The most important news you already know: the Humboldt Club, which so far has been very loosely organized, will transform itself into the Humboldt Association Canada (=HAC), already has a constitution and the preliminary permission of its voting members to charge a $ 50 fee. After a meeting of the presidents of Humboldt Associations from all over the world in Bonn , the Executive Committee pro tempore will meet and, guided by the suggestions from our colleagues world-wide, will design a program for the HAC.
The aim of the Humboldt Club has been to keep Humboldt fellows in touch with each other and with the Foundation in Bonn . This aim will be retained and intensified in the switch from the Club to the HAC. The proposals to date are that we create a website and thus become electronically accessible, and that we hold biannual conferences, which will move from region to region within Canada , and to which we can invite German “Wissenschaftler.” If you have any suggestions as to what you would like the HAC to do, please let the Executive know. You can do so by sending me an e-mail to • G. Wieland.
Those of you who receive a copy of this Newsletter for the very first time may be disappointed that the lengthy reports you have sent me have been condensed to a few lines. A Newsletter that is too long is not read by anyone. I have therefore omitted all papers/books that have been submitted or are in press; I give only representative titles; and I summarize. Be assured, however, that your submissions will be forwarded in toto to the AvH Stiftung, which in turn can use your many achievements in its negotiations with the German government. In its search for continued funding it can make the argument that in the past it has supported prolific scholars, who get promoted and receive honours, and who continue their collaborations with the German scholarly community.
As in previous years, many colleagues reaped honours, and their special achievements deserve to be placed at the beginning of the Newsletter. Canadian Research Chairs went to S. L. CHIN (U de Laval), SYLVIE MORIN (York U), ALLISON SEKULER (McMaster U) and JIANHONG WU (York U). ANTHONY MOFFAT (U de Montreal) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and MICHAEL HERREN (York U) was elected Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy , Selection of Polite Literature and Antiquities. And VICTOR SNIECKUS (Queen's U) has received the American Chemical Society's Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. Warmest congratulations to all of them!
Now to individual news:
ASHOK AKLUJKAR (U of British Columbia) published six articles with titles such as “The prologue and epilogue verses of Vacaspati-misra-I,” “Pandita and pandit in history,” “The pandits from a pinda-brahmanda point of view,” “Reincarnation revisited rationally,” and “The word is the world: nondualism in Indian philosophy of language.” When he is not working on his articles, he acts as international adviser (one of three) for the Ramakrishna Dalmia Shrivani Alankaran award, and he keeps in touch with Germany by collaborating with Prof. Dr. Albrecht Wezler , Hamburg , on an edition of two unpublished commentaries in the field of Samkhya philosophy.
JAN BARICA ( Hamilton ) claims that there are no news from him, but he continues to work as Science Adviser to the United Nations University and as part-time consultant for IDRC and UNDP on the Dnieper River Project in Russia , Belarus and Ukraine . In that capacity, he has to write lots of technical reports. He also finds time for the occasional seminar and conference presentation.
GEORGES BEAUDOIN (U de Laval) has been appointed Associate Editor of Mineralium Deposita in 2001. He published two papers in 2001 and currently has two in press with titles such as "The St. Eugene deposit, British Columbia : a metamorphosed Ag-Pb-Zn vein in Proterozoic Belt-Purcell rocks" and "FT-IR measurements of petroleum fluid inclusions: methane, n-alkanes and carbon dioxide quantitative analysis." With colleagues and students he has presented six papers at various scientific meetings. Accompanied by MSc and PhD students he did some field work in Germany (Harz) and Switzerland (Glarus).
VIT BUBENIK (Memorial U) is currently working on the project “From Adverbs to Adpositions in Indo-European Languages.” This project is supported by a grant from the Canada Council for the period 1999-2002. October to December 2001 he spent at the Institute for General and Indo-European Linguistics, University of Munich , supported by a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. In 2001 he published one monograph entitled Morphological and Syntactic Change in Medieval Greek and South Slavic Languages and four articles with the titles “Diachronic and Typological Observations on the Role of Wackernagel's Law in Indo-European,” “On the Remaking of the Middle Voice in Indo-Iranian,” “Grammatical and Lexical Aspect in Slovak Romani,” and “On Ablaut and Aspect in the History of Aramaic.”
