Climate change research
Soil scientist Angela Bedard-Haughn is one of six University of Saskatchewan researchers to receive a share of $450,000 in research grants from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Bedard-Haughn will receive $60,000 to buy research equipment that examines how climate change and land-use decisions affect soil properties. Her research will provide a foundation for environmentally sustainable land management.
The U of S grants are part of $26 million invested to support 192 researchers at 40 institutions across Canada.
FCC portfolio grows
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Farm Credit Canada recorded its 14th consecutive year of growth in 2006-07, lending $4.2 billion to Canadian farmers, processors and suppliers.
FCC’s total agricultural financing portfolio now stands at $13.6 billion.
Other highlights from FCC’s 2006-07 fiscal year include:
- Net income of $203.8 million.
- Return on equity of 15 percent, up from 13.4 percent in 2005-06.
- A lower debt-to-equity ratio, down from 9:1 in 2005-06 to 8.5:1 in 2006-07.
- Adoption of a new corporate social responsibility framework and new biosecurity protocols aimed at protecting customers.
- Donations of $500,000 to rural community improvement projects through the FCC AgriSpirit Fund.
- FCC employee volunteerism totalling 3,000 hours, which benefited 60 charitable organizations.
Calderwood inducted
Julie Calderwood is the latest inductee into the Olds College Alumni Hall of Fame.
She is past-president of the Olds College Alumni Association, a former member of the college’s board of governors and past director on the Olds College Foundation.
She served as 2005 chair of the Growing the Legacy gala, is instrumental in the college’s Agricultural Advocates program and sponsors two student scholarships.
Calderwood has been involved with a variety of community organizations including the Continuing Education Council, the Canadian Girls in Training program, the Crowsnest Lake Bible camp and Lethbridge Community College. She has also hosted 30 students through the International Agricultural Exchange Association.
She and her family own and operate a family farm near Granum, Alta.
Waiser recognized
University of Saskatchewan history professor Bill Waiser will be inducted into the Royal Society of Canada at a Nov. 17 ceremony in Edmonton.
Waiser is best known as the author of Saskatchewan: A New History in 2005 and as host of Looking Back: Saskatchewan History on CBC television from 1999-2001.
Other honours include the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2006 and being named a U of S Distinguished Researcher in 2004.
Members of the royal society are selected by their peers for outstanding contributions in their fields. The society named 80 new fellows July 9.
