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1. Collaborative Research Projects in the U.K.
2. Thesis Submission Deadlines
3. Education Library Collection
4. Kenyan Scholar Honoured - Dr. Sultan Somjee
5. Aboriginal Students Network of McGill Fundraiser
6. Grand Opening - Student Digital Video-Editing Lab
7. Faculty of Education Handbook

Attention all Professors with Collaborative Research Projects in the U.K.

We have received the following request from Associate Vice Principal Ian Butler.

If you have a collaborative research project with colleagues in the U. K. please provide the information requested to Associate Dean Maguire by March 17, 2003.

In early April, VP (Research) Louise Proulx will be part of a Quebec mission to the U.K. She has been asked to identify some of the U.K. universities with which McGill faculty members have on-going research collaborations. This information will enable some matches to be made with a selection of U.K. universities with which the Quebec Mission can meet.

To this end, it would be greatly appreciated it if you would circulate this message on your list-serves to the Chairs and Directors in your Faculty asking them to distribute it as widely as possible to their colleagues.

If any faculty members do have such existing research collaborations with U.K. universities, please ask them to send a note to me immediately at ian.butler@mcgill.ca with the following information:

Name of McGill Professor, Faculty and Department, School, etc.:

Name(s) of U.K. collaborators:

Name(s) of U.K. university(ies):

Brief (two-line) description(s) on on-going U.K. research collaboration(s):

Many thanks for your help in this venture.

Associate Dean Mary H. Maguire
Academic Programs, Graduate Studies and Research

Reminder to all Graduate Supervisors:

Spring/Summer 2003 Graduation
Masters thesis submission March 17

Fall 2003 Graduation
Doctoral thesis submission June 2
Masters thesis submission June 16

For more information please visit the following websites:

Thesis Submission Guidelines: http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/programs/thesis/guidelines/

Thesis Submission Forms: http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/programs/thesis/forms/

Important Dates:
http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/programs/dates/

Associate Dean Mary H. Maguire
Academic Programs, Graduate Studies and Research

I am pleased to inform you that the Education Library has recently received an additional $45,000 for collection development. This is one time funding from the University in recognition of the problem of annual inflation in the costs of library materials. This money has to be spent before the end of the present fiscal year.

I would very much appreciate receiving recommendations from you for new library materials. The Library Technical Services department would like most of the orders submitted by the last week in March. If necessary, I will place orders directly with the publishers until mid April.

To date, the Library has submitted orders for $20,000 of this new money. As this is one time funding most of the requests should be for library materials such as monographs, videos, CD-ROM's etc. Urgent requests for journal titles can also be submitted. We will place a subscription for one year, order the back-file as required, and hope that there will be sufficient funds in next year's budget to continue the subscription.

Thanking you in advance for your assistance in developing the Education Library's collection.

Marilyn Cohen
Head, Education Library

East African ethnographer, Mr. Sultan H. Somjee was named among the 12 unique personalities in the recent UN nominations of the Unsung Heroes of Dialogue with Civilizations.

The UN nominations of the Unsung Heroes are from a spectrum of societies worldwide. The 12 nominees, whose profiles and projects will be shown on CNN and television stations around the world in several languages during the year, have "reached to the other" across the divide of cultural, political and faith boundaries.

Their special and innovative approaches on peacemaking is building bridges across people of different backgrounds, towards a better understanding of a pluralist society in situations of conflict.

In 1985, Dr. Somjee, who has a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Education in the Arts from McGill University, was instrumental in the introduction of teaching indigenous knowledge as value-based education through material culture at primary, secondary and tertiary level institution in Kenya. He has several publications to his credit and has written the only book on material culture of Kenya, for teachers and students.

Dr. Somjee also started the teaching museum of anthropology at the University of Nairobi's Chiromo Campus and has lectured at the university for many years. Through his numerous exhibitions, lectures, and writing, Dr. Somjee has brought humanity together.

Ratna Ghosh
Dean

Greetings from the First Peoples' House (FPH) of McGill University.

The recently formed Aboriginal Students Network of McGill will be hosting a fundraising event on Friday, March 14th at the Newman Center across from the FPH on Peel, below Dr. Penfield, from 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come out and support this fundraiser, the proceeds of which will go towards the purchase of books by Native authors for the FPH library, a speaker fund and events for the Aboriginal Student Network.

Susann Allnutt
Programs Administrator
Office of First Nations & Inuit Education

You are invited to the official opening of our recently upgraded student digital video-editing lab, 4:00 pm, March 19th, at room ED219.

See students at work on the latest equipment (iMacs) in the first and largest and best equipped student digital video-editing lab on the McGill campus.

Please join us.

Glenn F. Cartwright
Associate Dean

The current edition of the Faculty of Education Handbook is now available online. You can access it at

http://www.education.mcgill.ca/mission.htm

Any errors, omissions, or changes should be e-mailed to me at cheryl.shinfield@mcgill.ca, and I will update the Handbook accordingly.

Cheryl Shinfield Karasick
Assistant to the Dean, Faculty of Education