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Week of March 17-24, 2003
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Mar 17, 2003
Bush’s ultimatum…The final word is expected today on the fate of Iraq. It’ll come from US President George Bush in a televised national address. What appears to be the final move in a strategy aimed at checkmating Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein came after the US and its allies, Britain and Spain, removed from the table a United Nations resolution authorizing war. SFU political science professor Lenard Cohen, an expert on Trans-Atlantic politics, says, "I believe the Bush administration, with all its warts, has a good brief or dossier for what it is doing and planning in the Middle East." Another SFU political scientist, Doug Ross, is the executive director of the Canadian-American Strategic Review web site, which is based at SFU. See www.sfu.ca/casr.
Several SFU experts are staying up-to-date on the Iraqi situation and available to respond to media questions. For a full list of contact info on experts, please see our news release SFU Experts re: Potential War with Iraq
Investing in child-care…The federal government has finally made good on its promise to launch a national child-care program, after 10 years of negotiations with the provinces and territories. Sheila Davidson, SFU Childcare Society Director, welcomes the $935 million federal investment over five years. She has some thoughts on how Ottawa could make sure the money reaches the pockets of working parents. "Parents are paying well over a billion dollars in child-care fees, so calling childcare government sponsored is a misnomer," says Davidson. "I have concerns that the new operational grant program is not tied to parent affordability or wages and benefits for staff at child-care centres."
Sheila Davidson, 604.291.3035, davidson@sfu.ca
Connecting smell to the spine…Your smell bone is not connected to your spinal cord. However, Charles Greer’s groundbreaking research into how cells in the nose may help repair damaged cells in the spine has garnered him a $4.5 US million grant from the National Institutes of Health in the United States. The professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology at Yale University’s school of medicine is delivering several lectures at SFU as the 2002 winner of Frank Allison Linville’s R.H. Wright Award in olfactory research. Greer will deliver a public lecture, Sense of Smell, Thursday, March 20, 7 p.m at harbour centre. For more information on his lectures and to reserve seating, which is limited, for the public lecture, call 604.291.5100.
Charles Greer, 604.291.4803 (while at SFU), 203.785.2597, charles.greer@yale.edu
New crime law aimed at youth...Major changes to how young people involved in crime are handled by the justice system will come into effect on April 1. That’s when the federal Young Offenders Act will be replaced by the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The changes are intended to reduce the growing number of youths under the age of 18 who are incarcerated for non-violent crimes. SFU criminologists Robert Gordon and Ray Corrado specialize in youth crime and can look at what the changes mean to both young people and the corrections system. Corrado is currently involved in a study looking at why violent and serious young offenders repeatedly become involved in crime.
Robert Gordon, 604..291.4305; robert_gordon@sfu.ca
Ray Corrado, 604.291.3627, ray_corrado@sfu.ca
Several SFU experts are staying up-to-date on the Iraqi situation and available to respond to media questions. For a full list of contact info on experts, please see our news release SFU Experts re: Potential War with Iraq
Investing in child-care…The federal government has finally made good on its promise to launch a national child-care program, after 10 years of negotiations with the provinces and territories. Sheila Davidson, SFU Childcare Society Director, welcomes the $935 million federal investment over five years. She has some thoughts on how Ottawa could make sure the money reaches the pockets of working parents. "Parents are paying well over a billion dollars in child-care fees, so calling childcare government sponsored is a misnomer," says Davidson. "I have concerns that the new operational grant program is not tied to parent affordability or wages and benefits for staff at child-care centres."
Sheila Davidson, 604.291.3035, davidson@sfu.ca
Connecting smell to the spine…Your smell bone is not connected to your spinal cord. However, Charles Greer’s groundbreaking research into how cells in the nose may help repair damaged cells in the spine has garnered him a $4.5 US million grant from the National Institutes of Health in the United States. The professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology at Yale University’s school of medicine is delivering several lectures at SFU as the 2002 winner of Frank Allison Linville’s R.H. Wright Award in olfactory research. Greer will deliver a public lecture, Sense of Smell, Thursday, March 20, 7 p.m at harbour centre. For more information on his lectures and to reserve seating, which is limited, for the public lecture, call 604.291.5100.
Charles Greer, 604.291.4803 (while at SFU), 203.785.2597, charles.greer@yale.edu
New crime law aimed at youth...Major changes to how young people involved in crime are handled by the justice system will come into effect on April 1. That’s when the federal Young Offenders Act will be replaced by the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The changes are intended to reduce the growing number of youths under the age of 18 who are incarcerated for non-violent crimes. SFU criminologists Robert Gordon and Ray Corrado specialize in youth crime and can look at what the changes mean to both young people and the corrections system. Corrado is currently involved in a study looking at why violent and serious young offenders repeatedly become involved in crime.
Robert Gordon, 604..291.4305; robert_gordon@sfu.ca
Ray Corrado, 604.291.3627, ray_corrado@sfu.ca