. Non-Government Grants $ 62.2 • Grants from other provincial departments such as Health Government of Canada $ 65.6 and Agriculture totaling $21.5 million were received, relating Other Province of Manitoba $ 21.5 primarily to specifi c research and education priorities and Ancillary $ 27.9 capital grants and accounting for a further 4.2% of total Sales of Goods and Services $ 20.2 revenue. Investment and Other Revenues $ 13.1 • Federal government contributions were $65.6 million, or 12.8% of total revenue, primarily relating to specifi c research TOTAL $ 512.8 projects awarded through the federal granting councils. • Private donations, contributions and non-government University Operations grants of $62.2 million, in support of research, special projects, trust and endowment and capital, to make up The operating results of the University of Manitoba for fi scal 12.1% of total revenue. year 2003-04 are summarized in Table 2, General Operations, together with the April 1, 2003, approved general operating budget. Major sources of funding of the general operating Almost half of the university’s total revenue comes from the budget include: Province of Manitoba, attesting to the strong commitment that the government has shown to the University of Manitoba • COPSE operating grants of $206 million, an increase of 3.9% over the years, and a signifi cant portion of which supports the over 2002-03; general operation of the university. Most of the other sources • Tuition fees of $83.5 million, an increase of 5.6% over of revenue, except for tuition fees, are restricted for other 2002-03, primarily the result of an overall 6.5% increase in purposes — research, capital, staff benefi ts and endowments enrolment; — nonetheless these revenues are critical to the university in • Ancillary Enterprises, which are comprised of the Book Store, pursuit of its vision of excellence and innovation in teaching, Parking Services, Residences and the Pharmacy/Post Offi ce of research and community service. $27.9 million, an increase of 6%, primarily due to the opening of the Arthur V. Mauro Student Residence; • Sales of goods and services of $20.2 million relating primarily to the provision of specialized services not readily available locally; and • Federal government grants of $6.5 million primarily made up of the indirect costs of research funding of $6.1 million. This program, which began in 2001-02, is now a permanent one.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 Table 2 — General Operations Summary Statement (expressed in thousands of dollars)

April 1, 2003 March 31, 2004 March 31, 2003 Budget Actual Actual

Revenue

COPSE $ 206,282 $ 205,969 $ 198,211 Tuition Fees 80,392 83,517 79,126 Ancillary Enterprises 26,793 27,871 26,322 Sales of Goods & Services 17,469 20,228 20,538 Investment & Other Revenues 4,007 5,314 4,208 Government of Canada 5,500 6,482 6,098 Other Province of Manitoba 2,360 1,895 2,005 342,803 351,276 336,508

Expense by Function

Instruction $ 196,585 $ 211,537 $ 199,790 Central Reserves* 33,115 Plant Maintenance 31,882 28,712 28,498 Ancillary Enterprises 26,793 23,664 23,869 Libraries 18,901 13,027 11,897 Administration 16,259 19,617 17,471 Student Affairs 13,917 14,452 13,335 Property Tax 6,994 6,900 9,051 Other 3,749 4,801 3,916 348,195 322,710 307,827

Net Revenue (5,392 ) 28,566 28,681

Net Transfer from (to) Other Funds 5,392 (28,469) (27,933) Net Increase to Fund Balance $ $ 97 $ 748

Expense by Type:

Academic & Other Instructional Salaries $ 121,866 $ 125,871 $ 117,519 Support Staff Salaries 79,852 83,284 78,059 Supplies & Expenses 76,144 43,055 41,824 Staff Benefi ts 27,993 28,859 26,470 Utilities 16,824 15,643 15,199 Ancillaries Cost of Goods Sold 14,344 14,642 15,548 Property Tax 6,994 6,900 9,051 Payroll Tax Levy 4,178 4,456 4,157 $ 348,195 $ 322,710 $ 307,827

*Represents funds budgeted for distribution to units’ budgets during the year for salary and contract increases and other centrally funded initiatives.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 37 FINANCIAL REPORT

