{"id":1793,"date":"2011-12-06T23:33:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T23:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2011-12-07T19:49:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T19:49:26","slug":"story-telling-with-indira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/story-telling-with-indira\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Telling With Indira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-9500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1794\" title=\"Miguelitos Little Green Car-9500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-9500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-9500.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-9500-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Standing In For Lettuce<\/strong><br \/>\nFeaturing Dr. Indira Samarasekera<br \/>\nPresident of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\">University of Alberta<\/a><br \/>\nEngineer, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_Canada\">Officer of the Order of Canada<\/a><br \/>\nDecember 6, 2011<br \/>\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Samarasekera is the 12th president of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\">University of Alberta<\/a>, one of the top 100 universities in the world. She holds a B.Sc. (in mechanical engineering) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Ceylon\">University of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)<\/a>, a M.Sc. (in mechanical engineering) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/\">University of California<\/a>, as a Hayes Fulbright Scholar, and a Ph.D. (in metallurgical engineering) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubc.ca\/\">University of British Columbia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Serving the community in a wider capacity, Dr. Samarasekera sits on the Boards of Directors of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotiabank.com\/\">Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca\">NINT (the National Institute of Nanotechnology)<\/a> and Industry Canada\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stic-csti.ca\">Science, Technology and Innovation Council<\/a>. She has served on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conferenceboard.ca\/\">Conference Board of Canada<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppforum.ca\/\">Public Policy Forum<\/a> and as a member of a President\u2019s Visiting Committee at <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<\/a>. Dr. Samarasekera has also served as a consultant to steel companies around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Samarasekera is member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsc.ca\">Royal Society of Canada<\/a>, an Officer of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_Canada\">Order of Canada<\/a>, and has received Honorary Degrees from the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubc.ca\">University of British Columbia<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/\">Queens University in Belfast<\/a>, Ireland and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwaterloo.ca\/\">University of Waterloo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Indira visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.president.ualberta.ca\/PresidentsBiography.aspx\">http:\/\/www.president.ualberta.ca\/PresidentsBiography.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indira is reading a copy of\u00a0<em>I Was There: \u00a0A Century of Alumni Stories About the University of Alberta,\u00a0<\/em>available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookstore.ualberta.ca\/index.cfm?index=STATIC\/IWASTHERE\">http:\/\/www.bookstore.ualberta.ca\/index.cfm?index=STATIC\/IWASTHERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0University of Alberta, one of the top 100 universities in the world. She holds a B.Sc. 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