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Pyper writes at Champlain Andrew Pyper plans to complete a novel, give readings and offer non-credit creative writing seminars as writer-in-residence at Champlain College this year. He will also host visits and readings by Canadian writers and editors, including John Metcalfe. He comes to Trent from Dawson City, Yukon, where he was Pierre Berton writer-in-residence. He is a regular book reviewer on TVO's Imprint. The dates for the readings and seminars will be announced later. Ryle lecturer The Philosophy Department has invited Thomas Kasulis of Ohio State University to give the Ryle Lecture series this year. He will speak about Intimacy vs. Integrity: The Clash of Cultural World Views. Dates and location to be announced. Mapping award A Trent student's high marks have earned him a Sir Sandford Fleming College award. Hussein Alidina won the Bell Canada Award for the highest standing in the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Program at the college last year. Alidina is the first Trent student to win the $300 award since Trent and Fleming introduced the joint GIS Program in 1993. He attained a 92-per-cent average in the mapping technology training courses. He took the GIS courses at the college's Frost campus in Lindsay to fulfil the requirements of the joint program. Most of the 60 students in the two-year post-graduate certificate program had completed undergraduate degrees, he said. He returned this month to Trent to complete the honors science program. The Kenyan-born student was mapping northern Ontario for the Ministry of Natural Resources this summer. He says he plans to apply his GIS skills to sustainable resource management in Kenya. This year, he is working on a thesis for Raul Poncé Hernandez, Trent's GIS expert, mapping watersheds using data from the east African state. Lifeguards in top 10 Trent University's lifesaving program is the second largest among Ontario universities and colleges, according to the Lifesaving Society. The national association assesses programs using a point system and publishes the results in its annual report. Trent came second to Brock University in 1996 and led the University of Western Ontario, the biggest program in 1995. Trent's lifeguard teams won the annual regional competition in March. |
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