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Membership News
MacLeod on "HC" circuit
Professor Emeritus and award-winning author Alistair MacLeod seems to have been on what could be termed the honoris causa degree circuit. The winner of the Dublin IMPAC Award in Literature last year received honorary doctorates from four different Canadian universities this spring: the University of Prince Edward Island, the University of New Brunswick (where he had earned his Master's degree), the University of Alberta, and McGill University.
This brings Dr. MacLeod's collection of honorary doctorates to seven, having in previous years been honoured by the University college of Cape Breton, Saint Francis Xavier University (where he had earned his Bachelor's degree), and, in the Fall of 2000, the University of Windsor.
Dr. MacLeod is the author of the volumes of short stories, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976),
and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986). Stories from those books appear in
the recently released bestselling collection, Island. The IMPAC award was for his novel, No
Great Mischief, released in 1999.
Engineering
Professor Emeritus in Materials Engineering Bill Youdelis is the 2002 recipient of the prestigious
Canadian Metal Physics Award, which was presented at the recent joint Canadian Materials
Science Conference and Canadian Metal Physics Conference at the University of Manitoba.
The award is for "outstanding scientific contributions in the area of metal physics and
distinguished service to the Canadian materials science community." Dr. Youdelis also
presented the paper, "Nucleation Entropy and Grain Refinement" to the Graduate School in
Mechanical and Materials Engineering while he was in Winnipeg.
Communication Studies
Stan Cunningham, Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication Studies, has published The Idea of Propaganda: A Reconstruction (Praeger). Hitherto, propaganda scholarship has been dominated by the social sciences. In The Idea of Propaganda, Prof. Cunningham argues that philosophical analysis--a "philosophy of propaganda"is necessary in order to arrive at an adequate understanding or "concept" of propaganda.
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