Movers & Shakers ALL ABOUT ROOSTER FEET AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
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When a university’s president honours students for leadership, engineering students are bound to be among them. That’s certainly the case this year at the University of Calgary, with two graduates of the Schulich School of Engineering on the list of recipients of the President’s Award for Excellence in Leadership — one who made the news last summer for developing prosthetic feet for a rooster, and one who shares his passion for renewable energy and his knowledge of climate change, bolstered by research trips to the Arctic and Antarctica. Now, one of the above clips may seem more important than the other. But please stick with us for the full context. Douglas Kondro , who was an APEGA Student Member in the APEGA Student Advantage Program while studying at the U of C, changed the life of one rooster that had lost its toes to
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PRESIDENT’S AWARD RECIPIENT — AND FRIEND University of Calgary President’s Award recipient Douglas Kondro is a graduate of the Schulich School of Engineering. Also shown: the headline-grabbing rooster Foghorn, with his pretty blue feet. -photo courtesy Riley Brandt/University of Calgary
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