PHIL BUNKER (National Research Council) has continued his collaboration with his AvH host Professor Per Jensen, and this collaboration has resulted in the following articles in the last year: “The Symmetry of Molecules,” “The Renner effect in triatomic molecules with application to CH 2 +, MgNC and NH 2 ,” “The near ultraviolet band system of singlet methylene,” and “Predicted rovibronic spectra of CH 2 + and CD 2 +,” and “Refined potential energy surfaces for the X and A electronic states of the HO 2 molecule.”
DIETER BUSE (Laurentian U) spent some time working in the Staatsarchiv in Bremen and took part in a conference at den Haag. He and a colleague wrote the introduction to S. Schwartz, ed., Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman .
A. Z. CAPRI (U of Alberta) authored one book so far in 2002, Problems and Solutions in Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics , and had a second one Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics appear in its 3 rd edition. In addition, he co-authored the book Classical Electrodynamics with P.V. Panat.
TUCKER CARRINGTON (U de Montreal) rushed from place to place giving papers in Budapest , Munich , Helsinki , Manchester , Heidelberg , Toronto , Göttingen, Perugia , and Berkeley . Despite this, he still had time to co-author articles, seven of which appeared in 2001. Representative titles are “A simple equation including anharmonic effects for the vibrational polarisability of a diatomic molecule,” “Accelerating the calculation of energy levels and wavefunctions using an efficient preconditioner with an inexact spectral transform method,” “Comment on ‘Spectral filters in quantum mechanics: A measurement theory perspective,'” “V 3 : Structure and vibrations from density functional theory, Franck-Condon factors and the PFI-ZEKE spectrum,” “The utility of constraining basis function indices when using the Lanczos algorithm to calculate vibrational energy levels,” and “An exact kinetic energy operator for (HF) 3 in terms of local polar and azimuthal angles.”
S. L. CHIN (U de Laval) received a Canada Research Chair. Congratulations! For 2001 and so far in 2002 he reports of 11 co-authored articles with titles such as “Filamentation of femtosecond laser pulses in the turbulent air,” “Propagation dynamics of ultra-short high power laser pulses in air: supercontinuum generation and transverse ring formation,” “Intensity clamping of a femtosecond laser pulse in condensed matter,” “Intensity clamping and re-focusing of intense femtosecond laser pulses in nitrogen molecular gas,” “Creation of micro-holes on glass surface by femtosecond laser through the ejection of molten material,” and “White light continuum generation and filamentation during the propagation of ultra-short laser pulses in air.”
C.W. CHOW (U of Toronto) has been appointed Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto in January 2002. He co-authored articles with titles such as “Protein tyrosine phosphatase MEG2 is expressed by human neutrophils: localization to the phagosome and activation by PIP2,” and “Epithelial injury in sepsis and ARDS: Role of Leukocyte-derived proteases.”
DENNIS DANIELSON (U of British Columbia) published a short article on the origin of the word "scientist" in Nature (vol. 410) and a longer article entitled "The Great Copernican Cliche" in The American Journal of Physics . In October he addressed the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore , and for the year 2002 is distinguished scholar in residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
BRUCE DAVIS (U of Saskatchewan) has co-authored six articles, among them “2-Bromoethylamine as a potent selective suicidal inhibitor for semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase,” “Inhibition of rat liver microsomal CYP1A2 and CYP2B1 activity by N-(2-heptyl)-N-methylpropargylamine and by N-(2-heptyl)propargylamine,” “Resolution of chiral aliphatic and arylalkyl amines using immobilized Candida antarctica lipase and isolation of their R- and S-enantiomers,” and “Transfection-enforced Bcl-2 overexpression and an anti-Parkinson drug, rasagiline, prevent nuclear accumulation of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase induced by an endogenous dopaminergic neurotoxin, N-methyl(R)salsolinol.”
DON DAWSON (Carleton U) is now completing a five year project funded by a Max Planck Award for International Cooperation. The final major activity will be a one-week workshop on “Spatially distributed and hierarchically structured stochastic systems” from April 4 – 10, 2002 to be held at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal .
ROBERT DION (U de Quebec) reports of three articles published so far in 2002, the titles of which are “'Let's talk English here.' Les représentations de l'anglais dans Copies conformes et Volkswagen Blues ,” “La culture allemande á la revue québécoise Liberté : une connivence ‘profonde et lointaine,'” “Enseigner la littérature québécoise - au Québec et ailleurs.”
