Companies also use computing classes as test sites for new design concepts. The Bank of Montreal recently used a class to look at one of its interactive multimedia training modules. The night-time recording sessions of U of G graduate student Andrew Chek and members of the Kayapo Indian tribe in the Amazon rainforest may be just in time to save further destruction of species in that endangered environment. Chek and his supervisor, zoology professor Jim Bogart, are studying frog songs recorded in the rainforest to trace the evolution of species in the Amazon forest. He says most conservation efforts focus on preservation of current species.
Little attention is directed to preserving the means of producing new species.
Sociology professor Stan Barrett' s Paradise - Class, Commuters and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario explores how small towns are coping with social change. The Tumble of Reason - Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence. French studies professor Ramon Hathorn has just completed a book, Our Lady of the Snows , that examines the Canadian performances of French actress Sarah Bernhardt between 1880 and 1917. Scheduled for release in the spring of 1996, the book grew out of Hathorn's research on theatre censorship in Toronto and Montreal. Killam Fellowship recognizes researcher Microbiologist Terry Beveridge received a 1995 Killam Research Fellowship for his fundamental, medical and biogeochemical studies on bacterial surfaces.