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	Jane Stewart (CSBN Psychology) gave a lecture on "Factors controlling relapse to opiate self-administration" at a CIHR-supported workshop on illicit opiate addiction in Canada, held at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, in Toronto, June 1 to 3. She gave a talk titled "The role of bFGF in the development of sensitization to the stimulant effects of amphetamine" to the Department of Pharmacology, Free University, Amsterdam, also in June. Professor Stewart was recently awarded the Hebb Award of the Canadian Society for Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science, 2000. John Zacharias (Geography) recently conducted a study in the Netherlands with urban studies students. The work was done in collaboration with the Rotterdam Department of Urban Planning and Housing, and the results will be published in a Dutch planning magazine. He also taught part of a field course in Rotterdam with colleague Max Barlow, among others. Rica-Judith Kalman (English) gave a workshop titled "Art and Poetry in the Holocaust Literature Classroom" at the 20th annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Calvin Kalman (Physics) gave a workshop with Mark Aulls of McGill University, titled "Helping Students Take a Great Responsibility for their Learning" at the same meeting. He also chaired the fourth international conference on Hyperons Charm and Beauty Hadrons from June 27 to 30 in Valencia, Spain, and gave the lead-off paper, "The Kalman-Tran D'Souza Model and Semi-Leptonic Decays of Heavy Baryons," co-authored with I. D'Souza of ComDev, P. Yu. Kulikov and I.M. Narodetskii of ITEP, Moscow. The Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery has just been awarded a two-year grant in the amount of $90,000 by the Canada Council through its Assistance to Art Museums and Public Galleries Program, and $34,000 from the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Congratulations to Isabelle Martin, a student in Translation, who is the winner of a scholarship provided by the LeQuellec Foundation. Her prize will be presented at the JournŽe internationale de la traduction on September 30. The Ordre des comptables en management accédités du Québec (certified management accountants) honoured Dominic Peltier-Rivest (Accountancy) this year. At their annual banquet, held in Hull in June, Professor Peltier-Rivest was named Collaborator of the Year for making himself readily available to students interested in becoming CMAs, and for supporting the Order's classroom visits program. Congratulations to Hugh McQueen (Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering), who was presented with the Alcan Award on August 22 in Ottawa. The honour, given by the Metallurgical Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, recognizes a productive lifetime of teaching and research. In addition, Dr. McQueen has for many years taken an active interest in the social responsibilities of his profession. His retirement has been a vigorous one, including jogging, bicycling and squash, and he publicly thanked his wife Jo, a theology scholar and teacher; together they have raised six children. Rex B. Kline (Psychology) has just published a book, Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modelling, the first in a series called Methodology in the Social Sciences published by the Guildford Press, of New York. SEM, as it's called, is a widely used tool that, in the words of the series editor, "thinks about research as researchers do." Guy Lachapelle (Political Science) was a key organizer of the 18th world congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), held August 1 to 5 in Quebec City. Some 1,800 political scientists from around the world participated in the event. Lachapelle will become secretary-general of IPSA in 2001.