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Guelph Student Wins Rhodes Scholarship Bachlet is a President's Scholar and a peer helper award winner and received a
1999 research grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to study breast cancer. She has served as a volunteer at local hospitals and nursing homes, has sung with the U of G Choir, is a fitness instructor for the Department of Athletics and is an avid long-distance runner. She also volunteers as a Sunday school teacher at St. Matthias Church in Guelph. President Mordechai Rozanski says this scholarship "is testimony to Allison's superior academic accomplishments and, as imporllison Bachlet, an honours B.Sc. student
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in nutritional sciences, has won a
prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to pursue
tant, reflects her exemplary contributions as a leader and volunteer in our community." Students from about 20 countries com-
graduate studies in medicine and clinical
pete annually for 90 Rhodes Scholarships.
research at Oxford University in England.
Created in 1902 and named for Cecil Rhodes,
She is one of only two students from
the scholarships recognize "high academic
Ontario - and 11 nationwide -
achievement, integrity of character, a spirit
to receive
a Rhodes Scholarship this year. The award
of unselfishness, respect for dthers, poten-
is worth approximately $25,000 US a year.
tial leadership and physical vigour."
HEATHCOTE NAMED DEAN Prof. Isabel Heathcote has been appointed dean of graduate studies for a five-year term that began Dec. 20. Associate dean of graduate studies since 1998, she has served as acting dean for the past 13 months fo llowing the appointment of her predecessor, Prof. Alastair Summerlee, as associate vice-president (academic). A graduate of the Unive rsity of Toronto and Yale Un ivers ity, Heathcote joined U of G in 199 1
and holds a joint faculty appointmen t in the School of Engineering and Faculty of Environmental Sciences. She will be responsible for such tasks as overseeing U of G's 26 doctoral and 49 m as ter's programs, providing accreditation info rmation on those programs to the O ntario Council on Graduate Studies and administerin g about $1.5 million a year in University graduate scholarships and research scholarships.
IN FACT... About 1,670 graduate students are enrolled at Guelph this year, up from last year's 1,540 but below the high-water mark of 1,805 students in 1994/95.
CREATING ACCESS FOR DISTANCE LEARNERS The Office of Open Learning and the new Canadian Learning Television (CLT) are joining forces to increase learners' access to distance education courses. CLT is featuring eight U of G distance education courses on its Web site at www.accesslearning.com/ courses. "Th is is an important way of informing the public and thereby increasing access to our online courses," says Virginia Gray, director of the Office of Open Learning . "All of the courses are Web-based, and we think they will be of interest to the general population." Course topics are anthropology, contemporary cinema, deve lopment of human sexuality, adolescent deve lopment, masterworks of music, world poli tics, serial murder and humans in the natural world. This is not the first relationship between U of G and CLT. T h e station is promoting the popular Department of Psychology distance course "Death and Dying" and the televised series based on the course, Death: A Personal Understanding. That course includes a series of 10 half-hour documentaries that will air on CLT and will also air natio nally on Vision TV and in the Uni ted States on PBS. It was produced by the Torontobased Sleeping Giant Productions. Each documentary explores a different issue evoked by death. Spring 2000 5
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