ISSOUF FOFANA (U de Quebec) and his collaborators had a patent on “Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Feuchtigkeit in Flüssigkeits-Papier isolierten Anlagen wie Transformatoren” accepted at the Deutsches Patentamt. In addition, three co-authored articles appeared in 2001: “Preliminary Investigations for the Retrofilling of Perchlorethylene Based Fluid filled Transformers,” “Fundamental Investigations on some Transformers Liquids under various Outdoor Conditions,” and “Retrofilling Conditions of High Voltage Transformers.” And in the same year he gave papers in Kitchener , Ottawa , Bangalore , and Rhodes .
GEORGE HAUGHN (U of British Columbia) is currently Acting Head of the Department of Botany. He won a ‘Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science' Fellowship funding a Lecture tour of Japan . Congratulations! His co-authored publications for the last year are: “The Arabidopsis BELL1 and KNOX TALE homeodomain proteins interact through a domain conserved between plants and animals,” and “Isolation and characterization of mutants defective in seed coat mucilage secretory cell development in Arabidopsis.”
MONICA HELLER (U of Toronto) is chair of the organizing committee of the next conference of the International Pragmatics Association, to be held at the University of Toronto , 13 – 18 July 2003. The theme is “Linguistic pluralism: politics, practices and pragmatics/Le pluralisme linguistique: politiques, pratiques et pragmatique.” Information about the conference can be obtained via the IPrA website <http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/>. Dr. Heller published one article entitled “Speak bilingue?” and has two in press. She gave the plenary address at the annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft in Mannheim, and presented papers in Berlin, Leipzig, Stockholm, Aosta (Italy), Bled (Slovenia), Mannheim, and Freiburg.
MICHAEL HERREN (York U) is pleased to report that on 11 March 2002 he was elected Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy , Selection of Polite Literature and Antiquities. Congratulations!
WILLIAM HUTCHISON (U of Toronto) and colleagues obtained some $ 200,000 of grant money for projects such as “Mechanism of Action of Deep Brain Stimulation” and “Recordings of movement-related neurons in Parkinsonian patients during movement disorders surgery.” In 2001 he wrote one article entitled “Techniques of microelectrode recording in movement disorders surgery” for inclusion in a book, and co-authored another on “Effects of apomorphine on subthalamic nucleus and globus pallidus internus neurons in patients with Parkinson's disease.”
JORIS KOENE (U of Münster) has co-authored “'Allohormones': A class of bioactive substances favoured by sexual selection.” His Humboldt Fellowship ended last year, but he remained at the University of Münster because he obtained a Hendrik Casimir - Karl Ziegler Research Stipend to investigate the evolution of the love dart in land snails. Congratulations on the research stipend! In June 2002 he will start at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam on a grant from the Dutch Science Organization (Career Stimulation Programme) to continue his investigations into hermaphodite mating systems.
PHILIP KRONBERG (U of Toronto) reports of three co-authored articles: “Possible Radio Signatures of a Cosmological Shock Wave at Intersecting Filaments of Galaxies,” “Magnetic Energy of the Intergalactic Medium from Black Holes,” and “A New Radio- X-ray Probe of Galaxy Cluster Magnetic Fields.” In addition, he published another three articles for which he was the sole author: “Extragalactic Magnetic Fields in the Extragalactic Universe and Scenarios since Recombination for their Origin,” “Intergalactic Magnetic Fields and Implications for Cosmic and Gamma Ray Astronomy,” and “The Importance of Low Frequency Radio Emission for Probing Intergalactic Plasma.” And he has had a busy schedule with presenting papers in Guelph , Manchester , Groningen , Washington , and Taipei .
ADAM KRZYZAK (Concordia U) has been promoted to full professor. Congratulations! His publications list grew by six items in 2001 with titles such as “Piecewise linear skeletonization using principal curves,” “Convergence and rates of convergence of radical basis functions networks in function learning,” “Clipped median and space-filling curves in image filtering” and “Identification of dynamic non-linear systemes using the Hermite series approach.” In addition, he gave lectures in Seattle , Leipzig , Berkeley , Washington and Ottawa , and had all the papers published in refereed conference proceedings.
WALDEMAR LEHN (U of Manitoba) published one and co-authored another article with the following titles: “Exact Temperature Profile for the Hillingar Mirage” and “A Fundamental Approach to Transformer Thermal Modeling - Part I: Theory and Equivalent Circuit.” He gave an invited lecture in Boulder , Colorado , participated in a conference in Victoria , and gave us fellow Humboldtians a presentation last May in Ottawa .