Highlights of the university’s general operating expenses are People are the driving force in the overall success of the as follows: University of Manitoba and the growth trend in positions is evidence of the university’s commitment to attracting • General operating expenses increased by $14.9 million during and retaining the faculty and staff who are essential to the fi scal 2003-04. This is net of a $2.2 million savings in property achievement of its goals. taxes, attributable to the province’s commitment to phase out the requirement over a fi ve-year period, for the university to pay property taxes. Students • For operating expenses shown by function, about 79% of The university has continued to experience growth in student the increased expense is attributable to instruction and the enrolment for the sixth consecutive year. remaining 21% to various aspects of the university’s operation which support teaching and learning including the libraries, • Enrolments climbed to an all time record high of 24,402 student services, physical plant and administration. FTE students, representing an overall growth in students of • For operating expenses shown by expense type, virtually all of 6.5% over 2002-03. Actual student numbers have increased the $14.9-million increase is attributable to increases in salary, even more signifi cantly than the FTE fi gures might suggest, benefi ts and payroll tax costs, resulting from salary increases with 26,572 students attending classes in the Fall and Winter and increased staff numbers. Session and 9,951 students attending classes in Summer Session. • Enrolment growth over the past six years is largely attributable The university has historically been very successful at achieving to the university’s commitment to accessibility and to an a balanced budget at the end of each fi scal year, due to both aggressive marketing campaign designed to raise the level of strong budgetary controls that are in place as well as through awareness of the University of Manitoba in the province as the sharing of fi scal responsibility and accountability by the well as across the country and internationally. faculties, schools, libraries and administrative support units. • The increase in international student enrolments to 1,718, The current fi scal year is no exception with a general operating more than double the number from fi ve years ago, represents surplus of $97,000 after net transfers of $28.5 million to other an increase of about 39% over 2002-03. funds. The most signifi cant of these are transfers to the capital fund of $24.2 million for the acquisition of furniture and Our Donors and Benefactors equipment, computers, library acquisitions and vehicles and for the renovation of various facilities, attesting to the university’s With tuition fees frozen at 1999-2000 levels and a 10% commitment to improving and maintaining its capital tuition fee rebate program in place, to meet the challenges infrastructure base. of accommodating growing numbers of students — both in terms of delivery of services and in space, technology and Building for a Bright Future infrastructure — the university has had to be creative and look for other opportunities to improve its service delivery and Provide Access to an Exceptional Education facilities to attract and retain students. These challenges are — Attract and Retain the Best largely being met through private fundraising.

Staff The Building on Strengths Capital Campaign came to an offi cial close in February 2004, surpassing its goal of $200 million by The University of Manitoba is all about people with about 75% of raising $237 million in funding which will be used to support its current year’s expenses being spent on salaries and related costs. the university’s strategic institutional priorities through:

