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CAREER JUMP START The Aboriginal Career Start (ACS) program, the first of its kind at the university, was recently launched to provide Aboriginal graduates paid training and workplace experience at the U of S. ACS is designed to serve as a stepping stone to a long-term career at the U of S. A few students who are part of the first ACS cohort attended the April 6 announcement. Read the full story on Page 3.

 DAVID STOBBE International focus for Fu Incoming USSU president ready for new role  HENRYTYE GLAZEBROOK

For Kehan Fu, winning the to follow as he transitions into took shape as a cross-cultural immigrant running a campaign University of his new role. blur of flashy posters, social that’s very culturally different Students’ Union (USSU) presi- “I think people often also media hubbub, special events from what normally happens. dency was the only option. forget that mentorship and and “Fu Dynasty” branding—of I’m very proud of that.” “I was constantly emphasizing style over His campaign was built on a nervous. I was always I think there needs to be substance, of being, in his multi-issue platform of big-pic- anxious at the possibility. own words, “all sizzle, no ture themes: celebration, sharing, But I never had a plan B,” Fu a better system within both bacon.” hospitality, home, flavour, said. administration and within Though the negative memories and vision. These seven “You could call it a bit feedback was somewhat ideas acted as an umbrella for of arrogance, but I see it as campus culture in general of worrisome, Fu said he more targeted issues, including a degree of commitment. I understanding the nuances of remains proud of all the campus connectivity, continued went into it putting every- promotional materials his support of indigenization and thing—100 per cent.” the different cultures that are team strategically chose to greater alumni engagement. Fu managed to pull a actually represented under represent him. Fu plans to take particular win out of his campaign, “A lot of the campaign interest in issues of internation- and will soon trade offices that international banner. and its influences come alization on campus, both in from his current position Kehan Fu from personal passions, Fu pushing for expanded research as vice-president student but also from parts of my opportunities, bringing with it affairs as he enters his new role as legacies are things that we as identity that I want to promote, as an Asian cuisine that I love,” more opportunities for under- USSU president. students all want. At the end of that I want to express. There’s Fu said. grads, and helping campus He described this last year as your academic career, you realize a very evident Asian theme in “People often forget that this to better understand the vast a great opportunity for learning how fast those four years were.” there—we talked not just about is something you might not have diversity that exists within the the finer details of the USSU, and Fu hit a snag early on in his Fu, which is my family name, but seen on campus even five years blanket term “international looks to the well-worn path of election run when some critics we also used Asian characteris- ago, to see a candidate who’s not past presidents as a good example accused his campaign—which tics, the emphasis on the noodles only not visibly white, but an See Building, Page 3

INSIDE BALANCING ACT 6 POLAR PALS8 2 April 15, 2016  Challenging designs  LESLEY PORTER

Rick Retzlaff believes good design who is now president of the Chil- should solve a problem. The dren’s Discovery Museum. The mechanical engineering professor museum, set to open in 2018 in practices this ethos in his classes the old space, in the College of Engineering, was looking for exhibits for its where community and industry current home in Market Mall. partners reap the benefits. “We sat down last year and The first class, Introduc- decided, ‘hey, let’s turn this into tion to Mechanical Engineering a second-year design class,’” said Design, is a second-year class Retzlaff. that guides students through the Third-year engineering student Layla Bekkaoui demonstrates her group’s mechanical design process— Child’s play can crusher on April 7. from defining a problem to Student groups were tasked building a prototype. Last year, with creating simple, durable Retzlaff met with Dave Hunchak, play stations using various Daniel O’Reilly, a third-year a former colleague at the U of S physical phenomena—such as mechanical engineering student, light, sound, shape, texture and uses the computer numerical colour—to captivate children control mill machine to design aged three to five. However, there parts for his group’s can crusher. were some constraints in place. The units had a size limit, and had for the students to go through.” to be attached to a slotted wall Moreover, the small bureaucratic with hardware. As these are being feat ensured overall safety for the presented in a public space for young users. children, ruggedness, cleanliness Retzlaff explained that it is and aesthetics were important important for each of the play Engineering student Lauren Zary finishes her group project for the factors during the design process stations to allow the physical Children’s Discovery Museum in the fabrication laboratory. as well. Additionally, the exhibits manipulation of objects. This had to conform to Health helps teach children about the problem,” he said. “It’s all about design problems. However, there ’s industry standards for physical phenomena in an open- human factors and strength and is a greater emphasis on group toys, which Retzlaff described ended and creative way. making sure nothing comes off. work for this third-year class. Retzlaff as “just a phenomenal exercise “It’s very much a design They need to draw things, come A common piece of up with working models, then we feedback from industry, Retzlaff manufacture it.” explained, is that students Many of the groups (there need more experience working were 20 in total) also incorpo- together in large groups to rated some aspect of Indigenous accomplish tasks. knowledge into their design. For “So we worked with that 2015-2016 this purpose, Matthew Dunn, in mind and came up with Indigenous initiatives co-or- this new class,” he said. “It’s all Spinks Lecturer dinator in the College of Engi- about groups working together neering, was involved in the to build a more complicated Dr. Prashant Kamat design process. device—something compli- cated enough so that everyone Rev. John .A. Zahn, C.S.C., Professor Canned design needs to communicate and of Science, Department of Chemistry Retzlaff’s other class, Collabora- talk and work to put this thing and Radiation Laboratory, University tive Design and Manufacturing, of Notre Dame, Indiana; concurrent is also about solving engineering See Class, Page 9 Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

