Trent research officer Joe Muldoon has been appointed Canadian Association of University Research Administrators (CAURA) liaison with the Canadian Consortium for Research (CCR). The consortium consists of 24 organizations of 50,000 scientists and researchers and 400,000 university students across Canada. It is concerned with university research development and funding.

Trent's 1997 university prospectus, designed by Trent's graphic artist Richard Miller, won first prize for special promotion over $2,500 in the first annual 1997 Peterborough Marketing Awards Oct. 21.

Retired CBC Radio broadcaster Peter Gzowski has tipped his hat to Kerry Cannon, managing editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies, for her hand in his new book The Morningside Years. She mined Gzowski's papers in Trent's archives for letters and recipes included in the Best of... section of the book.

Susan Jamieson (Anthropology) presented an invited paper, Interaction Among Great Lakes Populations Throughout Time: Southern Ontario, at the plenary session of the joint Ontario Archeological Society and Midwest Archeological Conference held in North York Oct. 25.

Gary Reker (Psychology) did a poster presentation, Personal Meaning, Optimism and Choice: Existential Predictors of Depression in Community and Institutional Elderly, at the 26th annual scientific and educational meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology, Oct. 23-26 in Calgary.

Professor emeritus Perce Powles (Biology) gave the banquet address, 50 Years of Progress, or the Phylogeny of the Canadian Council for Fisheries Research at its 50th anniversary in Ottawa Jan. 4. He gave a paper, Rate of Migration of the American Eel Early Life Stages From the Sargasso Sea to North Carolina, New Jersey and New Brunswick Estimated From Otoliths, at the Fisheries Society of the British Isles annual international symposium on ichthyoplankton ecology, at University College, Ireland in July.

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