Environmental awareness

Concordia committed to leading in sustainability

By Karen Herland

From left: Board of Governors President Peter Kruyt, Mohamed Shuriye, Al Gore and Gabriel Bran Lopez.

Concordia’s participation in the City of Montreal’s Défi climat campaign, starting this weekend, is just one example of our institutional commitment to sustainability. Much of this leadership developed through Sustainable Concordia, which spearheaded the Concordia Campus Sustainability Assessment in 2002. A second one was completed two years ago, and... - Read more

Town halls on Concordia’s emerging strategic positions

Open meetings for faculty, staff and students to discuss Concordia’s future will be held over the next two weeks. There will be three opportunities on the Sir George Williams Campus and one at Loyola. The downtown meetings will be held in H-110 Tuesday, April 22, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 23, from 9 to 10:30 a.m., and... - Read more

Researchers confirm 125 year-old theorem

By Dawn Wiseman

Next month, George Vatistas, with fellow professor Kamran Siddiqui and graduate student Hamid Ait Abderrahmane (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering), will be published in the Physical Review Letters, the world's foremost physics letters journal. Their contribution will focus... - Read more

Pakistan not a failed state: military analyst

By Barbara black

Schofield and Beig Mirza

When The Economist called Pakistan “the most dangerous country in the world” last May, Julian Schofield disagreed. He finds the country so stable it's boring. Schofield, an associate professor of political science, knows Pakistan well. In a talk at McGill... - Read more

Honesty in the credit market

By Barbara Black

Lorne Switzer will host a conference on business ethics next fall at Concordia.

Ethics, trust, governance and due diligence have never been more pressing subjects for business scholars than they are right now. The U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis, which started last summer when people couldn’t pay their mortgages, started a financial earthquake that... - Read more