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Trost, Walter
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Walter Trost came to Dalhousie in 1948 with a PhD from McGill and an Oxford post-doctoral fellowship. In 1959 he founded the Atlantic Provinces Inter-University Committee of the Sciences (APICS), which was Dalhousie's first effort at coordinating post-graduate science work with other Canadian universities. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies from 1961-1966, when he left Dalhousie to become the vice-president of the University of Calgary.
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Dalhousie University. Faculty of Graduate Studies (1949-)
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1961-1966
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Walter Trost was Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies from 1961-1966.