• In 2003-04, the university employed 3,389 full-time • a strong scholarship, bursary and loan program — equivalent (FTE) staff on a year round basis, 1,528 of which $41 million; were academic staff and 1,861 of which were administrative • chairs and professorship endowments — $11.7 million; and support staff, making the university one of the largest • library endowments — $7.7 million; employers in Manitoba. • faculty, school and college endowments — $87.1 million; and • With a net increase of 122 FTE positions over the course • funding for capital building projects and campus renewal of fi scal year 2003-04, academic staff numbers have now — $90 million. returned to the levels reached in 1992 when student numbers were also close to current levels.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 As of March 31, 2004, the market value of the university’s Building for a Bright Future trust and endowment funds was $222.3 million. Provide the Human, Physical and • As pledges are collected from the capital campaign, the Technological Infrastructure Necessary university’s trust and endowment funds will undoubtedly for Learning and Research grow signifi cantly. In fi scal 2003-2004, the University of Manitoba invested $83.7 • The ten-year annualized return on the University Investment million in capital assets, as shown in Table 3, Capital Fund Trust was 8.9% to March 31, 2004; the one-year annualized Expenditures on page 40. With capital asset additions in 2002- return to March 31, 2004, was 26.7%. 2003 at a level of $75.4 million, the current year’s additions mark • With an active trust investment committee and prudent a continuation of the trend in campus renewal at the University fi nancial management of the investments, the trust and of Manitoba. Signifi cant capital projects completed during endowment funds will provide funding to support future 2003-04 include: students and staff as well as faculty initiatives in perpetuity. • The Arthur V. Mauro Student Residence, completed at a Building for a Bright Future construction cost of $14.6 million, was opened to students in Be a Centre for Research and Graduate the fall of 2003. Education That Makes a Difference to • Smartpark continued to build its community of innovators Our Province, Our Nation and Our World with the construction of a second multi-tenant facility at 137 Innovation Drive at a cost of $3.3 million. Over the past number of years, the growth in research activity • Work was completed on numerous building upgrade and has been exceptional. renovation projects such as roof replacements and building envelope repairs and a number of technology upgrades in • In fi scal 2003-2004, $83.5 million in research support was classrooms were undertaken, totalling $6.8 million. received through research grants or contracts from the federal • Major administrative system renewal continued at a cost and provincial governments, various private sources and of $3.3 million with human resource, fi nance and student foundations, an increase of 5.7% over 2002-2003. information systems in various stages of implementation. • Over the past ten years, the growth is yet more impressive with These new systems will greatly improve the fi nancial and sponsored or assisted research increasing by almost 66.3%. non-fi nancial data required for campus-wide decision making • As a contribution to the Building on Strengths Capital and the delivery of services to students and staff. Campaign, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • University-wide cabling continues to bring the university’s contributed $17 million U.S. to HIV/AIDS research and hard wiring and wireless technology up to date, with $2.7 prevention which University of Manitoba medical researchers million being spent on upgrades in various buildings are conducting in India. The Gates Foundation is known to be across campus. a charitable institution that chooses wisely the worthy causes it supports. This highly prestigious gift is but one example of Funding sources for these projects include transfers from other support of the university’s renowned research nationally and funds (operating, research and specifi c provisions), the Province, internationally. private donors, federal government agencies and long-term • Over the past fi ve years, the number of graduate students at debt as detailed in Table 3.1 Capital Fund Sources on page 40. the University of Manitoba has increased by 20%, with half These new capital building and infrastructure renewal projects of this increase (10%) occurring in the current fi scal year. demonstrate the university’s commitment to providing a high quality learning and research environment that meets the needs The key to a successful research program at any university of students, faculty, staff and the community. is the ability to attract and retain quality graduate students. These students typically align themselves with academic staff who are conducting research in their area of interest, allowing for an inter-generational passing of knowledge as well as a strengthening of the knowledge base which is being created.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 39 FINANCIAL REPORT

Building for a Bright Future Table 3: Capital Fund Expenditures 2003-04 Be at the Centre of our Community: (Expressed in millions of dollars) On Manitoba

In addition to providing a quality university education to students, the University of Manitoba reaches out to the community in many other ways, through continuing education opportunities for individuals and business, contract research and other collaborative efforts.

• The university is highly visible in Winnipeg and throughout Manitoba, operating on two main campuses, Fort Garry and Bannatyne, as well as facilities such as University of Manitoba Downtown, Glenlea Research Station, Carman and Delta Marsh. Land, Buildings & Parking Lots $ 40.2 • A new building that is being built on Selkirk Avenue to house Furniture, Equipment & Vehicles $ 14.1 the Inner-city Social Work Program and the University of Library Holdings & Works of Art $ 9.5 Winnipeg Education Program will also enable students Computers & Electronics $ 7.1 enrolled in these Access programs to acquire their education Debt Servicing $ 4.2 in the inner-city where they live and will eventually work. Infrastructure Renewal $ 6.8 • Further development of Smartpark will provide business Administrative Systems Renewal $ 3.3 and industry opportunities to work collaboratively with Cabling $ 2.7 researchers at the University of Manitoba. • When considering indirect “spin-off” resulting from the university direct expenditures, the university contributes approximately $1 billion to the Manitoba economy annually.

Table 3.1: Capital Fund Sources 2003-04

(Expressed in millions of dollars) Without doubt, the University of Manitoba’s success in serving its mission in education, research and community service translates into benefi ts for Manitoba.

