The winds of change continue to blow on the University. Over the next few months, four new deans will begin their mandates in the faculties of Arts, Engineering, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and the Civil Law Section of the Faculty of Law.
“These nominations arrive at an important juncture in the evolution of the University,” said Rector Gilles Patry. “The new deans will play an important role in ensuring the success of several recent initiatives such as the strategic planning exercise, Vision 2010, the Campaign for Canada's university and the new brand. We are privileged to welcome the new deans to the University of Ottawa.”
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The University recruited the new dean of arts, George Lang, from Alberta. Lang has roots in Quebec, however, having lived in Montreal for several years and collaborated for 20 years to the Université de Sherbrooke publication Ellipse, contributing several translations of Quebec poetry. An expert in modern languages and cultural studies, Lang has been a professor at the University of Alberta since 1990. He was also the Faculty of Art's associate dean of the university for two years from 1997 to 1999. He will begin his mandate here at the University of Ottawa on July 1. |
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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING — BRIAN THOMPSON
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The Faculty of Engineering welcomes Brian Thompson who has a five-year mandate as dean starting on July 1. He was a professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario and was the first to hold the NSERC-GM of Canada Chair in Engineering Design and Innovation. Brian Thompson has worked as an engineer in both Canada and the United States with reputable companies such as Bell-Northern, Gas Dynamics and Boeing. He is a graduate of London, England's Imperial College of Science and Technology and has been a professor at Waterloo University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of New York before joining the University of Western Ontario. |
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CIVIL LAW SECTION — NATHALIE DES ROSIERS
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Nathalie Des Rosiers, the present director of the Law Commission of Canada, will begin her mandate as the dean of the Civil Law Section of the Faculty of Law on September 1. She was a professor at the University of Western Ontario from 1987 to 2001 and is presently on leave from her position as a professor with the Common Law Section. In July, Nathalie Des Rosiers will receive an honorary doctorate from the Law Society of Upper Canada. Earlier this year, she received the Partnership Award from the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX). She has been president of the Association des jurists d'expression française de l'Ontario and the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. She has also been a member of the Environmental Appeal Board and the Ontario Law Reform Commission. Nathalie Des Rosiers was awarded the Law Society of Upper Canada Medal in 1999. |
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FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES — GARY SLATER
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The current vice-dean of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Gary Slater, will become dean of the Faculty on January 1, 2005. Gary Slater became a full professor in 1996 before being named vice-dean of research for the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Science in July 1997. Slater received the University's Researcher of the Year Award in 2001 for his work on polymers and DNA. An exceptional popular science writer, Gary Slater wrote a weekly science column for many years for La Tribune de Sherbrooke and for Toronto's L'Express. |
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