BIO-SCIENCES
BUILDING
GRANT
S.F.U.
RECEIVES
$41
MILLION
VICTORIA
-
Advanced
Education,
Training
and
Technology
Minister
Bruce
Strachan
today
announced
a
call
for
tenders
which
will
lead
to
the
award
of
contracts
worth
approximately
$40
million
for
construction
of
four
new
buildings
at
Simon
Fraser
University
in
Burn-aby.
The
projects
include
a
10,673-square-metre
Bio-Sciences
building,
a
2,610-square-metre
Shrum
Classroom
Building,
a
1,980-square-metre
East
Academic
Annex
and
a
1,580-
square-metre
Lecture
Theatre
Complex.
"This
is
the
largest
single
expansion
GOVT
FUNDS
MAGIC
Advanced
Education,
Training
and
Technology
Minister
Bruce
Strachan
today
announced
seed
funding
of
$125,000
to
establish
a
new
centre
for
research
and
development
of
new
computer-based
media
and
graphics
technology
and
its
applications.
The
Media
and
Graphics
Interdisciplinary
Centre
(MAGIC),
to
be
located
at
UBC
in
Vancouver,
will
investigate
applications
in
a
variety
of
disciplines
such
as
science,
medicine,
the
arts,
education,
engineering
and
forestry.
"Due
to
the
recent
advances
in
both
computer
software
and
hardware,
it
is
widely
recognized
that
graphics
and
other
multimedia
applications
will
be
an
important
growth
area
in
communications
over
the
next
decade,"
said
Strachan.
OnNovember24,
1989,theUni-versity
of
British
Columbia
and
IBM
Canada
jointly
announced
a
new
five
year
cooperative
research
project
that
will
make
the
university
a
world
leader
in
the
fast-growing
field
of
computer
graphics.
The
initiative,
called
the
UBCTBM
Graphic,
Film
and
Computers
(GRAFIC)
Project,
will
be
the
centrepiece
of
MAGIC.
"MAGIC
will
foster
the
transfer
of
this
technology
throughout
the
university
and
the
community
through
a
combination
of
courses,
workshops,
conferences
and
joint
research
projects,"
Strachan
explained.
at
the
University
since
it
was
built,"
said
Strachan.
"The
added
facilities
are
badly
needed
to
keep
pace
with
the
University's
success."
The
Bio-Sciences
building
will
house
a
new
Institute
for
Molecular
Biology
and
Biochemistry.
The
Institute
will
build
on
teaching
strengths
at
the
undergraduate
level
and
develop
programs
that
emphasize
bio-engineering
techniques
such
as
recombinant
DNA
technology
(gene
cloning)
and
analysis
of
molecular
structure
and
function.
It
is
expected
that
the
new
building,
which
will
include
research
laboratories,
a
lecture
theatre
and
new
classrooms,
will
be
sited
west
of
the
Shrum
Science
Centre.
The
lecture
theatre
complex,
comprising
three
major
lecture
theatres,
will
be
centrally
located
on
campus
to
serve
all
existing
facilities.
The
East
Academic
Annex
is
a
two-storey,
low-rise
building
which
will
provide
increased
instructional
arid
support
space
to
meet
the
increased
enrollments.
Simon
Fraser
University
President
Dr.
William
Saywell
termed
the
news:
"very
exciting...a
significant
step
forward
for
this
institution,
its
current
and
future
students."
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STRACHAN'S
IDEAS
FOR
JOUNALISM
EDUCATION
IN
B.C
Advanced
Education,
Training
and
Technology
Minister
Bruce
Strachan
announced
on
April
9,
1990,
that
he
has
asked
the
University
of
Northern
British
Columbia
to
consider
a
degree
program
in
journalism.
Strachan
's
announcement
is
in
response
to
a
task
force
report
released
Friday
which
makes
recommendations
concerning
educational
opportunities
for
students
in
journalism
in
the
Province.
"I
agree
with
the
task
force
that
the
Province
needs
to
take
a
hard
look
at
journalism
education
and
increase
opportunities
outside
the
lower
mainland",
said
Strachan.
"For
that
reason,
I
am
planning
to
refer
the
recommendations
about
a
degree
program
to
the
University
of
Northern
British
Columbia's
new
advi-.sory
council
and
the
rest
will
be
reviewed
by
the
ministry
staff
and
the
institutions
involved."
The
86pagereport,partiallly
funded
by
the
Ministry,
makes
8
recommendations,
including:
1.
that
an
undergraduate
degree
program
in
journalism
be
established
in
British
Columbia
and
that
it
be
a
'free
standing
school'
within
a
university
with
control
over
its
own
curriculum
and
admissions,
in
the
best
tradition
of
top-ranked
journalism
schools
elsewhere
in
Canada
and
the
world;
2.
that
the
degree
program
should
offer
courses
of
practical
and
theoretical
print
and
broadcast
reporting
and
editing;
3.
that
the
university
program
should
have
a
'fast-track'
option
for
per
sons
with
appropriate
non-traditional
qualifications;
and
also
that
the
university
program
should
have
a
'fast-track'
option
for
persons
with
a
university
degree;
4.
that
Vancouver
Community
College,
Langara,
should
strengthen
its
two-year
program
in
print
journalism,
discontinue
broadcast
courses,
and
offer
its
students
broadcast
courses
at
the
British
Columbia
Institute
of
Technology,
and
that
BCIT
should
strengthen
its
two-year
program
in
broadcast
journalism
and
offer
its
students
newspaper
and
print
related
courses
at
Langara;
5.
that
British
Columbia
provide
enhanced
opportunity
to
study
journalism
at
the
community
college
level
in
regions
outside
the
Lower
Mainland
and
Victoria;
6.
that
each
post-seconary
journalism
institution
should
have
a
Curriculum
and
Admissions
Committee
and
representatives
of
the
industry
must
comprise
the
majority;
7.
that
all
post-secondary
journalism
education
funding
be
directed
to
the
program
recommended
in
this
report;
8.
that
the
Provincial
Government
and
the
British
Columbia
news
industry
work
together
to
establish
a
Centre
for
Journalism
Studies
as
a
learning
resource
centre
for
working
journalists,
media
scholars,
business
and
government
policy
makers
and
the
general
public.
The
task
force
was
co-chaired
by
Gerald
Porter,
a
journalism
instruc
I
W
tor
at
Langara
Community
College,
and
Ron
Robbins,
former
head
of
CBC
National
TV
news.
Robbins
also
founded
the
University
of
Regina's
journalism
school.
"The
Ministry
review
of
the
recommendations
will
be
complete
by
the
end
of
May
and
I
hope
to
be
making
a
subsequent
announcement
at
that
time",
Strachan
said.
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