THE INFORMER PAGE 8

DECEMBER 17, 1991

PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Faculty Members in
Indonesia

The last issue of the Informer told about several
faculty members in the Pure and Applied Sciences
Division who have been engaged in professional devel-
opment. Inadvertently, write-ups about people who had
participated in the Eastern Indonesia Universities
Development Project were left out. Simon Fraser Uni-
versity, which is under contract to CIDA to provide
short-term and long-term advisors to the project, se-
lected these three faculty from the Division to assist
with the project:

Bob Rennie (Mathematics) spent the month of
July 1991 teaching a computer-based course on “Meth-
ods and Design in Experimental Statistics” at the
Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Cenderewasih
(UNCEN) in Manokwari on the northwest coast of Irian
Jaya. The course was targeted at faculty of that univer-
sity who use statistics in the classroom, in projects, or in
research. Bob had a very enjoyable and productive time
at Manokwari and is studying the Indonesian language
at the College in the hope that he will return to Indone-
sia some day.

Dr. Penny Le Couteur and Dr. Waworoentoe, Head of the Chemistry
Committee, UNSRAT Manado, N. Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Penny Le Couteur (Chemistry) spent six weeks
in July and August 1991 working at the Universitas
Sam Ratulangi (UNSRAT) Manado, North Sulawesi,
where she was doing the groundwork for an entire
semester’s leave to UNSRAT beginning in January
1992. Her assignment is to upgrade the teaching and

curriculum in organic chemistry at UNSRAT. This will
include teaching a course to faculty and upgrading the
teaching laboratories. In anticipation of her leave,
Penny has been studying Indonesian for over a year and
is looking forward to returning to Indonesia in January.

Dr. Malcolm Fitz-Earle and the Genetics Group, UNSRAT Manado, N.
Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Malcolm Fitz-Earle (Biology) was invited to
assess the teaching and curriculum of genetics courses
at three universities in Eastern Indonesia. In June 1991
he visited UNSRAT Manado, UNCEN Manokwari and
UNCEN Jayapura. While there he also gave a number
of workshops on genetics and curriculum development.
Following his assessment of over 30 different genetics
courses, he concluded that there is a need for a solid
foundations course in genetics to be given at each of the
three universities. On the basis of his recommendation,
training for faculty and curriculum development will be
done over the next year in both Canada and Indonesia.
Malcolm, who has previously lived in Japan for two
years (1970 and 1984), was fascinated by some of the
similarities he found between Indonesia and Japan. He
is hoping to return to Indonesia to implement his
recommendations.

The Eastern Indonesia Universities Develop-
ment Project (EIUDP) is an aid project jointly funded
by the Government of Canada, through the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA), and the
Government of Indonesia. Each partner in the five-year
project is contributing $25 M.

The principal aims of the project are to raise the
level of basic sciences and to improve English language
education in universities in Sulawesi (ex Celebes), Irian
Jaya (western half of New Guinea) and other eastern
Indonesian islands. To this end, faculty in those univer-
sities have taken short courses, seminars and other
kinds of training in Indonesia, while others have come
to various universities in Canada as fellowship students
to take graduate degrees and diplomas.