Head and shoulders image of P.J. Chedrese, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Douglas E. Caldwell, Applied Microbiology and Food Science, College of Agriculture.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Don Bailey, professor of Kinesiology.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Donald A. Bailey was born in Saskatoon in 1934 during the Great Depression. He graduated from Nutana Collegiate in the late 1940s and earned a BA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1955. Dr. Bailey’s postgraduate education began at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and was completed at Indiana University where he received his PhD in 1959. He returned to Saskatoon in 1959 and was recruited into the School of Physical Education (later the College of Physical Education, and then the College of Kinesiology). During his scientific career Dr. Bailey studied child growth and development and the relationship between bone mineral accrual and physical activity in the growing years. He directed the landmark Saskatchewan Growth Study, a 10-year investigation of growth and physical fitness in school-age children. Dr. Bailey was a member of the original ParticipACTION SASKATOON Board of Directors, and longest serving member of the national ParticipACTION Board of Directors. Dr. Bailey remained in the College until his retirement in 1994, having taught over 5 decades, at which time he was granted the status of Professor Emeritus. In post-retirement Dr. Bailey assumed a visiting professor position at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, teaching the fall term growth and development course from 1995 to 2005. Don Bailey died 3 June 2023 in Saskatoon at age 89.

Head and shoulders of Barbour, S. L., Engineering.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Beth Bilson, professor of Law.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Beth Bilson, KC PhD, earned a BA (1967), an MA (1970) and an LLB (1977), all from the University of Saskatchewan, followed by a PhD (1982) at the University of London. Dr. Bilson began her career in law at the U of S in 1979, teaching and writing in the areas of torts, labour and administrative law, and legal history. A pioneer in her profession at a time when there were only three female faculty members in the college when she started, Dr. Bilson was admitted to the bar in Saskatchewan in 1984. She twice served as the first female acting dean of the College of Law, and one of only two individuals to serve as a dean on three separate occasions. Dr. Bilson was dean of the college from 1999-2002 and was acting dean in 2010-2011. She is also an associate member of the faculty of the Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy at the U of S and the University of Regina. She served as Senior Grievance Officer of the U of S Faculty Association from 1982-1985, and as assistant Vice-President (Administration) for the University from 1986-1988, with special responsibility for faculty collective bargaining. From 1992-1997 she chaired the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board. She serves as deputy chair of the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan. Dr. Bilson was awarded the designation of Queen’s Counsel for Saskatchewan in 2000. Also in 2000, she was appointed as chair of a federal task force on pay equity, which reported in 2004. Since 2006 she has been editor of the Canadian Bar Review. Dr. Bilson currently chairs the Standing Committee on Equity of the Canadian Bar Association, and the Equity Committee of the Canadian Bar Association Saskatchewan Branch. She was appointed University Secretary in [2017]. Dr. Bilson was interim dean of Education in 2022. In 2023 she is Professor Emerita of Law.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Bruce Brandell, Anatomy.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Bruce R. Brandell Sr. was born in Detroit in 1926 and spent his early years in Dearborn, Michigan. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1945; upon his return in 1947 he joined the ROTC at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr. Brandell finished his BSc and MSc in Zoology and started his course work towards his PhD. Dr. Brandell spent several summers as an employee of the National Park Service in the western United States and discovered his love for mountain climbing. Because of his enrolment with the ROTC he was recalled back into the United States Army in September 1952 and served another 2 years as an officer. Upon Dr. Brandell's release from the service, he returned to the University of Michigan and finished his PhD in Zoology. He taught in the Department of Biology at the University of Akron (Ohio) and in the Department of Anatomy at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, before coming to the College of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, University of Saskatchewan, where he taught for 29 years. In retirement Dr. Brandell continued to teach anatomy to medical, physical education, physical therapy, and mortician students. Dr. Brandell died in 2010 in Saskatoon.

Head and shoulders of S.K. Bhadula, Biochemstry.