2015-2016 General Lecture: Thursday, April 28, 2016 Nanostructure Architectures for J.W.T. SPINKS Light Energy Conversion ASSOCIATION 3:45 p.m., 107 Physics Building LECTURE SERIES Specialist Lecture: Friday, April 29, 2016 will be held on Beyond Plasmonics, Light Harvesting Properties Thank you of Metal Nanoparticles and Clusters April 28 and April 29. 3:45 p.m., 107 Physics Building to our volunteers PRASHANT V. KAMAT is a Rev. John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Professor of Science in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Radiation Laboratory at University of Notre Dame. He is also a Concurrent Professor For your time, your expertise, your skills, in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He earned his doctoral degree (1979) in Physical Chemistry from the Bombay University, and postdoctoral research at Boston University (1979-1981) and for all of your contributions that and University of Texas at Austin (1981-1983). He joined Notre Dame in 1983. Professor Kamat has for nearly three decades worked to build bridges between physical chemistry and material science to develop advanced make the University of Saskatchewan a nanomaterials that promise cleaner and more efficient light energy conversion. better place, we thank you. He has directed Department of Energy funded solar photochemistry research projects for the past 30 years. In addition to large multidisciplinary research programs, he has actively worked with industry-sponsored research. He has served on many national panels on nanotechnology and energy conversion processes. alumni.usask.ca He has published more than 450 scientific papers that have been well received by the scientific community (45000+ citations). Thomson-Reuters has featured him as one of the most cited researchers in 2014 and 2015.

He is currently serving as the deputy editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and is editor-in-chief of ACS Energy Letters. He is a member of the advisory board of several scientific journals (Research on Chemical Intermediates, Journal of Colloid & Interface Science, and Applied Electrochemistry). He was awarded Honda- Fujishima Lectureship award by the Japanese Photochemical Society in 2006, CRSI medal by the Chemical Research Society of India in 2011 and Langmuir lectureship award in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), American Chemical Society (ACS) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Pravasi fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. ON CAMPUS NEWS  April 15, 2016 3 President announces priority initiatives at annual address

 KRIS FOSTER

At his first address to the General Academic Assembly (GAA) on April 8, President Peter Stoicheff announced his commitment to three key initiatives related to reconciliation, sustainability and examining the feasibility of the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus.

