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Accolades 

Rabbi Howard Joseph of the Department of Religion will be receiving an honorary doctorate from New York's Yeshiva University on June 15. He will be accepting the honour at the Shaar HaShomayim Synagogue in Westmount, Quebec, beside other honorary doctorate recipients, Canadian Supreme Court Justice Morris Fish and Senator for Rigaud, Quebec, Yoine Goldstein.

On April 21, distinguished Études françaises Professor Emerita Maïr Verthuy presented her lecture, "Nouvel itinéraire littéraire : disparition des frontiers entre les genres et irruption des arts visuels dans l'espace-mot" to La Société d'Études et de Conférences, section de Montréal.

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Javad Dargahi would like to share the success of his graduate students. Majid Nabavi has received the FQRNT post-doctoral award and was accepted into the esteemed Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich for a post-doctoral position. Saeed Sokhanvar has received the NSERC post-doctoral award. He is currently at MIT. Reza Ramezanfiard, MASc, has received a NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate scholarship of $35 000, as well as the Concordia Graduate Fellowship of $10 000. He is currently at Concordia. Mohammad Ameen Qasaimeh, MASc, has also received a NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate scholarship for the amount of $35 000, and has recently started his PhD at McGill. The students were co-supervised by Kamran Siddiqui, Muthukumaran Packirisamy, Wen Fang Xie and Mojtaba Kahrizi respectively.

Three professors and five students from Fine Arts were selected to participate in this year's open culture art festival Biennale de Montréal, held throughout May. Department of Studio Arts Assistant Professor Daniel Jolliffe presented his interactive installation One Free Minute/Une minute gratuite. Associate Professor Lynn Hughes (along with her colleague in the Faculty of Arts and Science Bart Simon) displayed Porous Lab, (see Journal April 2, 2009), their newly established lab exploring TAG (Technoculture, Art and Games). Department of Design and Computation Arts Assistant Professor Christopher Moore and undergraduate students Tania Alvarez, Emmy Huot, Denise Santillan and Mélodie Vachon Boucher participated in the Open Design project inspired by internationally renowned Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister. Graduate student Alexandre Castonguay presented Read + Write, an interactive installation which invites audience to engrave texts, sounds and images upon a wall.

On March 31, Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Ted Stathopoulos delivered his distinguished lecture, "Natural / Hybrid Ventilation: A Case for Positive Wind Effects on Buildings" at the Hong Kong Polytechnic, Faculty of Construction and Land Use. Over 250 faculty, students, practicing engineers and architects attended the lecture.