Keys, Bahamas, and from the West Indies to Brazil. A U of A professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and leader in the field of preserving human blood and stems cells through deep-freezing, Jason will help to figure out how to freeze the sperm, eggs, and larvae produced by the elkhorn coral so that they may be cryo-banked for the future.
’96 Rozina Kassam, BCom, was recently appointed chief financial officer of Commercial Solutions Inc., a Canadian distributor of resource management equipment products. ’97 Janaya Ellis, BEd, lead singer
Danita Haysom, ’93 BEd, ’08 MBA, PCL’s director of professional development, is seen here accepting the training and development award in Alberta’s Best Workplaces Awards competition on behalf of the PCL family of companies. Danita is pictured here with PCL’s corporate training consultant Darcy Belanger, ’94 BEd, (left) and Mike Morton.
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’92 Roger Keglowitsch, BSc(Eng), has been appointed general manager of Melloy Industrial Services Inc., a PCL company, in Nisku, AB. A journeyman plumber pipefitter, Roger joined PCL, one of Canada’s leading construction firms, after graduation and has since that time led some of PCL’s large-scale projects. ’93 Richard Harcourt, BA, has been appointed as the president of Edmonton-based Harcourt Recruiting Specialists. Richard worked for the company in the past and, prior to coming back to the company in 2003, he spent several years working in the multimedia and film industry in Edmonton and Vancouver.
executive director of the Edmontonbased Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA), was named a Global Television Woman of Vision last November. The first female CEO of the ICAA, she has brought a new direction and energy to the ICAA, an organization that governs Alberta’s 10,500 CAs and CA students. In the community, she serves on numerous professional boards, is chair of the George Spady Centre Board and is a member of the University’s Alumni Council.
’95 Jason Acker, BSc, ’97 MSc, ’00 PhD, is part of an international effort to safeguard elkhorn coral, considered to be one of the primary reef-building corals in the Caribbean, Florida
Relish the thought. Check out the Saturday Scholar Series on October 3rd during Alumni Weekend 2009. See the brochure in the centre of New Trail to find out more.
of the Edmonton-based reggae group Souljah Fyah, along with bandmates Bongbiemi Nfor and Paul Joosse, was recently nominated for a Juno Award in the category of Best Reggae Recording. Last year, the band won a Western Canadian Music Award for best urban recording. Ted Kouri, BCom, and Jared Smith, ’98 BCom, co-owners of Edmonton’s Incite Solutions, a full-service marketing company, recently won the Young Entrepreneur Award for Alberta from the Business Development Bank of Canada.
’99 Vicki Giannacopoulos, BA, ’03 LLB, has joined the Edmonton law firm Kennedy Agrios LLP as an associate. Vicki works in the area of commercial litigation. Adam Merrick, LLB, has been made a partner in the Edmonton law firm Henderson Gower Massing Olivieri LLP, Amanda Read, ’99 BSc, ’03 BA, ’06 LLB, has also been promoted to the position of associate in the same firm. Adam practices in the areas of corporate, commercial and real estate law while Amanda’s focus will mainly be in the area of civil litigation. Lt.-Cmdr. Patrick Montgomery, PhD, took over the helm of HMCS Edmonton in a December ceremony at a naval base in Esquimalt, BC. The HMCS Edmonton is one of 12 Kingston Class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (six on each coast) employed in such missions as coastal surveillance, training, anti-smuggling, search and rescue, resource protection and scientific research.
’98 Christopher Rudnisky, BMS, ’99 MD, a U of A eye researcher and professor with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, recently received the 2008 Knowledge Translation Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health for creating a web-based computer technology that can diagnose eye diseases remotely. Christopher shares the $100,000 award with colleagues Mark Greve and Matthew Tennant. Emmy Stuebing, BA, writes from Edmonton to say, “Since I graduated I’ve spent my career working in the non-profit sector for organizations ranging from the U of A to the Alberta Cancer Foundation. Over the past year, I achieved my Certified Fund Raising Executive designation (only about 5,400 people worldwide have achieved this designation). This past autumn, I was also very pleased to accept an appointment to be the executive director of the Alberta Emerald Foundation, which is a provincial organization working to celebrate and inspire environmental excellence. Our major event is the annual Emerald Awards, which will take place in Edmonton in June 2009, www.emeraldfoundation.ca.”
Cory Clouston, ’94 BA(RecAdm), was named the new head coach of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators in February. Previously, Cory was with Ottawa’s minor-league team in Binghamton, NY, and was promoted to the big club to finish out the dreadful season the Senators had that saw Craig Hartsburg, who was only hired last summer, being relieved of his behind-the-bench duties. Cory coached the Grande Prairie Storm from 1995–99, taking the Storm to a first-place finish in their only season in the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League during 1995–96. He was named the league’s coach of the year for that season and Cory remained behind the bench for the franchise’s first three Alberta Junior Hockey League seasons. This year he has led a young team in Binghamton to a 25-16-3 record in his second season as head coach. Cory is from Viking, AB, the home of the famous hockey Sutters, and played for the U of A Bears hockey team from 1989 to 1993. Spring 2009
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