The University of Alberta Board of Governors has reappointed Martin Ferguson-Pell as dean of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. His second five-year term begins July 1, 2013, following his one-year term as acting provost.

Jaynie Yang has a passion for the complex systems at play in brain and body work that enables humans to walk. A professor and researcher at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - the only free-standing faculty of rehabilitation in Canada and a research leader in musculoskeletal health, spinal cord injuries and common spinal disorders – she is focused on teaching some people with spinal cord injury how to walk again.

Former physical therapy instructor Moyna Parker passed away on February 7, 2012, at the age of 84 after a lengthy illness, and she is being remembered fondly by her former colleagues and students. “Moyna was one of my teachers at University of Alberta. I had the privilege of working with her starting in 1975 as I taught two of her courses when she was on a study leave,” recalls Joan Loomis, Clinical Professor Emeritus