Re: Phil Currie leaving the RTMP for U. of Alberta

[Michael Schmidt <dmschmidt@sprint.ca>]

old news.....
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To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:50 PM
Subject: Phil Currie leaving the RTMP for U. of Alberta


> Big news in dinosaur paleontology:
>
> http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=d75fa1be-5ac4-4f2d-88ef-69555ba03a90
>
> Make no bones about it, U of A nabs dino superstar
>
> Jodie Sinnema
> Edmonton Journal
>
> Thursday, March 10, 2005
>
> EDMONTON - Philip Currie, the world-renowned paleontologist, is leaving 
> the Royal Tyrrell Museum to become a professor at the University of 
> Alberta.
>
> The hiring of Currie, the curator and one of the founders of the dinosaur 
> museum in Drumheller in 1985, is a huge coup for the U of A, which has the 
> largest university-based paleontology program in North America but had no 
> big-name dinosaur guru until now.
>
> <snip>
>
> Mary