Professor Jimmy Xu, recipient of the 1995 Steacie Prize, Canada's most prestigious award for young scientists and engineers, has been appointed the Nortel Chair in Emerging Technology. Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia has been appointed Nortel Chair in Network Architecture and Services. The Nortel Institute will help make the country a global centre for telecommunications research and help meet the burgeoning need for world-class research and education. Another example is the Robert M. Smith Chair in Geotechnical Mine Design and Analysis funded jointly by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Barrick Gold Corporation, Horsham Corporation and Peter Munk. This chair will be held by a distinguished member of the Rock Engineering Group in the Department of Civil Engineering and will play a vital role in establishing the Lassonde Mining Program as one of the world's foremost mining engineering programs by the year 2000.
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