In January, Bishop's University announces the creation of the first ever spin-off company formed to market a product developed in the campus's labs. The creation of SiXtron Materials is a joint effort - a result of research conducted both at Bishop's University and Université de Sherbrooke - it signals an important announcement for the region, since it serves as an example of what can happen when the region's research institutions work in concert with each other and the local business sector. Bishop's chemistry professor Dr. Mihai Scarlete, and U of S professor of electrical and computer engineering Cetin Aktik, and their respective teams of undergraduate and graduate students conducted the research which has led to the creation of SiXtron. Scarlete and his team came up with a new material, a silicon carbide which can be cheaply produced and deposited on substrates to form an excellent and affordable semi-conductor. Scarlete then took his material to Aktik, in order to improve its electronic properties.
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● The Association of Professors of Bishop's University deliver a solid strike mandate and the first strike in university history begins on March 16th, to last only a week.
● The Heneker legacy continues. Based on the novel "Kipps" by H.G. Wells and adapted to a musical by David Heneker and Beverley Cross Half a Sixpence is performed as a benefit at Bishop's University, presented by the Drama and Music Departments and The Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, June 17-20, 2004.
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● The Groves family celebrates 30 years at the Golden Lion Pub: "a way of life for generations". Bishop's professors Stan Groves, Robert Barnett and David Seale were the original owners. The pub was recently voted as Canada's number one student pub by CBC's Monday report with Rick Mercer.
● Paterson Hall, the newest student residence, is inaugurated. The building is named for Alex Paterson, Class of 1952, DCL 1974, long-time friend and supporter of the university and most recently Chancellor of Bishop's 1995-2004
● A special Convocation of Bishop's University was held on Friday 29 October 2004, for the installation of Dr. Robert Poupart as the 17th Principal and Vice-Chancellor. Honorary degrees were awarded to James A. Corcoran, Quebec composer, singer and broadcaster, Robert A. Gordon, President of Humber College, and Donald C. Murray, Senior foreign correspondent for CBC-TV.
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● Bruce Stavert (Class of 1961) is elected Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada. The province includes the dioceses of Montreal, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Fredericton, Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Central Newfoundland and Western Newfoundland. As senior bishop, the metropolitan has jurisdiction and pastoral oversight for the province and presides at meetings of the provincial synods and councils. He succeeds Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, who was elected primate (senior archbishop) of the Anglican Church of Canada on May 31. Archbishop Stavert is the second bishop of Quebec to be elected metropolitan; the first was Archbishop Philip Carrington, who served from 1944 to 1960. Carrington was Dean of Divinity at Bishop's prior to his election as Bishop of Quebec in 1935, an election where the other main contender was Bishop's principal, Rev. McGreer. A bilingual native of Montreal, Archbishop Stavert became the 11th Bishop of Quebec, the Anglican church's second oldest diocese (after Nova Scotia), in 1991. Ordained as a priest in 1965, he received a bachelor's degree at Bishop's University, a bachelor of sacred theology and a master of theology at Trinity College, University of Toronto, which later honoured him with a doctorate in divinity. He has served as dean and rector of St. Albans, diocese of Saskatchewan, chaplain at Bishop's University and Trinity College, incumbent at St. Clement's Mission East and the parish of Schefferville, Que. He has been involved with the Anglican Foundation and National Executive Council (the church's predecessor to the Council of General Synod).
 ● - October – the art gallery is officially renamed the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University in honour of Florence Foreman who in 2003 donated the largest gift in Bishop’s 160 year history. (Photograph shows Gaetane Verna, Curator of the Art Gallery and Alex Paterson, '52, DCL '74, Chancellor, showing a plaque which names our art gallery the Foreman Art Gallery in honour of Bishop's benefactor, Florence Foreman.) |
● Christmas Parade held in Sherbrooke on November 28, 2004
