Doris Shadbolt 0 1918 - 2003


Photography: Chick Rice

Doris Shadbolt, long-time arts patron and friend of the university, died in December. She was a key figure in the visual arts scene in Vancouver and across the country. Shadbolt is recognized as one of a small group of individuals who moved Canadian art toward the modernity of the twentieth century and who recognized the importance of the artistic expression of First Nations people.

Shadbolt wrote definitive works on Emily Carr (The Art of Emily Carr and Seven Journeys) and Bill Reid (Bill Reid), and worked as educator, curator, and director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. With her late husband, painter Jack Shadbolt, she established the VIVA (Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts) awards – now renamed the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation – a charitable trust that gives out two $10,000 awards to emerging B.C. artists every two years and one $50,000 life-time achievement award every five years.

In 1996 Shadbolt received an honorary degree from SFU, and in 1998 both Shadbolts were given the Distinguished Leadership Award of the SFU President’s Club. She received the Order of Canada and was also one of the inaugural winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

Five New Research Chairs
The university now has appointed more than half the 38 Canada Research Chairs it has been allocated. The Canada Research Chair program awards universities $200,000 annually for each senior chair appointed and $100,000 annually for each junior chair appointed. The five new chairs are:

Jonathan Kesselman is a taxation and income security policy analyst. He will take up a senior chair in public finance in the department of economics. His research focuses on the inter-relations between tax systems and income transfers.

Francis Jeffrey Pelletier is a professor of philosophy and computing science. As senior chair in cognitive science in the philosophy department, he will investigate the nature of inference. An inference occurs when a piece of information is generated from existing background information.

Cenk Sahinalp, a junior chair appointment in computational genomics in the school of computing science, comes from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He will investigate the genomic causes of a number of diseases.

James Taylor comes from Iowa State University to take up a junior chair in environmental history. His work on the social, economic, and technological challenges that confronted North American fisheries managers in the last century will lead to a better understanding of fisheries management.

Glen Tibbits of kinesiology has been awarded a senior chair in molecular cardiac physiology. He is trying to improve scientists’ understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate
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Photograph by Chick Rice: www.chickrice.com

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