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Week of Dec. 2 – 9, 2002
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Dec 03, 2002
Charting a course for coastal tourism…Coastal tourism contributes billions of dollars to C’s economy. Yet communities, governments and industries rarely consult members of the tourism industry about the course this sector should chart. Nor is there much discussion of how the industry’s lack of a clear direction, coupled with jurisdictional complexities, is intensifying existing coastal management problems. SFU geographer Alison Gill and Peter Williams, director of the centre for tourism and policy research, will moderate a three-day conference aimed at hammering out policy recommendations that address issues connected to coastal communities’ increasing reliance on tourism. The centre for coastal studies is hosting Policy Directions for Coastal Tourism, December 5-7, at Harbour Centre and the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Key speakers include Stan Hagen, BC minister of sustainable resources management, Stephen Owen, federal minister of western economic diversification and Linda Huston, regional manager, Holland America Line Westours Inc., Alaska. http://www.sfu.ca/coastalstudies/coastal.htm Gill and Williams can elaborate on issues to be discussed at the conference.
Alison Gill, 604.291.3635, alison_gill@sfu.ca
Peter Williams, 604.291.3103, peter_williams@sfu.ca
The legacy of Romanow’s report…The recommendations and long-term merit of former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow’s national report on healthcare are now under the microscope. SFU adjunct professor of gerontology Tom Koch says the report’s greatest legacy may be more rightly the process that gave it birth rather than changes resulting from it. Koch testified before Romanow’s commission on healthcare in Vancouver and submitted, at Romanow’s request, a second brief statement on health and persons with disabilities. "As a participant I had the feeling of a uniquely Canadian experience, one in which a nationally trusted leader talked — individually — with a range of others who were as passionately concerned about a problem as he," says Koch. "I believe the experience of the hundreds of others who testified before the commission was similar to mine and that this will give a currency to the final report."
Tom Koch, 604.714.0348, 604.822.2663, tomkoch@kochworks.com
Molecular machinery — a new kind of industrial age…Molecular machines will play an important role in the next generation of drug delivery systems, but first scientists have to see their way through an industrial revolution that’s occurring in the lab. Nanotechnologists are developing molecular switches to regulate the function of machines much too small to be seen with the human eye. Their work parallels the efforts of mechanical engineers who once developed a large array of circuit breakers, switches and other mechanical components to activate electronic devices. In his lecture Creating and Controlling Molecular Machinery, SFU associate professor of chemistry Neil Branda will talk about his development of molecular circuitry and on-off switches for nano-scale machines. Branda’s lecture, Tuesday, Dec. 3 at the Halpern centre, Burnaby campus, is part of the president’s faculty lecture series and is open to the public.
Neil Branda, 604.291.3594, neil_branda@sfu.ca
Alison Gill, 604.291.3635, alison_gill@sfu.ca
Peter Williams, 604.291.3103, peter_williams@sfu.ca
The legacy of Romanow’s report…The recommendations and long-term merit of former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow’s national report on healthcare are now under the microscope. SFU adjunct professor of gerontology Tom Koch says the report’s greatest legacy may be more rightly the process that gave it birth rather than changes resulting from it. Koch testified before Romanow’s commission on healthcare in Vancouver and submitted, at Romanow’s request, a second brief statement on health and persons with disabilities. "As a participant I had the feeling of a uniquely Canadian experience, one in which a nationally trusted leader talked — individually — with a range of others who were as passionately concerned about a problem as he," says Koch. "I believe the experience of the hundreds of others who testified before the commission was similar to mine and that this will give a currency to the final report."
Tom Koch, 604.714.0348, 604.822.2663, tomkoch@kochworks.com
Molecular machinery — a new kind of industrial age…Molecular machines will play an important role in the next generation of drug delivery systems, but first scientists have to see their way through an industrial revolution that’s occurring in the lab. Nanotechnologists are developing molecular switches to regulate the function of machines much too small to be seen with the human eye. Their work parallels the efforts of mechanical engineers who once developed a large array of circuit breakers, switches and other mechanical components to activate electronic devices. In his lecture Creating and Controlling Molecular Machinery, SFU associate professor of chemistry Neil Branda will talk about his development of molecular circuitry and on-off switches for nano-scale machines. Branda’s lecture, Tuesday, Dec. 3 at the Halpern centre, Burnaby campus, is part of the president’s faculty lecture series and is open to the public.
Neil Branda, 604.291.3594, neil_branda@sfu.ca