Stoicheff said the Emma Lake Sustainability was another Kenderdine Campus has been topic Stoicheff said is important top of mind for him since it was to his presidency and an area temporarily closed in 2012. that needs to be strengthened at President Peter Stoicheff at the April 8 GAA.  JEFF DRAKE “I will sponsor the devel- the U of S. opment of a site plan and vision “There are a number of determine which campus-wide Building Reconciliation hosted inal faculty, staff and students,” for the campus,” he said, adding sustainability initiatives on initiatives are priorities we can by the university. The U of S he said. “This is imperative to that a site plan and vision for the campus of which we can be support.” forum will identify what is being the success of our communities campus are necessary The president said done on campus to address in Saskatchewan, Canada and steps to any potential he aims to support the Truth and Reconciliation beyond.” re-opening. A vision and a site plan opportunities for Commission’s recommenda- The GAA is composed of “The Kender- will allow us to attract financial students to work on tions, and what future initiatives the president, vice-presidents, dine campus offered sustainability issues will include. registrar, deans and directors a number of great support and partnerships to on our campus and in Since being installed as employed by the university or experiential learning ensure the (Kenderdine) campus is our communities. president, Stoicheff has talked an affiliated or federated college, opportunities for The third project extensively about the impor- as well as all full-time faculty our students and sustainable and that it suits the Stoicheff highlighted tance of narrowing the educa- members and a number of U of S was also a great way university’s academic mission. was a campus-wide tional gap between Aboriginal students. This annual, public to engage with the Truth and Reconcil- and non-Aboriginal people. meeting is held to hear the report larger community,” he Peter Stoicheff iation forum aimed “We are committed to this of the president regarding the continued. “A vision at building on the across our institution and we state of the university and any and a site plan will momentum from will strengthen our efforts to other matters that the president allow us to attract financial proud,” he said. “But there is November’s National Forum on ensure the success of our Aborig- considers appropriate.  support and partnerships to always more that we can do in ensure the campus is sustainable this area. My office will continue and that it suits the university’s working with our excellent academic mission.” Office of Sustainability toAboriginal career start Building on the  ZAHEED BARDAI More than 160 guests attended the April 6 launch of the Aborig- USSU legacy inal Career Start (ACS) program at the U of S, which will help “That’s probably one of the graduates from partner insti- From Page 1 driving forces of what I want tutions gain some practical students.” to be as a president: somebody on-the-job training and experi- “Just because you have one who’s constantly aware of why I ence. student from China and another got this job and the people who As part of the program, the from Nigeria, that categorization could have had this job, but chose first of this kind at the U of S, of international students is still not to and are still supporting.” Aboriginal graduates from the a very artificial one, and I think Though he has no plans to Saskatchewan Indian Institute Cheryl Carver, associate vice-president of human resources.  DAVID STOBBE there needs to be a better system run for re-election in 2017, Fu of Technology and the Gabriel within both administration and said he hopes that whoever takes Dumont Institute of Native Resources, and will benefit “they will also be given guidance within campus culture in general his place can similarly learn Studies and Applied Research will from professional guidance and and mentorship, and develop of understanding the nuances from his own time in office and be provided paid training and an mentorship, and develop valuable valuable interpersonal, manage- of the different cultures that are continue where he leaves off. immersive workplace orientation interpersonal, management and ment and teamwork skills.” actually represented under that “I’m going to be gone after at the U of S. teamwork skills. ACS is designed The program, expected to international banner,” he said. this year from this student “This program is a great to develop necessary financial cost the U of S around $50,000 With only one year of expe- position, but I don’t want all the opportunity for recent graduates and administrative skills to serve per year with the partner institu- rience with the organization, work that we’ve done as a team, from partner institutions in our as a stepping-stone to a long-term tions subsidizing wages, is part of alongside three prior terms with that I’ve done, to not just be community to learn skills that career at the university. the university’s commitment to the Arts and Science Students’ forgotten, per se, but to slide away will serve them well in their “They’ll learn about institu- Aboriginal engagement. Union, Fu is somewhat of a and for people to have to re-learn careers, whether that is here at the tional policies and procedures, “We think that it’s important greener leader than the USSU the mistakes and successes that university or in the community,” as well as integral business to run a program like this,” has seen in recent years. Fu said we’ve made,” Fu said. said Peter Stoicheff, U of S processes,” said Cheryl Carver, Stoicheff said. “We would hope he wants to make sure he does “That’s what the dynasty president. associate vice-president of human that we can build and expand on not lose track of the people who would represent: the idea that Participants, 16 in total, will resources. this.”  were confident enough to help every year is a continuation and receive on-the-job training in With respect to the indi- Zaheed Bardai is a him get to this point despite his that every year is going to be university departments, including vidual and personal growth of Communications Specialist comparative inexperience. better than the last one.”  Financial Services and Human participants, Carver continued, with Human Resources 4 April 15, 2016  NEW TO US Top dogs Huskie Salute honours student athletes

