UNBC Athletic Director Takes The Challenge
(UNBC's Loralyn Murdoch and niece take the Ice Bucket Challenge Saturday. Photos 25o News)
Prince George, B.C. – The ALS Ice Bucket challenge which is sweeping North America arrived at the grounds of the Rotary soccer fields Saturday.
In case you missed it people are having a bucket of ice poured over their heads and are challenging other people to do the same to raise money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease) research and awareness.
UNBC Athletic Director Loralyn Murdoch was nominated for the challenge and completed it Saturday afternoon at half-time during the UNBC women’s exhibition soccer game against MacEwan University.
(Daughter Sophie seemed to think that was a lot of fun, right mom?)
Murdoch was joined by daughter Sophie and nieces Olivia and Mackenzie and said she has undertaken the challenge to raise funds for both ALS and Breast Cancer awareness. And Murdoch then issued her own challenge to UNBC’s new President Daniel Weeks and to Dawn Smyth, Manager of Coaching Development at Basketball Canada.
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There was a computational neuroscience research in UNBC for assisting ALS patients. The research was partly funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
PROBLEM: Unfortunately due to the wrong decisions of the UNBC former administration at least 2 NSERC grants (total of 100,000$) were cancelled and 10s of thousands Dollars was lost which was earmarked for Comp. Neuroscience Research money benefiting. This is a large amount considering that the percentage of professors in UNBC who have managed to win NSERC grants is not high and it is very competitive to win research grants.
TASK: One of the immediate tasks is to identify and eliminate these research barriers in UNBC and ensure that UNBC is supporting the ongoing research and work by putting in place positive provosts, positive deans and positive program chairs who will not hurt UNBC professors for personal or other petite motives.
SOLUTION: A simple review of past decisions made on the grievances related to these cases at the dean committee level can identify the deans and those program chairs who have sided with bad decisions (on a regular basis) from those program chairs who did not. Let’s throw some lights …
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