Head and shoulders image of Professor Lindsay Edouard, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Cecil C. Ewing, Department of Opthalmology.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Cecil Cameron Ewing was born in 1925 in Huddersfield, England, to a medical family. He graduated with his MD from the University of Bristol in 1950. Dr. Ewing practiced in Central America and the Caribbean. While in Panama, he worked for the United Fruit Company on a banana plantation. Dr. Ewing completed a residency in Ophthalmology and the universities of Bristol and Liverpool from 1956 to 1963. He was appointed lecturer in Ophthalmology at the University of Saskatchewan in 1963 and later became head of the Department. He was the editor of the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology and was awarded a silver medal by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society for his outstanding contributions to medical eye care in Canada. Dr. Ewing died in Saskatoon in 2006.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Cary Matwichuk, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Cheryl Cullen, Veterinary Internal Medicine, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Cheryl Cullen was born in Montreal, Quebec and grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick. She received her BSc from Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB), her DVM from the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) (Charlottetown, PE), completed a small animal internship at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) (Saskatoon, SK), and a Masters of Veterinary Science and Veterinary Ophthalmology residency at the WCVM. Dr. Cullen received advanced training through attending the renowned Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary, and the William Magrane Basic Science Course in Veterinary and Comparative Ophthalmology. Dr. Cullen is board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists and has been a faculty member at the WCVM and AVC. Most recently Dr. Cullen was a founding faculty member of the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and was staff ophthalmologist at Western Veterinary Specialist Centre (Calgary, AB). She developed the veterinary ophthalmology service, and was the sole veterinary ophthalmologist in Atlantic Canada from 2000-2005. Dr. Cullen has taught veterinary ophthalmology to veterinary students at the WCVM, AVC, and UCVM. She taught veterinary ocular pathology at WCVM and AVC, and taught topics in veterinary ophthalmology and clinical communication to veterinary students at UCVM. Dr. Cullen operates CullenWebb Animal Eye Specialists, a veterinary ophthalmology business in Riverview, New Brunswick (2021).

Head and shoulders image of Linda Byam, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Head and shoulders image of Sarah Robbins, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Craig Riddell, Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Craigmyle Riddell was born in 1933 in Banchory, Scotland. He attended St. Andrew's University and completed a BSc in 1954. Dr. Riddell immigrated to Canada and later completed a DVM with honours at the Ontario Veterinary College in 1964. He earned his MA at the University of Connecticut in 1966. Dr. Riddell moved to Saskatoon in 1969 and received his PhD in Veterinary Pathology at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in 1976. During his 30-year tenure at the U of S he taught veterinary and agriculture students, researched poultry metabolic diseases, and did diagnostic and extension work for the poultry industry. Dr. Riddell spent four sabbaticals working in foreign countries. Throughout his career he received many awards and accolades. Dr. Riddell was the first Canadian president of the American Association of Avian Pathologists from 1985-1986. He authored a handbook on Avian Histopathology, published over 80 papers in world-recognized journals, and presented at numerous conferences around the world. Dr. Riddell died in 2018 in Saskatoon.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Alex Livingston, dean, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Alex Livingston was born in 1940 and grew up in Luton, England. He graduated from London University in 1962. Dr. Livingston received his veterinary medical degree and MRCVS in 1964 and his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1968. He gained a place at the Royal College of Veterinary Medicine in the University of London, where he intercalated a BSc in Physiology in 1962. Dr. Livingston continued his course to complete a veterinary medical degree, B Vet Med, and MRCVS in 1964. He then moved to Bristol to study for a PhD in CNS pharmacology, which he completed in 1968. Dr. Livingston became lecturer, then senior lecturer and then in 1991 acting head of Pharmacology in Bristol. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (FRCVS) in 1993 and Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1999. Dr. Livingston was recognized for his leadership and research advances in the areas of animal pain, animal welfare and pharmacology of analgesics and was awarded the Merial Grand Prize Outstanding Research Program in Animal Pain in 2001. Dr. Livingston was dean of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine from 1992-2002, after which he returned to the Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences where he became involved in several research studies and mentoring of clinical residents and graduate students. Dr. Livingston was active in the scientific community as board member on the Canadian Council for Animal Care and editor in chief for Research in Veterinary Science, to name a few. During Dr. Livingston’s career he supervised 15 PhD students and contributed to the scientific community with over 100 publications in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals, over 70 conference proceedings and abstracts, and over 20 book chapters. His passion was science; even when he was dean, he was still involved with teaching and graduate student research. After his official retirement in 2007, he remained involved in research. Dr. Livingston died in 2014.