MICHAEL MACKEY (McGill U) was/is Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Mathematics, at the University of Oxford from January to June, 2001, and again from January to April, 2002. And since August 2001 he is Joseph Morley Drake Professor of Physiology at McGill U. Congratulations on these honours! Five co-authored publications during the last year and another two for which he is sole author indicate why he is in such demand. Representative titles are “Dynamic behaviour in mathematical models of the tryptophan operon,” “Resonance in periodic chemotherapy: A case study of acute myelogenous leukemia,” “Cell kinetic status of hematopoietic stem cells,” “Microscopic dynamics and the second law of thermodynamics,” and “Sufficient conditions for stability of linear differential equations with distributed delay.”
IGOR MELCUK (U de Montreal) has had a very successful year with the publication of two books, entitled Kurs obscej morfologii. Tom IV. Cast´ pjataja: morfologiceskie znaki and Communicative Organization in Natural Language. The semantic-Communicative Structure of Sentences . In addition, he published four articles on “Morphological Ellipsis,” “Dependency: An Important Linguistic Relation,” “Grammatical Voice in French (A Short Description in the Meaning-Text Framework,” “Fraseología y diccionario en la lingüística moderna,” and, in collaboration with Dr. Leo Wanner of the University of Stuttgart , “Towards a Lexicographic Approach to Lexical Transfer in Machine Translation (Illustrated by the German-Russian Language Pair).” The collaboration with Dr. Wanner continues and will yield more publications next year. Stay tuned!
ANTHONY MOFFAT (U de Montreal) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the induction ceremony took place in Nov. 2001 in Ottawa . Warmest congratulations! He has co-authored eight articles during 2001 with titles such as “Spatially resolved STIS spectra of WR + OB binaries with colliding winds,” “HST Imagery and CFHT Fabry-Perot 2-D Spectroscopy in H-alpha of the Ejected Nebula M1-67: Turbulent Status,” and “Turbulent outflows from [WC]-type nuclei of planetary nebulae. II. The [WC8] central star of NGC 40.” He also had a busy schedule visiting observatories and giving papers at conferences, including one at the Humboldt Colloquium last May on “Starburst NGC 3603 from radio to X-rays.” Since February 2001 he has been co-supervising the German student Olivier Schnurr.
SYLVIE MORIN (York U) proudly announces that she has received a Canada Research Chair in Physical Chemistry to work on “metal deposition on metal and semiconductor surfaces.” Congratulations! And she reports of three co-authored articles, the first of which was done in conjunction with her AvH host in Germany : “In-situ STM Study of Electrodeposition and Anodic Dissolution of Ni,” “Ideal Passivation of Luminescent Porous Silicon by Thermal, Noncatalytic Reaction with Alkenes and Aldehydes”, and “Pickled luminescent silicon nanostructures.” How do you “pickle” luminescent silicon nanostructures?
WAYNE MULLET (U of Waterloo) completed his Humboldt Fellowship in August 2001 and reports of three co-authored papers published as a result of his studies in Germany . They are: “A Bio-compatible In-tube Solid Phase Microextraction Capillary for the Direct Extraction and HPLC Determination of Drugs in Human Serum,” “Automated In-Tube Solid-Phase Microextraction Coupled with HPLC for the Determination of N-Nitrosamines in Cell Cultures,” and “Direct Determination of Benzodiazepines in Biological Fluids by Restricted-Access Solid-Phase Microextraction.” In addition, he collaborated on five articles not related to his studies as a Humbodlt Fellow. Some of these are “Direct Determination of Benzodiazepines in Biological Fluids by Restricted Access SPME,” “Direct HPLC Analysis of Five Benzodiazepines in Human Urine and Plasma Using an ADS Restricted Access Extraction Column,” and “Biological Sample Analysis with Immunoaffinity Solid Phase Microextraction.” Welcome to the Humboldt Club!
FRANK NARGANG (U of Alberta) mentions three co-authored articles on topics such as “Biogenesis of the major mitochondrial outer membrane protein porin involves a complex import pathway via receptors and thegeneral import pore,” “Structural requirements of Tom40 for assembly into preexisting TOM complexes of mitochondria,” “Assembly of Tom6 and Tom7 into the TOM complex of Neurospora crassa,” and has a fourth in press. All of these publications were done in collaboration with Walter Neupert and his colleagues at the Institut fuer Physiologische Chemie, Universitaet Muenchen.