Marla Mickleborough

Marla Mickleborough’s migraine research is a combination of design and coin- cidence. Like many young people, the assistant professor in the Department of Psychology was unsure of career direction when she arrived on campus from Rosetown. Initially, she signed up for a commerce degree, but took a year off when she found it was not a good fit. As she cast about for alternatives, she started reading up on migraines—a familiar topic, as she has lived with the condition since she was eight years old. “I started to learn a bit more about the brain and thought, ‘wow, who gets to do this as a job?’” she explained. “I discovered neuroscience.” She returned to the U of S to complete a BA in psychology, then went to  JOSH SCHAEFER Western University in Ontario for her masters, where she looked at pain perception in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. From there, she Left to right: Lisa Thomaidis, Jordon Cooke, Kiera Prior, Dalyce Emmerson, CJ Gavlas, Laura Dally and Jared Olson. travelled to the University of British Columbia, where she completed her PhD looking at how migraineurs—those who suffer from migraine headaches— process visual stimuli. Top Huskie athletes were honoured champion, Emmerson capped As Mickleborough explains it, migraineurs appear to have a limited ability to off her historic career in focus on just one thing in their visual field, although it is uncertain how this April 1 at the annual Huskie Salute, style. Emmerson was a three- might be connected to their condition. time CIS All-Canadian and leaves the program second in “When you’re attending to something, you’re suppressing the rest of the visual with the Canada West Outstanding rebounding, third in scoring field,” she said. “Migraineurs aren’t suppressing the rest of the visual field as and the all-time blocked shots well as someone without migraines.” Athletes of the Year awards going leader. The kinesiology student Certain things, like a tightly striped pattern on a colleague’s shirt or an from Prince Albert, Sask. was escalator’s stairs can set off an attack. Fluorescent lights are a common culprit to basketball player Laura Dally and named a conference all-star and (her own office has alternative lighting). appeared at the CIS champion- Depending on the person, consequences can range from mild discomfort to hockey player Jordon Cooke. ship in four of her five seasons. a full-blown attack, with partial loss of vision, excruciating headache, nausea Emmerson was the Canada and vomiting. Remedies are few: the migraineur must retreat to a dark, quiet Dally, Canada West Saskatoon, was awarded the West MVP and Defensive Player place where they can lay down. women’s basketball MVP, Howard Nixon Trophy for Male of the Year in 2013. Emmerson, “Because of sensitivity to light, sound and movement, laying still in bed is helped lead the Huskie women’s Rookie of the Year after helping an all-academic for the Huskies, what’s needed,” she said. “I’ll add to that, in a meditative state, because basketball team to its first the men’s volleyball team earn a volunteers at various events in thinking about things can actually hurt too, which sounds crazy—but it’s ever Canadian Interuniver- Canada West silver medal. The the community such and was a trying to just dull everything.” sity Sport (CIS) championship. arts and science student was coach with the Junior Huskies Mickleborough, who started as an assistant professor in March 2015, The kinesiology student from awarded the Canada West and program. purposely steered her career back to the University of Saskatchewan, both to Bright’s Grove, Ont. averaged CIS Rookie of the Year awards Jared Olson was the 2016 be closer to home and because of the local research community. 17.2 points per game and was and was named to the all-rookie CIS and Canada West men’s “For me, the Prairies are beautiful and the University of Saskatchewan is just named a tournament all-star at team at both the conference and 60m hurdles champion. Olson an excellent university with really good neuroscience people,” she said. “It’s the CIS Final 8 in addition to national level. shared the title of CIS and just the right size where people are willing to collaborate and work together. I her appointment as a CIS First Kiera Prior earned the conference champion with think we can do bigger things with that.” Team All-Canadian. silver medal at the CIS wrestling his 4x200m relay teammates. Cooke, the nation’s top championships and was named Olson has also been a steady goaltender also received the the CIS Female Rookie of the veteran presence away from award for the conference’s most Year. Prior’s silver medal was the track, helping tutor and outstanding player after helping in addition to her silver medal mentor younger teammates. the Huskies win a Canada West at the Canada West Champi- The Saskatoon native volunteers championship. The second-year onship. 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Edwards School of Business alumnus Larry Moeller and his family donated $500,000 to rejuvenate the dedicated student space in which he and his class- mates studied during the 1970s. On March 29, the Moeller Resource Room was unveiled at the U of S with the extended Moeller family in attendance, to celebrate with students, faculty and staff. The university matched the Moeller donation for a total of The Moeller Resource Room in the Edwards School of Business.  DAVID STOBBE $1 million to support extensive changes both to the Reading Commerce, graduating in 1980 engaged with his alma mater. “I trust that this gift will enhance making this gift I wanted to Room and to other student to become a chartered profes- “For decades this room has the student experience and make inspire, support and encourage spaces. sional accountant. He and served as the nucleus of daily it a richer period of education all students in their journeys to The former CommerceMurray Edwards, the school’s student life at the Edwards and development for all students become leaders in business and Reading Room was a heavily namesake, became close friends School of Business,” said Moeller. who utilize this space. By in society at large.” utilized space for students for during university, and since decades, but it had become tired 1994 Moeller has been working and shabby. side-by-side with Edwards. The Department of Music held a short “When I first saw it, it Moeller is vice-president finance Remembering ceremony on April 6 in Quance Theatre reminded me more of a Dicken- of Edco Financial Holdings and to commemorate the one-year anni- sian orphanage than a place for sits on the board of directors for versary of former professor David 21st century students to mingle Magellan Aerospace Corpora- Kaplan Kaplan's passing. and work,” recalled Daphne tion and Imperial Metals Corpo- During this ceremony, it was Taras, dean of Edwards School ration. announced that the construction of two of Business, who described the Moeller is an active authentic replicate drums space as “the heart of the school,” member of the Edwards School in the Plains Style have been commis- where students hit the books, of Business Dean’s Advisory sioned using memorial donations made play cards, socialize, and attend Council and said this gift is one in Kaplan's name. The drums will be career fairs and networking of the ways he intends to stay completed at some point during the events. 2016/17 academic year. Now refurbished, the A plaque to go outside the David Moeller Resource Room has Kaplan instrument collection room group-work tables, multi-level was also unveiled by Greg Marion, seating and break-out rooms for head of the music department, and project work. There are dozens Glen Gillis, a professor of music.  of electrical plugs to charge the students’ portable computers, Greg Marion, head of the Department of Music, holds up a plaque that will be mounted outside the David Kaplan complete audio-visual capabil- Instrument Collection Room (Education 1038). ities, and a student lounge and eating area. With the potential for catered events to take place REMAI MODERN PRESENTS… in the space, the school can host numerous student competitions. Born in Humboldt and raised in Meadow Lake, Moeller INDIGENOUS VIEWS attended the U of S College of Moeller OF THE OTHER A Lecture by Gerald McMaster We’re nothing like you imagine. Yet everything you expect.

