September 25

Board of Governors – Meeting, 1 p.m., A.J.M. Smith Conference Room. See Web site www.trentu.ca/admin/secretariat/bogindex.html

Psychology Colloquium Speaker – Dr. Mary Gilbert, National Research Council, Neurotoxicology Division, US Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Gilbert graduated in 1979 from Trent where she worked for and studied with Professor Gordon Winocur on the effects of hippocampal lesions on reversal learning paradigms.
Topic: Developmental lead (Pb) exposure and long-term potentiation in the rat hippocampus: A model system to study the action of Pb in the CNS, 2:30 p.m. in Otonabee College 143.

October 2

Installation – Bonnie Patterson is installed as Trent's Sixth President and Vice-Chancellor at 11 a.m. in the Wenjack Theatre, Otonabee College, Symons Campus.

Head of the Trent – The Head of the Trent reunion weekend will take place Oct. 2 - 4.
Please see details at www.trentu.ca/admin/ al/head.html

October 7

Sheperd Lecture – The 7th Annual David Sheperd Family Lecture will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Lady Eaton College Lecture Hall (EC 201) with speaker Dr. Eville Gorham, Regents' Professor of Ecology, University of Minnesota, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. A leading expert on environmental pollution with four decades of research in Sweden, the Sudbury area, Minnesota and elsewhere, Dr. Gorham's lecture is titled Human Impacts on Ecosystems and Landscapes.

October 21

Ashley Lecture (First of Three) – The Limits of the Market: Why the Right is Wrong, delivered by Professor Mel Watkins, 8 p.m., Lady Eaton College Lecture Hall.

November 2

Margaret Laurence Lecture – Actor, writer, director, political satirist and honorary Trent graduate Mary Walsh gives this annual lecture, 8 p.m., Wenjack Theatre.

November 11

Ashley Lecture (second of three) – Social Democracy and Globalization: What's Left? Delivered by Professor Mel Watkins, 8 p.m., Lady Eaton College Lecture Hall.

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January 27

Ashley Lecture (final of three) – The Market for Gossip: A McLuhanesque Approach, delivered by Professor Mel Watkins, 8 p.m., Lady Eaton College Lecture Hall.

Calendar items are also listed on Trent's Web site and Trent's Infoline (748-1234). Send listings by e-mail to trentreport@ trentu.ca or by mail to
Trent Report, c/o Communications Dept.,
Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive,
Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8.