University Research Fellows named

The University Research Awards for 2006 have been announced by Vice-Provost Research Truong Vo-Van and the Office of Research.

The senior award goes to Professor Catherine Russell in the Faculty of Fine Arts. Russell is a widely respected film scholar and researcher from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, where she was hired in 1990.

Her expertise in feminist film studies, Canadian cinema, early cinema and ethnographic cinema is demonstrated by her prolific writing. She has published six books, one of which was named best cinema book by the Association Québécoise des Études Cinématographiques, as well as numerous book chapters, articles, conference proceedings, reprints and reviews.

She has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to her graduate students’ success while maintaining her accessibility to Cinema and other students. She has received 13 competitive grants from SSHRC and FQRSC.

The junior, or emerging, award goes to Catherine Mulligan of the Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.

Mulligan began her career at Concordia University in 1999. She has published 30 papers in refereed journals and over 30 articles in reviewed conference proceedings.

As evidence of her impact, she was awarded a Concordia Research Chair in Environmental Engineering in 2002. Her work on the use of biosurfactants is the basis for all who are now working in this field.

These researchers will each receive $5,000 and are invited to give a lecture about their specialization. The university will also hold a reception in their honour, at a date to be determined.