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Remai Modern gratefully acknowledges funding from the City of Saskatoon, Sask Arts Board, SaskCulture, and Canada Council for the Arts. 6 April 15, 2016  Balancing economy and environment  HENRYTYE GLAZEBROOK There is tension between economic growth and the push for environmental sustainability. These tensions are more pronounced in natural resource based economies. U of S researchers examine how to balance these seemingly opposing ideals.

If you ask Philip Loring about the there are both small sort that can be made on ways fuelled by its natural resources account for 19 per cent balance between sustainably and and medium changes the ground level in order resource sectors—the products of the Canadian economy. economy in Canada, he will tell that could be imple- to create a more environ- which are spread out beyond And in the middle of the you about arctic entryways. mented right here in mentally friendly future their initial extraction and into country’s Prairies lies Saskatch- The concept is one he became Saskatchewan. without creating too heavy of transportation, sales, exports and ewan, a province Coates refers to familiar with while living in “Our houses are too a burden on Canada’s economy. other industries both nationally as “a natural resources shopping Alaska. Homes built in these big, they’re too far apart and internationally—a shift of centre.” kinds of severe cold climates are and our behaviours in them are Tipping the scales any kind could create widespread “We have a huge number designed with a small impasse not as efficient as they could be. The question is a common one ripples in the country’s economic of opportunities and possibili- between the exterior and interior, I think we could dramatically among researchers: How do health. ties here, and all you have to do in which two sets of doors create change the energy economy if you balance the scales between According to data held by is spend five minutes driving a stopgap between the harsh envi- people used space better and environmental sustainability Ken Coates, Canada Research around Saskatoon and you’ll ronment outside and the warm more efficiently.” and economic growth without Chair in Regional Innovation at see how integrated that natural comfort of home to help prevent In Loring’s experience, these creating instability? the Johnson-Shoyoma Graduate resource sector is to the provin- heat from needlessly escaping as kinds of changes are precisely the Since Canada is in many School of Public Policy, natural cial economy,” he said, noting that people come and go. recent dips in areas like potash, In practice, arctic entryways iron, ore and uranium have led are just one example of what to common fears that the current Loring, an assistant professor at economy is entering a tailspin. the U of S School of Environment To Coates, balancing those and Sustainability (SENS), refers scales means finding a place where to as “mundane changes”—small people can comfortably live off adjustments in behaviour that can of the resources at their disposal add up to big impressions in envi- without causing undue harm to ronmental stability. the ecosystem. “There are a lot of these Part of this concept lies changes that people will do. They in proper regulation—an area just need to be nudged. It doesn’t where Coates said Canada is require a fundamental change in among the world’s leaders—but values, but it’s just not what they also in careful consideration of do right now,” he said, adding that Loring Coates Bruneau undervalued ideas such as envi- ON CAMPUS NEWS  April 15, 2016 7

