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WORKSHOP ON ALTERNATIVES TO PRESENT GRANTS SYSTEM

Sponsored by Canadian Society for Theoretical Biology

PHYSICAL EDUCATION CENTRE. ROOM 205 QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
KINGSTON, ONTARIO.  Sat June 8th 1991

Organized by R.Gordon and D.Forsdyke as part of
Canadian Federation of Biological Societies Meeting

6:30   GRANTING AGENCIES VERSUS THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
       Richard Gordon, Departments of Botany and Rad-
       iology, University of Manitoba

6:45   GRANTING AGENCIES: THEORY VERSUS REALITY
       Charles Schom, St. Andrew's Fisheries Reseach
       laboratories. Nova Scotia.

7:00   BICAMERAL GRANT REVIEW: AN ALTERNATIVE TO
       CONVENTIONAL PEER REVIEW
       Donald Forsdyke, Department of Biochemistry,
       Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
       [See letter in June edition of FASEB.J.]

7:30   IT'S NOT JUST ACADEMIC...
       Daniel Osmond, Department of Physiology,
       University of Toronto, Ontario.

8:00   WHAT PRICE SIMPLICITY?
       Nicholas Sinclair, Department of Microbiology
       and Immunology, University of Western Ontario.

8:30   GENERAL DISCUSSION