November 10, 2017 Volume 25, Issue 3 Publication Mail Agreement #40065156 ON CAMPUS NEWS [email protected] news.usask.ca LEST WE FORGET In honour of Remembrance Day, we take a look at the university’s long history of service with the Canadian Armed Forces, through a decades-long association with the Canadian Officers Training Corps program. READ THE FULL STORY ON PAGE 11. DIGGING UP DINOS CAMPUS ATHLETICS 7 CONSTRUCTION 9 AND ACADEMICS 13 Drafting a framework for an architecture school HENRYTYE GLAZEBROOK Saskatchewan has the lowest Architecture in the province, then to support this program, without On Campus News is published 12 times number of local architects per young people who want to be archi- depleting resources from other per year by University of Saskatchewan capita of any province in Canada, tects will not need to leave and are units. Marketing and Communications. It is distributed to all U of S faculty, staff, with the exception of Newfound- more likely to stay after graduation. While support in principal graduate students and members of land and Labrador. It will take time, but in a generation is only the first of many steps governing bodies, as well as to others That may not sound like a we can expect Saskatchewan to have required—and indeed universi- in the university community, related pressing issue, but the result is that statistics around architects similar ty-level approval is still very much organizations, some Saskatchewan government officials and news media. many new construction projects to other provinces.” in the preliminary stages—Ripley Subscriptions are available for $22 planned within Saskatchewan are Ripley said the latest develop- said the school could conceivably per year. Story and photo ideas designed by people from Toronto, ments include preliminary approval launch as early as September 2019, if are welcome. Advertising rates are Calgary and other cities outside of some of the programming by everything goes smoothly, although available online or on request. the province. And if you ask Colin the College of Graduate and Post- he stressed that no official timelines Ripley, project director for the doctoral Studies and the College have been determined. On Campus News aims to provide a University of Saskatchewan’s School Vannelli of Arts and Science. The Academic However, Ripley remains forum for the sharing of timely news, of Architecture Initiative, this is a Programs Committee has also hopeful, not only from the show information and opinions about big problem. U of S, a program the university has reviewed the plan, reporting to of academic and administrative events and issues of interest to the looked at creating since 2008. The University Council on Oct. 19 support, but from what he sees as U of S community. “This is not a great situation for the province, either econom- process has been slow and method- that the committee supports the a cultural shift in the province to The views and opinions expressed by writers of letters to the editor and ically—with fees going to those ical—with funding and location the proposal in principal, but needs produce home-grown design and viewpoints do not necessarily reflect firms in Toronto and Calgary—or key considerations—but he believes questions surrounding resources development of key construction those of the U of S or On Campus News. in terms of identity, as it means success would mean both stronger and location answered before projects that change the face of our that the province is literally being educational supports for students as recommending council approval. communities. designed by people who don’t live well as similarly positive develop- At that council meeting, “I think people have come to We acknowledge we are on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the here,” he said. ments for the province as a whole. provost Tony Vannelli said that he recognize how valuable architec- Métis. We pay our respect to the First Ripley, who is also a professor “It’s not so much about is also supportive of the academic tural thinking can be as the commu- Nation and Métis ancestors of this with Ryerson University’s Depart- standing out as about doing what program, adding that the univer- nities think about how to develop, place and reaffirm our relationship with one another. ment of Architectural Science, has the U of S should do: supporting sity would look for ways to fund how to make the place better,” he been working since 2015 to bring the province in its development,” the initiative by assuring start-up said. “People in Saskatchewan are a School of Architecture to the Ripley said. “If there is a School of and ongoing operating resources really connected to the place.” NEWS EDITOR James Shewaga WRITERS HenryTye Glazebrook Chris Morin IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Lesley Porter A lot happens at the U of S during the weeks when On Campus News isn’t published. DESIGNERS Here are a few of the top stories from news.usask.ca: Brian Kachur Pierre Wilkinson EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Patrick Hayes U of S leads list University launches Alberta ending Discovery could Fiona Haynes Sandra Ribeiro of research gains respiratory centre WCVM partnership help clean oilsands Sharon Scott Stephen Urquhart David York The U of S led the country in With a mandate to improve the The Government of AlbertaA team of U of S researchers led by research income gains in the annual quality of life for all Canadians, the announced Oct. 12 that it will not biology professor Susan Kaminskyj ranking of research funding for U of S launched the new Respiratory be renewing its participation in has discovered a natural strain of Canadian universities by Research Research Centre on Oct. 16 in the the Western College of Veterinary fungus that could have the power Infosource Inc. The U of S posted College of Medicine. Headed by Medicine’s interprovincial agree- to clean oil spills and return life an impressive 27.8 per cent increase director Donna Goodridge, the ment after 2020. While the loss of to Alberta’s oilsands. The recently ISSN: 1195-7654 in research income in the 2016 fiscal new interdisciplinary initiative $8 million in annual funding will published research findings showed PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40065156 year (totalling $215 million), while will foster innovative respiratory have an impact, WCVM Dean Doug that seeds treated with the fungus the national average held steady at research through the health Freeman said it won’t affect the sprouted in the contaminated coarse Return undeliverable addresses to: 2.2 per cent. The increase moved the sciences in partnership with U of S college’s ability to provide tailings found in oilsands, with the UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS U of S up from 13th to 11th place the Saskatoon Health Region, professional education and training discovery having the potential to G16 THORVALDSON BUILDING in research funding on the list of Health Quality Council, and Lung for students from Saskatchewan, help clean petrochemical spills and 110 SCIENCE PLACE SASKATOON, SK S7N 5C9 Canada’s top 50 research universities. Association of Saskatchewan. Manitoba and B.C. oilsands sites. Email: [email protected] FOR MORE UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEWS, VISIT: news.usask.ca @usask 2 NOVEMER 10, 2017 Speakers Bureau engages university with the community HENRYTYE GLAZEBROOK When Sean Maw relocated to the University of Saskatchewan, he was searching for a way to bring the community into his work—to step out of the office, away from his The Speakers Bureau is a very desk, and get some hands-on time with the next generation of bright important outreach program of the young minds. university. It helps ground us in the And that’s where the U of S Speakers Bureau came in, like a key community and it helps show the plucked from the ether to open new relevance of our work. It also helps doors for Maw. “I did upwards of 50 of these inspire and motivate the kids to see (talks) in Alberta, when I lived in what they can do as adults. Calgary,” said Maw, an associate professor with the College of Engi- neering. “I was looking for a way to — Sean Maw link in with the K-12 community on engineering-related topics in the classroom. When the Speakers HENRYTYE GLAZEBROOK Bureau appeared, I signed up Associate professor Sean Maw of the College of Engineering is a regular on the Speakers Bureau circuit for the University of Saskatchewan. immediately.” Maw has since given eight to the specific audience, is a very only an opportunity to directly students—as knowledge mobilizers elementary or high school students, talks as part of the U of S Speakers direct and practical sort of engage- mobilize the existing knowledge throughout their career,” he said. and presenting it in an engaging Bureau, on a wide range of topics, ment between the university and of university experts, but it is also “Getting some experience with way to solicit questions and discus- everything from the technology of the broader public,” said Garrett one of many initiatives that can summarizing your research focus sions, can change the way you think sports doping to Indigenous water- Richards, founder and co-ordinator help to train researchers—espe- in plain language, targeting it to a about the potential social relevance craft design. The goal, he said, is to of the Speakers Bureau. cially early-career ones like graduate public audience, often made up of of your work.” showcase to the community some “It reminds people that the work of the exciting research being done being done at the U of S is inter- at the university, to make it acces- esting, relevant and understand- sible to those just starting on their able.