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Friday 12 December 2003
Biochemistry Year End Party
A great catered lunch, good spirits, and excellent music made our
year end party a hit.
Click here
for some pictures from the party.
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Belting
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Wednesday 20 August 2003
Second Annual Faculty-Student Golf
Day
Perfect weather and an ideal setting in downtown Toronto made our
second Golf Day a great success.
Click here
for some pictures from Golf Day.
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Wednesday 03 July 2003
Paul Yip receives National Volunteer
Award
Paul Yip, a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry, has been chosen from among
nearly 500 volunteers as the recipient of the 2003 National Volunteer
Award for his outstanding achievements in the promotion of science
in his community. Through the "Lets Talk Science Partnership
Program" Paul has formed linkages with 5 different teachers at
two schools, making visits to classrooms, designing activities that
bring biotechnology to life and engaging students in their own DNA
investigations. He also developed workshops in biotechnology education
for both OISE students and high school science teachers.
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Well done, Paul!!
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Wednesday 03 July 2003
Grant Brown wins the Elsie Crann Award
Grant Brown has been selected by the Life Sciences Committee of the
University to receive the 2003 Elsie Winifred Crann Memorial Trust
Award in Medical Research. This Award was created to encourage young
investigators to pursue research related to cancer. The Award is a
$35,000 grant that will be used to support Grant's research on "DNA
Replication and Damage".
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Congratulations Grant!!
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Wednesday 25 June 2003
Anders Bennick Wins International
Research Award
Anders Bennick was presented with the "Distinguished Scientist
Award" by the International Association for Dental Research at
their annual meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 25, 2003 for his
research on salivary glands and saliva.
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Congratulations to Anders
on this fine achievement!!
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Monday 16 June 2003
Roy Baker wins Harry Whittaker Outstanding
Teacher Award
Roy Baker was honoured today by the Faculty of Medicine for his teaching
of first year medical students. The Harry Whittaker Award is decided
upon annually by the first year medical class and is awarded to a
lecturer who gave encouragement and displayed genuine concern for
student well-being and, through personal commitment to quality teaching,
provided practical and clear insights in the basic sciences during
the first year of the undergraduate medical program.
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Congratulations Roy
on an excellent
achievment!!
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Tuesday 10 June 2003
25 Year Service Award
David Pulleyblank received the "25 year service award" from
Chair Reinhart Reithmeier for 25 years of dedicated service to the
University of Toronto.
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David
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Tuesday 27 May 2003
"From Calnexin to ER Proteomics"
Dr. John Bergeron, Professor in the Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
McGill University, presented the above titled seminar as the 2002
Theo Hofmann Lecturer. John also kindly served as Guest Judge at our
Annual Poster Day (see photos below).
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Dr.
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Tuesday 27 May 2003
Annual Graduate Student Poster Day
An excellent selection of graduate student research work was presented.
We were pleased to have our Theo Hofmann Lecturer, Dr. John Bergeron,
serving as Guest Judge.
Click
here
for some scenes from Poster Day
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Wednesday 30 April 2003
Exams
are finally over!!!
Students from our Advanced Biochemistry Lab Course, BCH471, relax
after their final exam
with instructors David Isenman and Patricia Bronskill.
BCH471
Class of 2002-03
Click
here for some full-sized photos (2.8Mb file!!)
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Tuesday, 18 February
2003
Professor Emeritus Theo Hofmann recently
celebrated his 79th birthday.
Click here to see some photos
of the party.
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cakes! Now that's a birthday!!!
Best wishes Theo, from all of us.
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Friday, 17 January 2003
The Biochemistry Department recently helped
University Professor Emeritus Marian Packham celebrate her
75th birthday as well as 38 years as a member of the Department.
Click here for a QuickTime
slide show of the event.
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Monday, 20 January 2003
Our first Annual Biochemistry Graduate
Program Open House was a great success.
Thanks to all faculty, staff, and students who participated.
Click here for a QuickTime slide
show of the event.
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