Conclusion

In the short time since the release of the Strategic Academic Plan for the University of Manitoba: Building for a Bright Future, considerable progress has been made in achieving its fi ve institutional priorities. Increased investment in the university is the right choice for Manitoba and will result in sustaining the capacity of the university to support learning, innovation in research and community service. The university acknowledges Transfer from Other Funds $ 39.1 with gratitude the provincial and the federal governments as well Debt Financing $ 22.8 as all students, staff, alumni, and community stakeholders for COPSE $ 12.8 their continuing and generous support. CFI & MRIF $ 7.3 Donations & Other $ 6.7 The university’s full annual fi nancial report can be viewed at umanitoba.ca/admin/fi nancial_services/. Western Economic Diversifi cation $ 1

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 BOARD OF GOVERNORS Members of the Board of Governors

Chair Vice-Chair Chancellor President and Mr. Wayne Anderson Mr. Terry Sargeant Dr. William Norrie, Vice-Chancellor B.S.A., M.B.A. B.A., LL.B C.M., O.M., Q.C., B.A., Dr. Emoke˝ J.E. Szathmáry LL.B., LL.D. (Man.), LL.D. C.M., B.A.(Hons.), Ph.D., LL.D. (Wpg.) (Tor.), D.Sc. (Western) Appointed by Government

Mr. Alfred Black Dr. Vanaja Ms. Ellen Gordon Mr. Graham Lane Ms. Lisa Meeches Ms. Joanna Plater B.Math., M.Math. Dhruvarajan B.A., MSW B.A., C.A. B.A. B.A. (Hons.), M.A. M.A., Ph.D. Appointed by Government (Students)

Ms. Shirley Ms. Doris Young Ms. Morgan Albl Mr. Kris Ms. Jennifer Simons Van Schie B.A. (Hons.), M.P.A. B.A. (Hons.) Frederickson B.A. B.A. (Adv.), M.A., LL.B. B.Sc. Elected by Senate Elected by Alumni

Dr. Harry Dr. Janet Hoskins Dr. Anthony Secco Dr. Ian Smith Mr. Doug Ward Duckworth B.E.S., M.Sc., Ph.D. B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D. B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., B.A., LL.B. B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D. Ph.D. D.Sc. (H.C.) Fil. Doktor (H.C.) Appointed by UMSU Assessors (Non voting) Mr. Joseph Ahorro, UMSU Dr. Ranjan Roy, UMFA Mr. Tom Moyle, Support Staff

Mr. Shawn Alwis Mr. Christopher Ms. Erin Prosser Kozier B.Sc. UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA • 41 UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA

Senior Administrative Offi cers Deans of Faculties and Directors of Schools

President and Vice-Chancellor: Emoke˝ J.E. Szathmáry, C.M., B.A. Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences: Harold Bjarnason, B.A., (Hons.), Ph.D. LL.D., D.Sc. M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.

Vice-President (Academic) and Provost: Robert Kerr, B.Sc., M.Sc., Faculty of Architecture: David Witty, B.A.(Hons.), M.A., Ph.D. Ph.D. Faculty of Arts: Robert O’Kell, B.A.(Hons.), A.M., Cert.Vict.Studies, Vice-President (Research): Joanne C. Keselman, B.A. M.A., Ph.D. Ph.D.

Vice-President (Administration): Deborah J. McCallum, B.Sc. I.H. Asper School of Business: Jerry L. Gray, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.

Vice-President (External): Elaine V. Goldie, Cert.Ed. Faculty of Dentistry: Johann de Vries, B.Ch.D., B.Chd.(Hons.), M.Dent. Vice-Provost (Student Affairs): David R. Morphy, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Faculty of Education: John Wiens, B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed., Ph.D. Vice-Provost (Programs): Richard A. Lobdell, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Faculty of Engineering: Douglas Ruth, B.Sc.(M.E.), M.Sc.(M.E.), Vice-Provost (Academic Affairs): Karen R. Grant, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Ph.D., P.Eng.

Associate Vice-President (Administration): Alan Simms, Faculty of Environment: Leslie King, B.A.(Hons.), M.A., M.E.S., B.Comm.(Hons.), LL.B. Ph.D.

Associate Vice-President (Finance): Leanne Burkowski, Faculty of Graduate Studies: Anthony Secco, B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D. B.Comm.(Hons.), C.A. Faculty of Human Ecology (Acting): Gustaaf P. Sevenhuysen, B.Sc., Associate Vice-President (Research): Digvir Jayas, B.Tech.(A.E.), Ph.D. M.Sc., Ph.D., P.Ag., P.Eng. Faculty of Law: Harvey L. Secter, B.Comm., LL.B., LL.M., LL.D. Associate Vice-President (Research): Peter Cattini, B.Sc. (Hons.), Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine: Brian Hennen, B.A., M.D.