ronmental assessment, evalua- includes based on the length of its thinks the best path forward lies tion and reclamation, and the regrowth cycle. somewhere in the middle. involvement of Indigenous People “By definition, using non-re- “On one hand I would like Join campus conversations on therein. newable resources is not sustain- to think that we’ve moved past community engaged research “Natural resources are a huge able in an ecological context. the either-or, environment or part of our economy. We should You’re taking it, you’re changing it, economy debate,” he said, adding and teaching at develop them carefully and it doesn’t grow back—at least not that there are circumstances thoughtfully. We didn’t always in a time frame that’s relevant.” when either the environment or ENGAGED SCHOLAR DAY, do that. We turned things over The goal when moving to economy has to take precedence. to companies a long time ago, we renewable resources is to ensure “Some issues you just have to APRIL 28, 2016 weren’t very careful and we’ve had people do not become over-reliant protect the environment, and it’s damage going on for decades as a in any area. not an economic thing, or some consequence of bad planning 50, “This is a little bit about the issues you have to make conces- GUEST SCHOLAR 60, 70 years ago when things like trade off between using those sions or trade-off. I’m tentative AND LEADING RESEARCHER ON MIGRATION downstream oil pollution wasn’t a natural resources for human about the word trade-off. I think AND NEWCOMER INTEGRATION: part of our vocabulary,” he said. benefit and preserving those more in terms of: Where are the Part of what makes this natural resources for later human win-win situations? How do we planning so enticing to Coates, if benefit,” he said. achieve both?” he said, high- Dr. Jorge Silva Macaísta Malheiros executed correctly, is that turning “When we think of renewable lighting Red Dog Mine in Alaska University of Lisbon Canada into a reclamation power- resources like fisheries, trees, agri- as one example of how co-ordi- house has the potential to simul- culture, we recognize that we can nated efforts between industry taneously create a wealth of jobs overexploit those. It’s important and community has helped all in an increasingly uncertain to maintain the integrity of parties flourish. working climate. “Everyone you ask who’s “My view is that the worked with Red Dog Mine resource sector, on hyper- is more or less happy with usask.ca/engagement environmental sensi- We’ve come to teach how it worked out. They tivity, would actually ourselves that what we do put the money back into create more jobs than we the communities. I’ve seen have now because we’re is cause problems in the infrastructure and live- actually losing the mining environment, and I don’t lihoods thrive around it. jobs on account of tech- They found a way to make it nology. But we have to have think that’s the case. I think work.” proper assessment, proper what we do is we innovate in Loring has a belief in monitoring. We have to human ingenuity’s ability turn reclamation into an nature and solve problems. to solve crisis problems, exportable, national skill. like those currently faced in We can be the world leaders Philip Loring matters of sustainability, if in reclamation for mining, only humanity can repriori- forestry, whatever,” Coates tize its outlook on the world said. and its own place within it. CONNECT WITH “I think we need to realize ecological systems so that you In Loring’s mind, people have that how we work and how can maintain this flow of services spent too long looking at issues of THE OFFICE OF much money we’re earning while going forward.” environmental instability as an working is pretty much a central In the short-term, Bruneau innate part of modern existence— Community Engagement preoccupation for everybody, sees government-mandated that shrinking ozone, melting everywhere.” carbon tax, which would have polar ice caps and smog-filled and Outreach companies involved in carbon- skies are a natural by-product of Looking to the future heavy business practices paying humanity’s march into further To Joel Bruneau, associate fees on the amount of carbon technological advancement. Support for faculty, staff, and professor of economics at the produced, as the best immediate “We’ve come to teach students in all colleges, schools, U of S College of Arts and Science, step forward in a shift toward ourselves that what we do is cause environmental caretaking is renewables. problems in the environment, and research centres, Saskatoon less about setting out to create a The result, he said, would and I don’t think that’s the case. I campus and distributed programs healthier planet and more about be companies purposely moving think what we do is we innovate ensuring overall long-term quality toward options that are more in nature and solve problems,” he Project Connections of living. sustainable as a means of said. He follows the Brundtland improving bottom line. “One way or another, some- Relationship Building model of sustainable development, “The first thing you’ve got thing’s going to change. It can be which, explained at the most basic to do is a carbon tax. It might graceful or it can be horrible. I level, strives to meet the needs of actually be the only step you need. would rather it be graceful.” Proposal Consultation the present while leaving future Once you make carbon really Much like Loring, Coates too generations no worse off. expensive, then Sask Hydro is believes that the general public Work and Meeting Space “That doesn’t mean they going to say, ‘Screw this coal stuff. should be relied on to spur on some at Station 20 West inherit an identical Earth, but I’m going into non-coal produc- of the change—be that in small they inherit sufficient resources— tion,” Bruneau said. ways or in using their purchasing Research Funding Opportunities and it can be a different mix of “You don’t need to tell them power to drive industry develop- resources—so that they’re no to get out of coal. They’ll tell ment of eco-friendly technologies. Publish in the Engaged worse off.” themselves.” “If we’re buying more energy Bruneau looks to the use of efficient cars, they’ll make more Scholar Journal renewable resources as a means Meeting halfway energy efficient cars,” said Coates. of filling gaps made by a shift For Loring, the issue of environ- “We have to get to the point where away from non-renewables such ment versus economy is not as we don’t make it somebody else’s as potash, gas, coal, oil and even black and white as favouring one responsibility to do all these usask.ca/engagement old-growth forest, which he side over the other. Instead, he things.”  8 April 15, 2016  Adventures with polar bears