JAMES OVERDUIN (presently Waseda U, Japan ) was an AvH postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bonn from May 2000 - March 2001, working in astrophysics and cosmology with Professors Wolfgang Priester and Hans-Joerg Fahr. Since then he has taken up a fellowship with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Waseda University (Tokyo), continuing his work in astrophysics and cosmology with Professor Kei-ichi Maeda. Two co-authored articles are the result of his studies with the German professors: “Problems of modern cosmology: how dominant is the vacuum?” and “Spacetime, matter and the vacuum.”
ERIC PINNINGTON (U of Alberta) reports that he continues his collaboration with Dr. Elmar Traebert of the University of the Ruhr in Bochum . This past February they conducted a series of collaborative experiments with Dr. Peter Beiersdorfer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US , and in May they will be joining some colleagues at the MPI for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg for some further experiments. The results will be presented at the Conference on Highly Charged Ions in Caen next September. So what are the experiments about?
IAIN PROVAN (U of British Columbia) delivered two endowed lectures (The Lund Lectures, North Park Theological Seminary) entitled “The Death of Biblical History?: A Critical Review,” and “Knowing and Believing: Faith in the Past.” He published one book, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs , and three articles with the titles “1 and 2 Kings,” “The Circle of life,” and “Holistic ministry.”
DAVID PUGH (Queen's U) will be promoted to full professor on 1 July 2002 , and will take over the helm of the German department as its Head. Since the last Newsletter appeared he has published the book Schiller's Early Dramas .
JAMES RETALLACK (U of Toronto) will complete his three-year term as Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in June 2002. In late 2001 he was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Forschungspreis by the Humboldt-Stiftung. In the academic year 2002-03 he will pursue a project on nineteenth-century regional identities in Germany while a visiting scholar at the University of Göttingen . Among his publications is the book Zwischen Markt und Staat: Stifter und Stiftungen im transatlantischen Vergleich which he co-edited, and the articles “ Philanthropy und politische Macht in deutschen Kommunen” and “Under the name of a constitution…' British Diplomatic Reports From Germany in the Nineteenth Century.” He was one of the presenters at the Humboldt Colloquium in Ottawa , and in addition gave papers in New Orleans and Toronto .
THOMAS SALUMETS (U of British Columbia) continued as editor of the Journal of Baltic Studies , edited the book Norbert Elias and Human Interdependencies , published the article “Ein ‘etablierter Aussenseiter': F.M. Klingers Geschichte eines Teutschen der neuesten Zeit,” presented papers at conferences in Riga and Tartu , and was elected President of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (his term beginning in June 2002).
JAMES SCOTT (Trinity Western U) has just published Geography in Early Judaism and Christianity: The Book of Jubilees , which is the result of his Humboldt Project of 1997. He also edited Restoration: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions and wrote an article entitled “Korah and Qumran .”
RICHARD SECCO (U of Western Ontario) has been promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations! He received the 2001 Florence Bucke Science Prize for research. He sent one of his Ph.D. students to Bayreuth for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship, and he compiled an impressive publications list with ten co-authored articles, among them “Heats of Solution/Substitution in TlNO 3 and CsNO 3 Crystals and in RbNO 3 and CsNO 3 Crystals from Heats of Transition. The Complete Phase Diagrams of TlNO 3 -CsNO 3 and RbNO 3 -CsNO 3 Systems,” “Density Measurements of Liquids at High Pressure: Modifications to the Sink/Float Method by Using Composite Spheres and Application to Fe-10wt%S,” “On the Possibility of Anisotropic Heat Flow in the Inner Core,” and “Investigation of Pressure Induced Amorphization in Hydrated Zeolite Li-A and Na-A using Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction.”
ALLISON SEKULER (McMaster U) has received a Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience. Congratulations! Two of her graduate students are showing an interest in conducting research in Germany : let's hope they will be successful so that Canadian-German academic relations continue to flourish. And she proudly reports an addition to the Humboldt family, namely her son Aidan Joseph, born 22 February 2002 . All our best wishes to mother and son!