Faculty of Nursing: David Gregory, B.Sc.N., M.N., Ph.D.

Director of Libraries: Carolynne Presser, A.B. M.L.S. Faculty of Pharmacy: David Collins, Dipl.Pharm. M.Sc., Ph.D.

University Secretary (Acting): Jeff Leclerc, B.Ed. Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Studies: Dennis W. Hrycaiko, B.P.E., Cert.Ed., M.P.E., Ph.D.

Faculty of Science: James C. Jamieson, B.Sc., Ph.D.

Faculty of Social Work: Robert Mullaly, B.A., M.S.W., Ph.D.

School of Agriculture: Mervyn K. Pritchard, B.S.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.

School of Art: Celia Rabinovitch, B.F.A.(Hons.), B.A., M.F.A., Ph.D.

School of Dental Hygiene: Salme Lavigne, Dip.D.H., B.A., M.S.

School of Medical Rehabilitation: Juliette (Archie) Cooper, Dip.P. and O.T., B.O.T., M.Sc., Ph.D.

School of Music: Dale Lonis, B.S.E., M.M., E.D.D.

Continuing Education Division: Anne Percival, B.A., M.A., M.B.A., Ed.D.

St. Andrew’s College, Principal (Acting): Roman Bozyk, B.A., B.D., M.Div., M.A.(Th.)

Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Rectrice: Raymonde Gagné, B.A., Cert.Ed., M.B.A.

St. John’s College, Warden: Janet Hoskins, B.E.S., M.Sc., Ph.D.

St. Paul’s College, Rector: John Stapleton, B.S., M.T.S., M.A., Ph.D.

University College, Provost: Gene Walz, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

University 1: Beverly Cameron, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04 NEW HEIGHTS Awards Peter D. Curry Chancellor’s Award Awarded to individuals who have made distinguished and Honours contributions to university governance and/or development. Cynthia Lauren Coop Each year at spring and fall convocations, the University of Manitoba honours students, faculty, alumni and members of the community for their distinguished contributions to the Distinguished Professor Award university and to society. Fikret Birkes, Natural Resources Institute Digvir S. Jayas, biosystems engineering Honourary Degree Recipients

Fall 2003 R.C. Armatage Award Paul M. Soubry, businessman and former Board of Governors Awarded to a student involved in and committed to the chair betterment of student life by serving on committees, councils Harry Walsh, Q.C., Winnipeg lawyer and other governing bodies within the university. February 2004 (Special convocation, Winnipeg) Christopher Kozier Edwin O. Anderson, senior scholar and former secretary of Senate

Spring 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award Raymond R. Henault, General, Chief of the Defence Staff, Canada Awarded by the Alumni Association to a University of Manitoba Lloyd Axworthy, president of the University of Winnipeg graduate of 25 years or more in recognition of distinguished Beverley McLachlin, 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court achievement. of Canada Albert Friesen Clayton H. Riddell, business executive Distinguished Service Award Emeritus Honours Presented by the Board of Governors for exceptional Chancellors Emeriti contributions to Manitoba, or which are directly associated with Isabel G. Auld, 1977-1986 the university. Henry E. Duckworth, 1986-1992 Helen Hayles Arthur V. Mauro, 1992-2001 Kerry Hawkins

Faculty Emeritus Honours Dr. and Mrs. D.R. Campbell Outreach Award Professors Emeriti Presented to university staff members who consistently spend Donald K. Gordon, French and Spanish countless hours of their own time in community service. Herbert Weil, English Robert W. Archambeau, art Zana Lutfi yya, education Karl T. Riese, surgery Hugh C. Williams, mathematics Teaching Awards Librarians Emeriti Dr. and Mrs. H.S. Saunderson Award Earle Ferguson, Elizabeth Dafoe Library for Excellence in Teaching Audrey M. Kerr, Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library Deborah Court, microbiology Dean Emeritus Alan Marshall, computer science Fred Stambrook, arts Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for Excellence in Teaching Wayne Serebrin, education

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