 MICHAEL ROBIN

As the world’s largest land carnivore, said. “If there’s a lot of food—like during seal pupping—they’ll just a polar bear should make an easy eat the head off the seal pups, because that’s where the brain target for a field biologist. After all, and the fat is and there’s not much else on them. With the males can weigh more than 600 adult seals, they’ll just strip off the fat and leave the rest of the kilograms, stand two metres at the carcass.” Finding out what kind of shoulder and be three metres long. chemical load the bears are carrying is a major operation. A critical step is setting out fuel Nonetheless, as Susan Blum supervision of U of S wildlife caches and marking them with explained, it is a bit of a challenge. biologist Malcolm Ramsay, GPS co-ordinates—the Arctic is “The helicopter’s swaying Blum looked at levels of indus- vast, and unpredictable weather back and forth, and then of trial chemicals and pesticides can bury these vital supplies course the bear is dodging and such as PCBs and DDT in polar under snow. The research team running around,” said Blum, bears. gets their gear together the night director of Research Services Blum explained these before. and Ethics. chemicals, widely used in the Then the team sets out in “If you have a good pilot to temperate latitudes, are carried the helicopter in search of bears. get you in position, when you’re north by air currents where they Once one is spotted, the pilot in synch, the pilot will swoop in precipitate out into the Arctic drops most of the researchers and there’s just that split second environment. They are absorbed and gear off at a safe distance, where you have that perfect shot by ocean plankton, which are then comes back with a team as you’re hanging out the heli- eaten by fish, who are in turn member and a dart gun loaded copter window.” eaten by the seals that make up a with sedative. Blum was the first female large part of the polar bear diet. Blum, a farm girl from polar bear field biologist in the At each stage of the food chain, Simcoe, Ont. who grew up 1990s while she was completing these fat-soluble chemicals target shooting with her dad her PhD, and worked two years become more concentrated, and brother and later served in for the Government of Nunavut something exacerbated by the the Canadian Forces Reserves, before taking a job in Research bears’ feeding preferences. was particularly good at the job. Services at the U of S. Under the “Polar bears prefer fat,” Blum She said that during her first research season, unbeknownst to the team, the helicopter pilot had been keeping a log book of hits and misses for all polar bear research darters. “At the end of the season he had a bottle of champagne and he came in just clapping his hands,” Blum said. “He says that out of everyone he had worked Susan Blum shares research memories from the field. with, I had the best score.” Once the bear is down, the team gets to work weighing and ear. Depending on the projects and sea ice conditions. measuring the animal, as well underway, the process takes “We always had firearms as collecting samples of blood, one and a half to two hours. The with us,” Blum said. “We carried urine, feces, fat, milk, hair and researchers must also be on their a small clip of flesh from its guard for other curious bears See Polar, Page 9

