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The Friends of the Library present the 8th annual Celebration of UW Authors and the Creative Process

Scientific Explorations:
Follow the Chart or Random Walk?
a talk by John Hepburn

Photo: John Hepburn
The University of Waterloo is proud to have been home to John Hepburn's scientific explorations for more than twenty years. From his days as a student (receiving his BSc in Chemistry in 1976) to his current tenure as Chair of UW's Chemistry department, John Hepburn has always shown himself to be an outstanding researcher. Not only has his work been published in over seventy scientific publications, but he has travelled the globe to present new work at conferences or address colleagues at research institutes and universities. One of his current projects is to spearhead work at the synthetic and biosynthetic research facility that received some $2.8 million in federal and provincial infrastructure grants.

Among the honours he has accumulated, John Hepburn can list a Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship (1995-1997), the Noranda Lecture Award of the Canadian Society of Chemistry (1993) and the Rutherford Medal in Physics of the Royal Society of Canada. He is an elected Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and the American Physical Society.

Certainly, then, John Hepburn has fulfilled the promise he showed as a student, first here at UW, then at the University of Toronto where he earned his PhD in 1980 under John Polanyi. The university community is indeed fortunate to have him address its annual Friends of the Library Authors event.

May 10, 2000

The Friends of the Library is a group of alumni, faculty, staff, and local community members interested in promoting the collections, services, and needs of the University of Waterloo Library.

The Friends are proud to salute the following University of Waterloo writers who have had books published in 1999.


Author Title of Work
Abler, Thomas S.
Hinterland Warriors and Military Dress; European Empires and Exotic Uniforms
Andrews, Gordon C. Canadian Professional Engineering Practice and Ethics
Aplevich, J. Dwight The Essentials of Linear State-Space Systems
Boehringer, Michael The Telling Tactics of Narrative Strategies in Tieck, Kleist, Stifter, and Storm
Bonner, Kieran A Great Place to Raise Kids: Interpretation, Science, and the Urban-Rural Debate
Brown, Robert Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population
Bryant, M. Darrol Woven on the Loom of Time: Many Faiths and One Divine Purpose
Bryant, M. Darrol Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies
Campbell, Colin The MATLAB 5 Handbook
DeMarco, Donald Patches of God-Light
DeMarco, Donald New Perspectives on Contraception
Frick, Peter Divine Providence in Philo of Alexandria
Gollnick, James The Religious Dreamworld of Apuleius' Metamorphoses: Recovering a Forgotten Hermeneutic
Laiken, Stan Introduction to Federal Income Taxation In Canada, 1999/2000
Lemon, W. Morley Accounting, Vol.1, 2, 3, 4th Ed.
Lerner, Sally
Needham, Robert		 Basic Income: Economic Security for All Canadians
Magnusson, Lynne Shakespeare & Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters
McGee, Ted Records of Early English Drama: Dorset
McLaughlin, Kenneth
Hayes, Geoffrey		 A Circle of Care: 75 Years of Caring: St. Mary's
Miller, Judith
Rees, Nicholas		 Glyph
Pedlar, Alison A Textured Life: Empowerment and Adults with Developmental Disabilities
Prus, Robert Beyond the Power Mystique: Power as Intersubjective Accomplishment
Schey, John Introduction to Manufacturing Processes, 3rd ed.
Thagard, Paul How Scientists Explain Disease

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