VALE LIVING WITH LAKES CENTRE SCIENTIST NAMED TO ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA

October 11, 2012 - Staff and visiting researchers at Laurentian University’s Vale Living With Lakes Centre (VLWLC) are congratulating their colleague in environmental and ecological studies, Dr. Norm Yan, who has been elected as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada.  “It is wonderful to see Norm recognized in this way,” said VLWLC Director Dr. John Gunn. “This is the highest honour any scholar can achieve in the sciences in Canada.”  The induction ceremony for Dr. Yan will be held in November in Ottawa.  Later this fall, Dr. Yan is to deliver the 2012 Watershed Lecture at Living With Lakes.  Details about the lecture will be circulated within the Laurentian community in the weeks ahead.