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• IFSW award to Richard Ramsey

  - 2006-08-21

  Professor Richard Ramsay is the winner of the Andrew Mouravieff-Apostol Award, of the International Federation of Social Workers. The award is given every two years to an individual or organization who made a significant contribution to international social work. Ramsey is Professor Emeritus from the University of Calgary where he...

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• Prometheus rewired.(Tech Talk)(teaching computer hacking at the University of Calgary and the University of Leeds)

  - 2003-10-01

  In an ancient myth, Greek titan Prometheus defies the gods and teaches man the secret of fire. For this, he is sentenced by Zeus to be chained to a rock where his regenerating liver is eternally gnawed upon by a bird of prey. A modern-day Promethean drama...

  Tags: computer, professor, SECURITY, University of Calgary, virus

• Hacked in the culture war; A pastor's Web site is defaced during a verbal battle about gay sex-ed.

  - 2002-12-16

  Stephen Boissoin's e-mail just got hacked. Again. And the Christian Web site maintained by this evangelical minister was destroyed, too--replaced by a page featuring his own photo and the words, "Pastor Looking For Sexual Adventures." Reverend Boissoin recently hired an attorney, to handle a complaint against...

  Tags: Dr., E-mail, lawsuit, professor, University of Calgary, Web

• Piers and Kung win Lectureship Awards. (Ready for the Road).(Brief Article)

  - 2002-07-01

  The Catalysis Division of The Chemical Institute of Canada announces that professor Warren Piers, MCIC, department of chemistry, University of Calgary, has been awarded the 2002 Canadian Catalysis Lectureship Award. In addition, professor Harold Kung, department of chemical engineering, Northwestern University (Evanstown, IL) has been ...

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• Appointed.

  - 2002-02-18

  As Officers of the Order of Canada, Gerald L. Gall, of St. Albert, a University of Alberta law professor and western director of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation; Alvin J. Libin, a Calgary philanthropist and businessman who has served as chairman of the board of the...

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• Intolerant, but not bad; A University of Calgary professor wants 'immoderate' Christian morality out of politics.(Shadia Drury)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-02-19

  Shadia Drury is surprised at the amount of attention her January 19 public lecture, "Against Christianity in Politics," drew. "Jesus called 'bad tempered'" was the front-page headline over the Calgary Herald's story, which said that the University of Calgary political science professor "branded Jesus Christ...

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• Intolerant, but not bad.

  - 2001-02-19

  A University of Calgary professor wants 'immoderate' Christian morality out of politics Shadia Drury is surprised at the amount of attention her January 19 public lecture, "Against Christianity in Politics," drew. "Jesus called 'bad tempered'" was the front-page headline over the Calgary Herald's...

  Tags: Christianity, professor, University of Calgary

• Dr. Robert Wedel.

  - 2000-10-23

  AWARDED: To Dr. Robert Wedel, a Taber family doctor and clinical assistant professor at the University of Calgary; the Family Physician of the Year award, by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He graduated from the U of C in 1974 and has been practising medicine...

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• M. Elizabeth Cannon.

  - 1999-09-20

  APPOINTED: M. Elizabeth Cannon, Ph.D., a professor of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary, to the board of directors of the Alberta Research Council. A teacher and researcher in satellite-based navigation, she also sits on the Alberta Science and Research Authority Board.

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• Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture. (book reviews)

  - 1997-01-01

  The worldwide growth of Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity has long merited extensive research and analysis. Yet information has usually come only from Euramerican mission agencies through publications that report on successes and assure home constituencies that related overseas churches conform to their doctrinal and ecclesiastical standards. Unfortunately,...

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