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Allan Casey is reluctant Kids, Helen McDonald’s like that creative nonfiction has on a half-dozen ingredients, to pin himself down. The H is for Hawk and Nobel roots in journalism and practi- including good use of signifi- author, who received the laureate Svetlana Alex- cal-minded writing.” cant detail and knowing when Governor General Award ievitch’s oral history, Creative nonfiction matters to quote someone and when to for his book Lakeland: Voices from Chernobyl. in much the same way that paraphrase. “The storytelling Ballad of a Freshwater The students each present fiction does, said Casey, who is imperative is identical, and like Country, admits to a wide two authors, so by the currently working on a novel, chess, getting good at it takes a range of interests, from end of the course they his first. “(Creative nonfiction) little while,” he said. It is always uranium and nuclear get a taste of perhaps 25 helps us examine the world we a shock to writing students more energy to race relations writers, most of whom live in …(through) literal and familiar with fiction to grapple in Canada. It is next to are new to them. factual truths.” with the idea of sticking to the impossible to ascertain Differentiating be- He added that journalism, if his interests precede tween journalism and the root of nonfiction writing, facts and telling the truth. or result from his long creative nonfiction can be is at a low ebb. “The internet has “I can’t help them a whole career as an award-win- messy. “Academics want finally collided with conven- lot except to throw them in,” ning journalist. neat differentiations but tional print and smashed it to he admitted. “I send them out “I am interested in they don’t really exist,” he pieces. … Does that result in the front door to get material, practically everything,” said. “Excellent creative poor quality copy and unreliable to write from life, to come back Casey said, “and it’s a work cohabits with ‘just’ info? Absolutely, but to get free- with a story based on that. After happy illness, attention journalism. In The New wheeling opinion and diversity adjustment, they see the possi- Casey surplus disorder, this Yorker, some pieces are is a good thing.” bilities.”  fascination with how things fit which the students experience straight journalism and others Like fiction, Casey believes dee Hobsbawn-Smith is a Saska- together. (Writing is) the only via book excerpts. are more nuanced, stylized. I that nonfiction writing relies toon-based freelance writer. job that allows you to become “Creative nonfiction is deeply immersed in the kinds of too vast a field to capture things you otherwise have to be by assigning book-length a professional to explore.” readings,” Casey explained. “We Casey is currently teaching would only cover three or four creative nonfiction in the MFA authors that way. We sample Class solves real-world problems in Writing program in the a different author every week, College of Arts and Science. mostly contemporary.” From Page 2 day, they bolt it all together and thick and one side of the label For his grad students, the He cited Virginia Woolf they see if it works.” had to remain readable. Addi- happy result of his far-ranging and George Orwell as stylistic together.” To create the parts for tionally, the whole device must curiosity is exposure to a deep inspirations, along with rock He had been approached their can crushing proto- be operable by both children bank of writers and thinkers, poet Patti Smith’s memoir, Just by Kevin Acton, the operations types, student groups used two and adults. director of SARCAN Recycling, computer numerical control During the week of April who suggested looking at a can (CNC) lathe and mill machines, 4, both classes presented their crushing device. Currently, which were purchased through prototypes to their classmates most devices on the market the college’s advancement trust and respective partner orga- Polar passion tasked with doing this crush in 2015. The CNC machines nizations, who are always the can top-down, resulting in work similarly to 3-D printers, happy to work with students on The helicopter arrived to an end product that looks like but for harder materials (like projects for solutions to real- From Page 8 find the research team far down a thin aluminum hockey puck. aluminum) and moving parts. world problems. the beach ridge, with the bear However, this is not accepted by Students produce their parts for And while presenting in handguns—a .44—and we snoozing right beside their SARCAN for refund because it their fabrications in a special- front of their peers may be would have a shotgun with us, gear. The animal didn’t want obstructs the label and cannot ized design program and feed initially nerve-wracking, the then of course the dart gun.” to move—even when the pilot be further baled. it into the CNC machine, which involvement is a real boost for Fortunately, extreme nudged it with the aircraft’s skid. “They need it crushed creates that part. students to see their work in measures were never needed “The bear was on one side of sideways. So that was the Just like the second- action. while Blum was in the field, the helicopter and our gear was challenge we gave students,” year class, there were certain “They get to design and although there were a couple of on the other, so we hopped out said Retzlaff. “Each smaller constraints in place, explained actually build things,” he said. uncomfortable incidents. Once quick, threw in our gear and got team is responsible for one part Retzlaff. The flattened can had “It’s not just a paper design the helicopter was delayed while out of there.” of the design. At the end of the to be fewer than 10 millimetres class.”  she was the sole person finishing Blum wrapped up her field up with a bear. She had to make career in 2000, the same year her sure she had enough sedative to friend and mentor Ramsay died keep the animal safely uncon- tragically in a helicopter crash scious, while snuggling up to it at Resolute. At the time, he was to stay warm in the frigid Arctic helping a BBC television crew weather. with a two-part documentary on Then there was the time polar bears; they asked if Blum they were field testing a new would help them with the second sedative regime. segment. She was in Churchill “It worked really well in when she got the call with a job Clear Communication by Design the holding facility,” Blum said. offer from the U of S. A Guide to Creating Eff ective Documents “The first time we tried it in the Since then, Blum has Monday, May 16, 2016, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm field, we were just lifting the continued to share her passion for About the Presenter Western Development Museum, Saskatoon bear with a tripod to weigh it, the bears through annual tours As a writer, editor, and the bear lifted its head up to Churchill organized through designer, or instructor, About the Workshop and looked at us.” the U of S. She is preparing for Michelle Boulton helps Today’s readers are inundated with a non-stop stream of written In the seconds that it took the latest, a Polar Bear Ecology people create and refi ne information. As a result, we’ve all become skimmers. For those of us who for her to grab a dart pole with Tour offered through the College documents that clearly craft documents for a living, this has important implications. communicate their more sedative, the bear had of Education coming up in To create eff ective communication, we need to use every tool in our intended message. already knocked over the tripod November 2016, with informa- arsenal to encourage readers to take the time to read what we produce, and was on its feet. It started to tion sessions coming up in June. She is the creative director and help them fi nd what they need or want from that material. run at them, oblivious to a few “Everyone should experi- at 3c publications, where Writers and editors are typically concerned with words, but structure and she leads a team of skilled warning shots. ence the North,” she said. “Just design elements can have a powerful infl uence on the eff ectiveness of a and experienced writers, document. This workshop will show you how, as writers and editors, you “All of a sudden his back the beauty of the Arctic and editors, translators, design- can contribute to that eff ectiveness. end wavered,” Blum said. “He seeing everyone in their natural ers, and project managers stopped, he looked at us, he habitat, the whales, the seabirds, who can help clients man- More Information looked around and went back to the muskox and the bears of age their entire publishing process or provide more Email [email protected] our gear and he laid down and course. I miss that; I miss the targeted assistance. Visit us online at www.editors.ca/saskatchewan stayed there.” adventure.”  10 April 15, 2016  Coming events

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Music has always been a focal point in Carolyn Doi’s life. She studied classical piano, worked as a piano instructor and even completed an undergraduate degree in music. She enjoyed the research side of her bachelor’s degree so much, she moved to Montreal to complete a master’s program in library sciences at McGill University. “I’d be so lucky to combine my knowledge of music with library studies,” said Doi, assistant librarian in the education and music library. Fortunately, luck was on her side—not long after completing her master’s degree in 2010, she started working at the McGill music library. Prairie life called her, however, and in 2011 she moved to Saskatoon and started a similar position at the U of S. Having a thorough musical upbringing is definitely an asset to her job. “I always say that music is a language in and of itself,” said Doi. Indeed it is a language well known to Doi, who has mastered more than just piano. While in high school, she inherited a fiddle from her grandfather. She soon started training and playing alongside John Arcand, a renowned Métis fiddler. And while living in Montreal, Doi took up taiko drumming, a traditional style used in Japanese ensembles. “It has really interesting links to Japanese culture and it’s been really interesting to learn that style of music,” she said. With that knowledge intact, Doi enjoys being involved in the local music community. “There’s a lot of creativity involved in the arts,” said Doi, “so I get to see that in our students, who are constantly putting on recitals, and in the faculty, who are producing albums. I get to be in that artistic community as well.” 