1978-10-13. MUN Gazette, vol. 11, no. 03

              OCTOBER 13, 1978
M.U.N. GAZETTE 1
CANADA COUNCIL
AWARDS
FOR MUN PROFS
Two Memorial University professors have been named
recipients in the 11th annual I.W. Killam senior research
scholarships awarded through the Canada Council to forty-
four Canadian scientists and scholars.
They are Dr. Harold Williams, Professor of Geology in
the Faculty of Science and Dr. Bruce Sells, Professor of
Molecular Biology in the Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Williams' award of $57,000 is presented to enable
him to compile a lithic structural map of the Appalachian
mountain belt, from Newfoundland to Alabama, and
supplementary gravity, magnetic and mineral occurrence
maps.
Dr. Williams' research involves the tracing of rocks and
structures along the Appalachian Mountain System in
eastern Canada and the United States. It provides a test for
the modern concept of continental drift and the formation of
mountain belts, like the Appalachians, by continental
collision. Ancient continental margins and oceanic crust,
now moulded with the deformed rocks of the Appalachian
mountain belt, have been recently delineated on a new and
imaginative map, unique in its field and published through
Memorial University.
The present Killam Award supports further map
compilations including magnetics, gravity and mineral
deposits. The study has direct application to the mineral
industry as well as being of special academic interest. For
example, one narrow belt of ancient ocean floor rocks,
traceable from Baie Verte to Thetford Mines in Quebec, is
the world's richest asbestos belt. Similarly, other mineral
commodities can be related directly to their host rocks that
were once parts of ancient continental margins, volcanic
island arcs and ancient ocean floors.
Born in St. John's, Dr. Williams received the M.Sc. from
M.U.N., and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has
lectured on the results of his research in all major Canadian
cities as last year's national lecturer for the Geological
Association of Canada. He is also a frequent visitor to the
eastern U.S., where his success in regional correlations has
involved organization and co-operation with leading
American geologists involved in Appalachian studies.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and winner of
the Past President's Medal of the Geological Association of
Canada in 1976, Dr. Williams is considered an expert on the '
geology of eastern North America and has about 100
scientific publications to his credit.
This marks the third consecutive year thst Professor
Williams' work is supported by the Killam Program of the
Canada Council. Last year's award was a special scholarship presented to only two Canadians, the second being Dr.
David Suzuki of CBC television fame.
Dr. Sells' award of $14,304 is enabling him to take a
sabbatical leave of absence from normal duties as Director
of the Laboratories of Molecular Biology in M.U.N.'s Faculty
of Medicine to pursue research at the Institut de recherche
en biologie moleculaire, Paris, France.
Dr. Sells' research is concerned with the isolation of
genes coding for ribosomal proteins and analysis of the
regulation of protein synthesis.
Proteins are major constituents of all living things
including humans. Typical proteins are enzymes for
THE PRATT LECTURE, 1978
This year's E.J. Pratt Memorial Lecture will be given at
8 p.m. on Friday, October 20, in X-207 (Engineering
Building Lecture Theatre). The speaker will be the famous
scholar and director of Shakespeare, George Rylands,
C.B.E., Litt. D., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and
formerly University Lecturer in English.
During the 1920's Dr. Rylands worked with Leonard
and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, and has been
acquainted at one time or another with many of the most
important twentieth century writers, including T.S. Eliot,
E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. Early in his career Dr.
Rylands published the distinguished study of poetic
language Words and Poetry; later he compiled the well-
known Shakespeare anthology The Ages of Man; in 1951
he lectured to the British Academy on 'Shakespeare's
Poetic Energy.'
Dr. Rylands is particularly distinguished in the
theatre, having directed Sir John Gielgud in Hamlet in the
West End of London in 1944; in 1945 he directed The
Duchess of Malfi there. His teaching and practice have
greatly influenced the productions staged by the Royal
Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn
and John Barton. He himself has given a number of recitals
of poetry and drama with Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
Dr. Rylands has directed for the British Council (on Argo
Records) the complete canon of Shakespeare's plays
(performed by The Marlowe Society and actors such as
Prunella Scales, Robert Eddison and Diana Rigg), and the
recorded history of English Poetry. He is a Member of the
Council of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a
Governor of the Old Vic. For his services to the theatre Dr.
Rylands was made C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours
List in 1961. In 1964 he toured Australia under the
auspices of The British Council.
This is Dr. Rylands' first visit to Canada. His lecture,
which should be of wide interest, is entitled '"Unconsidered
Trifles" A: The Poet's Parts of Speech.'
CONVOCATION - OCTOBER 1978
The Fall Convocation will be held in two sessions on
Saturday, October 28th, 1978 at 10:30 a.m. and at 3:00
p.m. — both in the Auditorium of the Arts and Culture
Centre.
Degrees will be conferred as follows:—
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28th AT 10:30 A.M.
B.A. (Honours and General) including those receiving the
degree conjointly with B.Ed.
B.Com.
B.S.W.
B.Med.Sc.
M.D.
M.A.
M.Phil.
M.Sc.
M.Eng.
M.S.W.
Ph.D.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28th AT 3:00 P.M.
B.Sc. (Honours and General)
B.A.(Ed.)
B.Ed.
B.P.E.
B.Voc.Ed.
M.Ed.
M.P.E.
Dr. Williams Dr. Sells
digesting food, hormones such as insulin for controlling
body processes, hemoglobin to carry oxygen, antibodies to
fight disease, as well as the main components of muscles,
skin, body organs, etc.
Dr. Sells, a native of Ottawa, Ontario was educated at
Carleton, Queen's and McGill Universities in Canada. He
was awarded a fellowship from the Damon Runyon
Memorial Fund which allowed him further study at the
University of Edinburgh and the Free University of Brussels.
Dr. Sells came to Memorial in 1972 from the University
of Tennessee and the St. Jude's Children's Hospital in
Memphis. In 1976 he was invited to the University of San
Juan, Puerto Rico for eight weeks as Visiting Professor, in
Feburary 1978 was an invited speaker at the Banff
Symposium and has organized two very successful
international workshops on Ribosomes, both held at
Memorial. He has over 50 publications to his credit.
He serves as associate editor of the Canadian Journal
of Biochemistry and is on the Grants Committee —
Biochemistry — for the Medical Research Council (MRC). Dr.
Sells is a member of the American Society of Biological
Chemists, the Biochemical Society of Great Britain and the
Canadian Biochemical Society. His research is further funded
by the March of Dimes, the Muscular Dystrophy Association
and the MRC.
The Killam scholarships have been made possible
through a bequest of the late Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam. They
are given to support scholars of exceptional ability engaged
in research projects of far-reaching significance to society.
IODE SCHOLARSHIPS
Applications are presently being accepted for IODE
Scholarships for the 1979-80 academic year. Candidates
for the ten available scholarships must presently be
enrolled in, or have completed, studies for a Master's
degree, and be between twenty and thirty years of age
inclusive on Dec. 31 of the year awarded. The IODE
Scholarships provide funds for post-graduate study in
Canada or overseas within the Commonwealth. Details
and application forms are available from the Office of the
Dean of Arts. Room A-209, Arts-Administration Building.
Deadline for application is December 10, 1978.
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