University of Calgary

August 2009

CBC

Aug. 24, 2009
University opens new building for veterinary students

The University of Calgary has opened a new building where veterinary students can work directly with animals. The faculty of veterinary medicine's Clinical Skills Building was officially opened on Monday morning.
8th and 8th8th and 8th

Calgary Herald

Aug. 13, 2009
U of C gives old clinic a facelift

When the University of Calgary announced it was taking over the old 8th and 8th clinic site, it seemed the school's once-
grandiose plans for an urban campus had been reduced to a squat, drab, 1960s institutional building.

But as construction crews shifted this month from gutting the old building's interior to peeling off its facade, it became clear it was getting a modern facelift.

Paperless

Globe & Mail

Aug. 10, 2009
Whatever happened to the paperless office, anyway?

From digital receipts to Web-based payrolls, workplaces are making it a priority to source new technologies for no-paper solutions. But despite our best tree-friendly intentions, paper consumption is at an all-time high.

Three years ago, University of Calgary’s chief information officer Harold Esche got his department to evaluate paper use at the school and discovered it was producing 72 million pieces of paper each year, the equivalent of a stack 30,000 feet high.

The university then entered into a partnership with Xerox to reduce the use of paper. The school upgraded to more efficient printers, forced double-sided printing on campus, and educated staff, among other measures.

“In three years we've moved from 72 million down to 50 million pieces of paper per year,” Mr. Esche says. “But that's still 20,000 feet of paper.”
Marcello Di CintioMarcello Di Cintio

Calgary Herald

Aug. 3, 2009
Quiet time: U of C’s new writer-in-residence, Marcello Di Cintio, will spend 10 months turning his adventures into prose

For anyone familiar with the writing of Marcello Di Cintio, the image of him sitting quietly in a small University of Calgary office fussing over a manuscript for 10 months may seem jarringly out of character. This is, after all, the writer who once took on burly Iranians in impromptu wrestling matches as research for a book.
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