VICTOR SNIECKUS (Queen's U) has received the American Chemical Society's prestigious Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the field of organic chemistry. Congratulations! He is only the third Canadian to receive this award since its inception in 1984. It includes $40,000(US) in unrestricted research funding and a $5,000 ( US ) prize. That sounds like REAL money!
LAWRENCE D. STOKES (Dalhousie U) does not let retirement stop him. In 2001 he published the book Der Eutiner Dichterkreis und der Nationalsozialismus 1936-1945. EineDokumentation and two articles entitled “Das oldenburgische Konzentrationslager in Eutin, Neukirchen und Nüchel 1933” and “Konzentrationslager im Spiegel der Provinzpresse. Eutin 1933/34.” For 2002 he has planned extensive travel, but we can report about that next year.
THOMAS W. SWADDLE (U of Calgary ) will be retiring on 30 June 2002 , and hopes that this will give him time to indulge in his scientific interests. Here are our best wishes for a fruitful retirement! In the past year he published one article, entitled “Silicate complexes of Aluminum(III) in Aqueous Systems,” and co-authored three more on topics such as “Pressure Effects and Solvent Dynamics in the Electrochemical Reducation of Tris(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)ruthenium(III) in Nonaqueous Solvents,” and Precipitation from Alkaline Aqueous Aluminosilicate Soluctions.”
JACK ADAM TUSZYNSKI (U of Alberta) amassed close to $ 4.5 million in various research grants, the largest of which was from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for an “Alberta Radiation Tomotheraphy Unit.” He held various positions as Research Manager, Senior Guest Scientist, and Senior Visiting Fellow in Brussels, Lyon, and Leuven, but still found time to organize conferences in Dubna (Russia), Upper Montclair (USA), and Siguenza (Spain), to publish one co-authored book entitled Biomedical Applications for Introductory Physics and six co-authored articles with titles such as “A Quantitative Analysis of the Frequency Spectrum of the Radiation Emitted by Cytochrome Oxidase Enzymes,” “An Algorithm to Obtain Exact Eigenvalues and Eigenstates of the Arbitrary Spin Ising Hamiltonian in d-Dimensions,” “Exact Eigenvalues of the Ising Hamiltonian in One-, Two- and Three-Dimensions in the Absence of a Magnetic Field,” and “Nonlinear Field Dynamics of Reacting Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Species.”
HENRY VAN DRIEL (U of Toronto) was appointed Chair of the Department of Physics, beginning July 1, 2001 . In November 2001 he was appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is continuing to collaborate with scientists at the Max Planck Institut für MikrostrukturPhysik, Halle , Germany and also with Professor W. Rühle of the Physics Department of Phillips University , Marburg , Germany on projects related to optoelectronic effects in semiconductors.
GERNOT WIELAND (U of British Columbia) is presently enjoying an administrative leave after five years of serving as Assistant Dean. Another administrative position is waiting for him: as of 1 July 2002 he will be the Head of the English Department. During his leave year he presented a paper in Hamburg and published an article entitled “The Relationship of Latin to Old English Glosses in the Psychomachia of Cotton Cleopatra C viii.”
JIANHONG WU (York U) was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics. Congratulations! In addition, he has received CFI and OIT funds to build a new Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at York University , and has been collaborating with a couple of data analysis companies in Toronto ; he was appointed to the NSERC Grant Selection Committee, and to the College of Reviews for the Canada Research Chair Program. He is serving on five editorial boards, and in the last year he was invited to join another three.
ULIAN ZHU (U de Montreal) published seven co-authored articles in 2001 and so far in 2002, among them “An investigation of the hydrogen-bonding structure in bilirubin by 1H double-quantum magic-angle spinning solid state NMR spectroscopy,” “N-isopropylacrylamide copolymers with acrylamide and methacrylamide derivatives of cholic acid: Synthesis and characterization,” “Bile Acid Sequestrants Based on Cationic Dextran Hydrogel Microspheres. 2. Influence of the Length of Alkyl Substituents at the Amino Groups of the Sorbents on the Sorption of Bile Salts,” and “Interaction of hydrophobically modified cationic dextran hydrogels with biological surfactants.” The first of these results from his visit to the Max Planck Institute fuer Polymerforschung in Mainz, which had been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. All the hard work paid off: Dr. Zhu was promoted to full professor last year. Congratulations! He continues his collaboration with Germany, having sent one Ph.D. student to the MPIP in Mainz and having received a German one in his lab in Montreal.