13/12/2012
Accessorizing With Nancy
Featuring Nancy Hansen
Climber
December 13, 2012
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nancy has lived in Canmore, Alberta since 1993. She took up mountain climbing shortly after moving there, and along with her husband Doug Fulford, has been an avid climber ever since. Nancy was the first female and sixth person to climb all 54 mountains over 11,000′ in the Canadian Rockies. She is currently working on climbing all of the routes described in Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. No one has yet completed this list. Nancy works for the Alpine Club of Canada and The Banff Centre, showing films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour.
23/06/2012
Putting On With The Newlyweds
Featuring Michelle (Duffley) and Michael Schuh
On the day of their wedding
June 23, 2012
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
23/06/2012
Marking The X-Spot With Jennifer, Sarah, Michelle, and Linda
Featuring Jennifer MacNeil (2004), Sarah Bussey (2005), Michelle (Duffley) Schuh (2005), Linda Duffley (1979)
June 23, 2012
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
All four ladies are sporting the X-Ring from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
6/12/2011
Standing In For Lettuce
Featuring Dr. Indira Samarasekera
President of the University of Alberta
Engineer, Officer of the Order of Canada
December 6, 2011
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dr. Samarasekera is the 12th president of the University of Alberta, one of the top 100 universities in the world. She holds a B.Sc. (in mechanical engineering) from the University of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), a M.Sc. (in mechanical engineering) from the University of California, as a Hayes Fulbright Scholar, and a Ph.D. (in metallurgical engineering) from the University of British Columbia.
Serving the community in a wider capacity, Dr. Samarasekera sits on the Boards of Directors of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank), NINT (the National Institute of Nanotechnology) and Industry Canada’s Science, Technology and Innovation Council. She has served on the Conference Board of Canada, the Public Policy Forum and as a member of a President’s Visiting Committee at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Samarasekera has also served as a consultant to steel companies around the world.
Dr. Samarasekera is member of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has received Honorary Degrees from the University of British Columbia, Queens University in Belfast, Ireland and the University of Waterloo.
For more information about Indira visit http://www.president.ualberta.ca/PresidentsBiography.aspx.
Indira is reading a copy of I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories About the University of Alberta, available at http://www.bookstore.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?index=STATIC/IWASTHERE.
19/04/2011
Storytelling With Pat
Featuring Pat Morrow
Mountaineer, Photographer, Author
Second Canadian to summit Mt. Everest
First person to summit the highest peaks of all seven continents
Member of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour
April 19, 2011
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Pat was first person in the world to have climbed the highest peaks of all seven continents: Mount McKinley in North America, Aconcagua in South America, Mount Everest in Asia, Elbrus in Europe, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Vinson Massif in Antarctica, and Puncak Jaya in Oceania.
For more information about Pat see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Morrow, http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainculture/excellence/bio/morrow.asp, and http://www.patmorrow.com.
