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U of C Press earns multiple awards

Several U of C Press projects have recently earned awards.

Most notable, is Press author, and Communication and Culture assistant professor Heather Devine, who won the 2005 Harold Adams Innis Prize for her book: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900. This prestigious award is given to the best English-Language book in the Social Sciences in Canada by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences—Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme.

Devine was shortlisted along with some of the top scholars from Canada’s major academic presses. (Read more on Devine’s award in an upcoming issue of OnCampus.)

As well, author Don Kerr was the recipient of the Saskatoon Book Award for the U of C Press title: The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor. Earlier this year, the book was also given a nod at the annual (BPAA) Book Publishers Association of Alberta awards for Best Cover Design in 2005, in addition to being short-listed for Best Overall Book Design.

Other winning projects include:

• The Bar U and Canadian Ranching History, by Simon Evans, 2005 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection - Cover Design; Winner, 2004 Canadian Historical Association Clio Award (The Prairies); and Winner, Best Scholarly Book, 2005 Alberta Book Awards (Book Publishers Association of Alberta)
• The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor, by Don Don Kerr, short-listed for the 2005 Saskatoon Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards; winner, Best Cover Design, 2005 Alberta Book Awards (Book Publishers Association of Alberta); short-listed for the 2005 Alberta Book Awards, Book Design (Book Publishers Association of Alberta)
• Songs of the North Woods as Sung by O.J. Abbott and Collected by Edith Fowke, by László Vikár and Jeanette Panagapka, short-listed for the 2005 Alberta Book Awards, Book Cover Design (Book Publishers Association of Alberta); short-listed for Publisher of the Year Award, 2005 Alberta Book Awards (Book Publishers Association of Alberta)
• Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City, by Graham Livesey, 2005 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection —Scholarly Illustrated Book Design.

Law professor receives prestigious Canada-US Fulbright award

University of Calgary law professor Peter Bowal has been named a 2005 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar, a prestigious title reserved for a select few in Canada and the United States. Bowal, who recently took up the Fulbright Research Chair in Canadian Studies at Michigan State University, is a well-known scholar and practitioner.

As a Fulbrighter, Bowal proposes to examine the relatively long development of the law and policy governing whistle-blowing activity in the private and public sectors in the United States. The financial incentive model for whistle-blowing unique to the United States will be analyzed to determine its potential applicability in Canada. Bowal is also teaching the employment law course at the Michigan State College of Law this semester.

“ The Haskayne School congratulates Professor Bowal for receiving the honour of being named a Fulbright scholar,” says Michael Grandin, dean of the Haskayne School of Business.
“ Opportunities for academic exchanges like the Fulbright program bring great value to research and teaching activities, particularly when they involve topics as currently relevant as professor Bowal’s work on whistle-blowing. ”

Bowal holds a Bachelor of Commerce with distinction from the University of Alberta, a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Master of Laws in Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy from Cambridge. Bowal has been the recipient of many awards, including a number of prestigious teaching awards and a Fulbright Faculty Fellowship at Arizona State University in 1998. He is a presiding Justice of the Peace in Alberta and is currently a professor of law at the Haskayne School of Business.

Professors gain leadership positions with IEEE Computer Society

Two professors, both from computer science, have obtained volunteer leadership positions in the IEEE Computer Society.

Dr. Michael Williams has been elected as president and Dr. Jon Rokne has been appointed vice-president (publications) for 2006. Williams will assume the position of president-elect in 2006, president in 2007 and past president in 2008.

With nearly 100,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world’s leading (and largest) organization of computer professionals. Founded in 1946, it is the largest of the 39 societies of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). About 40 percent of the members live and work outside of the U.S. They maintain offices in Tokyo, service facilities in Beijing and Russia, a publications office in Los Alamitos, California; and the headquarters in Washington, DC. The Computer Society is a major publisher of scientific material producing 14 technical magazines and another 15 scientific journals as well as a book and conference proceedings publishing program.